Happy Independence Day

 Independence day, or the 4th of July is a federal holiday celebrated in the United States. Today we celebrate the approval of the Declaration of Independence by the Second Continental Congress  on July 4, 1776. 

Today I think many people just see it as another day off of work and a day to have picnics and watch fireworks. 

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement. ~Nelson Mandela

Whether you live in the U.S. or somewhere else, no matter how you spend your day, I hope that you have a good one.

Year 2 week 3 drawings.

 Here we go with another week of drawings.

Interview day

 Friday June 20th, I had 2 interview scheduled. One was for Aldi's and was a half hour in one direction. The other was for a place called Holiday Financial and was a half hour in the oppposite direction.

The Aldi's interview was first. It was called a group interview but what it actually was, was a bunch of people who were interviewed in the order in which they arrived. I was second. It turned out that it would likely be an evening position which would mean driving home at 8:30 at night. I wasn't crazy about that. She scheduled me for a second interview on the following Sunday and said I would receive a text message confirming. I never did get the text message so I didn't go. I ended up getting an email from them thanking me for my interest but they were going with another candidate. Good because I didn't want it anyway.

Next was a 40 minute drive to the second one but I had plenty of time to kill before the scheduled time. I went to lunch at Burger King. I grabbed my tray of food and this was stuck on it.

While I was sitting there a guy pulled in driving a nice looking car.

Went to my second interview and this one sounded more like something I wanted. It's for a loan company that is owned by PNC bank. The position is for a customer service representative. The hours are 9-5 Monday through Friday, no weekend and all bank holidays off. I though it went well. The next day I got an email from another person in the company to schedule an online interview for the following Monday. 

Garage sale

 Wow, here it is July already and we're starting the second half of the year. Time sure has flown by.

June 21st was the Albion area yard sales. I've wanted to have one for a long time but it was just too much effort when I was working full time. This year, since I was off, I decided I would participate. I gathered things that I wanted to get rid of. The closer I got to the sale I was getting nervous that it would be a total flop. I had nightmares about not selling a single thing. 

Two nights before I put everything in the living room so all I had to do Saturday morning was drag it out the front door. There was more than this because I also still had stuff down in the basement.

Friday night I didn't sleep and I was up at 3:30 Saturday morning. By 5:30 I was dragging things out to the front yard to get things set up. I think I was ready in about an hour or so then it was sit around and wait for 8:00 when the yard sales were supposed to start.

Everything was across my sidewalk and I had more stuff set up under the tree. I got my first customer of the day and I made a whole dollar. Things picked up and got pretty busy for a while. I had lots of people coming through and lots of people buying. I was willing to drop prices if people asked. By the end of the day I had made almost $190. I threw some stuff in the garbage and put a bunch of stuff at the curb with a big free sign

Within minutes of putting this stuff out there I had people going through it. The next morning this was what I was down to.

By garbage day all that was left was the cardboard box and 3 baskets.

The day after the sale, I got a text message from a lady who used to be a good customer at the store I worked at. She wanted to know if I still had baseball cards. I told her I did and she asked if she could bring her 12 year old son over to look at the. When she came she asked how much I wanted for all of them. I  said $25. (there were a lot but I wanted to get rid of them) She said that wasn't enough and had her son hand me $50. I tried to give money back but they wouldn't take it. I was more than thrilled with how well this all went. Will I do it again next year? I highly doubt it.