I love the thrift store

And all it's weirdo stuff....

And so I went there today. You know, I just kind of march through there looking to see if there's anything of any interest. There are certain areas that I particularly frequent. Right now there are 4 steel crochet hooks. I go and look in that cannister every time to see if there are any red ones because I am trying to get all my hooks red. Yesterday at Joann, I managed to land myself a Red G. So now I'm 6 red out of 10. I don't need the steel ones, but it's funny to see that one of them is stamped on the thumb rest with the Boye device, and also on the other side the size, and "15¢" The two hooks are used obviously, probably pretty old if one of them says 15¢. But they're wrapped together and have a price tag of 99¢ *snort* I'm starting to wonder at the guy who prices this stuff, if he has any sense sometimes. I wonder if they ever think about why they might have so much trouble getting some things to move. Some stuff is priced great. Some other stuff not so much. I don't mind paying 99¢ for an aluminum hook if it's the right color though. I have picked up some pretty good yarns out of the bins up there too, which is really cool. The most recent was three little balls of this two strand light weight yarn in a sort of lavender. I'm told it is for making lace. We'll see. I haven't started playing with it yet. I was in the middle of two other projects, one of which is a cover for my ratty brown chair.

Now the other area I check through each time is the furniture department. This is how I chanced upon my mauve chair which set me back $75. Not bad considering that it's in nearly perfect condition. Obviously it was in some old ladies nice sitting room and almost never sat in. It doesn't even have a butt groove to speak of.. but I'm working on that. And it matches all this other mauve stuff in my living room. I'm thinking I need to paint a mauvey dusty purple accent wall. Well anyway, in the process of marching through the furniture department, what do I spy with my little eyes but a Multivox keyboard stand. Freaking Awesome. Ok... not like Multivox is a well know, or even well respected brand, but you know what? it's a keyboard stand. It's MY keyboard stand now, and it oly cost me $10. (why? because the guy who thinks it's appropriate to price a 15¢ steel crochet hook at 99¢ as long as it's paired with another one one size up, didn't know that an adjustable professional studio keyboard stand would normally cost more than $10. It's all good. It fits my ESQ-1 perfectly.. at least the short one. The other one is about 4 inches longer. I'm not sure it'll fit, but that's okay, it fits one of them. I'll keep my eyes open for an add on to mount the other one over it. Now I just need to find an amplifier that won't cost me a fortune.

Next: I went down to Muffler Brothers (they are my mechanic) and got a quote and made an appointment to have the CV joint replaced, and the combo switch because I'm tired of having to fiddle with the light switch to get the lights to come on and have them go off and have to fiddle with it again when I'm driving in the middle of the night. (Front lights are no problem, but the rear lights will go off, and then I have to finagle it.) and then went up to Auto Zone and ordered the part for that. So the part may arrive in time for me to put the car in the shop on Monday. I hope. If not then It'll have to wait until next week I guess, or I can ride my bike to work if the weather is decent. If I could find the wire that i unplugged in the Camry, I could just drive that car for a couple of days. I guess cheapcarnival's friend is going to try to track it down for us. So maybe by the time the weekend is over it'll work again. There is nothing wrong with that car, just I unplugged something accidentally when I changed the battery, and can't find it. I may need to get new leads for it.

My Boss is back from vacation. We had a nice quiet week without her, and got a lot accomplished in getting the store in order. Now that she's back, countermanding all the shift managers orders (and yes.. I did catch her doing this when I asked my driver to do something, she went behind my back told her not to.) I doubt if anything will get done any more. I told her I'm going to start burning some vacation days, because I have 2 weeks to kill and I'm not NOT taking them all as whole weeks. I don't have to. I asked our DM and she told me I can ues then one at a time if I want. So if I really wanted, I could just have the next fourteen weeks as three day weekends. (not that I will, but I'm just saying) so I told her once Justin is back from his, I'll probably blow two of my days and take a 4 days weekend. I will have to go visit someone or have someone visit me.