black friday

for the first time ever today i engaged in the hysteria that is black friday shopping.

K and i woke up at 5:30 and drove to fair oaks to join the shopping scene by 6am.

running on merely white chocolate mochas from starbucks and some fruity orbit gum, K and i met up with some of K's friends and co. and traversed fair oaks. i came home by 9am, successfully having purchased some fun goodies for myself, as well as completing my gift search and purchase for S :) (a whole month early! rare for me, when i usually prefer to buy the gift as close to christmas as possible because i hate having to wait so long to give it to him!)

later, i met up with the usual panera lunch crew, E, T, and D (missing H unfortunately) for...you guessed it, panera (tragically, the mac n cheese was a fail...curse you panera) in order to have a routine thanksgiving luncheon and catch-up sesh (not that i don't talk to T & E almost daily...). afterward, T somehow tricked me into going BACK to fair oaks for a 2nd black friday shopping spree...

i went in insisting i couldn't spend money and she'd somehow trick me into buying something i'd regret.

sure enough...

first store we enter i pick a silly little winter hat off a mannequin and buy it, without thought.

but the thing is...i kind of love it...i've been wearing it around the house ever since i got home :)