Biggest Freakin Yard Sale Ever!

I walk out my front door this morning to a street fair, also known as the yearly yard sale that spans the mile of my street. The place is packed with people, and strollers, and cars. A man asks if it's okay if he can park in front of my driveway. "Um, no". There are four families in my front yard. A ten-year-old girl asks about a bed that's already been sold. I tell her that someone has already bought it, and she responds with appropriate pre-pubescent attitude, "Well who bought it?" Um, I don't know, not you?

I walk a couple doors down and see a boxer mix puppy that I instantly fall in love with. He's adorable, and licks my face. He's only $25 because they're trying to get rid of him. It seems that he doesn't get along well with the female in their home, or the female doesn't want him on her turf. I want to take him home and make him mine SO bad, but there's just no way I can get a dog that big. My place is not big enough.

Another block down is a couple selling pomeranians for $650, then another block after that is the man with the yorkies for $350. I miss my dogs so much (We went on a walk a couple nights ago then snuggled for a little bit. They were alone in the house when I got there and they both had baked bean breath from going through the trash).

I start walking in the street because the sidewalk is so freakin crowded. I begin to think that there need to be rules like in a really crowded marathon: no dogs and no strollers. Every other house has a restaurant in the front yard. Most of the food is Mexican, but I saw some chow mein, and I think I'm going to walk down in another hour or so. I was really wanting Chinese food last night, but ended up eating cake instead (Whose friends made her vegan cake for her birthday? This girl!). I also had vegan cupcakes for lunch because I thought that would be my birthday cake for the day. Ha! My nutritionist would be so proud of me for meeting my caloric goal for the day.

At the end of the street is a Spiderman bounce house with a sign that says, "Bounce for Free". I don't quite know how making it free does anything for their yard sale, since it took up the whole yard. Right next to that house was a full-on Earth Festival-Bob Marley-Reggae tent.

Mostly, this thing is one street-long flea market. I've been to better street-long yard sales in my city. This one is mostly food and crowds and nothing I want to actually purchase. It is important to note that I hadn't eaten breakfast yet, and that I'm just overloaded in general, so even though I had a good time walking up and down the street, I'm much happier now in my quiet apartment listening to Car Talk. Honestly, I don't even want to answer the door, but then I would have missed one of my favorite people, so sometimes life is not exactly what we want.

Speaking of wanting, and the state of my crazy life over the past month, well, not much change and still a lot of heartache. But life goes on, and work goes on, and the sun keeps rising and setting, and sometimes, even when it seems like God couldn't possibly let one more thing through the floodgates, they pour through unbidden anyway, and the void remains...it remains.