Its Been A While......

Well alot has happened in the past 20 days. I have had 2 garage sales, which overall had great results, I have been to the Lonestar concert, have had a blast hanging out with my big brother the is weekend I have been at my parents. We have Connor and Dawna while my sister and Bryan went out of town. The weeekend has been so much fun, but so tiring......

A lady from my mothers stitching guild, cross-stitching group, had 2 extra tickets, so my brother and I got to go and enjoy an evening of great music. The opening band was CPR....they are a local band and pretty good. I had my good camera with my 300mm lens and was all set to get some great pics, when to my surprise I discovered that my lens is broken. It would take pics at the 70mm spot, but will not zoom out past that. Needless to say I was not too thrilled about the whole situation. I was bummed because I didn't think I would get as good of pics and the lens was like $300 and I have been told it cannot be fixed. I will of course get a second opinion, but it looks like I will be saving up for a new lens. On a good note I was still able to get some good pics of the band and the evening was nice and relaxing, but a little chilly.

I didn't get any pics of the garage sales, but they were crazy. On Sept 13 my sister and I had one at my moms and started the sale at 7 am. When I opened the garage door just before seven I could see all the feet standing at the door. I couldn't even get things pulled out of the garage so people could move around because there were so many people. My dad and brother and I were all bug eyed at the sight of all these people. They started coming in before the garage door was completely opened. It was crazy, but my sister and I both made some good money. I was impressed with what I made because it was all mainly little stuff. The next garage sale was the following Saturday 9/20 at Leah's house, she is the woman that does amazing things with my hair!!!!! She doesn't have a garage, so it was more of a yard/driveway sale. It was pretty good as well, not the crowd I had the week before, but I still made some more money and then took the rest to goodwill.

I have filled up 5 45 gallon trash bags of junk that was trashed and sold over $400 worth of junk. I didn't realize how many tote bags and purses I had until I started pulling them out of my closet. I was also able to get rid of my storage, which is going to save me $52 a month!!!!!! YAY!!!! I still have ALOT of cleaning out to do, but my apt doesn't feel so suffocating any more, but still have too much crap!!!!

I will also be adding to my patio before 9/30. The apartments of course put in new patio fences and now as an incentive they are doing a contest on the cutest/neatest patios and the winner gets a $100. Be praying that I win because I could use the money. If I win I will have to decide whether to use it towards the stanton crop or getting a new lens for my camera. I may be working a second job by the end of Oct, so I wouldn't be able to go to the stanton crop and if that is the case, it will go towards getting a new lens for my camera!!!!