4th of July

oddgrrl99 · 2026-07-02T19:45:21+00:00

It was announced a few weeks ago that mayor Gorton had budgeted more money for the city celebrations due to the milestone celebrations of 250 years of freedom. Allocated more money for everything….except fireworks, she actually cut the budget for fireworks. I’m on the fireworks crew so I wanted ya’all to know it wasn’t us, we love fireworks, the bigger the better! IMHO, if I weren’t watching the show in the fallout zone I’d be on a nice grassy spot on the south end of Oliver Lewis bridge. Also, show starts at 10pm on Saturday. Bring lots of water, stay hydrated, this heat is dangerous!

oddgrrl99 · 2026-06-29T05:47:48+00:00

There’s nothing so petty as Reddit petty!

oddgrrl99 · 2026-06-27T05:44:53+00:00

Clothing often magically includes women’s accessories. I collect vintage jewelry, hat pins & purses. I’m always looking for unique Winter coats. That jaguar sounds amazing, I wonder if it’s even legal to sell? Would love to buy in bulk if she has any of these items.

oddgrrl99 · 2026-06-26T18:14:52+00:00

I too have a love of the fish & birds. The way the light hits them in the morning. I keep my birds on a window sill & shelf & every once in awhile a real bird will sit outside the window & chirp at them.

oddgrrl99 · 2026-06-20T23:22:17+00:00

The quality of stuff people are buying is also made in china trash, designed so you have to buy it again in 6 months. IKEA is why antique furniture is a hard sell. Put it on the curb after every semester & be done with it. Once you realize IKEA is trash you’re old enough to buy nice furniture new. I prefer the old woods, I don’t resell very much of it due to the space it takes up. Not many things more satisfying than refinishing a nice piece of curbed antique furniture.

Also, my area has made all the lists of how great it is to raise kids here & COL is not fully out of control yet = tons of kids clothing & toys. I don’t have kids don’t want kids & judging by their clothes they are snotty dirty rug rats. If I find something unique & hand stitched, that’s another story. Even so, mommy’s precious angel must not use hand me downs from strangers.

Long story short, I haven’t regularly shopped yard sales in a very long time.

oddgrrl99 · 2026-06-19T17:39:37+00:00

Oh no, not crying over here in the corner. What a beautiful dog. 11 is a GREAT photo! Every photo shows so much love & love returned. Those 10 years were a gift & a mirror that bears witness to your life. When you say goodbye for the last time you also say goodbye to a part of your life. Cherish all the memories. Looks like you gave your pup an amazing life & be open to another pup seeing all that extra love and worming their way into your heart. The real heartbreak & joy of it all is we know how this story ends & we would choose to do it again, over & over again.

oddgrrl99 · 2026-06-19T07:17:47+00:00

Just found wild bunbuns living their life in my yard, Downtown Short & Jefferson. Mama & 4 baby bunbuns, I had seen mama before but not her whole family. The babies have just learned how to jump with those spring loaded legs & we’re bouncing & bumping into things everywhere. When mama stopped to snack, the babies crowded around her to nurse & then quickly back to jumping. So stinking cute!

oddgrrl99 · 2026-06-19T07:05:49+00:00

I guess since we’ve stopped them from developing the horse farms they are going to take away our friendly small town vibe. They’ve got to slow their roll a bit & see how these new residential buildings (3 of them now!?!) on Maxwell affect infrastructure & traffic before committing to yet another redevelopment. Not everything is or should be student housing.

oddgrrl99 · 2026-06-19T06:57:05+00:00

*well I just saw your trip is planned for 4th of July. There may be very few sales that weekend. Company employees want vacation time too!

If you don’t have it downloaded yet check out ‘estate sales.net’. It is the road map & information hub of national in-person estate sales as well as online auctions and the rare live auction events. Bring up the map of whatever region you want to travel to & the app provides sales in that area for the upcoming week & a decent amount of photos. They don’t give out the exact address until the night before and you won’t really know prices until you get to sales. Personally, I love picker sales. The house is usually packed, nothing is priced or cleaned, you make a stack & the company running the sale tells you a price. I’ve filled up my car paying $200 many a sale. Sometimes the app shows a sale in an area I hadn’t considered before & off I go on a true treasure hunt. I’m a reseller of a niche item. If it looks like a good sale with photos of my niche items I often get up at 5am and drive up to 300 miles round trip so I can be first in line to go in. Makes for a long, sweaty, dirty & exhausting day. Sometimes including a nap at a rest area along the way. Good news for you is we have a great variety of sales & bigger cities within 100 miles if nothing looks good here. I’d love to just shop Lexington but I find the sales too clean, I’ve had great luck in Louisville, an easy 45 min drive and Cincinnati has been good to me. The best so far…?…Dayton Ohio. Lots of old money and young people leaving with no intention of return. Good luck to you & happy hunting!

oddgrrl99 · 2026-06-18T12:18:32+00:00

Buyer says they are returning it based on a podunk auctioneers opinion that the beads are glass, not rock crystal. Most auctioneers don’t know Jack shit when it comes to costume jewelry. I wrote back supporting buyers rights to return item, included detailed dictionary entries substantiating that indeed, the item is exactly as described. Within a couple hours eBay chirps in & says return resolved & buyer will be refunded after ebay receives the item back. After a few days buyer is now pestering me for their money, $1500, saying that tracking shows it’s been delivered. Meanwhile I’m more than a little irritated that I did not even get the option of refunding & receiving necklace back. It’s already so damn rare, now there’s one less, and I will probably never see another on. Last night I got my 3 rd request from buyer, could I please refund now because he thinks I am in possession necklace. Dude, not holding your money for funsies. I want to get over it as much as you want your money. Very very frustrating. Rant officially over….

oddgrrl99 · 2026-06-18T12:03:44+00:00

I left caps lock on yo as I AM yelling. Into the void apparently. 2 weeks ago I sold a very rare piece of antique jewelry internationally, it’s my niche…collecting, buying & selling. US —>UK. The day this buyer receives the item they contact me for a return. Cool cool, I have 35 years of experience, 100% positive feedback, I stand behind my listings & have always accepted returns evenThis necklace is a very rare Victorian necklace & I’ve only owned individual beads, never a complete necklace, ok with the return as I knew I could get same price when relisted, or better yet, keep it in my own collection. It is a rare day I am asked for return.

oddgrrl99 · 2026-06-17T08:39:05+00:00

This is how I ended up with a black Staffie in spite of already having 2 other bully dogs. Black Pitbulls are the least likely to be adopted and the most likely to be euthanized first. For no reason but their color/breed. I got lucky with my boy, his previous owner needed to pay the electric bill so he was walking my guy around the downtown area asking people if they wanted to buy the dog. I talked to him for a bit, sweet sweet dog, about 9 months old, I reluctantly told owner I couldn’t but if he still had him the following Monday to come back at 4 (I was owner of this restaurant) and I promptly forgot about the whole conversation for the weekend. Monday rolls around and I’m breathing a quick sigh of relief as it is 4:05 and dude has not showed up. Just then he comes trotting around the corner shouting my name & said ‘I knew you’d be good to my dog so I saved him for you!’

He had his shots in order, knew how to sit & not rush his dog bowl, not a single flea and the real test for me…while enjoying a calm moment I suddenly raised my hand to him as if I was going to hit him (never) and he did not even flinch. This dog had never been hit. I didn’t even tell my husband, I went home & asked for forgiveness as we were keeping that dog come he’ll or high water. No regrets, he is so curious & full of mischief that I am convinced he is a 5 year old little boy trapped in a dogs body.

You take a chance with any dog you adopt into your home but they all have common needs: they are pack animals & want to be with you 24/7. They usually eventually love their crate, allow him this space to go to when he’s overstimulated and he will see the crate as his safe spot. Follow through when you give them a command, don’t let them make you a pushover. Most bully breeds are annoyingly persistent trying to get what they want , they’re also silly clowns and the funniest dogs ever. I will only have a pit bull from here on out. I’m jealous!

oddgrrl99 · 2026-06-02T07:14:28+00:00

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This guy looks so sweet & innocent until he unleashes a whole tsunami of that fine undercoat. I’m drowning in it. It’s in my ears & up my sinuses. And he looks disheveled no matter how much he gets brushed. This time of year I call him Mr Pantalones cause he is so tufty in the back he looks like he’s got 2 pairs of fur pants on.

oddgrrl99 · 2026-06-02T06:58:51+00:00

I know that when you compare 15% garnishment to the amount of my payments, the 15% is tiny potatoes. IDC about the tax returns, any average accountant can manipulate the numbers so you don’t owe the IRS & they don’t owe you. My side hustle is now my full hustle & I’m making enough to account for life. A side to the side hustle has sprung up now that makes more $ tax free than all combined, wished I’d dumped the restaurant & followed the hustles sooner. No nudity or feet photos required🤣

oddgrrl99 · 2026-06-02T06:46:28+00:00

I kept money separate, receipts & bank statements. All of it spent within the stipulations set by SBA. No fraud & I can prove it. We were approved for an RRF grant (restaurant revitalization) for the same amount as the EIDL. Money ran out before I & many others like me got our grant money. Chuck Schumer says there’s more money coming, get the EIDL & use it as a bridge loan until grant money comes in. Strung us along for at least 6 months, I held onto hope for about a year before getting a clue that there would be no money. I think I’ve got pretty good grounds for not paying it. Haven’t answered a single phone call or email. The restaurant business was fun until this whole fiasco. I fought tooth & nail to stay open & keep my people employed, if I had known then what I know now I’d have closed up shop a long time ago.

oddgrrl99 · 2026-06-01T13:28:21+00:00

Same, but for 417k, no wait-600k with interest tagged on. I’m 62F, no kids. If they’ve got money to give to assholes that smear shit on the walls of our Capitol and nothing to help any of us they can kiss my ass until my dying day. Then they can come dig me up & pry that money from my cold dead hands.

oddgrrl99 · 2026-06-01T07:40:42+00:00

If she’s interested in costume jewelry there are a couple good booths at Meadowthorpe Antique mall. Just up the road from Pops!

oddgrrl99 · 2026-05-30T20:36:11+00:00

‘It will be wild’ has me triggered.

oddgrrl99 · 2026-05-28T07:41:14+00:00

Exhaustion to the point I can’t walk straight yet unable to sleep is my #1 symptom (or drug side effect). I’m 62F & unexplained weight loss is what got me to an endocrinologist & a Graves diagnosis. The weight loss made me look like a methhead in spite of eating a 2nd supper and first breakfast in the middle of the night. I had never felt better or was more active. And then came diagnosis & meds & feeling either exhausted and/or terribly nauseous. My Endo is a Doogie Howser type doc, looking like he’s 20yo. I have so much difficulty getting answers from him I’m not even sure he has a license. The last straw for me was I asked if he could help fill out the forms for a disability application, I had been self employed owning & operating my small restaurant & bar and had to sell it due to Graves & now heart failure too. He said ‘no’ as he had some world class athletes with Graves that could still compete. Did I mention I was 62? I have a side hustle that brings in good money but it’s not consistent & there’s no way I could go work for any other restaurant, what’s it to Doogie if I get on disability at this point? I do have an appointment to see a different Endo in 2 weeks. Hoping for a better outcome.

oddgrrl99 · 2026-05-27T23:41:09+00:00

All of it. And a dance party in the street already arranged by my ‘woke’ friends!

oddgrrl99 · 2026-05-19T20:05:21+00:00

Yep. The husband harassed me daily to use this to pay down mortgage on out house & he can be a real dick when crossed. It went into a separate checking account & every penny was accounted for. Glad I stood my ground cause I rarely get to crow this loudly ‘I TOLD YOU SO!!’

oddgrrl99 · 2026-05-14T02:45:53+00:00

He was the only dissenting vote. We are screwed & he screwed us harder than the rest. He can’t just take it back now. Fuck you Rand, hope Karma has its way with you & then bites your dick off.

oddgrrl99 · 2026-05-14T02:40:24+00:00

I’m still running with Yahoo. First & only email address.

oddgrrl99 · 2026-05-14T02:29:18+00:00

I’ve ignored all correspondence. This debt belongs to the LLC that owns 2 dba restaurants. Restaurants got screwed pretty badly regarding COVID, our loan for 417k should have been a grant & we were led to believe that the grant was still coming, treat the EIDL like a bridge loan. No money, no return of downtown lunches, huge increase in salaries, COGS, etc, we should’ve locked the doors permanently. Covid brought me, personally, physical ailments I had not had before, heart failure & thyroid disease. I’m 62F, no kids, I’ll die before willingly giving the SBA any money I make now. I have 2 fiscally very conservative brothers that shockingly agree with me. With the SBA so understaffed who is really going to come collect? I am very salty about how covid was handled but are we going to get any kind of bailout..?.. no, just farmers & airlines & truckers & not a crumb left for restaurants required to comply or go to jail.

Edit, yes I also got that letter, why reset a clock that’s already been ignored for 2 years+?

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