Insane Random Ramblings

My final paper for the semester was due today. We don’t have a final exam in my class. I chose to use my in class assignments as my final instead of taking a exam. Now I can concentrate of Christmas shopping. I only have a few people to buy for but I want to get some things for myself. A nice pair of Beautifeel shoes or some new work pants would be great. I’ll also hit the store and look for a new turtleneck or sweater for myself. I know the stores will be crowded this weekend so I might wait until next week.

All I know is I don’t have to even think about school for 3 weeks and I’m lovin’ it!

Not much for me. I didn’t plan on shopping today for Black Friday anyway and it’s a good thing since I had to work. I can’t even imagine being at the mall at 4am and still coming to work. My best friend went this morning. She said that the mall was still packed at 10:30am. People are out buying everything from flat screens tvs, laptops, POS systems and everything in between. She also said that tempers were flaring. People were grabbing stuff out of other peoples hands and everything.

I’ve only done 1 Black Friday sale and that was more than enough for me!

I have to read a book for school that I’ve been putting off for a few weeks. The author of the book is coming to our class to speak about his experiences. We can’t look like complete fools in front of the author. It would also make our professor look bad and we definitely can’t have that. I also got what I thought were wedding invitations in the mail. Turns out it’s wasn’t that. It’s a invite to my coworkers baby shower on Saturday. I have no idea what to get her. That means I have to go to one of the stores that she has on her registry. There are a few that I don’t even shop at. I’m sure I’ll find something nice though.

On top of all of that, I have to have my car inspected this weekend. My inspection runs out at the end of the month and I won’t have time next week after class. That means an all day trip to the shop. At least I’ll get to read my book while I’m waiting for them to finish my car. I might as well kill two birds with one stone.

Tomorrow is payday and I have a date with the mall. There are quite a few things that I want/need that I’ll be picking up this weekend. I want a few cd’s and some alli that I’ll get from Wally World. I need a new pair of shoes and some shirts for work. It’s starting to get cold and I need more long sleeved shirts. Almost 75% of my shirts are short sleeved or no sleeves at all because they’re summer shirts.

I said I wasn’t buying any more clothes for a while but I really need some things right now. I just hope I find a really good sale.

I don’t plan on doing much during my vacation. I probably won’t go anywhere and if I do it won’t be far. One of my local malls is adding all of these really expensive shops. Burberry, Louis Vuitton and Nordstrom’s are just a few of the stores that will be opening soon.

I hope they open soon. I can stroll around and window shop. I get tired of only looking at fitness equipment or kitchen appliances all the time. I won’t be able to buy anything at any of those stores but I can look.

Did I mention Tiffany’s is eventually opening in that mall? Now that’s a store I might actually buy something at. I’ve had my eye on a necklace from there for a couple of years. Who knows what I’ll do once the store actually opens up. I’m kinda excited for the opening day now.

I’ve been talking about needing new headphones for a few weeks. I have a Ipod Shuffle so you can only use Ipod headphones. I went to TigerDirect.com looking for headphones and I couldn’t find any. So I kept searching around the site and I decided to get a new MP3 player instead.

If you look at the picture, I don’t even know how to pronounce the brand name! It was only sale for $17.99. It’s regularly $29.99 so I got a great deal I think. Not only is it a MP3 player, it’s also a usb port. I can use it to store the rest of my short stories.

The only problem I thought I was going to have was that I wanted to pay cash for it. I didn’t want to use my regular bank account because the money for the headphones was in another bank. But TigerDirect offers the eBillme service. I thought it would be hard to use but it wasn’t. I purchased the headphones and used eBillme as the payment source. They finalized the purchase and told me to add them to my online payment account.

So I signed into my account and added eBillme as a payee. Then I payed them and that was that. Now my bank will send a check to them and once my payment is confirmed TigerDirect will send me my MP3 player. I only used that payment source because I wanted to leave the money in my account for tuition. I used my slush fund account and I don’t have a debit card for that account. EBillMe is a excellent payment option and I’ll definitely use it again if it’s offered.

I can’t wait to get my new toy.

Today is payday. Yay for that! That means that everyone will be shopping like crazy today and tomorrow. Stores in the area will be having sales and everyone will hand out promotional products to try to get you into their stores. I never shop on payday, I always wait until the beginning of the next week because you can find better deals.

I will however go out for lunch with my coworkers. I haven’t been food shopping at all this week and I don’t want what I have (a enchilada meal). I’ve never had that before and I don’t want to upset my stomach while I’m at work. I’m not sure where we’re going for lunch yet. I just hope it’s somewhere good.

I’m really excited. I’m going to order them from TigerDirect.com and have them delivered to my po box. I don’t have them delivered to my house because they hold the packages and make me go pick them up anyway. I’ll have them sent to my po box and I can pick them up at my leisure.

I really miss listening to my ipod so I’m super excited about this.

I’ve had my Ipod for 3 years now and it’s worked fine. About 3 or 4 months ago I noticed that my headphones were shredding down near the base. I’ve been planning on getting new headphones for a while but I kept putting it off. Well today they died on me. They were working this morning but this afternoon on my way home they were only working in one ear.

I’m going online to buy them. I hope I can get them for a good price. I should get a better price than in the store. I can also get one of those Bluetooth stereo headsets for John. I hate when he answers his phone while we’re driving. Maybe by getting both items at one time, I’ll get a discount on shipping. Or maybe even free shipping. That would be way better.

I can’t wait too long to get the headphones though. I catch the bus to work and I can’t stand listening to the people talking early in the morning. I have to drown them out anyway possible.

We went to Walmart yesterday because John needed this mouthwash that he uses. It wasn’t on sale this week so we didn’t get it since he does have some at home. That stuff is expensive, it’s $6.75 for mouthwash! Ummm yeah. I just use toothpaste and call it a day.

We also looked at other stuff in the store. We couldn’t find a broom that we liked so he’ll hit a Dollar Tree or something for that. I was looking for a cheap whole room air conditioner but all I saw were Santa Fe dehumidifiers and smaller air conditioners. There were a few box fans but they just blow hot air around so I don’t need any more of those. There was a cheap futon that John was eyeballing. He’s going to read the reviews of it before he buys it. I’m sure it will be fine just to sit on.

We have to go back to Walmart on Tuesday to do our regular food shopping. We’ll probably get the futon then.