Pumpkins Everywhere!

October has come!! I love the fall! Beautiful colors, everywhere! Multi-color hues; leaves scattered across green lawns... I think it's more beautiful than spring, even though I love that first appearance of green when spring comes after a long winter.

Yesterday my brother and I got up at the crack of dawn and set up a garage sale and worked it all day. It was long and cold as would be expected for October, but we managed to get rid of a lot of stuff! At the end of the day we made around $100, which comes to a grand total of $600 in garage sales and will probably buy my one-way ticket to Japan. There's one start-up expense covered!

So yesterday as I was getting ready to go collect the signs for the sale (it was close to the end of the sale and I left my grandma in charge for a few minutes), I noticed a few sales by where I had hung the signs. And lo and behold-- our signs were missing and their signs were up in it's place. Hmmm... Turns out, all of our signs were down. Every single one, and they weren't blown off by the wind either. So, we were a bit sabotaged, but not defeated! To make a hundred dollars (well, 99) when you don't even have any signs up is pretty good.

And I don't ever want to see another item for a garage sale ever again. At least not for the present.

Among other news, I went out with Frankie last week which was a lot of fun and got to know her a little better and we discussed how I could be of service to her with her small group. We went to Starbucks and had pumpkin frappuchinos, which are really good and smell just like a pumpkin pie. Of course, it doesn't taste exact (though it's still very good), but it smells exact.

I also went in for the said-interview and got the job! I'm pretty excited to be employed again (though I am still employed through WIM), but it's nice to have another source of income to help with current finances that way I can save all support coming in for Japan.

So I start this week, on Thursday (though I did some training on Friday), since I have a conference Monday through Wednesday. Actually, this entire week is just jam-packed, but I'm excited to get at the week.

For the rest of the evening though, I hope just to relax and catch my breath in between two giant weeks.