tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11597422.post116445098165344035..comments2023-11-28T02:14:46.571-05:00Comments on Random Thoughts of the Reading Obsessed: A RambleTara Mariehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15963704767440694312noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11597422.post-1164686904072023562006-11-27T23:08:00.000-05:002006-11-27T23:08:00.000-05:00Okay, don't quote me but I think the news said ton...Okay, don't quote me but I think the news said tonight that retailers in the States made 8 billion dollars on Black Friday. Wow! The name alone would scare me from ever venturing out of the house!<BR/><BR/>Boxing Day is another day I don't go shopping at traditional stores. Bob and I have gone to a carpet shop to buy remnants. <BR/><BR/>I worked in retail for years so I worked weekends until I was 24. I remember going out to a mall on a Saturday for the first time in years. I was completely floored and frustrated by the number of people and how slow they walked. Since then I only shop during the week!<BR/><BR/>Both families do pies which really blew as a kid because I didn't eat them. I would get ice cream. Bob's family however, doesn't make 'real' gravy and instead makes it from a packet. For me, it's not a real turkey dinner without 'true' gravy.<BR/><BR/>You're a great wife for making your hubby a pie ;)<BR/><BR/>I think I read a Potter historical there years ago but my memory is consistently failing me lately!<BR/><BR/>AND - I know, I'm long winded - I hope Junior is feeling much better!<BR/><BR/>CindySCindyShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18349459903336460467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11597422.post-1164618104240765582006-11-27T04:01:00.000-05:002006-11-27T04:01:00.000-05:00TM, while my family always had a pumpkin pie or tw...TM, while my family always had a pumpkin pie or two because it is a holiday tradition, we always have other desserts as well. The past few years with our family growing in size we usually get together for dessert. I made a chocolate layered thing I found on line with whip creme and raspberries. Everyone liked it. I tell my kids it's nice to have traditions but it shouldn't keep you from trying new things. <BR/><BR/>We never shop on Black Friday. While I usually don't mind crowds of people because I'm a people watcher, it's just too chaotic for me. Did your stores open at 5 and 6 a.m. for early bird sales? That's just nutty.Rosiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15868327419940314643noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11597422.post-1164550450502799892006-11-26T09:14:00.000-05:002006-11-26T09:14:00.000-05:00mmm i live in canada so thankgiving over but now i...mmm i live in canada so thankgiving over but now im hungering for all the turkey and fixins. american thankgiving is making canadian hungry again heh. mm <BR/>i had to say the cold case tv show or is cold file tv show that come on tv here sunday night. last sunday was a doozy of a show. it was about this sad frumpy not so attractive and voracious romance reader who get scammed by lothario at dating videotape service in 1990 . he chooses her and wthey go on dates. he the perfect romantic hero she fall forhim . then she finds out he only dating her for money and to steal things from her apt. she catches him. but here the twist. she get to keep him around. he was gonna disappear but she appealed to his crimal nature by helping him with the scamming of womem by helping him to set up the women adn married them and the kill them on the wedding day to get money , etc . i jsut found it all so sad. she was murdered in 1990 something . flashforward to 2006. he dies of self inflicted gun shot. the show about them two. it all tragic and sad and romantic. it all very sad i find and totaly memorable . did i blather on too much? she a big time romance reader and they made her the saddest most frumpy thing ever! not sure what to make of it . hard to believe 1990 is so long ago and is another era . now the 1990s is another another era which i cant remember at all . for the good old days. have a great weekend . mamx from nb , canada where there no snow yet !did i jinx it > heh hehAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11597422.post-1164537582060565232006-11-26T05:39:00.000-05:002006-11-26T05:39:00.000-05:00Kristie, It seems shopping has become part of the ...Kristie, It seems shopping has become part of the Thanksgiving tradition, personally I try to avoid the stores like the plague. My husband ventured to Toys-R-Us yesterday mid-morning and it was empty, picked up a few things for the child. <BR/><BR/>I promised to make my husband a banana cream pie to make up for his "No Pie Thanksgiving."<BR/><BR/>Patricia Potter wrote some of the best westerns and I'm not overly impressed with this RS, but then I think I'm being a little picky.<BR/><BR/>Devonna, we did have a nice day and give PP's westerns a try--very good.<BR/><BR/>Jen, Glad to hear you had a nice day. I love leftovers!! I saved enough stuffing, turkey and homemade cranberry sauce for a sandwich, everything else Mom sent home is gone.Tara Mariehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15963704767440694312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11597422.post-1164513842751459562006-11-25T23:04:00.000-05:002006-11-25T23:04:00.000-05:00Sounds like a nice Thanksgiving. Ours was very qu...Sounds like a nice Thanksgiving. Ours was very quiet. The first we can remember without any family - just the four of us. Was actually kind of nice. Waaaay too much in the way of leftovers, though. lol<BR/><BR/>JenJensterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15639970448069931471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11597422.post-1164509538114880092006-11-25T21:52:00.000-05:002006-11-25T21:52:00.000-05:00Sounds like you had a great Thanksgiving. I haven...Sounds like you had a great Thanksgiving. I haven't read any of Potter's RS ~ I have some of her historicals that I bought at the library, but haven't read them yet.Devhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10719293114461054932noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11597422.post-1164490378875886992006-11-25T16:32:00.000-05:002006-11-25T16:32:00.000-05:00I'd never heard of the expression Black Friday unt...I'd never heard of the expression Black Friday until just yesterday. I guess it's the #1 shopping day of the year? Here it's Boxing day. I avoid the stores like crazy too on those days.<BR/>No pies does sound a bit odd :)<BR/>I read a couple of Potter's RS and wasn't that impressed with them. Having said that, I do have her latest one. I wish she would go back to Westerns *sigh* as I love those ones too.Kristie (J)https://www.blogger.com/profile/15743921647882733738noreply@blogger.com