The Gift of the Magpie

It’s no lie, I like shiny things. I collect them until I realize I can’t wear it all, and not everything suits me.

So when elder decided to buy into lots of jewelry from estate sales in hopes of scoring big, the net result was four gallon-size freezer bags of stuff he couldn’t do anything with. 

He was fairly salty about this enterprise.

So I offered him about 2/3 of what he paid for the whole lot and did some scavenging. While I didn’t find anything of value, I found a lot of fun things that made me think of particular people in my life. I ended up creating a bunch of gift bundles, some directed at particular individuals, and the rest will go to ladies’ night at the brewery. The rest I handed off to a friend who has a knack for rebuilding and repurposing jewelry. She will have a lot to keep her busy. 

I gift wrapped a bunch of things this morning.

I also did all the baking on Friday. My semester is at an end, and I am scrambling to do all the things I didn’t have time for the last 14 or so weeks.  While I am enjoying the journey of the program, I am starting to think seriously about the next steps, what dissertation will look like, who I can talk to about that.

Younger will graduate in the spring. I can’t see beyond that right now for him.

Elder is plugging along. He wants to stay where he is employment-wise and is considering side hustles that might support him while he’s doing that.

I’m just hoping for the best, as always.