Howdy!

It's been almost a week since I've popped 'round to say howdy! I've been around...it's just been one of those busy weeks!

Friday and Saturday I joined up with my neighbor, Becky, to participate in our neighborhood's annual garage sale. I made about $150. S'wheat! Last year I made $35 so I was pretty tickled with this. Most of the stuff I parted with was miscellaneous craft stuff, i.e., Creative Memories stickers, Stampin' Up stamps, and just random scrapbooking odds and ends. Not a whole lot but it felt good to be in the mindset of purging, albeit lightly, stuff that I've had for years but never used or even looked at!

The only bummer about the sale was that OF COURSE the two days we did the sale were the hottest days of the year so far! I never checked the thermometer on Friday but yesterday I checked it and it was 100 degrees at 4:00 pm! Man, no wonder we were bakin'!

Last night was a fun family evening. Glen, Miranda, and I went to dinner at Riyadh's on Hawthorne Blvd. SO GOOD!!! Then we went to a tiny theatre called Shoebox Theatre and watched She Stoops to Conquer. Hilarious! Five actors played 17 different characters...or 19, if you include the horses. And often times, one actor played different characters in one scene! Very well done and this made for some of the play's funniest moments!

Afterwards, we went to Pix Patisserie for drinks. It was SUCH a marvelous evening...Pix had the walls open so we were effectively sitting outside, there was a full moon, it was 80 degrees with a light breeze and I had the BEST margarita I've ever had! Also, Miranda gave me a belated Mother's Day card and a gift of an hour and half massage with our friend, Harriet. And another nice thing...I ran into a friend I'd lost touch with...so overall, it was a supremely lovely evening.

Okay...now that the dust has all settled from garage sale, all the prep, and I've had a chance to recover, I have now absolutely GOT to get my house cleaned and do some much needed grocery shopping. I also have bags of cans and bottles rattlin' around in the back of my wagon that I need to turn in. I pretty much have the day to myself so I hope to get it all done! Miranda is working and running around and Glen got a guaranteed ticket to go see Barack Obama at the waterfront this afternoon. He took the camera so hopefully he'll take some pictures that I can share them with you! Very cool!

Comments

[Bejeweled]

Congrats on the great garage sale!! Yeah!! Did it get up to 100 degrees?? I stopped looking when it got to 95 -- because I had to go find a cool place to hole up in :) Our house was cooking!

Pix Patisserie looks wonderful!! Those desserts they offer are just decadent!

[Glen the Husband]

Michelle fails to mention that I sold one of my numerous guitars, an old Harmony bass for $43. Hey, where IS my $43?
And Sen Obama's event was amazing, in all my years of politikkin' I have never been to a big Presidential rally (well, John Edwards late last year at the Union Hall, about 2500 folks) and this was amazing.
Watch here: http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/orhome

[Malou]

Yay for awesome garage sales and nay for hot weather!

[karin (creativechaos)]

Woo hoo on the garage sale!! But 100 degrees!?! ack.... I really need to declutter big time around here...

[Amy P]

Been way too long since I checked in with you! I too had a garage sale, lots of work but I made just over $400 on all my baby crap I finally got to get rid of woot woot! It was beautiful, 75 degrees both days here, not to rub it in ;) I'm so sorry for your loss of Tommy, I lost my best boxer dog, Vegas, in January and I'm sad to say the house (or mostly my bed) is still feeling empty...sigh. But I have 2 more to give me kisses!

[Jana]

Holy Moly, seems you've been as busy as I've been... it doesn't seem to end does it?! Sounds like fun busy tho, (although I would not like to have been out garage selling last weekend---it was TOO HOT!!!) & now we're back to early spring this weekend---burr! We might light up the wood stove tomorrow... Speaking of Obama---Eliza got to have another spontaneous visit with the fella---& his wife last Saturday while they were passing thru Eugene!! Such excitement!!!