Ode To The First Four Day Weekend

It started off as a normal Thanksgiving, and ended not so normal. My sister-in-law's mom had bypass surgery on Thanksgiving causing the brother and his family not to have their traditional Thanksgiving with both parents this year. We were swore to silence about the ordeal because the sister wanted some time to clear her thoughts and not to think about something she couldn't change and to keep her mind on something else if not for a little while. Dinner was great like always, but there wasn't as much left overs as there were in the past sad day. That night was babysitting at our apartment (weird I know, and not an invitation for us to watch any other kids). She was well behaved and we just played our video games all night, while everyone was out for Black Friday!! The bear and his brother were out until 3 am, and the brother came back to do it all over again at 6am (crazy bastard). The bear was taking advantage of a trade in deal at Gamestop towards mom's new 3DS (we got to keep her on the latest trends) which ended up only costing under $60. I slept most of Friday, 12 hours to be exact. Before me and the bear made our way out after the kid was gone. We started our tradition by hitting Starbucks, then over to purchase the 3DS. That store was so damn organized this year compared to years past, and we were in and out in moments. We then hit Best Buy where I browsed my shoes (CDs). Nothing really caught my eye except for Kelly's Greatest hits, but I'm not buying an entire album of songs I already have just to get 3 new ones and the always gag-a-fying Christmas song. Don't get me wrong I do love Christmas but I've heard the songs enough to know that traditional is always better than someone's new version. The madness of the mall wasn't as exciting this year, but it has put me in the Christmas spirit, and the shopping spirit. Saturday brought my sister down from Auburn to go shopping and we hit one place WALMART. She hates shopping and having the child she has I can understand why. Unlike the kid we watched Thursday evening, this child is out of control. You can look into his eyes and see evil shit just brewing. You know he's just coming up with something he thinks is clever and hurtful. So we started with lunch, to where the child showed us why I'm glad we don't have children. Then onto wally world, to where we shopped as fast as we could. The kid doesn't like the word no and better yet hates listening to my sister. In fact, my sister would say one thing and does the exact opposite just to spite her. I ignored most of it and thought to myself "It will be all over soon!!" as I know my sister was thinking the same thing. We made our way back to my apartment, we wrapped some presents while sipping on coffee and having a bonding moment before we said our goodbyes. God I love my sister and so happy that she's turned her life around for the better. Sunday found me getting up at 8:30am to find a deposit slip sitting by my cigs. I look and to my surprise it says $400. First thing in my head is how much did he borrow from the parents (which I was hoping nothing since we already owe them $1200). I looked into his wallet and there was not withdraw slip. So I let it sit there for the time being and turned on the football game. The Seahawks were pissing me off and I realized it was time to take the dogs so got them out the door and around the field. When we got back the bear was still sleeping. Which isn't a bad thing, means no voice mocking my love for sports. After the bear woke up he explained to me about his good fortune and laid my fears to rest. Not a bad start to the day until seeing the Seahawks lose, lol not the end of the world. We then ventured out again this time to ToysRus and World Market. For dinner we decided to try Dickey's Barbeque for the first time. It is very good and expensive, but with the bear's good fortune we decided to treat ourselves. It was quite a weekend and now it's back to work to repeat all of this to my co-workers.