Day 125 - May 5, 2012 - Happy Birthday Uncle John!

After work we had my Uncle John over the house. We've been trying to foster some good relationships with members of my family who aren't suffering from dementia. My Uncle is pretty cool so we invited him over for some cake, coffee and presents after I got home from work. This yummy red velvet cake came from Patsy's.

Day 124 - May 4, 2012 - Jared the human statue

Jared is my best friend Janell's nephew. I love to see him (it's a bonus of hanging out with Janell - even though hanging with her is awesome by itself). Today he came home from school in a fancy shirt because he had to dress like a teacher, then he did one of his new 9 year old tricks, becoming a human statue, he's pretty good at standing still for extended periods of time.

Day 123 - May 3, 2012 - A sleeping man + a bonus photo of Nancy Pearl!

Today I went to the Long Island Library Conference. It was my first time attending this conference, in years past I opted for going to book expo because I could take the train in and get there fairly easily, now that I've been driving I figured I could drive to the conference since it's on Long Island but it's a pain in the ass to get to if you don't drive. Apparently one librarian was bored out of his mind because he fell asleep during a speaking session.

I've never posted two photos in a daily entry before but I felt this entry warranted two photographs. I went to this conference because I was really excited to see Nancy Pearl. She's pretty big and amazing in the library world. That blurb at the podium (because I didn't have my zoom lens) that's Nancy Pearl speaking to the crowd!

Day 122 - May 2, 2012 - Grizz and Phantom enjoying their digs

So it's been almost a year since Grizz and Phantom came with me to live with Shawn. I was trying to decide what to photograph for the day and figured this would be good since they were together within the same vicinity. My cats like it here and so do I.

Day 121 - May 1, 2012 - Gearing up for my drive!

I'm driving everywhere again! I had doubts this would happen, I was pretty scared after we got this car and after the accident. Then we had complications with this car and we were debating whether or not to keep it or trade it in, but after a pricy repair and deciding that I really do like this car a lot we decided to keep the car. Now I hope it lasts me at least a year hopefully longer. This photo was taken right after work before I started driving home. 

Day 120 - April 30, 2012 - *Sigh* hopefully I'll sell you!

The gears in my head are always turning out new or old ideas to possibly make some money for myself in addition to my work income and to possibly create something that does well enough for me to work part time hours only. Currently I've got an idea floating around to be a traveling barista, my friend wants to hire me to do an actual paid gig this summer - last summer I did two jobs but they were for free - one at my engagement party and one at my friend's birthday party, the same friend who's looking to actually hire me out this summer. The other idea I always have in my head, an idea I probably should really not act upon - or if I do I should be smarter about it, is to resell designer items. I know some ways to get designer purses and duds for below retail value, and I can also sell designer items I own that I'm tired of to bring some bucks back to me from the purchase. I've always tried eBay to resell something, although it sometimes brings me a chunk of money there are listing fees and final value fees that take some of that money away. I'm also a retard I list my item at a low starting price and sometimes it takes off sometimes I have to end up selling it for a low price. So I picked up this coach wristlet in Loehmann's to hopefully resell. I think I can bring it back (Loehmann's actually gives you a very long time to return an unused or unwanted item) if I can't successfully sell it. It was fairly cheap for a coach item so I can also give it away to my godmother or someone I really care about. I'm going to try to list it on craigslist first. Craigslist doesn't get much exposure but there's no fees and there's cash in hand after the purchase is complete. I'm going to list at a high price but be open to some negotiations. If I'm lucky I'll bring in a small profit and can either put the money away or use it to purchase more deisgner items to resell. I really like to shop, I really like to find good deals, but I also don't really need anything at times so this reselling of the designer items thing could be useful for me to get my shopping in and to make money on it. I just need to be more careful, I need to buy clearance items and use coupons, or hunt around in thrift stores, or find items wholesale in order to make a good buck on this reselling of designer items dream I have going on.

Day 119 - April 29, 2012 - This is the dress!

I went shopping with Joanna and Janell for their maid of honor dresses. Our wedding party is very small and untraditional. I have no bridesmaids just two maid of honors. First we hit up Estelle's and found this classy number (I'm being sarcastic) plus many other crazy dresses even worse then this. We only went to Estelle's because surprisingly David's Bridal didn't open the store until 12 PM. The result of our dress shopping, Shawn's mom found a dress to wear to the wedding from Estelle's, Janell and Joanna found red dresses to wear from David's Bridal. They are also wearing different dresses but the same color, they both have different body types and I was not forcing them to wear something they would feel didn't look good. I want them both to be happy, to be comfortable and to like the dress they are wearing so they feel confident and perhaps sexy as well.