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Thursday Thanksgiving- my nieces were begging my sister, my sister-in-law, and then me to take them to the Chicago Outlet Mall in Aurora for this special sale at midnight.  They were mainly interested in Aeropostale.  I finally agreed to drive.  We ended up leaving at 10pm and getting there at 10:30pm.  I was surprised to see many people there already.  Then we waited in line at Aero at 10:30 until it opened at midnight for the special 50% sale.  As we were freezing in line, it finally occured to me that I was a participant in Black Friday.  I exclaimed, "Oh, my gosh, this is Black Friday, isn't it?!".  My nieces were like, "yeah" except the stores are just opened earlier than the regular ones at 5 or 6 am.  Insane!  I had no desire to participant in this madness.  Just got dragged into one without thinking or realizing it.  Haha...  It was good bonding time with my two nieces and sister-in-law though. It was fun.  As we were leaving at 2:30am, the line on highway 88 went out to about two miles.  We had no trouble at all at 10:30pm.  My brother told us that he heard on the radio that at midnight, the line went out at 7miles on 88 and there was a 3 or 4 hour wait to get into the mall.  People are so hardcore.  That's insanity.  Anyways, thankful for God, his goodness and everything.

I am so thankful today. 

Here is the run down for this week!

After the wedding this weekend, my mind is turning again.  So on Sunday, I studied from 5-9pm at Barnes, then came home and read for two more hours.  On Monday, after I came from work, I went to the library for two or three hours.  After that, I had a mental meltdown.  Not nervous breakdown.  Mental meltdown because I realized that I am not going to be able to do as much as I want to get done.  Man, Augustine is difficult to read!  And I have tendency to isolate myself when I want to get things done.  So then, I go on the spiral of disappointment/depression that I CAN'T get as much done as I want.  Monday, after the library, I went to visit the Chungs for an hour and finish watching the Bridge to Teribithea, then visit Dianne for an hour eating gourment can soup and triscuits for dinner and looking through fashion magazines and making comments about them.  Went home and tried to be motivated by calling another friend to study with but she ended inviting me to another friend's house to watch a movie so I ended going to the friend's house and watched High School Musical before I forced myself to come home and read for at least an hour. 

Tuesday was a little better....

Had dinner with the roomies at Biaggi's.  We splurged because someone had given us a GENEROUS gift card.  Then I went out to study with a friend.  God just want faithfulness from my heart.  Not a neurotic achiever.

We first had calamari and salad and then our main dinner.

My lovely roommates:

Summer

Esther

Mary

 

Dessert

More dessert

And more dessert.  Isn't Summer lovely?