The Drop in Centre

[Brayon]

@Starrynight22

This is for you. It is now officially the Christmas Season. 🙂 

 

[CassieQ]

48 minutes ago, Kitt said:

I dont blame you!  People get crazy on Black Friday!  If I didn't have therapy clients tomorrow I would spend the day just like I did today- in comfy sweats wrapped in the cloak i got from Doug's shop, and goofing off.

My cousin invited me to go shopping with her and her kids tomorrow.  Her kids are a three year old and an infant.  No fucking way.  

[Defiance19]

Stopping in to say goodnight.. 

See you around tomorrow..... 

[Mikiesboy]

2 minutes ago, Defiance19 said:

Stopping in to say goodnight.. 

See you around tomorrow..... 

good night Boss.. hope you have a wonderful day!  xoxo

[Starrynight22]

I just got home from target and Wal-Mart.  I didn't get much. I actually like the crowd and the tension.  I'm weird.  

[mollyhousemouse]

2 minutes ago, Defiance19 said:

Stopping in to say goodnight.. 

See you around tomorrow..... 

good night Def

sleep well

[Brayon]

6 minutes ago, Defiance19 said:

Stopping in to say goodnight.. 

See you around tomorrow..... 

Sleep Well, Agent D!

[Reader1810]

I am so tired, I need a nap, so I have nough energy to get ready for bed. How weird is that? 

 

Good night everyone...

[Brayon]

1 minute ago, Reader1810 said:

I am so tired, I need a nap, so I have nough energy to get ready for bed. How weird is that? 

 

Good night everyone...

Sleep Well, Reader!

[Mikiesboy]

8 minutes ago, Reader1810 said:

I am so tired, I need a nap, so I have nough energy to get ready for bed. How weird is that? 

 

Good night everyone...

good night Reader xo

[Mikiesboy]

this boy is tired .. not beat yet.. but there is still hope ..    hehe .. good night all

[mollyhousemouse]

1 minute ago, Mikiesboy said:

this boy is tired .. not beat yet.. but there is still hope ..    hehe .. good night all

night sweetie

 

i'm off to bed too

see y'all tomorrow

 

[Brayon]

2 minutes ago, Mikiesboy said:

this boy is tired .. not beat yet.. but there is still hope ..    hehe .. good night all

Sleep Well, Bro.

Enjoy the start of your weekend tomorrow.

[Brayon]

Just now, mollyhousemouse said:

night sweetie

 

i'm off to bed too

see y'all tomorrow

 

Sleep Well, miss molly.

[Mikiesboy]

Good morning ... happy Turkey Day Hangover ... too much cranberry sauce can do that... 

 

impromptu    adjective | im-PROMP-too

Definition

1 : made, done, or formed on or as if on the spur of the moment : improvised   2 : composed or uttered without previous preparation : extemporaneous

 

If you think that impromptu looks like a relative of the adjective prompt, you're right; both are ultimately derived from the Latin promere, meaning "to bring forth, take out." Impromptu was borrowed from French, where it meant "extemporaneously," but French speakers picked it up from the Latin phrase in promptu, a promere descendant meaning "in readiness" or "at hand." Something that is impromptu is generally "prompted" (that English verb is from Latin promptus, of the same meaning) by an occasion that generates a response in the form of, for example, a party or a speech that has not been planned. There is also another, much rarer descendant of promere in English: the noun promptuary, meaning "a book of ready reference."

 

[Mikiesboy]

[Thorn Wilde]

Morning! It's like I'm on America time, cause I just got up. Guess I needed the sleep.

 

I've been getting texts and e-mails all morning about Black Friday sales. We don't do Thanksgiving, but you guys have managed to export the crazy consumerist part. I'm just waiting for Cyber Monday so I can buy nerdy things and games...

[Mikiesboy]

Just now, Thorn Wilde said:

Morning! It's like I'm on America time, cause I just got up. Guess I needed the sleep.

 

I've been getting texts and e-mails all morning about Black Friday sales. We don't do Thanksgiving, but you guys have managed to export the crazy consumerist part. I'm just waiting for Cyber Monday so I can buy nerdy things and games...

That is the sad part ... i will have to look for it but there was an article i glanced at last night about the human cost of Black Friday.  I find it immensely sad that we cannot celebrate anything without Walmart etc. being open.  Why is it open on Thanksgiving Day?  Greed ... rules the world. Shopping ... a form of entertainment.  i am glad Michael hates to 'shop'.

 

Now ... nerdy things and games, that's another kettle of fish.  We were at our nephew's and he'd just bought Red Dead Redemption II ... very pretty.  I loved Red Dead Redemption.

[Thorn Wilde]

35 minutes ago, Mikiesboy said:

That is the sad part ... i will have to look for it but there was an article i glanced at last night about the human cost of Black Friday.  I find it immensely sad that we cannot celebrate anything without Walmart etc. being open.  Why is it open on Thanksgiving Day?  Greed ... rules the world. Shopping ... a form of entertainment.  i am glad Michael hates to 'shop'.

 

Now ... nerdy things and games, that's another kettle of fish.  We were at our nephew's and he'd just bought Red Dead Redemption II ... very pretty.  I loved Red Dead Redemption.

 

I never played it. All I know about it is Yahtzee's Zero Punctuation review. 'My horse is stuck in a wall!'   Wouldn't mind trying 2, though, it looks good.

 

EDIT: For those who don't know, Zero Punctuation is DEEPLY offensive.

Edited November 23, 2018 by Thorn Wilde

[Brayon]

47 minutes ago, Thorn Wilde said:

I've been getting texts and e-mails all morning about Black Friday sales. We don't do Thanksgiving, but you guys have managed to export the crazy consumerist part. I'm just waiting for Cyber Monday so I can buy nerdy things and games...

That's Free Market Capitalism, for ya! Black Friday, when stores see purchases go through the roof, and their ledger is black ink today instead of red. Last year one report I saw, said some businesses see up to 75% of their total yearly sales today.

 

I follow some people who live in Isreal, and they are doing Black Friday events there as well. I'm guessing with the interexchange on the Global economy, and products being global now, that America's biggest shopping day is now a Worldwide event.

[Thorn Wilde]

5 minutes ago, BHopper2 said:

That's Free Market Capitalism, for ya! Black Friday, when stores see purchases go through the roof, and their ledger is black ink today instead of red. Last year one report I saw, said some businesses see up to 75% of their total yearly sales today.

 

I follow some people who live in Isreal, and they are doing Black Friday events there as well. I'm guessing with the interexchange on the Global economy, and products being global now, that America's biggest shopping day is now a Worldwide event.

 

Exactly. The US exports everything, from politics to culture. What fun!  

 

EDIT: And I best not get started on free market capitalism away from The Pit...

Edited November 23, 2018 by Thorn Wilde

[mollyhousemouse]

good morning Sirs and friends

 

there is no Black Friday happening in our house, nope not ever

can't stand the thought of it, we spend the first part of November talking about how thankful we are, spend a wonderful day eating fabulous food cooked with love and seeing family

and then the very next day turn into consumer crazy, shopping mad creatures who push and shove their way into whatever store has the best deal on what we've been told is THE hottest item on everyone's must have list.

 

sorry, rant over, back to my coffee

[Mikiesboy]

49 minutes ago, Thorn Wilde said:

 

I never played it. All I know about it is Yahtzee's Zero Punctuation review. 'My horse is stuck in a wall!'   Wouldn't mind trying 2, though, it looks good.

 

EDIT: For those who don't know, Zero Punctuation is DEEPLY offensive.

Michael watches Yahtzee (on his laptop ..i assume He is watching something but maybe just listening) i like Yahtzee.. and i listen.. and yes.. people are stuck in the road.. horses in  walls... but it was still a beautiful game.  i am deeply in love with the horses... lol

[Thorn Wilde]

1 minute ago, Mikiesboy said:

Michael watches Yahtzee (on his laptop ..i assume He is watching something but maybe just listening) i like Yahtzee.. and i listen.. and yes.. people are stuck in the road.. horses in  walls... but it was still a beautiful game.  i am deeply in love with the horses... lol

 

I think the best riding system I've encountered is Witcher 3. Geralt's horse Roach really behaves and moves like a horse. It's a very pretty game, too.

[Mikiesboy]

21 minutes ago, mollyhousemouse said:

good morning Sirs and friends

 

there is no Black Friday happening in our house, nope not ever

can't stand the thought of it, we spend the first part of November talking about how thankful we are, spend a wonderful day eating fabulous food cooked with love and seeing family

and then the very next day turn into consumer crazy, shopping mad creatures who push and shove their way into whatever store has the best deal on what we've been told is THE hottest item on everyone's must have list.

 

sorry, rant over, back to my coffee

that is perfect ... our big thing here is Boxing Day sales.  i went once ... to our small mall across the street.  i went to the card shop and bought really nice cards i normally couldn't afford. But that card shop is closed now ... Michael and Peter went once ... Michael being the kind uncle He is .. both of them said never again.