Black Saturday

Man, what a pretty day. I was up pretty late last night, and was planning on sleeping in this morning until someone texted me bright and early and woke me up. This made me a little cranky, actually, as they interrupted a dream I actually was in the middle of and interested in on one of my few days to sleep in. Oh well, once I was awake I went ahead and got up and got ready so I could run to the store.

I was prepared. It was Saturday morning, the biggest shopping weekend of the year, and I fully expected it to be a nightmare to be in public. I even brought my iPod along for meditation/sound dampening purposes. My first hint that things might not be what I thought was when I drove past the mall, and Target's parking lot was half deserted. I haven't seen Target's parking lot that empty on a normal Saturday, let alone this Saturday each year. So I pull into Meijer to find a mostly empty parking lot. I was really shocked. Again, Meijer's parking lot isn't that empty on any given Saturday that I've driven past. I looked across the street to Wal-Mart and it wasn't much better. This is not good news for retailers, that's for sure. The only good news is that if you want to go shopping, there are a lot of deals right now, and almost no traffic, so have at it.

This afternoon Kaylee went to a friend's birthday party and made a lovely bracelet, and she always likes having somewhere to go and something fun to do. :) Steve enjoyed spending the day hanging out and relaxing, and I spent the beautiful warm day twitchy again, particularly since our weather is supposed to go downhill tonight and turn into snow and cold. But alas, twas not meant to be today, and I am now instead attempting to relax to the sounds of Tinkerbelle's DS game music, "Mythbusters", and running water (as Steve messes with a tube in our waterbed), while smelling a lovely new Vanilla and Sandalwood candle and thinking about dinner plans...