My week: A short review
Sunday – Got into our attic to dig out items to sell in the garage sale BB and I are having on Saturday (postponed from the originally planned date of last Saturday). Apparently there are birds nesting up there. Ew.
Monday – The work deadline from hell that we had been preparing for and stressing over for the last two weeks. Fortunately it wasn’t as bad as my coworkers and I originally thought it would be, because we are awesome and got most of the work done ahead of time. Yet I was still quite glad when it was over.
Tuesday – Back to work, although with admittedly less pressure. Received a very cute bouquet of flowers as a thank you from a professor I had helped the day before. See?
Also on Tuesday - Got a promotion. It was a good day.
Wednesday - Took a carload of garage sale junk over to BB’s house. Stood around for a while, surveying the vast amounts of crap and the unfortunate lack of tables.
Thursday – Caused a scrambled egg to defy the laws of gravity and possibly physics, while microwaving it as I have done a million times before:
And now, I will predict the future:
Friday – Go to work. Go home, wrangle the kids into bed. Go over to BB’s and spend many many hours setting up for the garage sale. Simultaneously, drink wine.
Saturday – Wake up at the ass-crack of dawn to haggle with people over the price of a shirt that is already priced at a quarter. Drink eleventy-jillion gallons of coffee and hope to hell that all the effort we’ve put into this damn garage sale will have been worth it.
April 30th, 2009 at 10:14 pm
First, yes we are very awesome.
Second, congrats on the promotion. I don’t know if I said that officially yet, but I am very happy for you! Woohoo!!
Third, I am so ready for that garage sale to be done. My pricing is so inconsistent so I am sure everyone will want to haggle with me. The other day I was putting really cheap prices and today I felt my stuff was worth way more. Go figure. My pricing today will scream haggle with me. Ah well.
April 30th, 2009 at 10:28 pm
Congrats on the promotion!!
May 1st, 2009 at 3:16 am
Yeah garage sales ANNOY me. I’m like, SERIOUSLY? This cd player that is in PERFECT condition that I paid $89 for and am now selling for $5 is NOT priced LOW enough for you? Well here, why don’t I just pay YOU to take it off my hands.
May 1st, 2009 at 8:05 am
I have only ever participated in a few garage sales. And the plan was always – what doesn’t sell gets donated to the Womens Shelter…so I figure let ‘em have it for as little money as they want to give me for it, because when I donate it, I won’t get anything at all for it (well, except the tax deduction).
May 1st, 2009 at 11:07 am
Garage sales – biggest waste of time and effort ever. I’m a big proponent of just giving it away or donating it all.