day after x-mas shopping

it's a tradition. just like day after thanksgiving shopping is. we (brandon's mom and grandma) go each year to get the clearance stuff. this year brandon's aunt joined us as well. it didn't go as smoothly as it has in years past though...

we decided to meet at 4:30 am to get to jcpenney's by 5 when they opened. so, we got there and were immediately sent into a depressment. they hardly had anything and most of the sales were the same price as they were before christmas. i mean really. i need deep discounts people!!

so then we picked up brandon's aunt and headed to k-mart. they were supposed to open at 6, but we were there about 20 minutes early. we waited. but when 6 o'clock rolled around and no one was there except employees we got a lil worried. so, we walked to the door and there was a hand written sign saying "blah, blah, blah, we will open at 8 am on the 26th." what?!?! we were SURE the advertisments said 6 am. not much we could do about it though except move on. we then traveled to wal-mart. but they didn't open til 7. my frustrations and annoyances were elevating but it was mostly humorous since we got up so early to get the good stuff and no. one. was. open. grrr! we drove to target. same story. "we open at 7 am." it was about 6:30 am at this point and we were just baffled. we went on to another wal-mart and it happened to have opened at 6 am, so we were finally able to do some shopping. after about an hour there we went to target and got some more junk. finally some successes! see people, persistance pays off.

then brandon and boyd met us for breakfast and i went home and crashed after that. it's so exhausting shopping on little sleep.