The interesting, but frustrating, thing that happened to me began with a call from my daughter Friday, giving me an important business number to call for her tomorrow, Monday, as she hospitalized and undergoing surgery and would not be able to make the call herself. It is a call to her business associate to relate information she needs for a presentation she is scheduled to make Tuesday morning.

Today, while visiting my daughter, who was heavily sedated, but had emerged from surgery successfully, she managed to remind me of the call which I assured her was a “done deal.” After returning home, I went to get the number to put it on the refrigerator to be sure it would be handy tomorrow but I could not find it. I could not remember where I had put it.

Glad that I had plenty of time to search for it, I looked everywhere and after about an hour, felt an uncomfortable surge of panic. I backtracked everywhere in my house and looked even in places where I knew it could not possibly be. I decided to just sit down and calmed myself. I thought hard about where I could have placed it. There are only so many places I recall being and yet, I could not find it in those places. Then, I remembered something important. She had called when I was in the midst of eating. I had sat my plate aside to write down the information she was giving me. After hanging up with her, I put the note on top of the book shelf. Apparently, eager to get back to eating, I hastily placed it there and it had slipped behind the books.

Today my daughter and I went to a community yard sale. She is in collage and is looking for items to fill her first apartment. The first few houses had a few small kitchen items (small food processor and a garlic press) which we purchased. She was also looking for a craft project to do during the summer.

After about 20 houses will found a house that had a nice paper cutter (new about $25) and A diamond electric knife sharpener, we purchased both for $6.00. The same house had a Oreck XL vacuum cleaner for sale for $4.00, The owner said that she had taken it to the Oreck store and they wanted a minimum of $60 just to look at it. She stated that something was stuck inside of it and she had already purchased a new one. This vacuum was in great shape and was less than 10 years old. So I bought it figuring that at worst I wasted $4.00.

Later we found a nice solid wood mahogany end table that needed some refinishing done on it. The table was marked at $2.50 which we snapped up quickly. As we were walking around with the table 3 or 4 people said how nice the table looked, One man even offered us $10.00 for it. We bought a few small items and headed home. Once we got home a started to look at the vacuum, within 20 minutes I has found the clog and repaired the vacuum. The vacuum is probably worth at least $125.

So our little trip was a successful one, we got a few small items for my daughters apartment, a very nice vacuum, She got a nice paper cutter and the end table which will be her and my summer project. The best part of the day was spending a nice morning with my 20 year old daughter, who is usually busy and doesn’t have a lot of free time.