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Friday, December 10, 2010
The Find
Has great sweepstakes and giveaways. Like this one for a Dooney and Bourke purse You can find this sweepstakes here: The Find 12 Days of Dooney and Bourke . I just know I'm gonna win the purse though! ;)
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Winner of the Wal-Mart Card
Drum roll please.......
The winner of the $20 Wal-Mart gift card is
Here are your random numbers:
18
Timestamp: 2010-12-02 13:34:07 UTC
Mommy Minded who said...
I need a new Ipod to work out with from good ole santa! ;)
Congratulations Megan and I hope you get your new Ipod.
Winner has been contacted and has 48 hours to respond or a new winner will be chosen.
Thank you to everyone who entered my giveaway
and
for reading Life or Something Like It.
Thank you to everyone who entered my giveaway
and
for reading Life or Something Like It.
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Becky and Kristen's Big Black Friday Adventure
So my lovely daughter, at Our Crazy Bunch , talks me into going shopping on Black Friday with her. The plan is, we will send Rosie and Carter home with my Mom on Thanksgiving to spend the night, and that way her hubby only has the boys to watch. I was asked if I wanted to work the day after Thanksgiving and normally, that is not a problem, but this year, nooooo, instead of overtime, I spent money!
Thanksgiving Day I asked Kristen if she had a plan. What was the plan of attack? After all, Black Friday apparently starts Thanksgiving Night @ Toys R Us. Wal-Mart is open all day Thanksgiving Day, Old Navy opens at Midnight, many of the stores in the mall open at 3 or 4 a.m. Kohl's opens at 3, Target at 4, Wal-Mart blitz starts at 5. Wow! She had no plan. So I have a brilliant plan! We'll just go on into town and stay out all night, and be done by 9 a.m. HAHA This is us at the beginning of our adventure:
First we sent a text to my BFF, telling her to be ready in 45 minutes, we were coming to kidnap her. We drive up and she has family over, part of which were leaving Alas,she is smart, even though her DH, daughter and Bubba were trying to get her to come with us, she bowed out. Bubba really wanted to go, but I didn't encourage it, since BFF wasn't acting like that was a good plan. We would've taken Bubba. We get into town about 9, and this is the line for Toys R Us:
Yes, I know it is dark and hard to see. Since yall don't know the town, let me give ya a little background. Toys R Us is in a shopping center that we used to have a little Wal-Mart in, so the line was from the entrance past TJ Maxx on the left of it, down the parking lot to the highway, and down the high way about to the Lowe's parking lot that is about 2 blocks away. REALLY? Just how long have these people been in line? Did they not celebrate Thanksgiving? And if they did, when? At breakfast? Oh yeah, we are making fun. HAH!
Little did we know.
We cruise around the mall, and check out the line waiting at Best Buy, Old Navy, Target and Kohnl's. Kristen finds it hilarious that someone is outside of Target in a tent. Lines at all 4 of those locations are manageable, so we decide to go to Wal-Mart. Well, let me tell you, all the crazies were there, to include us. We are just walking around checking stuff out, and trying to figure out exactly where the hard drives that were on special were going to be at. People were breaking open pallets of merchandise, putting it in their buggies, and we heard, stealing stuff out of other people's buggies. (For you Northern folk, that's shopping carts.) Wal-Mart has a few specials starting at midnight, but most of the stuff was for the 5 a.m. sale.
It was so nuts in there that people were trying to follow an employee setting up lines for the big items, with numbered balloons. This lady behind me kept bumping me in the butt with her buggy. I mean, I can understand once, and it's an accident, and you apologize. But repeatedly? There was fixin' to be a fight! I did say something not so nice, loudly to Kristen, that was pretty much the end of the butt bumping.
When we had enough of the idjits in Wal-Mart, we decided that we'd go on over to Old Navy and wait in line there for them to open at midnight. We get there at 11 and the line was from the front door all the way around the building to the back of the building. Before midnight the line was all the way to Belk's. We get everything we need there and get in line to pay, yep another line wrapped around the inside of the store. Took about an hour in line. Craziness! But then, we went to Toys R Us, walked right in, got what we wanted and did not have to wait in line to check out. Amazing, considering the line earlier!
Then it was time for some nourishment, thank goodness for Steak N Shake! After some food, we hit the mall, then back to Wal-Mart, then to Target! Finally! We are done, except for Carter's childrens clothing store down the road at the Outlet Mall.. Wait! We had an hour to wait on Hobby Lobby to open so we could return some things for Kristen's sis in law. Nope, they were already open.
Hooray! I think the funniest thing that happened was we went to Starbucks, right as they opened, then went to Wal-Mart. So I park and Kristen fell asleep on me, and I let her sleep for about 30 minutes then tell her to come on, let's go in. She gets out of the car and goes, "where is the store, where are we?" A little punchy from lack of sleep! Considering she had gotten up at 6:30 a.m. and I got a couple hours more sleep than she did!
We cruise around the mall, and check out the line waiting at Best Buy, Old Navy, Target and Kohnl's. Kristen finds it hilarious that someone is outside of Target in a tent. Lines at all 4 of those locations are manageable, so we decide to go to Wal-Mart. Well, let me tell you, all the crazies were there, to include us. We are just walking around checking stuff out, and trying to figure out exactly where the hard drives that were on special were going to be at. People were breaking open pallets of merchandise, putting it in their buggies, and we heard, stealing stuff out of other people's buggies. (For you Northern folk, that's shopping carts.) Wal-Mart has a few specials starting at midnight, but most of the stuff was for the 5 a.m. sale.
It was so nuts in there that people were trying to follow an employee setting up lines for the big items, with numbered balloons. This lady behind me kept bumping me in the butt with her buggy. I mean, I can understand once, and it's an accident, and you apologize. But repeatedly? There was fixin' to be a fight! I did say something not so nice, loudly to Kristen, that was pretty much the end of the butt bumping.
When we had enough of the idjits in Wal-Mart, we decided that we'd go on over to Old Navy and wait in line there for them to open at midnight. We get there at 11 and the line was from the front door all the way around the building to the back of the building. Before midnight the line was all the way to Belk's. We get everything we need there and get in line to pay, yep another line wrapped around the inside of the store. Took about an hour in line. Craziness! But then, we went to Toys R Us, walked right in, got what we wanted and did not have to wait in line to check out. Amazing, considering the line earlier!
Then it was time for some nourishment, thank goodness for Steak N Shake! After some food, we hit the mall, then back to Wal-Mart, then to Target! Finally! We are done, except for Carter's childrens clothing store down the road at the Outlet Mall.. Wait! We had an hour to wait on Hobby Lobby to open so we could return some things for Kristen's sis in law. Nope, they were already open.
Hooray! I think the funniest thing that happened was we went to Starbucks, right as they opened, then went to Wal-Mart. So I park and Kristen fell asleep on me, and I let her sleep for about 30 minutes then tell her to come on, let's go in. She gets out of the car and goes, "where is the store, where are we?" A little punchy from lack of sleep! Considering she had gotten up at 6:30 a.m. and I got a couple hours more sleep than she did!
We don't look that bad for no sleep!
Finally, we go to Carter's, then to pick up the girls. Yeah, we get home about 12:30.
One things for sure, we were tired, but it was fun! Here we are when we got home, don't think we look too bad, actually!
Will I do it again? I doubt it, but I've learned, Never say Never!
Sunday, November 21, 2010
Come on and join in
the fun of a Christmas ornament swap!
Ornaments can be homemade or store bought, but please nothing used!
Deadline to enter is Dec. 1st and packages need to be sent out no later than Dec.8th!
I am looking forward to finding out what ornament I get in the swap. I love Christmas. Don't you?
Saturday, November 20, 2010
Men, need I say more?
Men, you gotta love 'em. An acquaintance of mine and I got into an interesting conversation about men and how they have changed over the years. She is about 10 - 15 years older than me. We were talking about how her husband prior to retirement, would come home from work and expect the house to be clean, dinner on the table, even though she worked a full time job also. How men in general would come in, sit down, read the newspaper and relax, while the women would come in, tend to the kids, house, dinner, and whatever else needed tending to. I told her how my Mom worked and then came home, tended to us, cleaned up, fixed dinner, cause when my Dad got home we ate. Dinner was like clockwork, 5:30 p.m. on the dot.
Then she said that her son, wasn't like that. I said my husband wasn't either, but he could try. haha
I think that men who came into adulthood in the early sixties or earlier did have a more defined role and expected their women to also fill a defined role. Even if women worked, the men were the 'breadwinners' and women were the 'housekeepers'. True, that it was more common for women to be stay at home wives and mothers than it is today. Father Knows Best anyone? Most households can not afford for the wife to stay at home these days. Not to mention that women, since the sexual revolution and women's lib movements of the sixties, have wanted to have some independence financially, in their own right.
My husband and I both work full time. He is a truck driver who comes in late after 5 days out on the road, is home 2 days, and goes back to work early the next day. I work 3 days a week, 12 hour shifts. My schedule rotates every 3 weeks. Sometimes, I work the days he is off, like today, so he usually has supper made, or is cooking when I get home. Now that I have more time off, having recently changed from administration (Mon - Fri) back to being a peon, and actually have more time at home, I don't usually expect him to clean house, wash clothes, etc. We did have someone come in before about once a month to do deep cleaning, but I don't need it now. Unfortunately for him, I ran home from work this morning for a minute and gave him a honey do list. It wasn't much, fold what is in the dryer and dry what was in the washer. Easy enough. But for him to expect dinner at the same time every night that he's home, etc, etc... oh no....that wouldn't work. Not that I am some ultra feminist, but I'm no push over either! Just my thoughts.....:)
So most of the bloggers that I've come across are a generation younger than me. What are your thoughts on men these days?
Then she said that her son, wasn't like that. I said my husband wasn't either, but he could try. haha
I think that men who came into adulthood in the early sixties or earlier did have a more defined role and expected their women to also fill a defined role. Even if women worked, the men were the 'breadwinners' and women were the 'housekeepers'. True, that it was more common for women to be stay at home wives and mothers than it is today. Father Knows Best anyone? Most households can not afford for the wife to stay at home these days. Not to mention that women, since the sexual revolution and women's lib movements of the sixties, have wanted to have some independence financially, in their own right.
My husband and I both work full time. He is a truck driver who comes in late after 5 days out on the road, is home 2 days, and goes back to work early the next day. I work 3 days a week, 12 hour shifts. My schedule rotates every 3 weeks. Sometimes, I work the days he is off, like today, so he usually has supper made, or is cooking when I get home. Now that I have more time off, having recently changed from administration (Mon - Fri) back to being a peon, and actually have more time at home, I don't usually expect him to clean house, wash clothes, etc. We did have someone come in before about once a month to do deep cleaning, but I don't need it now. Unfortunately for him, I ran home from work this morning for a minute and gave him a honey do list. It wasn't much, fold what is in the dryer and dry what was in the washer. Easy enough. But for him to expect dinner at the same time every night that he's home, etc, etc... oh no....that wouldn't work. Not that I am some ultra feminist, but I'm no push over either! Just my thoughts.....:)
So most of the bloggers that I've come across are a generation younger than me. What are your thoughts on men these days?
CSN Giveaway
Go over to The Dalai Mama and check out her CSN stores $35.00 gift card giveaway! That's awesome!
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Wal-Mart Gift Card Giveaway! CLOSED
How about a little giveaway?
With it being the Christmas season and me feeling extra giving I thought I'd have my first giveaway!
How to enter you ask?
It's easy...
1. Follow Life or Something Like It publicly on GFC
2. Tell me what you want Santa to bring you for Christmas
This giveaway will end on December 1st at 1159 EST and the winner will be drawn via Random.org
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