Posts Tagged sample sale

Your Unemployed Rock Star

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Allow me to apologize for leaving that nacho cheese post up front and center for so long. It’s true, I’ve been giving myself a little break on weekends. I mean, you get a rest day in your workout week, so what about your blogging week? And sometimes I just need to give my brain a little space. It gets tired too, you know.

Speaking of tired, today I spent the day working at a sample sale. This one, to be exact. I sorted clothes, put them in boxes according to size, emptied huge duffels of their contents and arranged those contents in pleasing, purchase-convincing arrangements. And then I did math, too. I calculated people’s bills, and ran their credit cards through the credit-card machine, and … you know what’s weird? It was sort of fun.

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Fly Me to the Moon (for $39 Each Way)

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The view from Hamilton Beach
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Friends and flexible travelers,

You know YUD loves airplanes, and airports, and just about everything to do with air travel. Especially lines. And bureaucracy.

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