Hollow Threats

Here I am again at the library printing out another shipping label. This one is for two Barbie clothes patterns I found at the bins. They are incomplete which I put into the description.. I hope she read it.

In other news Joe is leaving me again.. This is a weekly occurrence and it still hurts my heart, a gut punch every time it happens. The trigger this time is a lost blood pressure cuff. He put batteries into it but doesn't know where he put it after that! I, as I always suggest, suggested that he develop a routine of putting things BACK where they came from for easier access. He railed at me about the house being messy and how can you find anything. Which had nothing to do with putting the blood pressure machine back on "Annabelle's table".

He can not find his phone charger, another bone of contention. Why don't you plug it in one place and leave it. I do. I plug mine in the bedroom and I always know where it is. He charges a phone, removes the charger and puts it someplace else. Hides it from himself.

I put the car keys over the back of the chair or they are in my purse. He attached them to the calendar on the wall where there is a nail or something easily available for hanging something. Beau found them after searching for about an hour. Or it seemed an our.

And he becomes very agitated and defensive. The defense is an offense. The offense is to leave me, move into an assisted living facility. The other day I was talking to Debbie and she mentioned that as a fantasy I should dream of putting him in a facility and visiting him daily. Which reminds me of Ted S. visiting his step-Dad with his mother. When his Mom left the room his step Dad turned to him and asked "who is that old woman?".

We have that house/trailer in Florida. I need to get rid of it. Maybe just let it go. But I still have to clean it out. I could go down and have it done in a couple of days. The sofa is comfy but.....

Anyway, life with someone with rapidly advancing MCI.

Evil Stepmother

This is the second week that Danielle has come to spend Sunday thru Wednesday with us. Last week was just a smidge stressful but not bad. Billie came up and did the lawn for Joe and it took him over 2 hours but I was so appreciative. Joe hates doing the yard and as a result of both his reluctance and his MCI , the yard is a mess..

Also an added benefit to D being here is that she is a diversion for J. I feel sometimes that I am baby sitting a 4 year old. It is not his fault. This MCI is awful as he can never remember anything nor find anything. Having another set of eyes is good for both of us, all three of us.

I'm at the library printing out two labels to mail more stuff. It's a fun hobby, although becoming expensive. Yesterday after cleaning the house for company, vacuuming, cleaning out the kitty liter,, dishes, shampooing the carper, cleaning the bathroom and tidying up the kitchen Joe said he wanted ice cream, and I said, Go get it, and he says something like, "You don't do anyting, you go get it." I thought i was going to lose it. Instead I popped one of B's happy pills, which I usually only take at night, and man did I get loose.

I ended up on SSTC, at the restaurnat, bidding my wallet off. I got Tony Burch shoes, a Disney Barbie Enchanted Castle, some designer duffle bag and other small stuff, oh yea, Aigner flippies with a flower on them (may keep them but I believe they are an 8) and careened over $100. Lord have mercy.

I listed the castle already on 21 places on FB marketplace. If I get the 100 i'm asking I'd be so happy. The Tory Burch should sell quickly.

Anyway, I'm also thinking of getting a store area from Laura for my stuff. Might use if as a photography shop too. Hey, I made about $450 this month. It should just get better.

Reselling Blues

Actually it has been pretty good this month. My best month since starting. I've made over 300 bucks and sort of learning the ropes. As to what sells and what doesn't is a complete crap shoot.

Yesterday I sold my Champaign glasses to a nice woman here in Indiana. They were coupes and she and 3 others are in a cocktail class and she had never heard of "coupes" before the class and wanted to give her co mixologists a set apiece. Thank god for research and learning the glasses were coupes.

Yesterday was profitable, 3 packages and the coupes. I'm so hooked on doing this that its frustrating that my computer at home is so slow and that I have to upload and edit my pictures and then add them on one at a time. Its frustrating slow and I am at the computer for hours trying to load up 5 to 7 items.

But, it's fun and I am learning how to market junk.

I took Danielle and Bridget to the bins Monday and only spent 82 bucks. Bridget found some extraordinary stuff . Leather Keds. I found a great boot...I could not find its match.

But I have not posted boots yet. The motorcycle boots are not selling at all. I'm practically giving them away at cost. Anyone have a size 14 boot shoe size? I had them sold but the shipping was going to be $40+. So I cancelled the sale.

When I sell something from the bins its great profit. But even though I tend to spend a lot of money at the bins, my true cash cows are the SSTC. And shop good will.

That's the reselling report.

Long Time

The Corona Virus or Covid-19 has shut down the United States since around St. Patrick's Day. I have been steadily going crazy at home (sheltering) with my mild cognitive impaired husband. No more escape to the movies or the thrift shops or where ever I escaped to. The library. I still have my books and my online shopping, like shopgoodwill, and the auction sites.

My business on Mercari has kept me going to the Fed-Ex to send packages and to print labels. The Staples only had curb side service. What a relife when they re-opened. I'm use to wearing a mask now, though I find that quite a few of my fellow Indiana Hoosier neighbors do not. Going to Walmart is a nightmare. Kroger is better, but not by much. I just wish they required a mask. What the hell are they afraid of? Many places do.

I've been kind of cranky. That is putting it mildly. Too much TV and an inability to concentrate on reading a book. Lord, Ive gone from three books a week to one a month.

And now, we have the George Fulton problem and the Breoonna Taylor problem in Louisville wgich has caused a major revolt and rioting in the streets. Many peaceful protests in all the large cities, but as soon as the sun goes down the crazies and the agitators come out of the shadows. The national guard has been called out and cleared the streets Saturday night. I was too tired of the horror to watch last night, but I'm certain more of the same thing.

It is a reminder of 1968. How old was i? 15. Too young to be interested in politics or the Vietnam War or the politics of LBJ. Body bags, dead soldiers, straights and hippies. Clashes, death on college campuses. Kent State. That was my generation even though I was more interested in getting a job as a life guard at the swimming pool, and in 1968 I was just a kid really. Going to NYC to my cousins wedding, that was the highlight of that year. Reading The World of Henry Orient and beginning to keep a journal, not a diary but a differnt type of hsitorical look at my life. I threw the lions share of the "Bible" in the fire in 1979. What a waste. What an idiot I was. But, I was pregnant, ha ha.

America is changing again. The Baby Boom generation has been in charge since the early 1990's and it is one fucked up mess. The straights took over. Though Clinton did once smoke pot, but did not inhale.

Greed. Getting ahead. Having more than your neighbor. I don't know.

I don't know how we got here but it is an ugly place.

Dumb old Boomer.