World's Most Pathetic Garage Sale

Pictures to follow soon, because you can't really understand it until you see it. Today was the big day - garage sale day. My mom and I had corralled our crap last night and we were going to get up at 8am to set it up before the neighborhood kick-off time at 9. For whatever reason, I was really engrossed in watching Pride and Prejudice last night, so even though I got 0 hours of good sleep the previous night, I stayed up until 2am. So when my alarm went off at 8:15, I hit snooze thinking my mom was up. She wasn't. Forty-five minutes later, we threw clothes on and hurriedly throwing stuff out into the garage (a true garage sale, the threat of rain kept us inside). 

And when we had lined everything up, we realized we had quite a Charlie Brown Christmas tree-esque sale. Highlights of the day include a woman yelling at me that the clothes we had were too expensive and another woman with a glint of success in her eyes after bargaining down a Christmas-themed tub from $2.50 down to $2. I logged a solid five and a half hours out there, taking breaks to go to the bathroom, eat, and run inside when the crazy lady came back to see if we lowered our prices (my mom let her try a pair of pants on in our laundry room - I was cowering in fear in my room). The whole experience is very bizarre, because I felt like people were getting an unfettered access into the detritus of my life and hence the peripheral of my life. I haven't quite found the right words to describe it...I'll get back to you. Day 2 will feature mark downs, balloons, and perhaps baked goods to entice people to buy. I am the keeper of the profits - so we made $19 in 6 hours, meaning that I only made $3 an hour. My parents are violating state and federal labor law. 

So garage sale + lack of sleep = no motivation for job applications. I've got a couple of apps I want to apply for, including one that was passed to me by Cal. I suspect I will break my rule of only applying for jobs during the week to get some more applications out, because so far this week I've only had 6 go out and I've fallen off the track with following up to job postings from last week. I am just feeling very languid and finally I've gotten into 100 Years of Solitude, which feels like it has taken 100 years to read. I just can't get into Marquez's books - I read Love in the Time of Cholera and it was the same thing. I didn't enjoy the 300+ page book until the last 50 pages.

Also got some helpful advice from Alyssa G. re: using Twitter to help me find a job. I'm not ruling anything out here. I know there are a lot of foes of Twitter, but you can't knock it until you try it.