Christmas decorating is done and Thanksgiving is over for 2008. This year for Thanksgiving our very best friends came to visit for the weekend. It was so great to spend time with them. AND.....they brought me an early birthday present. The newest addition to the Reavis family is Casper, he is a Bichon Poo. My wonderful friend, not only bought me this cute little puppy, but she spent the last couple months house training him for me. That is a good friend. It is always so great to get to spend time with them and always so hard when they leave. I still can't drive by their old house, I know, it's sad...in a pitiful way...I've been told...Good thing it's not on my way anywhere.

Lori, Kalie & I braved the crowds on Black Friday and went shopping. We did not however get up at 3am and go stand in line anywhere and wait for any stores to open. We aren't crazy....well....not that crazy.

We spent this past weekend decorating for Christmas. So far half of my outside lights have gone out. But.....the Christmas tree is till standing so that is good. Of course Casper thinks we have put that up for his benefit and has been chewing on the lights on the bottom so I don't hold out much hope for the lights. So Christmas is on it's way, and has Brenda done her Christmas shopping yet?? Not so much. I am sure over the next few weeks I will be doing what I always do since I am the queen of procrastination, and that is going to the mall or some store, every night to buy presents. I found this in an old email I had from a couple years ago (yes, I am one of those people who never cleans out their emails so I have like 8,000 emails.) This is a list of top things that happened on like the 8 consecutive night I went Christmas shopping a couple years ago.

I got "best email of the week" for this. So....thought it was worth sharing again...

1. Escalator by Dicks not working again, this time I had to go up. I was so disoriented I stepped way higher then needed for the first step.
2. Creepy guys who are at the kiosk that ask “Can I ask you a question” every time you walk by almost got a fist in the face.
3. Lori (Kettelkamp) went with me last night, she said I should probably not say to cashiers that I don’t know things like this “Man, how do you stand it in here? It’s like 98 degrees, so hot it makes me want to kill someone!”
4. We saw cousin “it” This kid had hair that completely covered his eyes, went down to his nose. I just stopped and starred at him, no way he could see, I could totally not even see his eyes.
5. Lori found a shirt in the toddler section at Macys that said “Want to come in my crib” (it was like a size 2T). Nice.
6. While standing in line at Dicks for like 45 minutes with only two people in front of us, the cashier was heard to say to the woman in front of us that he prefers to be called a “sales finalization associate” not a cashier. He would like an announcement at closing time that says “please bring all your items to the front so our sales finalization associates can help you complete your shopping”. Of course my tolerance for people like this is very high so I had nothing but positive things to say about this man.