Black Friday

I woke up early this morning, around 6 am. I guess my long nap yesterday had me fully rested. So i got up and slowly got myself together. Woke to a rather chilly and frosty outside morning. Although it’s warming up nicely and is suppose to be a beautiful day with temps in the mid 60’s!

Finally i did my dishes from yesterday. Yes i know … shame on me, but hey i did all the work i wanted yesterday and my back can only take so much work. After i finished the dishes i figured the huge black Friday crowds would be under control and i wanted to go to Hobby Lobby as they had their Christmas material 50% off and i needed a few more colors to have to start my Christmas quilt I'm going to make.

I haven’t really done much quilting since my back injury. Just the occasional baby quilt here and there for the families new arrivals. Being around Wanda and she is a great quilter put that desire back in me. I decided i was going to try to get a bit more of my life back since my injury and illness. I am going to start quilting again. It may take me a year, it may take me 2 years or even longer, but I'm going to start doing a hobby that i loved dearly. Quilting is a very special hobby to me because i learned to do it from hubby’s dear sweat grandmother whom i loved and miss dearly. We spent hours together while she taught me. The best part of all was the bonding time we got from it all.

I doubt since Mr. Winter is around the corner and as soon as we can were going to head south for the winter. But my plans when i get back in the summer is to go through storage and find some of the quilting things i have saved from grandma’s stuff.

After going to Hobby Lobby we stopped by the Good Will Store and picked up several pairs of dress pants and 2 brand new belts for hubby. He got several pairs of pants with the tags still on them and the belts. We got a good deal and once again i couldn’t find much for me. I am in the size that is hard to find it appears. Just my luck. What actually caused us to go to Good Will is some how i got hubby and Gabe’s dress pants mixed up when i packed Gabe’s clothes up and his navy blue ones he put on the other day would not button and went to the middle of his calves … LOL It wasn’t funny when he kept trying to tell me that he had a problem. I thought he meant i hadn’t pressed his pants and I kept telling him he was fine, just put them on i pressed them and he kept saying you don’t understand, something is wrong. Finally i got frustrated as i was trying to get dressed and when i came out of the bathroom i started laughing. It was a hilarious even though it wasn’t …. LOL Needless to say he had to end up wearing a pair of pants not pressed because there was no time for me to press his other pair. Come to find out Gabe got 2 pairs of his pants and hubby has 2 pairs of Gabe’s pants. Although Gabe probably hasn’t noticed since he has put on a few pounds and gotten taller since he moved out so I'm sure he was happy to have hubby’s pants … LOL I forgot to ask him when i talked to him yesterday … lol

Then we stopped by a dollar store and back to Ms. Southwind. It’s been a nice day and the traffic was pretty heavy, there appears to be lots of shoppers out today, of course that is normal for Black Friday.

Once i got back to Ms. Southwind since it was 62 degrees out, i took the dogs on a walk and then i came back and took down the fall window clings i had up on Ms. Southwind and put up her Christmas ones. I took down the fall wreath and need to make one for Christmas. After that i was exhausted and took a shower and put on my pj’s to spend my evening hopefully finding a Christmas program and watching it. I love Christmas stories! Until next time … have a good one ….