Black Friday - are you going shopping?

No.  I am taking the kids to a little local zoo.

And not the zoo called "The Mall." 

Nope.  I'll be sitting on a beach in Mexico. 

Most years my brother & I go out for window shopping and lunch - it's a fun tradition and usually never as bad as it's made out to be.  Of course, we're also not out there at 5AM fighting people for the latest game machine or anything like that.

Christmas has been fairly jacked up the past couple years and will be the same this year, so I'm thinking we'll probably stay home.

Of course, this is the one Christmas-related activity that is within our control that can't be screwed up by relatives, so maybe we should do it just so we have something about this holiday season that is fun.  (Yes, it really is fun for us.)

Just like the last 6 years, I will be in the WI woods.

Hunting.

And enjoying every single minute of being outdoors.

Off topic, but JT is in my top 3 Fave places in all of America.  Majorly jealous here.

Back to BF insanity....

not a chance of a snowball in hell.

this is also when I am SO grateful to be jewish!!!

trying to get all my son's bar mitzvah stuff done so that I don't have to go anywhere NEAR any stores!!!!!

Am going to pick up our portion of a cow to put in our freezer and the rest in the in-laws freezer.  YEAH....MORE MEAT!!!!!

There is a running store I want to visit to get properly fitted for shoes so I can run again without pain in the arches and IF and only IF the store is not packed will I go inside.  Otherwise I'm going back to my car and going home.

mmmm.   meat.

Not unless there's a gun to my head. My ex used to do that -- up at 4 am to get to the stores, and spend the whole day shopping.

In my life I've done it once. And it was for two specific things that were advertised at Target. Got there 30 minutes before the store opened, and when the gates opened bee-lined it for the things I was looking for. Got them both (one of them it was the last of 2 they had) and was out of there within 15 minutes.

But after seeing the absolute mayhem and blatant disregard for decency that was displayed in that 15 minute tour (not by me, I was just trying to get out of there), I have no desire to repeat it.