Whew!

Today is one of those yucky weather days...rainy (it's only right that I wear my plaid wellies! Never get to wear them!)...windy (wind is never fun...pieces of my house fly away and I am out there picking up siding from my neighbor's lawn)....and a million appointments. I have nothing witty to put there. There is nothing fun about "hurry up and wait". I dislike people who think that their time is any more important than MY time. If you take the time to make an appointment with me, especially a 9am appointment, you should know that I am coming to your office with the minimal level of caffiene in my system....leaving me grouchy. If you should then decide to be late for our 9am appointment, you should be required to provide additional caffiene at YOUR expense....or suffer the consequences. Now I have a headache from grouchi-ness and lack of coffee in my veins....and a sour meeting. Time for a conference call. Oh joy! I think people need a refresher course in how NOT to run a conference call. I hear from tiem to time, people placing orders through a drive thru, people coughing up a lung, people yelling at other people who are not on the conference call. There is a MUTE button for a reason! *6.....use it! Buh-Beep....who just joined us? I love that I have to listen to that for the first 10 minutes of the call. Then the obligatory, "call me when we hang up"....yeah like I want to continue the conversation! If you want to yell at me, please do it in front of everybody! I like witnesses! ;)

I am finishing up my Christmas shopping this week. Oh fun times. Is it just me or was "Black Friday" and "Cyber Monday" a total bust this year? I mean, I think I was expecting an ipad or Barbie's dream townhouse to fall into my lap for pennies. Instead I lost out on both (at a severely jacked up price) and landed $6 pillows from Macy's and something that resembles an at home donut maker.....which I will never use but hey it was $10....and who doesn't like kitchen gadgets for $10. Someday I will get really bored and decide to make donuts from scratch because I have nothing better to do. Riiiiigggghhhht. I'll store that right next to the at home sno-cone maker I got 4 years ago (haven't been that bored...yet) and the "Set it and forget it"....which I have used twice....but not since 2005 when I accidently left the rubber gloves on the top of the machine...melting them into my nice rotisserie chicken.
The point is, I was expecting deals on TOYS....plastic toys or electronic toys....and I left with pillows. My "fun meter" is out of whack. It's called GROWING UP. I'm struggling with it, I think!
I scored $5 comfy pants on cyber Monday.....whoa, look out. What are they, you ask? Who the heck cares! It's a pair of pants for $5! I struggled with the purchase actually.....more so than I usually do. I sat there saying "don't check out....don't check out"....thinking about how far I could take that $5....all I thought about was my truck and how much gas I could buy and how far I could go with that gas. UGH. 'click'....shipping info correct....send confirmation. DONE. $5 comfy pants. I envision cold winters....and me in my fleecy $5 comfy pants....making donuts and sno-cones...with my 3 delighted children (in my dream, they are all smiling and getting along). *sigh*

Back to reality.

I think a tag sale in the spring is in order.

Ever had a tag sale? Oh those are fun.....NOT. You have to drag boxes up from the basement or down from the attic. You risk alienating your in-laws by selling the crap they give you for nickels. You risk your kids seeing that you are selling the junk they haven't played with in years...but the second they see it out on the lawn it's all of a sudden their favorite toy. You have to tag it all yourself. You then have to wake up super early and cart it out onto the lawn, all the while dodging the so called 'early birds'...cute name for vicious people who start your day off haggling your already low price down to virtually nothing....leaving you the rest of your day to curse them because you know you could have gotten so much more for that collection of shot glasses from your college days....I digress.
Really though, I don't like people looking at all my junk. I feel like they are judging me. "oh my goodness SHE owns THAT?" "She wants THAT price for THAT?" Ugh I can't take it. I would rather give my stuff away and make a million people smile than to sell it and make any money at all. I held ONE tag sale.....in my whole life.....I made close to $800. It was only fun because my neighbor was with me. Well that neighbor moved....and the fun is over.


OK got to run....real life is calling.