Yard Sales, I hate you so.

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Memorial Day Weekend. A time for remembering, Eating hot dogs and watermelon until you can regurgitate a bathtub's cubic volume of chunks, and yard sales.

Oh, I hate yard sales. I mean, I understand the point of them, and I have also been a part of several it's just... no one really wants your crap. Plates, stuffed animals, old weights, books that no one has heard of, Candle holders, broken blenders... I mean seriously, if you didn't want it, what makes you think anyone else in the tri-state area will?

We must have stopped at eight in two hours, and I'm pretty sure my mother only bought two things. My twin brother, Joe, just HAD TO buy the $0.25 plastic gun for creative purposes. Sometimes I can hardly believe he is my double.

Every once in a while you can find something good and cheap. But WALMART is on roll-back steroids right now, and the Salvation Army is as good as any thrift store. And honestly, what happens to the items not purchased? Do you throw them away? Re-gift them? Yard sales are a waste of sunshine, time, and effort.

We stopped at a local Pizzeria afterwards and Joe got this ridiculous P'zone type stuffed Pizza and it must have weighed the same as an overweight Chihuahua. My mother and I got into a stupid fight about money I received from my grandmother (I think I wanted my exact change and she wasn't giving it to me at the moment? PMS is the only explanation.) in a card--$30, cha-ching!--so I basically bolted out of the restaurant and sat on a hill outside. This hill was covered in clovers, weeds, dragonflies, and any other insect thinkable.

I must have gotten over it eventually, and there was an art fair across the street that we went to.

My neighbor makes signs (quite well, actually) and he and his wife were there. Some painters, sketchers, artists in general. Most of it was pretty cool too. There was also this woman who made necklaces and pins out of glass (here's the link: http://www.reflectedfire.com) and I thought they looked AMAZING, so check her out.

Current Temperature: 78.6 Degrees Fahrenheit
Song I can't get out of my head: "The Reason" by Hoobastank
What I ate (that I remember): A Twist (Chocolate and Vanilla Ice cream, Duh) Cone and a Virgin Pina Colada.

Take your vitamins, Use mouthwash, and Git-R-Done,
Kayla.