Something That Is Totally Happening

Waking up half an hour earlier every day this week to get ready for Black Friday  

Darn right, Jeremy.  Those 4AM sales aren't going to shop themselves, you know.

So, here we are...Thanksgiving week already, which means Christmas music has been playing in stores for almost a month now.  If I was making that up, it might be a little funnier than it is, but seriously, I first heard Christmas music playing in a store back in October so...yeah.  It also means that the official start of the Holiday Shopping Season arrives this Friday...Black Friday!  

While many stores have decided to completely eschew Thanksgiving in favor of giving people a couple more hours to spend money, the concept of Black Friday has lost a little bit of it's cachet.  But, there are still a decent number of decent stores that still close on Thanksgiving and merely open at some ridiculous hour of the morning on Friday for the barrage of shoppers dreaming of scoring a great deal and satisfy their bizarre urge to "get the shopping done early for once."  It's a weird concept that I don't understand, but whatever.  

With that, come 4:00AM this Friday, if you're not in a store, you're behind the eight ball and will not only lose out on saving a couple bucks on some piece of crap that the store can sell cheaper than usual, you will be missing out on the quintessential American experience of being in a deal-hungry mob of people on Black Friday.  Don't be left out...be shopping!  

With that in mind, I know where I'm going to be at 4AM on Friday, and f that's "out shopping," that means being not only awake, but awake and functioning at 4AM.  This is not something that amateurs should just jump into with both feet.  It requires careful planning, preparation, and physical conditioning.  Part of that preparation if waking up earlier and earlier each day with the goal of having 4AM be no big deal when the big day comes.  So, I've set up my alarm to wake me up 30 minutes earlier every day between now and Friday.  Baby steps.  Friday morning, I'm going to be one step ahead of all of the other suckers trying to get the "must have" Christmas gift.  Their lack of preparation will be my greatest advantage.  Suck it, amateurs!