Saturday 11.14.09

I got up at the crack of dawn to start dragging shit out onto the driveway before the yard sale vultures arrived. It literally looked like Kim and Laura’s Used Furniture Shop in front of my house. My friends starting showing up as early as 7:45 am and we busted out the mimosas pretty quickly. The very first actual “customer” wanted to know what I wanted for the 3 computer monitors and since I didn’t even know if they worked, I told him he could just have them. HAHAHAHAHA! Kim freaked out and told me to shut the fuck up and that I wasn’t allowed to speak to any more customers for the rest of the day! Seriously I just wanted this shit out of my life.  All in all we only made $200 bucks and that is before you count what we spent on champagne and Bronx Pizza. By noon I wanted to price everything at a dollar, but Kim and Vanessa were being dumb.  They were acting like this stuff was actually worth something and started the day pricing everything too high. Ladies, this is a freaking yard sale, not a consignment shop.

Lauren and James brought their English Bulldog over and Vanessa brought her little dog, too. It got a little hectic when shoppers had their dogs…. but it was fun… I really miss Sierra. Gnarly was the recipient of Sierra’s pink studded collar. haha you look like a girl dog now!

We started to get a little crazy in the heat with the alcohol taking effect and busted out the super high speed water balloon launcher. I was the target at the end of the street. Then Lauren joined me and I have to tell you, when something is flying at you, you just naturally duck and get out of it’s way! So we turned our backs and stuck our big fat asses out and held onto each others hands with a death grip waiting to get nailed. Emma, the most athletic girl that I know was bound and determined to hit one of us, and Lauren was that unlucky soul. Her legs might still in fact have welts on them.

When they ran out of water balloons they switched to hurling stuffed animal monkeys onto the neighbor’s roofs. The 95 year old deaf lady across the street currently has a Curious George doll face down on her roof. I stopped the monkey business and then they chose hot dogs as their weapon of choice. I quickly decided to give up my spot down the street as the target and they just started lobbing them at the port-o-let.

Some other fun pics from the day:

And here are some images from Tommy’s fashion show!

After Kim and I almost beat each other up arguing about what to send with the Father Joe’s Village truck vs. what to sell on Craig’s List I kicked everyone out and had an amazing 3 hour nap. I seriously do not spend enough time napping. It’s one of life’s simple pleasures that I don’t make enough time for. I gotta work on that.  I got up, filled the car and headed to my new place downtown and had my very first (and most certainly not last) experience with parking and loading shit into my 2nd floor unit on a busy crowded Saturday night with no parking anywhere near my front door. Ugh. I asked for this.

I got ready in my new place and went with Chris to Las Hadas for Joe’s surprise 35th birthday. He didn’t seemed very surprised and thankfully I can say that I did not ruin the surprise. I cannot be trusted with this kind of stuff, so phew.

It was a fun night! I slept in on Sunday and took a nap and unpacked a ton of stuff. I am happy to officially to be living downtown. Now let’s see how long it takes for me to become utterly annoyed by the homeless population down here. As long as they don’t set up tents in front of my building I think I will be ok.