1) baseball is back 2) Tails from Black friday's past...

Aiden's back in baseball...they've had a few weeks of practicing but last night (Monday) was the first game of the season...they kicked butt....until the bottom of the final inning...where they totally blew it and ended up losing by one.  can you say..heart....breaker. :(

Tonight is game 2...and this time...we're gonna WIN! (hopefully)  I'll have to bring my camera and snap some pictures of the games, then share them with ya'll.

On another topic completely---who's going shopping on "Black Friday"?

This is something my mom and I always did together...well not always..but the past couple of years I've dragged her out at the crack of dawn (Ok I lie it's way before dawn) but we'd hit store after store and she'd be going bonkers cuz she hates crowds...and traffic.  Anyone who's been out on Black Friday KNOWS that's the day in a nutshell...traffic and crowds....awe but bless her heart she still went with me cuz I love the rush.  But this year---this year she up and left me all alone--so I'm not going.  and yeah I maybe pouting a little on the inside.

But this one time...on black Friday...(hee hee) My mom, me and my aunt Katy went shopping down here in the Valley. (trust me folks it's insane---no you don't know know, trust me...it's a whole OTHER world down here on Black Friday)  but we went out (It was my first year here)  we hit wal-mart before it was open and waited....split up and met back together.  I was in electronics waiting on a Nintendo DS lite or something--I went and found the worker to help me and asked for this specific item.  He said he'd go look.  I told him I'd wait in line, I had a few other purchases anyway.  He came and held up two, I chose one and the person in front of me chose one.  The lady checking out said "Oh I want one of those!" the guy looked at me and then her and said "sorry we only had two left"  well the gal checking out said "Well I was here first" so the employee took the DS out of my hands (literally!) and handed it to her.  I was like "What!?  I specifically asked for this, found and you brought it to me, you can't take it away!"  he was like "She was in line first" and walked away.  She finished checking out and I just stood there dumbfounded....put all my stuff back (hahahaha, I mean dumped it off on some random pile of wal-mart crap) and we walked out of there.  I was so upset I was near tears....which sucks cuz I wasn't sad or anything, I was upset as in TICKED OFF...but that emotion always comes out as tears for me....

We then head to Circuit City....finally we catch a break and pull in as someone's pulling out.  Until someone cuts in and steals out parking spot.  My mom and Katy jump out like the car is on fire and pound on her windows (after all we were waiting for the spot with our signal on--it was pretty obvious)   I thought for sure Katy and Mom were gonna be goners due to road rage.  I was yelling at them from the car "It's not worth it, there's lots of places to park!" (really there weren't any!!) but they were just hell-bent on chewing her out.

Parking-spot-thief says  "I'll just be a second, you can wait for it if you want" and walks in....oh did I mention she was like 80 years old, white hair and TOTALLY RUDE!! who does that?? what a jerk. My mom was furious---looking back now we can laugh that day of  "Black Friday" shopping here in the Valley it was pretty sucky...I decided then and there I wouldn't do it again here.  The next couple years that followed we'd do Thanksgiving at my mom's house and Christmas here.  That way we could go black Friday shopping with SANE people in Corpus Christi.  So to my friends out there in the Rio Grande Valley that are going shopping...GOOD FREAKIN' LUCK!! (You'll need it) it's crazy out there!!!