Another Post About How Much I Love Yard Sales!

Haha! One of the many things I love about summer is it's yard sale season! We had our own yard sale a few weeks ago and did pretty well. We made about $100 which I was very pleased with (put that right into Lexi's collage fund!), and we got rid of a lot of junk, which I enjoyed even more! It's so freeing to just purge the house of a bunch of stuff we haven't even touched since our last yard sale 3 years ago. (I know because somethings still had price tags on them!) Oh, and to think about 3 years ago... I was fresh off my first loss. We had our sale a week after and I remember sitting there trying to run the sale, but all I could think was, "I'm not pregnant. I'm not pregnant. I'm not pregnant." 

That's also the weekend I met my one friend. We have an odd friendship/ acquaintance. I feel like we're pretty similar on the surface, but underneath it's weird. She tends to stand up for off the wall causes and is pretty "Fox Newsy". Which I'm very "NBC Newsy" if you catch my drift. Then there's also the fact that she's a FH (fertility hoe) and a wet pee stick waiver. (On a side note, I was watching Jeopardy the other night and one of the categories was "F.H.", as in things that FH could stand for. I was like, Fertility Hoe!!) Three days after she announce her first pregnancy, wet pee stick in hand, I found out I was pregnant again, too (loss #2). We had the same EDD and everything... But of course, today she has a two year old and I don't. Her and her DH are starting to try for #2 now and she actually complained to me the other day about how long it's taking... It's been two whole months and she's not pregnant yet... I mean, it only took one try to get KTFU the first time, so why is it taking so long now???? Yeah, I wanted to slapabitch...

But I digress...

$2.50 each!

Yeah, I love yard sales! Where else could I spend under $13 and get a whole grocery bag full of super nice clothes for Lexi to grow into? I was actually in need of 24m/2T sleepers for her and I priced them out at both Carter's and Children's Place. With free shipping and all the coupon codes I could find, it was still going to cost $50 for 5 sleepers... That's sooo expensive! Who pays that?? I don't think I've ever spent that much on pjs for myself! I actually didn't find any at the yard sales, but I did find some on eBay. I got 6 sleepers for $17 shipped. Higher than I'd pay at a yard sale, but not terrible.

Everything in this pic cost $12.75! Boo yeah!

I'm planning to go out yard saleing again this Friday. I love catching a good deal!

Lots of Love,

KJsbabe

And I waited for you...

This weekend was pretty busy. On Saturday KJ and I drove over to the Peanut Butter Festival and I ran the 5k. It was a chilly morning, but it turned out to be a good race. My time was 23:32, which I was really happy with. Only 9 seconds off of my personal best. I came in 22nd over all, 4th woman, and 2nd in the 20-29 female age bracket. I got a silver medal!

On our way home from the race we saw a sign for a yard sale, and since we both love a good sale, we stopped. The town we were driving through was close Clarion where KJ and I met and went to school. Every fall for homecoming they hold the Autumn Leaf Festival. It's this huge thing where a quarter of a million people come to this tiny college and swarm main street in search of crafts, fried food, and of course, leaves. We go back every year and we love it. Also, every year since 1959 they have made a commemorative glass to go along with the theme that year. I started buying them half way through school and thought it would be cool to collect them. So, whenever I see an old one I pick it up. Back to the yard sale,  we hit the jackpot! This sweet old lady was having a sale and had a ton of old ALF glasses. It was awesome! I only had $12 on me so I bought six glasses: '01, '99, '98, '96, '95, and '94. We got to talking and she obviously knew all about the glasses and how people collect them. She offered to keep the rest of what she had back for me for later. I couldn't believe she was willing to do that! We'll be going back to Clarion for a 5k on Oct 1, so now we also have plans to go back to this woman's house and buy eight more glasses (much older ones) for $30. Plus she said she'd keep an eye out for any more for me. It was an awesome day!



Sunday I ran the Sharon PD Five-O 5k. It was another chilly morning, but that's September for you. The race went really well and I made a new personal best! I had a time of 22:44, 22nd over all, 4th woman, and 1st in the 25-29 female age bracket. I can't believe I'm in the 22's! I never thought I'd get that fast. I'm very proud of my new time! I got another medal, too.



Sunday night I stared feeling like I was coming down with something. This morning I woke up with a full blown sinus infection. I feel like poo... There's a race on both Saturday and Sunday that I haven't signed up for, but could still do. I guess I'll have to see how I'm feeling towards the end of the week and decide if I feel up to them or not.



I hope I feel better soon...

"Maybe some day..."

Lots of Love,
KJsbabe

I Saw Her Today

I saw my friend today who I have been successfully avoiding since Christmas. We were due the same day, but as I'm sure you can guess, unlike mine, her pregnancy ended in a beautiful baby girl. KJ and I were out yard saleing, a weekend hobby of ours, and there was a sale at the house across from hers. She was there, of course, and immediately started gushing about how wonderful the end of her pregnancy was, her labor, and having a new born was. Well, just in case you were wondering, it was amazing, apparently. She also couldn't help but tell me, in full detail, what a beautiful moment it was when she held her daughter for the first time. Oh wait, you really didn't want to know that? Funny, neither did I!

AaaaaHhhhh!!!!!!!

I had been doing so well! Why the eff did this day have to happen??

Then, this evening, KJ and I went to a cook out at his cousin's house. We had gone to their Christmas party this past December, also, and at the time I was blissfully 9w PG. There was another couple at that party with a 6m old. All I could think the whole time was that at Christmas time the next year, that would be us with a 6m old baby. Well, the same couple was at the cookout tonight and she is now 3m PG. She wasn't flaunting it or anything, thank god, but she did mention that she couldn't have any of the alcoholic Irish Car Bomb cupcakes that I made. I felt overwhelming jealous of her situation, 2u2 on the way. If I could have kept my first baby, I would have a 6m old by now and maybe even been PG again. That should have been me...

I hate feeling this way...

Lots of Love,
KJsbabe