Garage Sale Day

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A town about 15 minutes from here, Elkhart, is having a town-wide garage sale. But it ends early, plus I think that I have enough Lincoln garage sales to go to. And I've printed off maps to all of them. I refuse to get up early to go to the sales. I might set an alarm to get me up after eight hours of sleep though. Okay, there's a place that's selling planters that's only open until noon, so maybe I'll get up early to go there.

My grandma would be proud of me. I garage saled until I dropped. I got some planters, a hand vac, a car vac, a shredder, a book, a few DVDs, a couple of CDs, two shirts, a folding omelet pan, a George Foreman grill, a three-hole punch, and some plastic totes. I also got a Coach purse in good condition to resell. I think that I'm forgetting something, but I feel too lazy to check. One place was closed when I got there; I'll have to see if they're open tomorrow. I stopped for lunch part-way through. I was starting to get a headache at the end. There's a heat index over 100F. I want to peel off my clothes and soak in a cool shower, but I'll probably just take a nap.

The Google Maps GPS did a great job in routing me around. I never use it, but perhaps I should.

Whoops, I forgot to go to Ace Hardware. I don't feel like going now.

Zara is being cuddly. Z, isn't it too hot to snuggle?

Had a long nap. Woke up at 8:15 PM and scrambled to feed myself and the girls before my call to Mom.

Mom is doing well. A friend of hers said that Mom's never looked better and that "cancer [her multiple myeloma] becomes her". My aunt, on the other hand, is not doing well. A blood test for cancer is high, so they're going to do a PET scan. Also her kidney function is weak. She also tried to drive and had a lot of difficulty. My aunt said that if she died, we'd have a hell of a garage sale. I said that it's kind of depressing that everyone's life ends in a garage sale, although I suppose that you could look at it as sharing of resources. Mom was impressed by my garage sale haul.

I'm tired, so I'm going to crash. I need to check whether the garbage sale that was closed is open in the morning. Yeah, it said Sunday 8 - noon, so I'll get up an hour earlier and stop by.