t-t-tyPing!

Whew! What a day! Firstly, lets just set the scene a little here...I'm home alone, mum and dad are down at the Gold Coast and Sam has left long-ago for Byron. Ok, we're good? So last night I was thinking, thinking, thinking mostly about my lack of money due to the extended unemployment. And I thought that I should sell stuff on ebay. That way I a) get to get rid of lots of the stuff I have lying around and b) earn a few extra bucks that I wouldn't have had otherwise. So I dived under my bed, dragging boxes from her depths. Clothing and trinkets and junk spewing out and overflowing. I selected some of the stuff worthy to pass on, that someone may find value in, and stuck it up on ebay. I have never used ebay before June this year. June was when I was feeling lonely on my birthday and had some unexpected money in my paypal account. So the obsession began. I love online shopping! I really do! Vintage, retro antiquey things, I just love. So, thought I, others too must also be like me and if I can assist in any way by passing on something that I no longer need or want, mores the better!

By 11pm I got a craving for cookie dough. This is not so simple to remedy here in Australia. 1. There is no such thing as Pillsbury instant cookie dough and 2. No self-respecting shop with Aussie employees stays open later than 7pm if they can help it. So I made the cookie dough using my fav choc chip recipe (from Women's Weekly Beautiful Biscuits Book.) You'll be proud to know that I actually cooked two trays of cookies and also made these cute mini ones. Albeit to say there is some still some cookie dough in the fridge: it's saving itself for the icecream.

So it was one am before I got to bed, then probably about 3.30 am till I actually went to sleep. I had so much energy, just restless. So annoying because I had committed to myself that I would go Garage Saling in the morning. So amoungst my alarm going off at 7am, my cat was also sitting RIGHT there meowing really loudly (and repeatedly) for me to let her out. I think that may have been the reason why I actually got out of bed with so little sleep. Anyways went to the shop, got the paper and highlighter at the ready, started my journey.

It's tough going because mostly people are putting on garage sales instead of loading up the trailer and heading to the dump. There's a lot of useless stuff that really isn't worth the drive to find it. I was lucky for at my second garage sale, I struck gold! It was at the special school down the road from us, so of course tonnes of people had donated, just more of a range of stuff. I got some very cool sunnies which I wore for the rest of the day, some silver earrings to resell on ebay, a rayban glasses case, a salad dressing decanter (again to resell) and a retro eggbeater. Very happy about that little venture. So happy in fact that I returned later (they were still unpacking things the first time round) and purchased my find of the day...an old typewriter! So so happy, been looking for one for ages since mum chucked ours out...(gasp!)

I was stuck at the rainway crossing when I looked to my right and there were a whole bunch of op shops stores. Salvation Army is, of course, ridiculously overpriced so nothing there but I did pick up a silver wine mug at one of the others. This put me in a real opshop mood so I went to the huge Lifeline at Sandgate Rd. Bonanza! Got these really cool coloured glass jars, a 70s backgammon set and some old metal cookie cutters. These are all going up on ebay too, but I'm very excited about them!