Black Friday

So, last year my first year doing the whole black friday thing. I woke up and got to kohls last year by 5am. This year.... I decided, I'm going to go to the Premium Outlet Mall... mainly because they have stores that I like there. My favorite malls in Vegas are the Fashion Mall and Las Vegas Premium Outlets.. especially now b/c they opened a bunch of better stores that I shop at like Bebe and Juicy. Okay, so how today started was awakening to my loud cell phone alarm. I almost couldn't wake up too... being that Mark and I went to bed at 12ish b/c we got home late from Thanksgiving dinner at Auntie Malene's house. Also, had to get the trash bin and my two boxes of trash out when we got home which takes time and making sure the dogs eat and stuff. Anyways, So... we both decided on going to Best Buy b/c we've been wanting a tv for our bedroom just haven't really went out to get one. Since it's black Fridays and they have super cheap deals.. what the heck? So, at 5am.. jumped in the car and went to Best Buy.. luckily we only live like 5-10 mins away. Got there and OMG tons of people. Parking was pretty full too so I had Mark jump out and get started while i searched for parking. Finally, found parking and walked my sleepy butt into Best Buy... Luckily, Mark was able to snatch the television we wanted. I am so thankful that we live next to a big best buy and that there were no lines to get in... I was actually concerned about that. I was also concerned that the tv we wanted would be sold out b/c it was sold out in a few hours online. But, anyway we went with a 32" LCD Samsung for the bedroom... they were only 500 bucks. Normally, this tv would be roughly 800+ dollars. We really like the Samsungs.. I suggest to everyone if you're considering a new flatscreen... samsungs are great. We have a 42" in our living room and it's awesome! Also, I just had to say.. the 42" we have.. we had purchased for $1200 on sale... today for black friday that same tv we have... was $800... So, anybody who got that got a deal!! Anyways.... so by 5:45am we were able to make it back home and back into bed. I was debating on if i should go straight to the outlet mall but I was super tired and just slept for a bit more. Around 8:15 I got up again and started to get ready... got to the Outlet mall around 10am and BAM carrrrssss all over the place. I had to park on the top floor and get real aggressive in the parking lot. hehe... shoot there's alot of people who want to cut in front of you (especially those California drivers.. they don't know how to drive) so I was sure to leave no room for cutters. Once I parked and walked down to the shop area, Ohhh lord.. it was just crazy. There were two diff News Channels there video taping the madness. I'm sure I could have found alot more deals than I did but I'm the type of person who get's tired really fast when I have to squeeze around and with all the people I was just loosing my mind. I got the crocs my mom wanted me to get for her... 2 sweaters from Nautica that I wanted to get and a jacket for Mark. I wanted to get something in Juicy but it was CRAZZZYYY in there. They had tons of bags, wallets, velour suits all for add'l 30% but I was just not in the mood especially with my two huge bags of shopping I already did. But, WOW that Juicy Store was PACKED!! Maybe next year i'll hit that store first! I say 3 super cute sweaters but just was in no mood to try anything on. It was just an absolute mess in there and women going nutts! So, I decided SCREW this.. ahhaha and I headed back to the car. My feet were hurting my hand were hurting... I was thirsty and man' did it feel so good to sit down in my car. After that craziness... I headed to petsmart to get doggie food for my babies and headed to walmart to look for a tv stand and some cables. Walmart was crazyyyy as well. This was already almost 2pm and Walmart was busy! Anyways, found a swivel top tv stand for the bedroom and headed home. Would I do this again next year? Probably not... but if I do.. I may consider going to Premium Outlet mall at 12 midnight when it started. I doubt it would be as crazy at that time... or MAYBE it will? O_O Anyways, don't plan to be going to any malls within the next couple of weeks. I still need to do the Christmas shopping. Black Friday just doesn't work for christmas shopping. Anyways, i'm gonna go eat my dinner and sleep early tonight. The day seemed to have just flew by... and I am just poooooped out! Gnite! :o)

P.S. Something I thought was interesting... on my drive back home the radio anounced that last year in a Walmart in Indiana... a couple of people were killed during the black friday madness... All the pushing and stress. I mean it must have been pretty bad.. but, I can't imagine... if I saw someone whom looked pretty bad I would start yelling at everyone else to chill the F*** out and help this person. That's pretty sad that people die during black friday! CRAZYY I tell yah! Crazzzyyy!