WARNING: I have something on my mind (not felt turkey headbands) and I’m about to leap onto this virtual soapbox. This one right here – it looks like a good one. You can’t say I didn’t warn you!
SHOPPING.
I love shopping. It’s one of my favorite things to do with my girlfriends. When my pals aren’t available to go, I’m perfectly happy shopping online. Just ask my husband who knows what’s happening when I reach back for my credit card (I should just memorize the number, shouldn’t I?)
HOLIDAYS.
I also love the holidays – all of ‘em. I like the twinkly lights. I like the high-energy feel of downtown. I like things that are red.
NO LIKE.
What I don’t like? I don’t like Christmas music starting the day after Halloween. HALLOWEEN??!!! And that’s why I had to walk out of Sears on November 1st when Bing Cosby started crooning.
I don’t like Christmas decorations in November.
I don’t like Thanksgiving being all but forgotten.
AND what I really, really, really can’t stand for is Black Friday starting on Thanksgiving Day! What could anyone possibly need besides, perhaps, another pound of butter or some Pepto, that they can’t wait for Friday? Nothing. Nada. Zilch.
Not only is it completely unnecessary, it takes away the one-and-only holiday retail workers see all season. So here’s my shout-out to all my retail friends who I know don’t mind the busy season and certainly like to have a job but would just like to eat their turkey and watch the game. It’s why I signed this petition to show my solidarity for Target workers who would like to have Thanksgiving off. I invite you to sigh too. http://www.change.org/petitions/target-take-the-high-road-and-save-thanksgiving
Really, I think we can all occupy ourselves until midnight when the door buster sales start. To prove it, I thought up
50 things I could do besides shop on Thanksgiving Day:
2. Read through all the ads in the big-fat-Thanksgiving newspaper. I love that too.
3. Cook Thanksgiving Dinner
4. Eat Thanksgiving Dinner
5. Watch movies OnDemand
6. Eat Second Thanksgiving Dinner a few hours later
7. Make out with my Hubs (these aren’t necessarily listed in order)(he made me say that)
8. Take post-eating nap
9. Bake cookies – the ones I never make because they take a lot of time…typically found in my Martha Stewart cookie book
10. Watch football. I’m rooting for Texas all day long.
11. Play board games with my Honey. Correction: WIN at some board games with my Honey. What’s the point if you’re not playing to win?
12. Make presents for my nephews
13. Catch up on Covert Affairs (guilty pleasure)
14. Practice for dance class
15. Prepare my Christmas/Hanukah list
16. Blog about the weekend
17. Write holiday cards. Mom says the note inside the card is more important than the card itself.
18. Go for a bike ride (okay, I haven’t ridden a bike in 10 years, but I could go for a bike ride. I have a bike. Maybe “dust off the bike” would be equally good.)
19. Write my grandma in the nursing home
20. Scan old family photos in honor of gram’s 100th bday
21. Sew a new sock critter – I have the perfect one in my mind
22. Go for a walk
23. Go for a run (“run” might be an overstatement, but in theory I could go for a run)
24. Do a TurkeyTrot (“trot” …that I can do)
25. Knit (maybe “learn to knit” would be more accurate)
26. Yoga. Streeeeeeetch.
27. Watch TV
28. Organize my travel books
29. Work on a polymer clay project
30. Hang out with Aaron; he’s pretty fun (see lucky #7 above)
31. Post funny things on FB
32. Post pictures on Pinterest
33. Take pictures wearing my turkey headband
34. Comment on pictures on Pinterest
35. Make grandma’s 100th bday present (A silk flower for her hair that says “100”…where’s my glue gun?)
36. Make a poster on Snapfish
37. Practice braiding my hair
38. Juggle
39. Make a birthday cake for my boss
40. Clean the house ---oh wait, that one is done!
41. Enjoy the clean house
42. Write my niece in college
43. Plan our next big trip
44. Call my mom
45. Call my step-mom
46. Call my mom-in-law (I normally refer to #44-46 as “call the moms” but I needed some filler so I broke it out)
47. Text my best pal, Heidi Ho
48. Email my brother
49. Hug
50. Be thankful for a day off with my hubby
That about sums it up. I’m leaping back off the soap box and going back to regular life now. Hope you have a very Happy Thanksgiving...and Black Friday.
