Week 2 :)

We didn't do a lot this weekend. I scrubbed the bathroom - walls and all - for almost 3 hours Saturday. I feel much better about the now white walls ... they had orange-y rust spots from the water (I think) on them before. The thing to do in the house when there is nothing else to do is play the Wii by Nintendo. Jeff just bought one this summer, and we are all enjoying it. It is pretty fun to play ... and to watch. I will try to capture the hilarity of it sometime. For instance, last night Jeremy and Jason were playing boxing and I thought they were really going to knock each other out - on accident, of course. For those of you who have never seen this, you hold controllers in your hands and the Wii senses movements of the controllers and the players/objects respond. So, when boxing, they were actually swinging and ducking in the living room - and working up a sweat!

Monday, I worked at Rainbow's End, the thrift store. To get an understanding of it, I sorted clothing donations for 4 hours. (The picture above is of the sorting area and bailer.) It makes you think twice about the quality of what you donate because someone has to actually sort through it. So, my advice is if it is completely out of style, dirty, torn, damaged, stained, etc.... don't donate it. You are wasting people's time. I wonder how many times I did just that in the past. That being said, I learned that one source of income for the thrift store is bailing them (throwing them in a trash compactor and then tying them into big bales of clothing), and then shipping them to a third world country where they may be able to use them. (Look to the right to see bales awaiting transportation out of here.) I will say that not all of what is bailed is junk; some of it is just out of season, and they have no where to store it. Oh, what you learn in the back of the thrift store. :)