I went shopping with amyth today; we hit some local craft stores (NC pottery FTW!), a comic book shop, a local source of holiday cards and tchotchkes, and a local kitchen supply store. I want to buy this stuff, and I'm lucky enough to be able to afford to pay a local potter a decent price for their wares. But I get the tension between "I want to buy my sister something for Christmas, and I have $8 after the month's living expenses, so Walmart" vs. the salaries Walmat pays that aren't a living wage for their employees. Which leads to the aforementioned $8 left at the end of the month, at best.

Last night, after the guests left, I turned on the tele, and caught a bit of a Charlie Rose interview with JK Rawling. So that prompted me to watch a Harry Potter flick. I didn't realize David Tennant was in Goblet of Fire! Dang that boy would make my ovaries ache if I had any. Whats more. In the beginning of Order of Phoenix, I thought Harry had a small resemblence to DT's good Doctor character, as Harry was going to the Ministry in the beginning of the movie.

Oh man, Calli, I miss Seagrove so much! Have you been to any of the potteries, or the Ben Owen museum and family gallery? Between Seagrove and Eclectic by Nature in GSO, I'm having an acute case of homesick for NC!

Wow. In the realm of misuse of 911, I just talked to a (very confused) older lady who wanted police to go to her sister's house to tell the sister that she wasn't invited to Thanksgiving dinner. Today. I sent police to do a welfare check on the caller instead.

There's a Seagrove Pottery store in Carrboro now, so we went there. I took Mom on a Chatham county pottery tour back in 2003 or 2004, and that was fun. We didn't make it to see Owen's work, as Mom tired easily.

Will and had a nice Friday but calling it Thanksgiving. We bought the card game Flux and have been playing it. I ordered the Dr Who Monopoly and was anxiously awaiting its arrival today.

UPS claims that they tried to deliver less than an hour ago but no one was home and they didn't leave a note or the package. i called UPS and they basically said that even though there's no signature required the driver may have thought it was unsafe to leave the package. But they didn't leave the sticky note so I'm pretty sure there was no attempt.

I'm supposed to get a call back on Monday at 10 am.

Ryan is at his Chinese lesson. A three-hour lesson feels a bit excessive to me, but I don't really care, because a classroom of extremely cute three year olds is adorably hilarious.

TCG ended up taking me out today because he knew I was sad about missing my shopping tradition with Mom. We started at The Christmas Tree Shop where we bought all the wrapping and such we need for Christmas and one of those mini pie makers. Then we went to Newport because it was a beautiful day. We wandered around to all the local shops and then came home for leftovers. My grandfather had leftover dinner with us because he wasn't here yesterday. Tomorrow my new little niece will be coming by; I can't wait!

We inadvertently ended up at IKEA today (we didn't intend to shop today, hating crowds and the gross consumerism of Black Friday). (How do you just "inadvertently" stumble into an IKEA, you wonder? Well, we met family for an early brunch, and were meeting friends for a late lunch in the same part of town, and had 2 hours in between to kill. And the mall was not going to happen, but IKEA was close, and we had never been there, so -- Giant Swedish Store With Hilariously Named Home Goods!)

Seriously, that damn store is overwhelming and my feet hurt.

EVERYBODY IS MAKING ME CRANKY!

Not here. Just in the, you know, world. Wonder what I can do about that?

Plus, I think I lost my Smashbox kit and the new nailpolish I bought at the hotel. Will call tomorrow, but blagh.