I can't believe that it is already Sunday night! Where do the weekends go? I had a great weekend but I really can't believe that it is already over. I have this weekend ritual that starts when I get up on Saturday mornings. During the week I keep the blinds in the windows along the front of my house partially closed. I can still see out but they are turned up a bit so that people can't see in. On Saturday I like to open the blinds all the way. It just lets so much beautiful light into the front of my house. Joe usually cuts the grass on the weekend and I like to look out the windows to admire the great looking lawn. I leave the blinds open this way until Sunday when it starts to get dark. Then I turn them back to their "weekday position". I always hate that time on Sunday because, for me, it officially marks the end of the weekend.
I was pretty busy this weekend. I've been collecting some junk for a while now in hopes that I'd finally get enough to have a garage sale. But, after a couple of months of gathering things I only had one box. One of my girlfriends recently moved and was having a big garage sale so I added my stuff into her's and another friend's stuff and we had a big garage sale. When I was little I used to hang out in the garage and watch my mom and her girlfriends ready their stuff for garage sales. Let me tell you, its much more fun to watch than to actually have to do it. Its so hard trying to figure out how much you think someone should pay for your stuff. You know how much you paid for it and how useful it was to you and know that it could be useful to someone else. Its kind of a kick in the gut trying to sell something for a third of what you paid for it. We spent the majority of Friday night going through boxes and setting up tables and pricing items and getting eaten alive by mosquitoes. Saturday morning we were up bright and early to open shop. That was the funniest thing for me. I love how people come to garage sales and try to "haggle" with you on the price. We seriously had one lady try to talk us down from $1.00 on a book to $.50. Really, is that $.50 really going to cut into your bottom line? It just cracked me up. Overall the garage sale was really successful. I only made like $30 but my friend did really well so I think everyone was happy.
Saturday was an extremely hot day and I think the combination of the heat and the haggling really took it out of me. Besides a quick trip to Blockbuster and the grocery store, I didn't do much for the rest of the day. We watched my Florida State Seminoles crush UT Chattanooga. That made me very happy... GO NOLES!!
This morning I slept in late and when I got up Joe made me cinnamon rolls to go with my coffee. I got some cleaning and some laundry done and then headed out to the pool. It was another scorcher here so it felt so good to be in the pool. Becky and Pierce came over to play for a little while and we had a good time teaching Pierce how to play with the hose. After lunch, and a mid-September sunburn, we called it a day. Becky and Pierce left and I joined Joe on the couch to watch some Buccaneer football. Tampa beat Atlanta so that made Joe very happy. We had a little dinner of BBQ chicken and creamy orzo with peas and now we're just waiting for all our shows to start. We've got Entourage and True Blood on HBO tonight. (Side note- have any of you been watching True Blood? What do you think?) So that was my weekend. I hope you all had a wonderful weekend as well. On to the new work week. Let's hope we all make it through unscathed.
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