The Preperation

This picture is not my baby! This picture is not the picture of a baby that I do not know of, therefore it is a picture of a baby of which I know. Of course. This is Justin and Stephanie's baby. I will now announce previous to it being announced because I am way to far behind on the blog that this is a boy baby. And such as he is a he which he is he will be named Jordan. Which is a holy river. I am really excited for this baby to come because that means there will be this dude to hang out and play with Sawyer. As they grow up they can tell farting jokes with each other and get left out because they are too cool, because they will be, and they will be awesome. Good to go.

So we are preparing for Black Friday. This is the day of the year when people think, "gosh I'm up early," and also, "This is the busiest shopping day of the year!" The truth is, that it often isn't. Many times the busiest day of the year has fallen to the Saturday before Christmas and Black Friday has dropped to the fifth and sixth busiest days on some years. SO it is not true that this year is the busiest. It is true that it is the start of the shopping season. People are coming and going more often from the store this time of year than other other. Which brings us to our next myth, which is the reason it is named Black Friday. I use to believe that the term came from the fact that stores would be in the profit on this day. Meaning that in the olden days they would switch from a red inked pen to a black inked pen. The truth is that the term really from Philly where the police would say that it was Black Friday because they pedestrian and vehicular traffic would rise to the point of traffic jams. The jams were not the kind you spread on bread and so they didn't like them much at all. So they called the day Black Friday. At least it wasn't because they were racist. ☺

But we at Wal-Mart make sure that we spend at least a weeks worth of time and preporation to get ready for this one day of the year. I know that I have looked over schedules several times and had mine and Justin's changed many times just so that we could have the right people be there and the right times. It becomes quite the production and you have to have the right amount of people or else everything is destroyed. Here goes!

--Kerry