OMG y'all. I am so bloody tired. But I made almost $250. And Em sold almost $50 worth of lemonade, coffee, donuts, and cookies. She is thrilled and went to the store and bought a soda and candy, as is right and proper.
There are only a few things coming back in the house - the rest is going to Habitat or Purple Heart. What does come back in is getting Craigs-listed. I decided to keep my antique sewing machine and use my gift card to the Magic Sewing Store to have it repaired and cleaned (I feel like I said that yesterday. Did I say that yesterday? So. Tired.).
We get boxes tomorrow, so I'm going to start cleaning rooms out and packing over the next week when I'm not helping my co-operating teacher set up her classroom.
After dinner, I am going to shower and then ... do nothing. Tomorrow is church and Heritage Festival for the Duckie Race. And meal planning/grocery shopping.
I'm glad your day ended up being nice, sj!
Thanks, it was really lovely. I haven't played pool in forever, and it was so much fun. I need to do that more often.
I did end up painting my living room (well, part of it). Unfortunately, I picked one of those three-color cards, and picked the top (lightest) color (a yellow) and the bottom (darkest) color (an orange). But when they are on my walls? They look like basically the exact same color. Which is annoying. (The one looks darker than the chip and the other looks lighter--they are both like the middle color!) Didn't quite finish--got half the one wall done, but didn't want to move all the electronics/TiVo/etc to paint behind there, so there's still one bit left. I figure I'll either do it tomorrow, or Labor Day weekend. Also, now the white walls I left look sad. But I"m a bit afraid to go overboard and paint them too...my roommate came home and looked at me like I was nuts and said "Well, now I feel like I'm living in a hacienda".
They're supposed to be these two:
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But basically just look like this one:
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...in other news, I totally want a job naming paint colors. Dang.
meara, did you do multiple coats? We found that made a real difference in how colors looked when we painted.
Yeah, another coat on the darker one in particular should help.
I did two coats on each (over white). I do still have some left, so could do another coat if need be. The "honey pot" is definitely darker than it looks, though. I'll also be interested to see what it looks like in the dark and/or tomorrow morning.
Yay for successful yard sale!
Jilli I hope the job hunting goes quickly and you get something awesome.
I am tired. Also I have to start packing and I'm not going to have tons and tons of free time. Which is good because of work. I worked today, 8 hours. I'm working tomorrow during the middle of the day. Working Monday/W/F/Sat next week. Then the following week there's a dept meeting on Sunday and I'm working every day but Thursday. I'll have 37 hours that week. But I think that's because there's a big new section going on in the store and one of the other cashiers is working overnights to help build it, so we're short and I'm getting extra hours.
And there was drama in the store dealing with a repeat theft offender and someone might lose their job over how they handled the situation. I don't know. I'm hoping tomorrow is less dramatic and we have more sales.
May your work week go well, askye!
Glad to hear the moving sale went well, Aims!
I went to the VERY fancy spa today for my massage. Since it cost all the moneys in the world, I decided take advantage of all the facilities. I used the huge, tiled jacuzzi and the eucalyptus steam room and the rain shower and the inhalation room and drank the cucumber water and nibbled the organic cookies. I used the free shampoo and conditioner and body lotion and gargled with the complimentary mouthwash. Oh, and had a wonderful massage. It was fun--even if non-skinny red-haired me did not fit in amongst all the blonde, skinny and very well-maintained women who seemed to make up the rest of the clientele.
