Can I say that I'm glad the Holidays are over?????

Normally, I love the holidays.  I love the decorations, the buildup to Christmas...etc.  Everything about it.

This year however, I've been working at Target.  Yes, the retail store Target.  So, let's travel back to Thanksgiving.  What time did I go to bed you ask????  Try 8:00pm.  Why so early?  Because I had to be at work at 4:00 a.m. because Target opened at 5:00 a.m.  I was positioned in front of the iPod lock case with a set of keys, a walkie-talkie and (hopefully) a lot of holiday cheer.  Flash forward the next 6 hours because it was all a blur.  I remember that after about oh say, 1 hour my walkie battery died, and I had to send someone clear across the store for another battery.  I was innundated with shoppers looking for iPod Nanos (do you want the 8GB or the 16GB?)  and the hottest item of the season????  The iPod Touch (now in 8GB, 32GB and 64GB).  Target did cater lunch for us (Papa John's Pizza) which I thought was really nice.

What amazed me the most was people coming in at noon asking if we had any of our door-buster TVs left...um, no.  They were gone within 1-2 hours of the doors opening.  And don't even ask if we had any Zhu-zhu pets (those annoying but charming mechanical hamsters) because we were out, and had been out since October.  I'll never look at Black Friday the same way again.  The only saving grace was the great people I was working with.  The whole team did their best to have fun, even joking that next year we're going to wear armor.

Okay, skip over the next month and it is the weekend before Christmas.  I'm in Electronics again, and oh boy, talk about crazy.  I never thought about it before but I'm never again going to leave any shopping until the weekend before Christmas.  It was a madhouse, at times almost as bad as Black Friday.  And Christmas Eve wasn't much better.  Even with the nasty ice/snow storm, the store was packed.  I missed going to a friend's house for dinner with my sister, but oh well,  that's life.  So if you've seen my sister's blog (There's no Place Like Home) there is a reason I look the worse for wear.

Had to work the day after Christmas (remember we've had a huge snowstorm, that created blizzard conditions in many areas) and we are sold out of most items.  So when a guest informs me that it is "unacceptable" that we are sold out of PlayStation 3 game consoles the day AFTER Christmas well...inside I was fuming but outside I just apologized and blamed the storm.

All in all though it was a good holiday.  Christmas Day was a lot of fun with the girls.  Even if I did escape downstairs for a nap.

Happy Holidays and Happy New Year!