Preparation

My bestie and I are throwing a party here at my house next weekend in honor of tacky Christmas wear.  We have spent a great deal of time over the past month or so tracking down some of the world's worst decorations ever!  Quite honestly, it looks like Santa just spewed all over my house. 

On the outside my house looks downright delightful, inside it is, well, not at all the way I would decorate it. Who knew that decorating in a tacky fashion would be so difficult? Not me, that's for sure!  I fear that people who come to my house for the first time might think this is actually how I decorate for the holidays . I guess I don't care or I wouldn't have gone all out to supply such festive things from every thrift store on this side of the Ohio River. 

I have spent weeks preparing my home and finding the perfect outfit to wear.  It took me days on end to embellish my skirt to perfection!  Now the real chore begins, getting and keeping the house clean before people come here to party! 

Onto bigger things; Thanksgiving day was fabulous.  I slept till 11:30am, got up and lolly gaged around the house till I got a call saying to hurry up and get to my parents' because dinner was almost ready.  What the?  It was only 12:30pm and we weren't supposed to eat till around 2:30ish!  I jumped in the shower, got myself and the kids ready and drove to my parents'.  We got there in the nick of time to eat.  It was all yummy!  I stuffed myself with all the fixins'.  When I was sufficiently full I checked out the Black Friday ads and didn't really see anything that I had to have other than a Dyson vacuum, which was on sale 30% off.  Alright, actually I didn't see the vacuum in the ads because for whatever reason that ad was missing from my parents' paper.  I saw it online and decided I had to have it!  I tried and tried to order it online but do to overload on the Lowe's website I couldn't get on their site forever and when I finally did, my cart kept disappearing.

I decided the one and only way I was going to get this coveted vacuum was to get my butt up at the crack of...wait I can't even say the butt crack of dawn!  I had to get up before daylight to get it.  Abigail wanted to come with me so we got up at 4am and headed out.  We arrived in a timely fashion, much to my amazement, got a Dyson and a few other non-essential items.  Now, I really wanted a certain Dyson but it wasn't available - go figure!  I had to get the next model up.  Funny thing is, I got a better model Dyson and it cost me less than the one I went for.  How? Well, I used my military I.D. to score an extra 10% off.  WOOT WOOT! 

After we were done at Lowe's, we came home and spotted Marc and Natalie heading out for their shopping excursion.  I told them of my good deals and they invited us to tag along with them. Abigail and I loaded up in their truck and went to a few stores with them. 

Later that morning Abigail had a doctor's appointment and then we made our way over to the police substation to pick up Scott's Christmas bonus check.  Hit the bank and hit a few more stores.  I loaded up on bean juice and still found the energy to go out on the town with my bestie that night!  We had a great time and ran into one of our other friends, Jennifer, when we landed at our favorite Mom's Night Out spot!

That is what I did last week in a nutshell.  More to come later...

Sincerely,
The Queen of Insanity