insomnia-license-fair-etc.
It's been ages. and i haven't slept yet (which is probably why it just took me 3 tries to spell "slept"), so here goes.
I have been awake since 11am yesterday. didn't do much yesterday except wait around until I had to go to work. Went to Herrema's for some inexpensive steak and chicken (4 steaks, less than $4. chicken was a little more at $9and-change for 6 boneless-skinlsess breasts--about 4 pounds).
Oh. I'm licensed. I passed the road test Finally (only my 2nd try ever) on the 11th. Last night was my 3rd time driving by myself to work (i dorve to herrema's once before that by myself...). I even decided it was time to figure out how to get to Wegmans because i know that, since i have my license now, I'll be stopping by there after work to pick up some thing or other ... 'honey, can you stop by the store on your way home from work...' i don't care, i'm super excited. and i've been eyeing a car online that's less than $4000 (kia rio, 37.5k miles, automatic, 4cyl, 1.5L, certified pre-owned from a dealership). I can totally afford that with a loan. but that'll mean i can visit people (tim, jordan, that means you esp. since i totally flaked on our last get-together), that i can take road trips, that i don't have to plan my life around jim's schedule which wasn't fair to either of us (a lot of burden for him...)
It also means that when i go home next weekend, i can help my dad with the driving since my idiot brother doesn't even have a permit. he's not even trying to alleviate some of the work for my father who really is too old to be driving himself and billy to and from work and taking mom to the store/walmart whenever she's itchin' to get out of the house. oh sure, he bought a $400 car, but what good is that? I digress ---- home next weekend...
My best friend, my mother, and i will be setting up a booth at the Callicoon Street Fair (something I ALWAYS looked forward to in the summer... so fun). Jacklyn will be selling handmade jewelry, mom will be selling arts and crafts of an unknown (to me) nature, and i'll be selling crocheted plarn (plastic yarn/ yarn made from plastic bags) and regular yarn purses, bracelets, and even some homemade facial scrub (part of the reason i needed to find wegman's last night was so that i could get my ingredients of honey, sugar, olive oil, and jars... already have the limes at home...). I'm psyched. But I'm putting a lot of money into this thing, and i don't really think i'm going to be getting much back from it. i don't think the purses will sell at all. but 45 for the table, 30.50 for the bus ticket (jim needs the car that weekend, i'll be using mom/dad/billy's car while i'm down there), and about 30 for the ingredients last night. 105 bucks. mom's providing the tables and tent (thankfully). even if i sell everything at what people are telling me are reasonable prices [15-purse, 8-clutch, 6-clutch, 2-coin pouch(x2) 3-wrist cuff/bracelet(x2), 4-face scrub(x12)] that's less than breaking even [88] i think i'll be elevating the price of the face scrub because it is awesome, and maybe i'll be able to scrape a few more items together before the actual day...
but seeing/hanging out with jacklyn will be Awesome regardless.
alright, i'm starting to hit the delete button more than i'd like to admit. eek. time for bed, or a cessation of ranting.
later folks.
I have been awake since 11am yesterday. didn't do much yesterday except wait around until I had to go to work. Went to Herrema's for some inexpensive steak and chicken (4 steaks, less than $4. chicken was a little more at $9and-change for 6 boneless-skinlsess breasts--about 4 pounds).
Oh. I'm licensed. I passed the road test Finally (only my 2nd try ever) on the 11th. Last night was my 3rd time driving by myself to work (i dorve to herrema's once before that by myself...). I even decided it was time to figure out how to get to Wegmans because i know that, since i have my license now, I'll be stopping by there after work to pick up some thing or other ... 'honey, can you stop by the store on your way home from work...' i don't care, i'm super excited. and i've been eyeing a car online that's less than $4000 (kia rio, 37.5k miles, automatic, 4cyl, 1.5L, certified pre-owned from a dealership). I can totally afford that with a loan. but that'll mean i can visit people (tim, jordan, that means you esp. since i totally flaked on our last get-together), that i can take road trips, that i don't have to plan my life around jim's schedule which wasn't fair to either of us (a lot of burden for him...)
It also means that when i go home next weekend, i can help my dad with the driving since my idiot brother doesn't even have a permit. he's not even trying to alleviate some of the work for my father who really is too old to be driving himself and billy to and from work and taking mom to the store/walmart whenever she's itchin' to get out of the house. oh sure, he bought a $400 car, but what good is that? I digress ---- home next weekend...
My best friend, my mother, and i will be setting up a booth at the Callicoon Street Fair (something I ALWAYS looked forward to in the summer... so fun). Jacklyn will be selling handmade jewelry, mom will be selling arts and crafts of an unknown (to me) nature, and i'll be selling crocheted plarn (plastic yarn/ yarn made from plastic bags) and regular yarn purses, bracelets, and even some homemade facial scrub (part of the reason i needed to find wegman's last night was so that i could get my ingredients of honey, sugar, olive oil, and jars... already have the limes at home...). I'm psyched. But I'm putting a lot of money into this thing, and i don't really think i'm going to be getting much back from it. i don't think the purses will sell at all. but 45 for the table, 30.50 for the bus ticket (jim needs the car that weekend, i'll be using mom/dad/billy's car while i'm down there), and about 30 for the ingredients last night. 105 bucks. mom's providing the tables and tent (thankfully). even if i sell everything at what people are telling me are reasonable prices [15-purse, 8-clutch, 6-clutch, 2-coin pouch(x2) 3-wrist cuff/bracelet(x2), 4-face scrub(x12)] that's less than breaking even [88] i think i'll be elevating the price of the face scrub because it is awesome, and maybe i'll be able to scrape a few more items together before the actual day...
but seeing/hanging out with jacklyn will be Awesome regardless.
alright, i'm starting to hit the delete button more than i'd like to admit. eek. time for bed, or a cessation of ranting.
later folks.