Thanksgiving and Black Friday 2012

Hey everyone, hope you had a happy Thanksgiving. I know I did. Since my grandpa isn't able to travel like he used to, we've spent Thanksgiving at my aunts who's about halfway. It was great to see them again. We talked about how my year was going, and how they were doing. It was good fun. Since I don't like turkey, previous years I'd just eat rolls and stuff and then eat later, but because I'm in college and my dorm food is survivable, I had my grandma's beef. It is so great. It's hard to describe how amazing it is.

We left at about 6 because it was getting a little late for my grandpa. We went to black Friday after that. Now I know what people say, "black Friday is outrageous. People are crazy there. Try to avoid the stores if you can. ect." To that I say, "but that's the best part." Yeah, I love the crazy fun of black Friday at Wal-Mart, best buy, and GameStop. At Wal-Mart, I wanted some blu-rays and tried to get big bang theory season 5. I did get the blu-rays but wasn't able to acquire big bang. I tried reaching for BBT at 8 when the wrapping came off but missed out. My brother and I are just looking at other blu-rays, and not to much craziness on those. We got to enjoy the crazy from a safe distance. People were fighting each other for 50% off Black Ops 2 and such. They were rabid and fighting and such. There were some blu-rays that I wanted that were right by the games, so I'm just reaching down, trying to grab them, while people are fighting right next to me. Quite fun. I met up with my mom to give her our finds.

After checking out, here's the best part of the night. As you probably already know, I wear a safety vest for fun all the time. Well Wal-Mart employees wore similar vests so people would know that they work there. I was asked to remove it, and then I was radioed over the walkie talkies as a suspicious character. The employee said "alright I got him to take it off. He's also wearing a green striped shirt and a hat. It's not everyday that you're a suspicious character at Wal-Mart. Hehe, that was funny.

After Wal-Mart my brother and I went to GameStop to get a PS3 with their great deal. It came with 4 or 5 games, and they were uncharted and infamous, so it's not like they're crappy games. That's like a $100 value for free, also with a couple months of PlayStation plus, so $20 value free as well. It's quite a deal on the PS3 since we payed like $80 for it if you take away the games and plus. That's pretty cool. What added to the fun was that my friend Max joined us. He's always fun to hang out with. My brother and I were already camped out there, and it was like 10:30 when we got there, and he got there at about 11. GameStop opened at 12, and we were the first ones in line.

After GameStop we went to Best Buy. The line wasn't nearly as long as it was last year. It makes sense since we got there 30 minutes after they opened and all the door busters were gone. All that was left was our vulture scraps. I went there primarily for the deals they were having on blu-rays, but when I got there they didn't have as many that I wanted as I thought they would have. I did get a couple and it was just fun hanging out with Max. It was fun either way. Also remember how I said I wasn't able to get Big Bang Theory at Wal-Mart? Well they had it at Best Buy for cheaper. So I got mine there.

Now for a little rant. I think it takes away from the whole "black Friday" thing when stores open before midnight. I mean, it's technically Thursday, not Friday. It was only Wal-Mart for me that had deals before Friday, but still. Well this has been Pokematic signing off and bu-bye.

smoke alarms, grauation pictures, shopping the mall, and band banquet

Wow, more stories in such a short time. Let me start with a funny story that happened very early in the day. At about 1 am, the smoke alarms in my house went off. My brother wakes up screaming. It's not a high pitch girl scream, but more of a loud, long caveman grunt. He's our of bed, and by then I'm out of bed, and I give the same scream. We both have rather large shaggy beards, so the 2 of us grunt screaming at each other in the dark looked funny. A few seconds later, these are the exact words that went through my mind, "what that noise!? It's the circle box! That mean fire stupid! GET OUT!" I open the door, and my parents just open their door. I here my mom say "uhhh calm down boys," but I was at the other end of the hall getting ready to go down the stairs.

I'm nearly at the bottom, well more like halfway down, and my brother knocks something off the side of the top of the stairs causing it to fall to the base. It was like clothing or something, but I had to jump over it when I got to the base. I go outside to the tree in front of our house where we decided to meet up many years ago if there was a fire. I see that no one is coming out, and the hose is still standing, so then I go back inside. I was shell shocked afterwards, so I'm laughing for 5 minutes afterwards. As it turns out, the battery in the hall detector died and that set off all the detectors since they're all wired together.

Well I go back to sleep, and I have to get my brother to school again. When will I be able to sleep in like a normal senior? Probably next week. Anyways I get him there, and get ready for my picture at sears. Yesterday I got my cap and gown, and it was wrapped up and wrinkly. To try to pull the wrinkles out, I weighted down problem areas since neither my mom nor I trust each other with an iron with this unknown material. Check out these funny pictures.

I used my key chain to weigh it down. It worked a little.

So I gather everything together ready to go to sears. My grand parents have been taking me to sears for pictures since I was a new born. A couple of years ago, I learned from my cousins that it isn't normal to go to get pictures at sears portrait studio every 3 weeks from age new born to age 7 and then going at least 5 times a year since. It was annoying, especially since to save money, my grandma gets a package that requires you to take a bazillion poses, but then after all them, she only gets 2 or so. I guess it's more economic, but super annoying.

Well sears is attached to a mall, like most, so before I spent about an hour and a half going around the mall. I spent most time in the Game Stop and FYE. I didn't find anything at either, but was still fun to look around. After the pictures, I had lunch with my grandparents at the Logan's that is right close. After lunch, I went to ABC Warehouse. I've wanted to go there since I started seeing all the commercials for it. The sales guy asked me if there was anything specific I was looking for, but I told him "nothing specific, I just saw so many commercials about 'closest thing to wholesale' and I'd figured I'd look around." He thought that was a good enough answer and said please do. I looked around, and on the $5.99 DVD rack, I found some DVD collections of 4 movies together and lesser TV show seasons. Then I found Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Two-Disc Special Edition) on the rack. That and Deathly Hollows Part 1 are the only ones I am missing in my collection. Now it's just Deathly Hallows Part 1 that I'm missing.

Then at dinner time, I had the band banquet. I sat with my friends, and I got some awards fro being in concert band, jazz band, and pit orchestra. Not a lot happened. Sorry, no elaborate story. I just cheered for my friends and such. So this has been this day. Tomorrow is graduation and all night party.