Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving, and that the travel to and from home wasn't too daunting. Most of all, I hope you had the chance to indulge your family traditions.
In my house, we really don't have a traditional Thanksgiving. We opt for Black Friday instead. Some years I cook, some years Mom does, some years we eat out. Some years we go to the mountains, some years we go to the beach, some years we don't travel at all, but the pattern remains the same: every year Mom flips through the ads and lays out the game plan Thursday night. Friday morning she bribes me with a cup of coffee when she comes to wake me at 4 am (after I've already reached over and turned off the alarm clock totally) and we're on the road.
We stop for a second cup of coffee at the mall about two hours into the excursion. This after she's purchased some Doorbuster or Early Bird special for Dad and my grandparents. This is also about when my brain starts to function. We hit the other stores in the mall with specials, then we start driving to the outlying towns. A boutique in this burb, a depot in that downtown...all to get ideas for what I want for Christmas before I leave to return to my house and they go back home, or return to life as normal.
Ah, the comfort of tradition.
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Had an awesome Thanksgiving holiday! I slept, slept and slept. I also ate, ate and ate :-)
I was cajoled into going to an outlet mall sale at 12AM on Black friday. I thought I'd be back by 2-3AM, but we were completely taken aback by the traffic snarl ups ... can you imagine, driving the last two miles in just over two hours? By the time we parked and hit the stores, it was already 3:30AM.
Well, it was all worth it ... Banana Republic had 40% off the entire store :-)
Mrs. Farrago and I have managed to step out of the post-Thanksgiving shopping death-spiral. We don't go crazy trying to out-gift each other, but rather now decide on one expensive thing to get for "us," and we do it. In '01 it was an '02 Xterra!!
And our families don't exchange with each other, just within each family unit. Christmas is GREAT!
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