Not So Black Friday

I usually go to slickdeals.net to find out what the latest deals are. On Mon night, someone on slick deals listed that Best Buy had an HP laptop & printer combo listed for $278.99. Everyone on the slick deals forum thought that this was a black friday item which was mistakenly posted on the BB website but they all were going to try their luck the next morning. So who was I to be left out of this action? The next morning, I decided to skip my 10am class & go to BB instead to see if I could snag this deal before they became aware of their mistake.

So with my printout in hand, I made a mad dash to BB hoping to run into a fresh-of-the-street teenage salesperson. Guess who ended up asking me if he could help me? The freakin' store manager! Isn't being holed up in an office and not out on the floor one of the perks of being a manager? Well the short of it is, the only way I was going to get this laptop for that price was to come back on black Fri at 5am & duke it out with the rest of the masses. Keep in mind BB only had 12 of them in stock at this location. Turns out because of the slick deals posting, people began lining up at BB's everywhere & soon the stores got wind of the mistake. But some folks were able to get the laptop for that price before BB realized their mistake & corrected the price. Me, not so lucky.

So I began telling everyone who'd listen how I was going to line up at BB on black Fri at midnight in hopes of getting this deal. That's when everyone began wishing me luck because apparently BB lines begin forming on thanksgiving morning (and I mean 1am-ish)! Who're these people with no lives spoiling it for the rest of us?! Talk about a plan fizzler. But if my laptop holds up until next year, I shall be back with a vengeance for the next laptop deal - camping tent, heating lamp, food, a bat to beat off those trying to cut in line, friends to attack the store from all angles, etc. I shall not be deterred!

P.S. I did make my 10am class since I didn't end up spending as much time at the store as I had anticipated...you know, the salesperson didn't go back to get the merchandise, didn't get to ring it up, didn't try to sell me warranty, nothing. Instead, all I got was, "sorry it was a mistake bye bye."

Presidential Matters!

We have a new president-elect . . . Barack Obama!!! This country couldn't have chosen a more qualified person to lead us out of the mess that his predecessor has left.

I have a new love - facebook! It's sooo addictive. After years of refusing to cave in to peer pressure, I finally joined because my friends would take pictures but they'd post them on FB. So the only way I was going to see them was to join. I did & haven't looked back. Writing on peoples' walls has become the highlight of my electronic day.

I tried to outsmart the system but the system outsmarted me. At the start of this semester, I needed 26 credits to graduate. So I devised a master plan . . . take 16 credits this semester & leave only 8 for an easy-breezy last semester (I get 2 credits for journal work). So I've been killing myself juggling a gazillion things for the past 3 months & then I was talking to a friend about my very smart plan. This was his response, "sounds like a great idea but I'm pretty sure the school requires us to be full-time students." WHAT?! Moral of this story, yours truly has to take 12 credits next semester so as to be a full-time student. They don't care that I'll be over my graduation requirements . . . noooo . . . "the rules are the rules." I'm still super salty over this whole situation. All that hustling & strategery for nothing.

Have a great weekend everyone!