and the Holidaze begins

Well, I hope you all had a very Happy Thanksgiving. I was unfortunately sick - tummy sick. I got to enjoy company, but not much in terms of food. I was up half the night sick, but my body woke me up at 4:30am and was feeling great and ready to go - so what did I do? Went shopping!

Michaels had a HUGE deal on cricut cartridges - $30 instead of $90! Yea, couldn't miss out on that one! I went to my mom's store in Draper and there was a line of about 6-8 people already there. so I got out and stood in line with everyone else. Now, here's the thing - Michaels was open from 6pm-9pm on Thanksgiving! Yea, that's when the sale on the cartridges started. I wasn't sure how many there would be left - hence the need to get in line. Anyway, it was about 5:40 when I got in line. Someone asked what a cricut was. I was quick to answer - your own personal computerized dicut machine. Someone said they had never heard it put that was & that it was the best she had ever heard. I asked if she wanted one and she wasn't sure - I was able to tell her that the best deal if you wanted the Expressions (the big one that I have) the best deal was at Provo Craft's store Roberts. Other than that it was a good deal to get the others at Michaels. One girl said, "My, you have done your homework, haven't you." I agreed with her and also told them that the best deal on cartridges was Michaels but that Roberts had some that Michaels didn't have yet, so if you really wanted them to go and get them at Roberts.

About 5 min later I saw my mom in the front of the store getting the registers ready for the day. I told everyone to say Hi to my mom, and everyone began knocking on the windows. My mom turned around and shook her head no and pointed to her watch indicating that we had more time to wait. Everyone began to point in my direction and she came over to the window and saw me - she just rolled her eyes and had a huge smile on her face then turned away. It was fun.

So, I get into mom's store and they are out of Tinkerbell - the main one that I had wanted. Well, since I was there and they still had the other Disney
cartridges, I got those. I then dashed off to Roberts thinking that the Sugarhouse Michaels was also out, and thinking that everyone else was also dashing to Roberts to get cartridges before they all ran out. So I get to Roberts and it's still empty compared to Michaels. I get in and go to the front counter and ask if they have Tinkerbell. They did. The woman that was checking me out and I talked about Michaels and the sale. She said she had been to the Sugarhouse one the night before and there were plenty of cartridges and not many people. I decided to buy the one so that if they were out, then I still had one. I was about to leave when I realized that there were 2 more that I had wanted - Storybook and C-mas Solutions. So I bought those too.

So I race off to the Sugarhouse Michaels and low and behold they still have plenty of cartridges and not many people. I got Tinkerbell and Cars (cars for my mom). I was shaking with excitement. I got the number for the Draper store and called to talk to my mom - she was busy and I tried to leave her a message - tell your customers as they check out that if they want cartridges to go to the Sugarhouse store, they have plenty. I then headed back to Roberts to return the one Tinkerbell. Turns out that they wouldn't do returns until after 12pm.

I went back later that evening and returned it. The cashier asked if there was anything wrong with it - I told her no, that I got it at Michaels for $30 instead of $50. "Oh" was her reply. Honestly, how can you beat that price!

So, Saturday I took my cats to get their teeth cleaned, and boy has that been an adventure. Tiger is having fear bladder problems. Good thing have my own washer & dryer in my apartment. I got them back and they have been severely out of it for almost 24 hours. They are more awake and alert as I'm writing this, but not enough to fight me on the bath. They haven't been able to use the litter box. Oh, and the upset tummies! Called my vet and he said that it would take a good 24 hours after I picked them up for them to be back to normal. I also learned that I can give my cats pepto or maalox for their upset tummy. That has worked really well. So now they are clean and kind of mad at me, but at least they don't smell anymore.

I have been thankful for the 4 day weekend and am not looking forward to going back to work. I would love to only work 4 days a week instead of 5, but I don't think they'll let me do that because it always leaves us short handed.

Well, that about wraps things up for a bit.
HUGS!