bumpy

i'm sitting in my parents' garage right now. it's the second day of my yardsale. i've made $2 today. it rained all morning so i moved it inside. i'm guessing that's what's keeping people away today. only a few neighborhood kids have come by. i made $115 yesterday. but i spend about $50 on all the supplies. and a park ranger came by yesterday and gave me a $95 ticket for posting signs on park property. my mom said she'd pay the ticket for me. i'd be in the hole if she didn't. my brother made $150 yesterday for the bird rescue so that was helpful. his girlfriend and i made cookies and muffins and contributed by having an accompanying bake sale for the rescue. so it's been a semi-success. at least we're getting rid of a lot of things we don't need anymore. we got the rental townhouse i posted last. we're getting a moving truck tomorrow. it's been pretty hectic with packing and it's about to be even worse actually moving. at least gareth was left to finish getting things ready to go this weekend while i was doing the yardsale. this is the longest i've been away from colby though. i miss him pretty terribly. oh and gareth. the vets called me back and they want me to come in and shadow someone for a day the end of this week. so that's a good sign. things are coming together now. it's just been a bumpy road to get where we want to go.

saga

we didn't get the house. and instead of pursuing our other option we're now waiting to see if we got a rental place today. i hope this will be the end of the housing saga. i had an interview at a vet's office yesterday. it sounded very promising. i hope to hear back from them monday. my nerves are pretty shot right now. it's the waiting that really gets to me. but there's nothing else i can do right now. we don't have any plans this weekend. gareth wants to see super 8 but i'm not sure if i'm up for it. x-men was pretty awesome. thor wasn't very good. the hangover 2 was fun but not great. i just found out that lola's getting adopted today. i'd already said my goodbyes but it's still sad to know she's gone. at least she's hopefully going to a good home this time. i'm having the yardsale next weekend. it should be profitable with other family members contributing and helping sell stuff. i hope the rain holds off but that it cools down for it. it's been too hot to do much of anything outside lately. and i'm just about done going through all my stuff inside here. i went out to my brother's sanctuary to help clean cages and aviaries this week. it'd been awhile since i'd been out to help so that was nice to do. i also got a nice haircut this week thanks to mom. her hairdresser did such a nice job fixing my last bad haircut. budd finally laid her last egg. i brought it in for show and tell at my last snip. i'm going to miss some of the life i had here. but i'm looking forward to the next step in our family's saga.

passes

we haven't heard back about the house yet. i should know better by now. any time they've said we'll know anything by a certain time we haven't. but that still gives me hope we got it. if not we have another option now but i won't even go into it unless i have to. i hope i don't have to. i started sending out my resume this week. so i've got another thing i'll be anxiously awaiting a response to. i've gone to mom's to help with yardwork a couple of times now to make some extra money. and i've started planning my big yardsale. it will either be next weekend or the following one. it's been hard to plan anything not knowing when and where we're going. and i'm definitely a planner. even with my days off now i've been making plans. today we plan on going to see the new x-men movie. we're looking forward to all the big summer movies coming out this month and having time to actually see them. colby's had an upset stomach for the past week. not sure if it's the stress we're unintentionally passing on to him or the new rawhide we tried. i told the vet at wellness this week and she sold me some probiotics for him. that's what our regular vet always prescribes so it was a lot cheaper this way. besides that everyone else is doing well. budd's still got an egg. i hope this all passes soon. i got this shot at miller's farm. it was too pretty to pass.