come sale away

i'm not really the yard-sale type of girl, or the swap meet mama, so to speak, but both have come into my life osmosifantastically through dan, el shmoop. to know him, to love him, is to embrace the weekly front-yard scavenger hunts that we call the yard sale. and i do know him and love him, and so i yardsale (and create new verbs out of compound nouns).

so what can be found at the 'sale?

1.) a girlfriend for dan. well. he has to ask her out first, which might take some notsogentle prodding to get him to do, but i swear she is perfect for him. a date is in order. he better ask her out. today. hello: dan, if you are reading this, shut down your computer and go back over there right now.

2.) old friends. lorraine and becky. a fun catch up. becky just bought 200+ acres in pozo, ohmigod. so she's moving eastward into a great grassland of vastness. lorraine is the kickass girl everyone should know. but as she knows everybody, you probably already know her. know what i mean? she's the queen of networking.

3.) a rental. the cutest place for the best price. if you are looking for a rental in a great neighborhood with a lot of character, send me an email and i'll see if i can hook you up. $1200 for 2BR + 1Bath plus fun little downstairs party room with bar in large-ish sprawling older type of house. if i didn't have the Cutest Apartment Ever in the Entire World Living Next Door to One of My Best Friends (aka, CAEEWLNDOMBF) i would be looking at this house myself. (if you know slo, you've driven by this house a minimum of a hundred thousand times.)

4.) potential jammation. ran into larry whom i know from the laramie project last year. i really like larry a lot — he's got a couple of years on me, but i think he is a kindred spirit. today we talked ukeleles and jamming.

5.) proof that americans have Too Much Crap. need to curb your spending habit? go to a yard sale. you'll see all the same crap you saw in the stores two years (or six months) ago selling for 1/100th of the price.

6.) the real price of things. (see number five).