Friday, November 27, 2009

Black Friday

Black friday is such a waste of time i think they sit there and make you get up at 3 in the moring to make sure you are one of the first ones there. they say they have great deals but then the week after BLACK FRIDAY the prices are just as low if not lower. Black Friday is the friday close to the day of thanksgiving in the United States, which is the beginning of the traditional chrismas shopping season. The term dates back to at least 1966, although its usage was primarily on the East coast. The term has become more common in other parts of the country since 2000. Because Thanksgiving falls on the fourth Thursday in November in the United States, Black Friday occurs between the 23rd and the 29th of November.
Black Friday is not an official holiday, but many employees have the day off, which increases the number of potential shoppers. Many retailers open extremely early, with most of the retailers typically opening at 5AM or even earlier. Some of the larger retailers such as Sears, Best Buy, Macy's, Toys "R" Us, and Walmart have been reported to open as early as midnight on the start of Black Friday in localized areas and remain open for 24 hours throughout the day until midnight the following Saturday. Upon opening, retailers offer doorbuster deals and loss leaders to draw people to their stores. In the late 19th century and early 20th century, many Santa parades or Thanksgiving Day parades were sponsored by department stores. Department stores would use the parades to launch a big advertising push. Eventually it just became an unwritten rule that no store would try doing Christmas advertising before the parade was over. Therefore, the day after Thanksgiving became the day when the shopping season officially started.
Later on, the fact that this marked the official start of the shopping season led to controversy. In 1939, retail shops would have liked to have a longer shopping season, but no store wanted to break with tradition and be the one to start advertising before Thanksgiving. President Franklin D. Roosevelt moved the date for Thanksgiving one week earlier, leading to much anger by the public who wound up having to change holiday plans. Some even refused the change, resulting in the U.S. citizens celebrating Thanksgiving on two separate days.Some started referring to the change as Franksgiving.

Friday, November 20, 2009

Twilight

With twilight i didnt know how it would be the first time i watched. there was a lot of hip about the movie but i didnt know what to think. so i watched the movie and loved it. i thought it was cool how it always keeped you atention and wanting more of the movie. twiligth you have the good vampires and the so called bad ones, but you start to like all of them! the parts of the first one i liked the best was when they played ball in the rain and thounder storm so it didnt make so much nosie when they hit the ball! Also how edward was so shy and you always wondered if he is good or bad! and i mean poor bella so is caught in the middle of loving edward and knowing he could kill her at any point in time. know a little about the stars

Edward-London-born Robert Pattinson found his acting niche almost instantly, kicking off his career with a string of fantasy roles. After catching the acting bug through amateur theater, the young thespian made his first film appearance at the age of 18, appearing in 2004's Dark Kindom , based on a Nordic legend. He followed this up by joining the Harry Potter franchise the following year, playing Cedric Diggory in Goblet of Fire, as well as the subsequent movies. Having captured the hearts of many young fantasy fans, Pattison then signed on to play the dreamy vampire heartthrob Edward in the film adaptation of the young-adult novel Twilight

Bella-Following a supporting performance as the daughter of a couple who unknowingly move into a seemingly haunted house in the 2003 chiller Cold Creek Manor, Stewart took top billing in the emotionally charged drama Speak in 2004. Cast as a traumatized high school freshman whose status as a selective mute draws the concern of friends and family, Stewart's handling of the remarkably intimate material drew praise from critics and Sundance audiences. A subsequent role in Catch That Kid (a remake of the Danish blockbuster Klatretosen) found Stewart in super-spy mode as a scheming twelve-year-old who recruits a pair of friends to rob a high tech bank in hopes of paying for a life saving operation for her dying father.

jacob-Michigan native Taylor Lautner had a knack for martial arts from the time he was a young child, winning karate tournaments in the Grand Rapids area while he was still in grade school. By eight, he'd developed enough skill to attract the attention of champion who became Lautner's coach. The young athlete eventually won three gold medals in the World Karate Association, but he soon found his interests expanding. Connections in the karate world led to an audition for a role in a TV commercial in Los Angeles, and even though Lautner didn't get the part, he enjoyed the process so much that his family soon began flying him out to the coast regularly for auditions, eventually relocating to L.A. completely. In California, Lautner continued to do well at martial arts competitions, but additionally found success in acting, appearing on shows like my wife and kids.

Friday, November 6, 2009

what to do for my big 21st

I have no idea what to do for my 21st birthday! It is a very big birthday as we all now but im not a huge drinker but do love to party and have fun with my friends. When my brother turned 21 my parents threw a party for him at are farm and it was so much fun! there was tons of food and people along with great music. His birthday is in the summer which made it easy to have it at the farm! my is in the middle of december when its cold and windy and snowy! who in there right mind wants to be in a shed it the middle of winter for a party. which leads me to have it at a bar or somehting like that but there are alot of my friend that are not 21 yet so they will not be able to get in to the bar and what fun is it to have a party with out your friends there with you. With havign it at the bar thou there is HEAT and food and music will be provided guess they have a house band, i have heard they are good but have never heard them myself. there is one other place a could have it. the old leon school where i went to elemetry school is now a cummunity center! you have to bring the food and the music in but anyone can be invited there! the olny bad thing about this place is that there used to be a businsess in there that helped disabled people and they messed on the floors:( so there is stains on the carpet and it smells kinda bad. So people kinda complan about that guess the whole place is carpet! And with us having food and drinks and possibly little kids they can also make messes on the floor. so im h=just more confused now then i was before! WHERE TO HAVE A STINKIN PARTY