Summer in Nebraska…it can’t be beat! Unless it’s by a blizzard and frozen feet!
(I’m a poet…lol 🙂 and sarcastic too). As everyone already knows, it’s been a HOT couple of weeks here in Nebraska. But at least the roads are clear…no blizzard conditions… The point is that there’s always going to be weather of some kind out there, so be prepared to act accordingly. Drink lots of water and use sunscreen in the summer. Or dress in layers to keep warm in the winter. Regardless…there will always be weather to complain about.
I’m eagerly awaiting the births of 2 more grandbabies, both due within 2 weeks of each other. I hope they both wait to be born until closer to their due dates. 2 of my nieces went early, but thankfully the babies are doing ok.
Lets see…what else is new? Oh yeah, I’m no longer working. I prefer not to discuss the circumstances of my unemployment, but lets just say that I’m on an extended leave. I’m looking around for another job where I won’t have to be on my feet for 9 or 10 hours a day. Maybe a nice day job in an office with no weekends. I worked at the same place for 13 years, and that was long enough. Time for a change for the better!
I’ve been trying to at least walk to the post office and back every day. Some days are better than others. What I should really do is start going through the storage closets and get rid of some stuff. That’s harder to get started on than it sounds. It’s kind of overwhelming when I think about it. I would like to maybe have a rummage sale, but every other time I tried that it was more work than it was worth. I never made much money, and ended up just taking the stuff to Goodwill afterwards anyway. I have an EBay account, but have never used it. Another thing I should do is go through my old pictures…but then again there are a lot of other things I could be doing now that I have the time…one day at a time I guess.
Something I’m looking forward to is a road trip at the end of September. My friend Sue who lives in Montana is going to a wedding in Yankton on the last Saturday of September, and after spending a couple days with friends and family, will be stopping here on her way back to Livingston. I will be riding back with her and taking a plane back home on October 1st. It will be a fun trip with lots of stops along the way, with the grand finale of a spa day at Chico Hot Springs in Paradise Valley on the Friday before I go home. I’ve never been there, so it will be a real treat!
Well, I suppose I’d better close this for today. I’ll try to write things down here more often than I have been. OK, bye for now.
July 19th, 2011 at 10:59 pm
You might want to try ebay on some of the smaller stuff, I have been doing pretty good on it. Research your items first before listing, search especially the completed listing to see if those items are selling and will cover expenses.
Montana, now that sounds like fun. Enjoy.
Buck
July 20th, 2011 at 11:43 pm
ebay works as long as you aren’t trying to actually make a profit on something, it’s good for getting rid of stuff you don’t really care one way or another about. Just make sure you are selling it for enough to cover the cut that ebay and paypal takes off the top and the cost to ship it. I just sold something on there that I bought accidentally (wrong part # my fault) and they took about 12% of the money in fees and I had to pay another $6 to ship it. Just to beat the next closest seller by a dollar so I could resell it quickly and get some of my money back I ended up losing $13 over what I originally paid about a week before.