The Day After
I don't know about you, but I try to stay home and off the road on Black Friday. Especially now that I live so close to a mall!
It seems such an antitheses to the relaxed atmosphere of Thanksgiving, where you don't care about catching up on your email or work, and you just sit around and watch TV and talk and enjoy being together with your family or friends or whoever is important to you.
Mom and Dean and I had a great day yesterday. Granted, I didn't do more than 200 words of writing on my NaNoWriMo project, and I'm still days behind schedule, but it was a good day yesterday. Sometimes you need to just goof off and think about something besides deadlines and goals and earning a living!
We had brunch, then we played Skip-Bo, then we moved into the living room and watched the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade. Dean wanted to see the Underdog balloon, and I got online to see if it was still even included in the parade, because I can't honestly remember seeing it for a while. It's amazing all the information on the parade that's available, most of it on Wikipedia. They list the years different balloons and floats were introduced into the parade, and even a funny/silly/sad list of when balloons created havoc, ran wild, and had to be punctured by the police to protect bystanders. Some of the pictures of early balloons were downright bizarre!
I finally had to look up Underdog, the show, and found the listing for the parade. Doggone it -- the Underdog balloon was retired in the 80s!!!! Gee, no wonder I couldn't remember seeing it for years and years ...
Funny how time speeds by, isn't it? But we have our good memories, and that's what Thanksgiving is all about -- not stocking up for the insanity of Black Friday. Which started early this year, by the way. When I took Dean home, the Target parking lot across the street from his apartment was jammed at 10:30 at night. Come on, people! Get a sense of reality here!!!
Well, it's Friday, and back to schedules and goals and deadlines. I'm still unpacking and getting my apartment organized, but at least my office is somewhat put together. I can actually FIND supplies when I need them. 95.5 the Fish is playing Christmas songs all day, and I'm trying to get all my online work done so I can get back to work on my NaNoWriMo project. If I manage about 5,000 words a day for the rest of the month, I'll get this thing finished! Which will make my publisher very happy. She's waiting for the 5th and final book of the Hunt series -- and come to think of it, so am I! I love it when I'm writing the first draft. Things happen I never planned for, and sometimes it feels like I'm reading the story and discovering what it's about as it's being written.
So happy Day After Thanksgiving to everyone. I hope you're home and relaxed and warm, safe from the insanity and easing your way into the holidays.
It seems such an antitheses to the relaxed atmosphere of Thanksgiving, where you don't care about catching up on your email or work, and you just sit around and watch TV and talk and enjoy being together with your family or friends or whoever is important to you.
Mom and Dean and I had a great day yesterday. Granted, I didn't do more than 200 words of writing on my NaNoWriMo project, and I'm still days behind schedule, but it was a good day yesterday. Sometimes you need to just goof off and think about something besides deadlines and goals and earning a living!
We had brunch, then we played Skip-Bo, then we moved into the living room and watched the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade. Dean wanted to see the Underdog balloon, and I got online to see if it was still even included in the parade, because I can't honestly remember seeing it for a while. It's amazing all the information on the parade that's available, most of it on Wikipedia. They list the years different balloons and floats were introduced into the parade, and even a funny/silly/sad list of when balloons created havoc, ran wild, and had to be punctured by the police to protect bystanders. Some of the pictures of early balloons were downright bizarre!
I finally had to look up Underdog, the show, and found the listing for the parade. Doggone it -- the Underdog balloon was retired in the 80s!!!! Gee, no wonder I couldn't remember seeing it for years and years ...
Funny how time speeds by, isn't it? But we have our good memories, and that's what Thanksgiving is all about -- not stocking up for the insanity of Black Friday. Which started early this year, by the way. When I took Dean home, the Target parking lot across the street from his apartment was jammed at 10:30 at night. Come on, people! Get a sense of reality here!!!
Well, it's Friday, and back to schedules and goals and deadlines. I'm still unpacking and getting my apartment organized, but at least my office is somewhat put together. I can actually FIND supplies when I need them. 95.5 the Fish is playing Christmas songs all day, and I'm trying to get all my online work done so I can get back to work on my NaNoWriMo project. If I manage about 5,000 words a day for the rest of the month, I'll get this thing finished! Which will make my publisher very happy. She's waiting for the 5th and final book of the Hunt series -- and come to think of it, so am I! I love it when I'm writing the first draft. Things happen I never planned for, and sometimes it feels like I'm reading the story and discovering what it's about as it's being written.
So happy Day After Thanksgiving to everyone. I hope you're home and relaxed and warm, safe from the insanity and easing your way into the holidays.
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