Permanent Marker–1, Dryer–0 (314/366)

TIME:  6:48 AM
PLACE:  Basement
SUBJECT:  Dryer

See what happens when a permanent marker makes its way through the washer and then the dryer with its cap off?  You don’t want to see the clothes that were in the load with the damned thing.  Here’s praying that the Magic Eraser lives up to its name….

Many Marvelous Markers (280/365)

 
“The fact that nobody liked me at school began to fade out of my mind like blue magic marker reminders scrawled on the back of a greasy fist.”

Marilyn Manson (born Brian Hugh Warner; American musician and artist b1969)

TIME:  6:30 PM
PLACE:  Grade school
SUBJECT:  Markers

Our grade school had a Family Reading Night and Pajama Party this evening from 6-7:30pm.  The kids got to wear their pajamas and there was bedtime stories, crafts, and popcorn cookies and milk to eat.  Each child who RSVP’d to the event and attended with a parent or guardian, received a Ziploc bag full of books to bring home with them, courtesy of a grant awarded to our reading teacher.  When the Reading Night was over, I took the kids home and returned to the school to help begin to set up for a rummage sale we are having on Saturday to raise funds to purchase some tables for our outdoor classroom.

Would You Like To Buy A Yard? (166/365)

 
"Is it true that the only difference between a yard sale and a trash pickup is how close to the road the stuff is placed?"

Unknown

TIME: 10:00 PM
PLACE:  My basement
SUBJECT:  Yard sale stickers

This is what I was doing today.  Attempting to cull the crap treasures located in our basement.  I am feeling suffocated by the amount of stuff that we have.  I had a yard sale last July and suckered people into buying sold quite a bit.  How is there STILL so much piled in the basement?  Good gravy, I think that it must breed down there.  That has to be the only explanation.  Last year, I took a bunch of the remaining items to the Goodwill (thrift shop).  The rest of the trash goodies I placed on the front strip of grass between the sidewalk and the street and posted a Craigslist notice for "free stuff" - it was all gone by Sunday evening.  I plan to follow the same protocol for the yard sale next weekend.  If it doesn't sell, it ain't coming back in to the house, it's going!