Gone Sail'n

I remember when I was a kid my parents and I would go out every weekend and hit the garage/yard sales around the neighborhood and my dad would so appropriate call it...."Going Sailing".  I mean we were die hard about it too.  Saturday night we would go to the bagel store to get the first copies of the Sunday paper which back then came on Sunday and was the biggest paper you could ever get your hands on.  The New York Times & the Daily News.  I personally like the Daily News cuz it had the comics, but the NY Times had a great magazine in it and I used to take the pages of it and paste it to my walls, but that's another entry.....
 
anyway....So of course we got a dozen bagels, lox, cream cheese and our papers and home we went.  now when your a kid this is a big thing because the papers don't come until late at night so this was a big deal for my and my sister to go out at 10pm and them come home and have a bagel for a treat and start pulling apart the paper and handing out the section each of us want.  good times!!
 
well the classified section always held the listing of all the garage sales and on Sunday after our bagel breakfast, we would go and hit every garage sale around.
other peoples junk became our treasures.  I wonder who came up with this idea?  anyone know?
 
so were sitting around the house yesterday, have I mentioned I'm on vacation this week??  we were supposed to have a GS ourselves this weekend but that never panned out on Saturday so Sarah is at work, roomies kid is out swimming and were home trying to figure out what to do.  were both tired, no energy, the couch is calling us is a bad way, still need to go grocery shopping but just not in the mood.......So we decide to check out the local sales.  we hit a few houses, I got a few candles for a buck and then afterwards we had lunch and did our grocery shopping.
 
today we had ours.  I can tell you this...I would rather go to them then have one.  its cool to make the money but the work involved....I'm on vacation people!!!  it lasted about 3 hours and them I gave up, especially since.....I had no help.  Sarah had to work and I was left by myself to fight the masses.  I made most of my money off these two women who didn't speak a word of English so every thing they picked up a cup I said 25 cents and they say $1.00, so who am I to argue.
 
I ended up throwing the rest of the shit away.  I have a box of clothes and some appliances that I'm giving to salvation army and the rest of the junk is just that....Junk.  pitched it.  its so nice to walk into my place and not have boxes around me.  Sarah and I stayed up till almost 2am getting everything done....And were almost there.  just a few more little things to do and were finally done. 
 
thank god!!
 
my cats are driving me crazy.  I really think that 4 cats in this small space (they don't go upstairs yet...Dog) is to much.  I'm seriously considering giving 2 away, but I don't see that happening in the near future.  Ruben and ebony go upstairs more than Claire and Sofia and that's only because there is a huge dog upstairs who just as scared of the cats than they are of him.  its really funny.  Rocco just wants to play with them but he don't understand.  its cute
 
I'm not doing anything on my vacation but relaxing and getting this place finished up.  Tuesday were going to the zoo, so that should be fun.  its a big zoo and were going to spend the day.  other than that.....I'm just chillin.
 
so this has been a productive weekend that's for sure.  hope you had a great one!!
hugs, jeannine