3 posts tagged “yard sale”
The yard sale went pretty good. Sold a bunch of stuff and whatever didn't sell we donated - I did NOT want it back in the house. (Side note: Haha, it's 4:20). There's still a lot in the house that can be purged. I just ran out of time getting to it. But now that I don't have a looming must-do-this-by date, well I don't mind taking my time. Although I'll be cursing myself for sure as to why I didn't do it when I was so gung-ho to purge crap from the house.
Oh and most of the stuff in the garage needs to be trashed because we apparently have a water leakage problem down there. There seems to be a crack in the garage wall where a downpour spout comes and doesn't drain into the yard, it drains into the wall. Which it turns out it's impossible to drain into a wall and it just creates a crack and leaks into the house. Who knew? So now that Matt has weekends off he can no longer slack off on stuff to do around the house, as I will be home with him and can nag him to do it. Because if a wife isn't there to nag, then why is she there?
That was a lot of sarcasm for one paragraph.
My birthday was this past weekend. It was nice. Matt took me out to eat on Saturday night. We went to Wolfgang Puck's in Cool Springs. They had a hockey game on Versus, so that was nice to sit there and watch it. I really want cable now so I can watch more hockey. But I digress. On Sunday we went to my Dad's house and he took us out to eat at Macaroni Grill. It was good. I got some nice gifts including a new game for the Wii. Carnival Games is really fun. If you get the chance to play it, you should. Good times. I also got XM radio for a year.
I love it. It's really great. I had also gotten Predators playoff tickets, but of course it was before my birthday. Matt and I bought each other a ticket to game 2 here at home. Then my Dad got us tickets to game 3 here at home for our birthdays. So I got a little hockey-ness thrown in there as well.
With the money I received for my birthday I bought myself a new digital camera. It's a Nikon Coolpix. I really love it. Major upgrade from my 3.2 megapixel Cybershot. It's got 8 megapixels! 8! It was on sale at Best Buy for $150 and it came with a case & a 1gig memory card. Score! I also went ahead and bought a home kit of my XM radio with birthday money as well. That way I can listen to it in the house as well and catch more hockey games on it.
Some of the sales people at work took me out for lunch as well on Monday. That was really nice of them to do it and I really appreciated it. It's nice to work somewhere where they treat you nicely.
I'm now ready for my vacation next week. I'm not actually going anywhere, just hanging out at the house. But I'm really looking forward to it. I just really need a break from work. Especially from one certain aspect of my job. It'll be nice not to have to worry about that for a week. Also after this week, I'm going to need a break! I've been busy every night this week! Well Tuesday I didn't actually go out, but I had to set up the meeting between Matt and the poster on Craigslist for a new phone. Matt accidentally dropped and broke his during the yard sale on Saturday. We found someone on Craigslist selling the same phone I have (The original LG V) for $50! Yesterday we ran around town until 9p! Tonight I'm going to help a friend here at work unpack some of her stuff after her move this weekend, since I wasn't able to help this weekend. First I have to stop by the vet though, cause Lucy has some weird white spot on her paw pad. Hopefully it's nothing bad. I'm hoping it's a fungus or something easy to fix. Just cause I hate to think of her hurting. She's my little girl!
Alright, I gotta go finish some stuff. Here's a picture of Zoe running around town with us this week that I really like.
Well I have actually done some purging of stuff for the yard sale! I've gotten all of the office purged of stuff to sell & of course any trash that happened to be in there. I got about 5 boxes worth of stuff! So that's good. But it took like 2 nights to go thru it. So tonight I would start on the bedroom. Except I'm soooooo tired. Like I could just go home and CRASH. But I know if I do that, then I won't get as much stuff in the yard sale as I'd like to and any money I can make from this would rock. That's what's keeping me going with getting home and doing it. It sucks right now though, cause Matt is sick, so I'm also making dinner first THEN working on getting stuff in boxes. So that's a good hour taken out of my night just getting dinner together.
My mom emailed me today to go eat lunch either tomorrow or Friday for my birthday. I went ahead and planned for tomorrow. Part of me just doesn't want to because of my self-imposed distance from her until she gets 3 months sober. Just cause I don't want this to be seen as some door opening. The only thing that will open the door completely is going to a meeting with her to see her get her 3 month chip. The door is still open...in case of emergency or something. But I don't want to give some false impression. BUT I'm also curious as to what it will be like. I'm nervous. I know I shouldn't be, but I am. I don't want her to try and lay any kind of guilt trip on me. I talked to Matt about it via text and I let him know that I had already planned on taking some cash so I could just throw some money down and walk out if things get to ridiculous with her. Cause I want her to understand that our relationship will not be the same. I can't be unguarded around her anymore. That level of trust is gone, once and for all. It survived the first round of drinking, but hasn't survived the second round. But I still want to have a relationship with her. Cause she's my mom! But things will have to be different so that I don't get walked on anymore.
I've realized in the past few years that I really need to do that with a lot of people more often. I allow too many people to walk over me and it just doesn't need to happen anymore. So. I'm trying to be a grown up and not let that happen. You think it'd be empowering and great, but it's really hard!
Anyway, another reason I'm nervous is that I don't want to give myself a false hope that things are on track to her getting sober. Because I seriously don't think they are. Granted, I don't know cause I haven't talked to her much. It's been a few sentence emails here and there about random shit. But I don't want to have that hope. Cause I'll just get disappointed. It's better to be pleasantly surprised than hopeful now and feel stupid later.
We'll see how it goes. For now I shall go home and purge some more. I'm just glad with the fact that I've actually done that and not slacked off there. Woo!
Yeah, I was all gung-ho about getting stuff into boxes for the yard sale. Did I do any of it? Not even for a second! So now this week I'm REALLY going to have to get down and get stuff into boxes. Especially since Matt starts his new job next week and we really have got to get the office in order so we can put Zoe and her new crate in there. Of course, I can't really rely on Matt to help me out with any of it, even if he were feeling well. So because of that I'm not spending any of the money I make on it for him. I'd still like to take the class at Watkins, but if for some reason it's already full by the time I get the money together, it's still not going towards anything we would share. I'll put it in my savings account or something. Childish, yes. But I'm okay with that. /end bitterness> lol
So everyone at work (except for one person) forgot about Administrative Professionals Day. I know I'm appreciated, cause they show me throughout the year. They totally forgot though. But on Friday they called us all in the conference room and gave the 4 of us that are considered Administrative Professionals some cash! So that was pretty sweet.
On Saturday my Dad and I went to the flea market. It was definitely nice weather to go, it had thunderstormed very early in the morning, so it was still cloudy and cool when we got there and only got sunny about the time we were ready to leave. I got a couple of stuff, my favorite being these elephant candle holders. I'll have to take a picture once I get them cleaned some more. They were very badly tarnished so I bought some brass cleaner and cleaned them Saturday night, but they're going to need another run-thru of the cleaner.
We also went to The Aquatic Critter on Nolensville Road and I got some fish! I wanted to get an angelfish and some others, but they suggested these two tiger-something fish to start with to cycle the tank for 3-6 weeks. Then we'll take them back and get a credit on them and we can get the other fish that don't handle brand new tanks too well. I was very impressed with the people who work there. & their website is also very helpful! I read what they had to start a new tank and it's going well so far! I feel kinda bad about having the fish and then taking them back in 3-6 weeks to get fish I want. Cause I'm just using them. But they don't know that. The guy that helped us out though said these fish are good starter fish, because they're not very social and will get picked on by bigger fish when we get the bigger fish. I don't want to just use them, but I don't want them getting picked on. I guess that's their job. It's all cool.
