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Black Friday, Fear and a Christmas Tune

December 4, 2014 By: Runner Leana

Friends, it is Thursday and that means it is time to get a bunch of random thoughts down!  I’m linking up with Amanda from Running with Spoons for Thinking Out Loud.

Thinking-Out-Loud

 

Did you shop or sit out on Black Friday?  I figured this was a good time to get a second pair of shoes into my rotation so I ordered some Asics Kayano 21s and got a pretty good deal on them.

Kayano 21

Canada seems to be getting into the Black Friday spirit up here and I ventured to Chinook Centre after work on Friday.  It was snowing and stupid cold as I walked from the train to the mall I will admit I questioned my sanity.  The mall itself was not terrible, but I may have had a different opinion if I had been driving and trying to find a parking space.  I was mostly interested in checking out Anthropologie’s promo of 25% off the entire store.

Neil prefers to stay as far away as possible from a mall at the best of times, yet he is always nice enough to provide an opinion on items I’m thinking about buying.  Bring on the dressing room selfies!

Shopping Collage

I am in love with these Etched Fern coupe glasses I got.

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On the weekend I popped in to Winners and came home with a strange combination of goods.  Winners sells super cheap rolls of doggie poop bags and I needed to stock up.  I also discovered Charbonnel et Walker truffles in the store and their drinking chocolate is so delicious…  Poop bags and fancy truffles.

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I love this quote from Jesse Thomas about fear.  I’m working to embrace it a little bit more.

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My favourite Christmas tune at the moment.  I feel for poor Fitz…Santa seems to be kind of a jerk!

What is your favourite Christmas song?

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Comments

  1. 1

    Jessie Gipe says

    December 4, 2014 at 1:26 pm

    drinking chocolate? Oh my that almost sounds too good to be true.

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    kilax says

    December 4, 2014 at 3:15 pm

    Nice scores! I really like that black top! I was watching for the Asics I wear to go on sale around last weekend, but no dice 🙂

    Oh gosh, I have a list of fave xmas songs!!!! 🙂

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    Kaella Neithercut says

    December 4, 2014 at 4:24 pm

    I didn’t buy anything during Black Friday but there were some AWESOME deals!

    My favourite Christmas Song THIS YEAR is Jingle Bells because London is learning the words and loves to sing along while holding a little bell off the Christmas tree. It’s adorable!!

  4. 4

    Angela Williams says

    December 4, 2014 at 4:40 pm

    Those glasses are awesome! Good finds 🙂

  5. 5

    Sybil Runs Things says

    December 5, 2014 at 12:10 am

    Mine is All I Want for Christmas is You. It goes against everything I typically love about music, but it is such a good song 🙂

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    Amanda @ .running with spoons. says

    December 5, 2014 at 12:44 am

    I can’t handle the craziness that is Black Friday… or Boxing Day! I was supposed to go see Mockingjay with a friend on Black Friday, but we called it off because the mall was absolute insanity. It might not be too bad inside, but finding parking is always a nightmare. Especially when it had just snowed and half the parking lot was filled with huge piles of it.

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    Abby says

    December 5, 2014 at 1:49 am

    Did you get either of those shirts? I really like them.

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