The last of the 2010 Fleas

Well, Maxwell Street Days last Sunday was quite fun, and rather successful as we got rid of quite a few things from our basement and made a bit of money doing it.  Plus it kept me so busy at the flea market that I only managed to buy lunch and not any stuff.  We came across a great chrome kitchen table with six red chairs (we've been searching for a chrome kitchen table for a while now) but we didn't buy it because it needed quite a bit of work.  Lots of rust to be buffed off, and the chairs would have all needed to be reupholstered. But all it all, it was good to get up before the sun and spend a day outside wheeling and dealing.

Now that I've started nannying again I'm doing a lot more driving these days, and the drive to work or to my parents' house is typically a thirty minute drive, so I've tuned back to books on tape.  Or rather, books on cd/ipod.  This week I started Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, and I finished it last night.  It was a sweet and rather sad story.  It was one of those stories that actually makes my chest tighten with emotion, and it was beautiful.  Next week - The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami.  The best place for audio books is the library, and our library provides digital downloads of books as well so you can load them on your ipod.  The digital download only last two weeks, and after that the files won't play anymore, but its really handy when they don't have the actual cds available.

It's official.  Fall has begun.  Let's break out the sweaters and yarn.