We had a yard sale this morning. Sold lots of crap, but only made $122.

For me the happy part is getting rid of the "crap". The $$$ are just a bonus.

I have to agree with that.

As I am cleaning up my house full of crap. The parts that I've cleared look so damn good...I need to keep it up....

Now the roses the Hubby brought me look nice. :)

Well, what are you going to do with your earnings? We used to do yardsales to go to Disneyland. Now we have APs.

I just keep donating and donating. It's a never ending cycle... I can't believe I ever had this much crap.

Our neighbors are moving!

This is good news on at least a couple fronts, both relating to their dogs.

They have two dogs. One of them is a large dog (looks like a dalmation/dane mix to me). She spends almost her entire day either inside or in the tiny (~20ftx8ft) back patio that our condos have. This is a trapped, frustrated dog. So I don't blame her for barking. But that doesn't make it any less of a nuisance. She barks at everything. She barks at anyone who walks by the back, she barks at us every time we enter or leave. She even barks at us while we're in our own kitchen.

Thankfully, she's brought inside at night, so that doesn't tend to be an issue. But CP, who takes her bike out the gate and parks in the carport right by their yard, gets "assaulted" every single morning. It grows wearisome.

She had a conversation with them recently, which wasn't particularly encouraging. After first making, "She just needs o get to know you," excuses, they eventually said, "She used to be better when my mom would come by and walk her more often, but she doesn't any more." When CP suggested that they might look into training, the response was, "Oh, you can't train for barking, can you?" :rolleyes:

I feel very sorry for these dogs, it's no life to be stuck in that little cement box. But we were coming very close to contacting the association and finding out what our options might be.

So I was very happy to get an email from CP saying that our neighbor came into the library today and told her they'd be putting the condo on the market within the month. Their main motivation being to find somewhere with a yard for the dogs.

I'm happy the nuisance will be gone (presuming a new one doesn't move in *crosses fingers*). And I'm really happy the dogs will hopefully be much much happier in their new home.

LOL!! YES! Nickolas keeps bugging me about when I am going to start packing. I made him go up in the attic to get the luggage down on Thursday and he has been bugging me ever since.

Very true.

Hello, I would like to return this life, please. What's wrong with it? Oh, it just doesn't seem to be working out. It's not really "me". No, I don't want to exchange it for a different style. I think I'd just rather get my money back. Thanks so much.

I am a bit beyond pissy at this point. While I am happy that I can slowly start repairing my abused patio, it would have been nice if they had fixed the sprinkler they ran over, or at least told me about it. I now have a mess of stinky, oily water covering 1/3 of my patio. I lack the skills (or at least the knowledge) to repair it.

Add this to the horrific sunburn on Nick's back and I am one pissed puppy. According to Boy, when he asked Dawn for sunblock she said she threw it all away. I am now taking pictures of his back, my yard and the disgusting, moldy mess David left in the back bathroom.

Ran over sprinklers? Messed up patios? Huh? I need to read back, or just accept this is something I miss.

And seriously - he asked for sunblock and her only irresponsible answer is that she threw it all away? What were they doing? If they had anything outdoors planned and sunblock wasn't... OK, I'm just irritated. But I think I'm just in that kind of mood.

I was downstairs with grandma earlier and she was watching some Lifetime movie. The lead actress was stupid. I know she made her decisions because of love and all, but I couldn't help but be irritated by her lack of concern for everyone but herself. Though I'm sure most Lifetime viewers could "understand" why she did it (took her amnesiac husband home), I could see through that thin shell... Though it all ended well, as are Lifetime flicks wont to do, her children suffered mental abuse and were put in regular danger. It was based on a true story, which made me feel even worse - she didn't listen to doctors and didn't read up on what memory loss does to a person... selfish!

So it's probably my mood. But in general, I hate such blatant irresponsibility.

HMPF!