Black Friday was a Good Friday

I had no intentions of getting up this morning at an ungodly hour to fight the crowds just to pick up a doorbuster item or save a few dollars on something that will probably be thrown aside a few weeks after Christmas.
All of a sudden, my eyes pop open at 4:30 am. I had to be at work at 8:00 am. I lay awake in bed and thought, I could get up, get ready for work and since I work a few miles from all of the major stores, what would it hurt to go see if they might have some items that are on my Christmas list? I did just that and found myself in my minivan motoring towards the madness. My first stop was Babies R Us to buy Ivy's gift that was in the sale paper. As I was going in, a lady had 2 of them in her cart, so it was a hot item. I head on in and asked the sales associate where I could find the item since I didn't see any on the shelf and as I was asking her, another lady came over to see if they had anymore. She went to check another area and low and behold, there happened to be "2" left! One for me and one for the other lady. I was so excited that we both were able to get them and for half price at that! So, I head on over to get in line, which was not at all bad. While I was waiting, a pregnant lady and her husband were sitting in the front of the store and the lady started to pass out. Her husband was trying to help her and I am the type of person who gets involved when I see someone in trouble. I yelled to him to ask if she was ok and if they needed help. He said to call 911. There was a nurse shopping and she heard the call for help and she went over to check on the lady in trouble. The person in front of me in line called 911. The paramedics arrived shortly. As I was leaving, the lady looked like she was doing much better. Then, I head on over to Carson's. People were parking way out and walking far away from the entrances, then the heavens smiled down on me and a spot opened up close to the entrance and I whipped right on in the parking spot and said out loud, Thank you God! I was able to get some more shopping done and found some great buys at the yellow dot racks. I used my coupons and felt really great at what I accomplished before heading to work. I even got to work early.
So, even though I had to work today, it was a very good day. A lot of people were off today and it was very quiet. My boss even told us we could leave early, which was very nice and unexpected. It was nice to go home to left overs and not having to worry about what's for dinner.....How did you spend your Friday? Did you fight the crowds? Stand in long lines? Eat leftovers? Speaking of left overs, I hear the pumpkin pie and cool whip calling my name........