I See Friday Coming, and I Want to Paint it Black

This is the time of year for counting down the days to:

• Thanksgiving
• My kid's birthday
• Christmas
• New Year's
• and, of course, how many days till I can wake up at 2 in the morning to go stand in line to get a voucher for a new laptop only to have some complete jackass with no voucher snag the last one at the Black Friday sale?

Ah, Black Friday. What sort of sick, twisted minds invented this? I have to admit, I bought (and bought) into it for the longest time. But now I am enlightened. This means that at 2 a.m. on Black Friday, I'm not dressing up in my warmest clothes and getting ready for a possible street brawl type of fight in front of Best Buy. Instead, the enlightment is literal, with my face reflecting the soft electric glow of my laptop screen, its fan purring oh so delicately while I'm in cyber checkout at 2 a.m., and the only jackasses I have to deal with are the ones that didn't plan well for server allocation on amazon.com or kohls.com. And if they run out of whatever it is I needed, there's no trudging off to the next store. It's back to bed for me. How Zen.

If you are also looking for good things to come your way this Black Friday, look no more. I am giving away a set of 4 Santa belly Christmas cards to 1 lucky follower.* Could it be you?? A follower of this blog will be chosen randomly this Friday. If you're reading this blog and not following, I'm not saying you're a loser: I'm just saying that you can't possibly win. So follow it already!

Here's a peek at the cards you could win:

And noooowww, back to the countdown.

I have too many things to count down to at this time of the year, so rather than try to count down on all of them, I put my focus on the countdown to Christmas. Here's my Christmas countdown sign along with instructions so you can make your own. This would be a great project to work on on Friday when you are coming down off your shopping high. Just make sure you aren't in a tryptophan stupor when you do it, since there are sharp objects involved.

https://picasaweb.google.com/107274384649999210248/Movies?authkey=Gv1sRgCMif3oe544X4lQE#5677319269655188770 

Moving like Jagger,
Jenny

P.S. Follow the blog to win!* Or just buy a set of cards at jenboothe.etsy.com.

*Standard rules apply: If I married you or birthed you, you aren't eligible to win.