I survived Black Friday
This morning, I got up at 4AM to go wait in line for a Christmas gift. An XBOX 360? No, not quite. While most over men my age were waiting in line at Best Buy and Circuit City, I was arriving at Kohl's in Memphis at 5AM to get my wife a diamond ring.

We ended up getting a ridiculous deal on the ring that Amy had been wanting. It is a 1ct. 3 stone diamond ring that usually sells for $3,500. However, today, Kohl's had jewelry 60% off and then an additional 20% off and then an extra 15% off if you opened a Kohl's card. So we ended up paying $1,040 for the ring PLUS Kohl's gave us $190 is Kohl's bucks (which is like a gift card you can use in the store). I generally hate to get credit cards; however, I plan to pay it off this weekend, so I guess it was worth it (especially since we got $190 extra to buy Christmas presents with).

So now, Amy is happy and I am totally in the clear to buy an XBO 360... whenever I am able to find one.

We tried to go to Target after we hit Kohl's. After fighting the crowd in the parking lot and then fighting the crowd in the store, we ended up ditching our cart once we saw the line which had wrapped to the back of the store.

Our last stop was a Home Depot back in Midtown Memphis. No line. No crowd. We got the 4 or 5 items that we wanted and walked directly to the checkout.

Now I think I'll take a nap and try to forget about the whole thing.