Today I was an errand-running machine!
- Bank to make a deposit
- Post office to mail off a couple of Ebay orders
- Franklin Covey to get a planner hole punch
- PetSmart for cat food
- Library to pick up a book that was on hold ("Cat Sitter on a Hot Tin Roof," by Blaize Clement, which I spent the early evening reading)
- Beauty supply store for shampoo and conditioner (they're having an $11.95/liter sale)
- Lunch at Schlotzsky's (not an errand, but lunch out is a Saturday must)
- Frozen custard and strawberries at Sheridan's (ditto)
- Watch repair shop to get the battery replaced in my watch
- Blockbuster to rent "Knowing" and spend a coupon for a free previously-viewed DVD (I got "Nights in Rodanthe," a sappy film that I probably wouldn't buy, but free is free)
- Half Price Books to sell some old paperbacks and a stack of magazines
I think that's the last time I'm going to do the Half Price Books thing. I lugged a banker's box (the small size) with a layer of paperbacks, then filled with magazines. I came in right after a family with about twenty boxes of books, so I waited a half hour or more, then they paid me $5 for them. You never can tell--I don't know whether it depends on who's evaluating them, or what--and I'm always disappointed, of course, but I think that was probably the lowest offer I've ever gotten. I could have said no thanks, and carried them back out, but I didn't. Next time I'll take them to the library or a hospital or something.
