Good Things: Tuesday: Our HVAC guy, who I’ve known my entire life, came by for our scheduled furnace check/tuneup/cleaning. I always feel very accomplished when I schedule a service and thankful I had money to do it. When you don’t…
Thanksgiving & Black Friday 2020
It was kind of a fraught Thanksgiving in the USA this year, with government officials pleading with people to not travel (people traveled) and keep it small (many did, some didn’t) and not to mix households (difficult). It was especially…
Thanksgiving wrapup
It’s the holiday season, mofos! More importantly there’s only about 3 weeks until the sunshine starts coming back into my life so cheers to that. This year we had Thanksgiving at my cousin S’s house and I was asked to…
Star of wonder…star of light
From my Treo! Star of wonder…star of light We were feeling rich and elitist, so we visited the apple store. 😉 is it wrong of me to actively *want* someone to write a really nasty virus for macs? That said…the…
Agony of defeet!
From my Treo! Agony of defeet! Out of the four feet present on today’s journey…one is having troubles. So we made a tiny pitstop for comfort. Mission accomplished at best buy, by the way. I’m getting a 4.5 foot tree…
Lunch
From my Treo! Lunch It is so nice out we left the coats in the carafter target and headed to wegman’s for lunch. Now it’s off to best buy next door. 🙂 we’ve been on the road for nine hours…
Consumerism at its finest
From my Treo! Consumerism at its finest Leaving the cherry hill mall now and headed back to kohl’s to see if the lines subsided. I’m actually knocking a few things off my list. Plus, free mickey ears at the disney…
Cherry hill mall
From my Treo! Cherry hill mall Bought the ‘bean’ at penneys. it’s a ‘core’ exerciser. We each.got a free snowglobe. went to hallmark and now in bath and body works. Huge lines and it’s going to be 58 degrees and…
Black friday – morning has broken
From my Treo! Black friday – morning has broken We were on the road by 6am (that’s sleeping in for us!) and hit kohl’s first. Pretty disappointing…as again you only got the $10 gift card if you spent $50. The…
Black Friday postmortem
15 hours after we embarked on our endeavor, I am home. We dined at Buca di Beppo, then fueled by Pepto Bismol, we went to The Promenade to cap off our night. It was powerful cold, so we only mustered…
Black Friday
We’re still managing to kick Black Friday’s ass and send it crying to it’s Momma. We took the Patco Hi-Speedline to the 8th and Market Streets in Philadelphia. Shopped…Strawbridge’s (This one had my coat, in my size, still too expensive)Burlington…
Black Friday, 2004
We arrived at Sears at 5:45 for its 6:00am opening…the prize was a cherished $10 gift card given to the first 200 people. The line snaked around the corner of the building. We were hopeful, but alas, we arrived too…