Archives for November 2007

Grey’s was sort of insane last night.  Or at least the end was.  And we’ll start with that.  I guess everyone kind of expected that to happen but kind of shocking to watch.  Didn’t Seth Green do a great job though?  I really like him.

Let’s see, what else to comment on?

I liked Izzie’s opening scene and her fighting with Christina over Hahn’s watch.  But I sort of agree with Christina…Izzie’s in over her head.  Yeah, she’s better with the patients but is she really a heart surgeon?

Lexie and Ava in the gallery?  That was a little awkward.  How come Lexie is so mad though?  Did she not believe him when he said he wanted nothing more than anything physical?  Poor girl had it coming.  She was warned.  And where did Ava come from?  I thought she left for good when she left her shirt last time.  Maybe I got the wrong impression.

Same thing with Meredith I suppose.  Except she said she wouldn’t commit and now Derek is looking elsewhere and she’s getting her toes stepped on.  Speaking of, I think I like that new nurse.  I of course want Mer/Der together but if anyone would replace her temporarily she’s decent.

George was not much more than a prop last night.  Can’t recall anything significant he did.

Mer and the ambulance scene was tragic of course.  I liked how Stan saved Ray’s life right before he died.  He’s right though, he’ll have some kind of story to tell.

Bailey and her husband…the last married couple left is definitely on the rocks and I really hope they pull through. 

That’s the time I got up this morning.  Like, actually got myself out of bed.  My alarm went off at 4:30 and I gave myself 9 extra minutes.  We were off within 15 minutes to the mall.  I was having a hard time between two doorbuster Christmas trees.  One was at JCPenney’s and the other Sears.  JCP opened at 4 and Sears at 5.  I figured the JCP tree would be gone but stopped by just in case because I actually preferred that one.  And sure enough, there were 3 left after mine.

So then we had an hour to burn until Staples – our big hit of the day – opened.  So we went to Belk.  Heather got a camcorder and I got the girls some winter coats and two Christmas outfits. 

Our one issue happened there.  Two people in front of us in line was insisting on using their Belk card.  Their card system apparently went down and the woman had to be on the phone for about 10 minutes.  Finally we overhear the amount is only for, get this…$5.  The lady FINALLY hands the woman cash.  Yeah.  That wasn’t fun at 5:30am. 

Over to Staples we headed with only minutes to spare.  The parking lot was full.  The line was wrapped around the building.  That’s what that picture is above.  Way across the parking lot is the door.  The line is down the front of the building and out the back of the parking lot where I was standing.  It was 40 degrees and windy and COLD.  But we got in and got everything we wanted!  My big score was my 500GB external hard drive for $79 after rebates.

But we stood in line for an hour and a half!  Thankfully we had some really nice people in line and had some good conversation and we were able to go in and out of line a few times to change our minds about a few things.

After that, we splurged at Chick fil a and then stopped at Target where I scored a GREAT rug and picture for the kitchen and then to Best Buy where Heather got a 32" tv.

We headed home then.  I was starting to fall apart.  Saying things like "What time is it?" while holding out a price tag for Heather to read really meaning to say, "How much does this cost?"

We came home to find Scott had all the Christmas stuff down and he had a bunch of stuff already in place.  We unloaded everything and then made three more stops.  First to Walgreens for blow up yard things.  Lowe’s where we couldn’t find a microwave for Heather so our last stop was Home Depot where Heather bought her microwave. 

It was a big day and we were so tired by the end.  I managed to stay up until about 2:30 in the middle of putting up bubble lights on the tree and crashed for 2 hours.  Heather just called and she’s still up.  I guess she’ll really crash for tonight.

All in all, I had a GREAT time shopping with Heather.  Just shopping period.  I even managed to mark one person off my Christmas list ;).

I had a great time today.  The food was awesome, the nap was great, most of it was just fantabulous.  But let me just say I had my fill with family today.  Well, to be fair to most of my family, I have had my fill of about 4 people today.  And that’s all I’m going to say about that.

Tomorrow is starting early.  Possibly as early as 5am.  Which, yeah, I usually don’t DO 5am but I’m really in the mood to DO Black Friday and there are some things I would really like to pick up at Best Buy and Staples.  And I’m still trying to talk Scott into going to get a prelit tree at Sears at 5am tomorrow because I really, really don’t want to string the lights on my current tree again tomorrow.   But I doubt that’s going to happen.  Heather is spending the night tonight and she sounded game for anything so we might just make it an event and do it the old-school way and run through three stores by 6:30am.