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[Guest Post] Black Friday is great, but turns nice people into monsters.

Written by Delmer Atkins.

For the most part I try to stay indoors on Black Friday. The reason for this is not always because I dislike the shopping, but sometimes I am still spending time with my family. When I do go out shopping Black Friday I make sure that I set my AllHomeSecurity home alarm security system to ward off potential thieves. Bad people always target people on holidays because many people do not stay at home. With safety in mind I head out to shop at either the malls or the big grocery stores.

The people I love to take with me are my friends, family, and people who generally don’t take any gruff from people. Many people who are very nice every day turned into terrible monsters on Black Friday. By going with a large group you are certain to avoid any trouble that could ruin your day. Knowing that I am safe with my friends and loved ones is awesome.

I love shopping at malls on Black Friday due to the fact that they are very large, have many places to shop, and most of all they have multiple cashiers. This means there are no two hours long lines. I love to be able to pick and choose the great sales that are going on for that day only, as well as to price items that I want in the future.

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A Day In The Life

What is more exciting to write about than a slightly more-than-average day of mine? There is sleep, then there is waking up, then there is driving around, then there is going to work, then there is singing karaoke at a bar. It doesn’t sound enthralling, but today was what I would call a good day. Who doesn’t like an average day that just ends up being good in the simplest ways, right? The little things, people.

After dropping the husband off at work, I decided to stop by Bath & Body Works to pick up some more antibacterial hand soap since that shit’s always on sale. The other reason was to buy refills for my scent portable for the car. I was tired of it smelling all musty like my late grandparents’ condo whenever I got in, started it and turned on the air. I walked in on what was, apparently, their first day playing Christmas music and having all of their holiday-related displays up & out. I’m one of those people who find it excessive when Christmas music is starting to play the day after Halloween as opposed to the day after Thanksgiving. When the hell did that happen? I could’ve sworn Christmas and winter holiday shit like that didn’t start until after Thanksgiving! I can’t complain too much since I love the scent of fall & winter & Christmas. Needless to say my car smells like winter now, thanks to Fresh Balsam :) I bought the scent in the form of their scented fragrance oil over a month ago when Angel & Kristen were out here in SD for a few days and we browsed through B&BW.

Once I got to work, I had realized I’d forgotten to apply any cover-up to my neck to hide the bruise left from a particularly amorous husband from a couple days ago. It’s not obviously as far as hickeys go, but it’s still bruising and stippling on my neck above my collar :| I asked one of the coworkers I’m real friendly with if it was obvious and she played it down. Thankfully none of the management noticed, or at least didn’t say anything. Work was fairly hectic even with the random moments of slowness we experienced. I was told by one of my coworkers that he’s always glad when he sees me on the line-up when he’s working because I’m a hard worker. “I’m serious,” he said, even, since I gave him a chuckle and a look that pretty much said “Yeah, right…” I’m sure I’ve mentioned it, but at my previous store, there wasn’t a lot of morale boosting going on. More deprecating stuff usually. I think it made me a better associate, though, since I strove to please even though it was virtually impossible in that environment. It was the parent I could never please, if I ever had one.

On top of that, I’m beginning to feel a better kinship with my coworkers. Hopefully I’ll be able to move into hanging out with them outside of work soon. I need some friends out here. I want to be able to go out and have fun without the husband and without being by myself. I have no problem going out by myself, though. I have no problem eating at a restaurant or seeing a movie alone. It’s really freeing once you realize you don’t have to worry about anyone else when you’re doing those things. Just enjoy the solitude and people-watching :)

After work, I had to wait for the car to give my dead phone enough juice to call the husband and find out where he was so I could pick him up after I was held over for a few extra hours. He was at a bar1 near his work. It ended up being a bar I had Yelped when moving down here and I was looking for karaoke bars. It’s kind of a dive and it’s big with the Navy & Marine guys, so lots of guys with buzz cuts and shit. I walked in on the husband singing karaoke, which I could hear from the parking lot. I knew it was him the moment I opened the car door *lol* I managed one song in before they discontinued karaoke for the night. The DJ even said I “didn’t suck”! I laughed since that was kind of awesome after his bad comments about the previous groups of girls who went up to sing Spice Girls and Cyndi Lauper and pretty much did suck. Just as we were leaving, an older black gentleman started talking to the husband and ended up tickling him. That was beyond amusing!

Now Daylight Savings Time is over and I sent a neener-neener-neener message to Kristen about it2. Good night, all!

  1. No surprise there. ↩
  2. Since she’s in AZ now and they don’t observe DST and all. ↩
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[Guest Post] Grocery Shopping Antics

Guest post written by my buddy Israel Fowler

Grocery shopping has always been a hassle for me. I have never liked grocery shopping and I find that it has gotten worse now that I am married. When you’re single, grocery shopping is not so bad. Once you get married grocery shopping takes a turn for the worst!

I love my partner but there are some things that just don’t work for us and grocery shopping is one of them. Our grocery shopping routines typically consists of going to Wal-Mart twice a month. Once every two weeks we will get in the car and go. We don’t put together a grocery list and we usually forget things. Countless times we have said we would make a grocery list and later forgotten. One thing we never forget to do before we go to the grocery store is set our home security alarm. Check out door alarm around Portland.

Once we get to Wal-Mart we go aisle by aisle, identifying things we need. Oddly enough it is usually the small things that I tend to remember. I forget the obvious things, once we even went as far as to forget toilet paper. Typically our shopping routine is interrupted and we have to return more than two times a week due to forgotten items. Other such small items that expire like bread and milk do require weekly visits to the supermarket. It’s always a pain to go shopping!

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