Not having such a great day; I didn't sleep well last night, and I slept too long today once I finally did fall asleep. I think I'll be able to make the hours of the sale in the morning, but I'll have been up all damn night.
The reason I have to be present for the whole sale is that my mother cannot be trusted to run it herself. The last time we had a garage sale, I made $80. She actually LOST money: she'd put an ad in the paper and rented tables, but when the time came to sell stuff, she undersold herself madly. She actually let people pay her a nickel for new blankets, that kind of thing. She let people make ridiculous bargains and never haggled back. She also went inside for a while, came back out, and was asked the price on an item: it was clearly priced at like three dollars, but she said, "A dime!" This was unfortunate, as while she was inside, someone had asked me the price on that item, and I'd said, "Three dollars!" and that person was still at the sale and overheard her tryiing to sell the same item for ten cents, and walked up to me, said in an accusatory tone, "You said it was three dollars," gave me a really dirty look, threw down the stuff they'd been carrying to buy, and left without buying anything. As a result, I think the momster sold about $20 worth of stuff, which may have covered THE COST OF THE AD. Therefore, at this sale, I am supposed to handle all of the "how much do you want for this?" queries so that there is no contradiction and no underselling-to-the-point-of-ridiculousness.
Tomorrow I am not selling very much, but I hope to make at least $50 between my printer and my old TV. The other things I am selling - a cd rack I hand-painted years ago, a poster of the Eiffel Tower mounted on foamcore board, a couple of jewelry boxes, a bottle of expensive perfume that I've barely used, Final Fantasy 7 for PC... all under $5.
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Last night I wrote an email to my best friend from elementary school, S., because she lives in the area I'm moving to, and I thought it would be polite/friendly. First of all to inform her, "Hey, we might run into each other," and second to say, "Hey, we could have coffee or lunch or something!" But I haven't heard back from her, so I assume she's like "Thanks for the warning, now - go away." This is kind of odd because we never really parted on bad terms - we just lost touch.
I got her email address a few years ago when I looked her up on google, and dropped her a line then, and also didn't hear back. Well, we had... one of those competitive friendships, sort of. With some negative undercurrents. I also think her mother (married, catholic) disapproved of me (divorced parents, latchkey kid, being not-very-successfully raised fundie-protestant), too, which is funny because historically, most of my friends' parents just adorrrre me, and I'm usually seen as "the good influence" rather than the bad! (Ironically, my mother the former fundie is now a wannabe catholic.) & I did have an extremely unsettled family life (constantly shuttled between my parents and their entirely different sets of rules) and probably wasn't a very happy kid at all. But for the most part we didn't stop talking because we fought or anything like that, we stopped talking because it was pre-internet and we both became too busy and involved in our own lives to keep in touch after a couple of years.
So, it'd be nice to see how she turned out, aside from the bare facts of "she majored in this, she works here and here," (& I'm always friendly and interested in seeing old friends if things didn't end on a really bad note). But if she doesn't want to, she doesn't want to.
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