After Lux's Party was over I woke up on the pool table. And there is no way I put myself there, but I've gotten over it since then. We had a week left of school then finally happiness (sort of) took place.
So, it's Thanksgiving break. No school for a week. Nothing to do but explore the Castle and enjoy some wonderful protein shakes and Nutri-grain bars.
Yeah, no turkey in the Jayne household.
See, Mother seems to think that there are more important things in this world than being thankful and the history of the country we live in. Or food. Or family.
No, the importance of this month is preparing for her favorite holiday. Black Friday Day.
Mom hates Thanksgiving because when she was younger she watched her all- American Lumberjack of a father kill a turkey and chop off it's head. He then handed her the head and told her to hang it on the Christmas tree.
So there was a bit of mental scarring there.
And then there was the fact that she didn't want to be slowed down for Black Friday Day. If you eat too much then you walk slower, lose muscle, and get tired faster. So instead of having a big Thanksgiving dinner we have Spinach Salads with nothing but some pineapple juice-dressing and garbanzo beans. We drink protein shakes and dessert includes a strawberry Nutri-grain bar for all!
It was a right of passage that by your seventh birthday you could go Black Friday Day shopping. When we were younger mom would hold us by those book bag leashes but recently she told us to roam free and grab anything we could possibly imagine wanting.
We leave at nine o' clock and shop until everything shuts down. It is definitely a chore but it is Mom's prime holiday.
And if that isn't believable without proof, all I would have to do walk into the exercise room where she will be mall walking on a treadmill.
Ah, Black Friday Day.
I walk through the many halls of the Castle, wishing I had a tricycle to ride through the halls like Danny from The Shining. Of course that could turn out badly. I doubt Dad would lose it though, Mom would go first.
I skip over to my room and jump onto the bed and stare boredly up at the flat screen mom had gotten me last year for Black Friday Day.
Everything was about Black Friday Day and Thanksgiving dinner and Christmas. It was killing me as I listened to a terrible Christmas carol about shopping. I feel like the Grinch every time a bad Christmas commercial comes on, but I mean seriously? Who cares about those ugly wedge boots being thirty percent off?
Well, probably Mom.
Maybe I should watch War Games. Matthew Broderick is adorable and it's such a good movie...
It's also across the room stored in a box.
Well on top of the box, but it's bad enough having to stand up, but to go all the way across the room and going all the way in the opposite direction to set the movie up...
Not happening.
So instead I lay there for an hour watching old women do Zumba as I follow the exercises in place on my bed singing loudly to Adam Ant songs that were playing in my brain.
"Goody two, goody two, goody-goody two shoes..."
It was interrupted loudly by Duran Duran chiming from my phone as I was being contacted.
I groan and reach over it and slide across the screen.
"Halla?" I call loudly over the Zumba ladies yelling.
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The Unconventional Ways Of Casey Jayne
Humor-Going through editing. I am adding edited chapters, which have all been labeled as such. Casey thought, at first, that she was not prepared to leave her life long home in Georgia and head towards New York state. In actuality New York was not prepar...
