Black Friday is the Friday after Thanksgiving and is the official start of the Christmas buying season. I wonder how it got the name ‘Black Friday’? Personally, I hate shopping on Black Friday. The crowds are horrible, IF you’re lucky you might get half of the wonderful buy you went after at 3 o’clock in the morning. If you’re not, you come home tired, empty handed and grumpy from trying to get through all the other tired, grumpy people.
Well I have found the best solution to Black Friday there is. It’s bfads online. It’s all the Black Friday deals without the Black Friday crowds. How wonderful is that? I think pretty darn wonderful. You can sit in the comfort of your own home, at your computer, no one to step on your toes or run into you with their shopping cart either. You just make a couple clicks and purchase all the great deals from the comfort of your home. Sounds like a dream come true.
They have deals at all the stores you would like to shop at like Toys R Us big toy book deals but without all the crying kids, toys in the isles, and parents trying to grab the last item on the shelf before you can. You just need to check them out and I bet you could get most of your shopping done in no time flat and still be smiling when you’re finished.
It’s finally here. Halloween night and we are all ready to hit the doorbells. 
Nothing like a dozen kids yelling “Trick or Treat” on someone’s porch, is there? Then to see the look on their faces when they get the candy, now that’s what I call a natural high. Holidays are about the kids. It really chaps my rear when adults try to ruin something for the kids like they have tried to mess up Halloween.
I do like the ‘Trunk or Treat’ thing a lot of churches are doing. You don’t have to walk as far and you know the candy’s safe for the kids to eat right away. You don’t have to take it to the local hospital and have it x-rayed to make sure there’s nothing hidden in the candy.
Well, here’s to hoping you all have a great Halloween and get lots of candy. Remember to tell the people ‘Thank you.’
Well tomorrow I told my brother and sister that we would go to a local pumpkin patch and pick out a pumpkin to make into a jack-o-lantern for Halloween. We have a tradition of toasting the pumpkin seeds and making cookies when we finish the jack-o-lantern. It’s a lot of fun for us.
Then we usually try to figure out what type of costume we are planning on wearing. I always dress up to take them out too. It’s a blast. We try real hard not to spend a lot of money on costumes. Mom loves to go to yard sales and usually picks up wigs and stuff she thinks we could use to make our costumes. It’s more fun that way if you ask me. We make it a week or two long thing getting ready for Halloween.
I haven’t had a lot of time to go shopping lately with school and work but I went to a department store and they have Christmas stuff out already. For crying out loud, it’s not even Halloween yet. There was more Christmas stuff out than Halloween stuff. What’s up with that? They are just turning Christmas into nothing but a retail holiday and it’s much more than that. Don’t they know that? Don’t they care? It seems that all they care about is money. But you know what, that’s my opinion.
Fall has always been one of my favorite seasons. Spring I guess is right there too. I really don’t know which is my favorite of the two because I love both but for different reasons. Spring because of the flowers blooming and the sun shine but let’s not forget the rising temperatures too. Fall because of the leaves changing to beautiful yellows, oranges and reds and the slight chill in the air after a long hot summer.
Winter, I’m not that crazy about because I hate to be cold. I love to watch it snow and see it on the ground but the minute it stops falling, I want it to go away. It makes such a mess and looks so ugly when people walk around in it and mess it up. It’s beautiful until then and that’s when I want it to just go away.
Summer is fun but not when it’s really hot. Besides, I am fair skinned and I burn really easy without lots of sunblock. Yes I know you can get sun burnt in the other seasons too because I have done it many times but not as quickly as in the summer. Summer means freedom in some ways. Freedom from all those heavy clothes, freedom from school unless you go to summer school or have a summer job which I always have.
This fall feels like a new beginning. I guess because I started college this year instead of going back to school at my high school. I have a boyfriend which I haven’t had in a long time and I’m so looking forward to the future even though everything seems so uncertain now with the economy in such a mess. I’m still looking forward to what will be and not what is. Does that make any sense to you? It does to me.
