Stuff

We had a nice quiet T-Day with my only sib going to his in-laws for the meal--he comes here for Christmas. Spouse cooked & everything was nummy including the to-die-for 5 lb.(!) apple-caramel pie for desert.

I'm afraid my spouse went quite around the bend and got up at 4 a.m. on "Black Friday" (not fond of that moniker--I know why it's called that but it reminds me of the day long ago when the stock market crashed and people jumped out of tall buildings).
His destination was Circuit City (electronic store) and though I knew what he was headed in for--a half-price really nice 19" flat panelled monitor for our from almost-failing-grade-7-to-honour-roll in grade 8 son--I wan't completely aware that he intended to bestow the den with a home theatre system including a ginormous plasma teevee. His stories of the crazy behaviour of the crowd were, though. After four (!) hours he was able to make it home in order to collapse for the rest of the day.

Last night we went to our local IKEA as 1. my son thinks it's cool (I suspect spouse does, too) & 2. we now needed a stand that would hold the huge teevee. It really wasn't bad at all. Because it was no-cooking night here at home we ate there first then searched until we settled on a TV stand. We've had an IKEA here since 1998 (first one in Illinois). Yay. I've maybe gone there 5 times since it opened as I'm an on-line shopper but I do like the picture/frame and lamp depts. So we browsed a bit but all I got was (on the way out) a couple of small bunches of (fake) red poinsettias to go with the white ones I'd already found at the re-sale shop. Voila! I've started my Christmas decorating.

I need to tally-ho as the teevee is to be delivered and more importantly I've got to put up some auctions.

I hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend!

Cheers!

--Cyn