The Great Glebe Garage Sale, 2008 edition...

[fajrdrako]

Every year my neighbourhood holds the Great Glebe Garage sale, where for a dozen blocks or more there is a large and busy community garage sale. Most years I spend a couple of hours wandering around and browsing - I love browsing through the odds and ends other people are selling! - but obviously with a broken foot I can't do that this year.

So: I am sitting at the curb outside my apartment building, selling things. Mostly books. I am sitting with my friends josanpq, Tasia and lunacy_gal, who are also selling things, and helping me to sell things, and thank goodness for them, because I couldn't do it alone. Couldn't even carry out the table I'm selling on and the chair I'm sitting on.

Typing this, I am actually in my apartment, taking a few moments to warm out. See, my apartment building casts a shadow and there seems to be a sort of wind tunnel, so that however warm it may be in general, in the sunshine, it's freezing in that spot in front of the building. I'm wearing my winter coat. I was doing all right, but I think my friends noticed I was shivering, so they sent me indoors. The budgies are glad to see me for a few minutes.

Mostly I'm selling books. No one so far wants my cute pink DVD player for only $5. I can't think why not. It's so very pink. And it works.

Comments

[mad-jaks.livejournal.com]

Good luck with that *G* it sounds like it has a really nice atmosphere. YAY for friends making you come and get warm.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

It was fun (though cold). Eventually the DVD player sold to a little girl who was dressed all in pink - I suspect the DVD player will match her bedroom.

[mad-jaks.livejournal.com]

Eventually the DVD player sold to a little girl who was dressed all in pink
I suspect you are correct about the bedroom :D

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I've no way to check, but if I were a gambler, I'd be betting on it!

[tudorpot.livejournal.com]

Is that the DVd player that plays UK dvd's? If so I'd like to buy it.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Well, it used to play UK DVDs. Then it got fussy and stopped playing them. It still plays North American DVDs just fine. It sold eventually to a little girl who liked it for its pinkness - she was about ten years old, dressed all in pink, and quite cute. I think she'll have fun with it.

[jwaneeta.livejournal.com]

No one so far wants my cute pink DVD player for only $5.

Hell, I want it! Wait. You're kind of far away, aren't you? :(

What region does it play?

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Hell, I want it! Wait. You're kind of far away, aren't you?

Sadly. [g] It went to a good home - a little girl who was crazy over pink things. It was a late sale, but it sold.

It started out playing all regions, which was great. Then it started to be really fussy about what it would and wouldn't play, and it started to freeze on the British DVDs. Which is the main reason I sold it.

[lunacy-gal.livejournal.com]

It was fun (weather included)! Though next year we should maybe set on the sunny side of the building...

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

It was fun (weather included)!

I'd say! Fun seeing everyone wander by, too.

next year we should maybe set on the sunny side of the building...

Or get our own heat source?

[duncanmac.livejournal.com]

Nice to meet you and Tasia again ... and it was nice meeting both lunacy_gal and josanpq for the first time. It's much appreciated that I can now put names to two more LJ login IDs!

By that time, unfortunately, I had already bought a whole whack of books, a framed picture, and a few other things. I did buy a stamp of yours. Now to figure out what I can apply that stamp to ... letters are too obvious; maybe on a poster about the environment?

All the best in getting that ankle and foot of yours to recover!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

It's much appreciated that I can now put names to two more LJ login IDs!

Yes. It's fun to see LJ identities are real live humans, too.

letters are too obvious;

That's wrong with that? Being obvious doesn't make in unartistic!

maybe on a poster about the environment?

That would be cool.

All the best in getting that ankle and foot of yours to recover!

Thank you. Working on it.

[duncanmac.livejournal.com]

[I wrote:] letters are too obvious ...

[you replied:] What's wrong with that? Being obvious doesn't make in unartistic!

True, true ... I was just trying to come up with a non-obvious (or peculiar) use, that's all. :-) I may wind up adding that stamp to letters anyway.

I should mention that I helped raynedaze move some more stuff today. She has quite a bit of stuff to move, and her official deadline is in about a week. Fortunately, a large number of other friends also showed up to help. So she seems to be on track to completing her move on time. [IOW, ^don't^ feel guilty about not being able to help.]

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I was just trying to come up with a non-obvious (or peculiar) use, that's all.

You could try decoupage, and make it a design on your furniture. And there's always the possibility of art collage.

Thanks for the update on raynedaze - I'm glad her movie is going well.

[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

Take much more than a broken foot to keep you from enjoying the Great Glebe Garage Sale, somehow! Good for you.

Hope no one tried to buy your crutches.

I just took some DVDs to the used CD/DVD shop and exchanged them for some green and white pieces of paper with dead presidents' pictures on them, and I'm pleased. Now I have enough to top off my gas tank, as well as hit the grocery store for some picnic yummies... planning to get ears of corn, which I will cook almost all the way and then wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate, so that we can heat them in the microwave oven on Monday and enjoy them. Or they are good cold, too. Let me see... beef franks, buns, macaroni salad... and I already have condiments and chips and baked beans... should be good.

Last year when I did this, I planned it for five days. This year, I asked people today, and three hours later here I am, about to do the shopping. Everything is easier after I've done it one time for the experience!... whether that's a smooth or a rocky experience. I used to get all embarrassed and upset when the thing I tried went badly on the first attempt, but now... nah, time will ease it. And I'll do it better next time.

Yeah. Having a better day than I was a few days ago! Thanks for sending good energy, which I think I've detected. Ahh.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Take much more than a broken foot to keep you from enjoying the Great Glebe Garage Sale, somehow!

Yes, well, it was a different experience - usually I manage to spend money. Hopefully my apartment will be less cluttered, but right now it's a godawful mess, and I probably won't be able to put things in order for weeks - the foot being as it is. But that's all right. All part of a process.

I just took some DVDs to the used CD/DVD shop and exchanged them for some green and white pieces of paper with dead presidents' pictures on them

LOL!

I used to get all embarrassed and upset when the thing I tried went badly on the first attempt, but now... nah, time will ease it. And I'll do it better next time.

Good attitude. I like that.

Having a better day than I was a few days ago!

Delighted to hear it.

Thanks for sending good energy, which I think I've detected.

Yes - good energy to you and to my ankle.

[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

Hm? Is your apartment a bit of a mess just because of the Glebe sale, or did you turn it upside down trying to unearth the things you wanted to take out and sell? I'm confused!

< I used to get all embarrassed and upset when the thing I tried went badly on the first attempt, but now... nah, time will ease it. And I'll do it better next time. >

Good attitude. I like that.

Well, that's the ideal. Often enough, I get caught in the rushing moment and can't step aside from it before it overwhelms me, and so I'm left having to drop everything and just stop. At those times, it's hard not to get upset. Or, at least, unhappy. The worst parts of that are when there are witnesses to it, because then I have to deal with their frankly curious and disbelieving stares and sometimes actual inquiries along the line of "why did you act like that? you're normal to all appearances, why are you acting like you aren't?" meaning, "normal = exactly like me." Sigh

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Hm? Is your apartment a bit of a mess just because of the Glebe sale, or did you turn it upside down trying to unearth the things you wanted to take out and sell? I'm confused!

<i> < I used to get all embarrassed and upset when the thing I tried went badly on the first attempt, but now... nah, time will ease it. And I'll do it better next time. >

Good attitude. I like that.</i>

Well, that's the ideal. Often enough, I get caught in the rushing moment and can't step aside from it before it overwhelms me, and so I'm left having to drop everything and just stop. At those times, it's hard not to get upset. Or, at least, unhappy. The worst parts of that are when there are witnesses to it, because then I have to deal with their frankly curious and disbelieving stares and sometimes actual inquiries along the line of "why did you act like that? you're normal to all appearances, why are you acting like you aren't?" meaning, "normal = exactly like me." Sigh

<i> <Having a better day than I was a few days ago! >

Delighted to hear it.</i>

Desperately grateful that I was, too. And I still am, today. Not a bad day at work, and I feel very well from my altered schedule -- getting up twohours earlier each day isn't all that bad! I do feel physically better, too. Interesting.

</i> < Thanks for sending good energy, which I think I've detected. >

Yes - good energy to you and to my ankle.</i>

Aha. You admit it [g]. THank you. I could perceive it quite plainly, yes. And I've also been sending good energy to your ankle. Haveyou been doing the exercises? Be good about that, now! You're intending to walk Hadrian's Wall, remember.

I should mention that I now feel different, in good ways, than I did a year ago and even six months ago... as I ocntinue to eliminate soy from my diet. I've now pretty much accomplished that. Took a good long time! Kept finding ithidden everywhere, and even then, my body seemed not to want to change back to its pre-soy "normal." But I now think I'm there. I can say that it's very likely that even one exposure to textured vegetable protein (Taco Bell... I ocnfess) will give me those horrid "violation/invasion" nightmares, and make me have downwars-spiraling negative thoughts for, oh, four days or so. I"m almost out of it today, thankg oodness. ...It is <i>so</i> hard to pick up something to eat on the fly...!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Is your apartment a bit of a mess just because of the Glebe sale, or did you turn it upside down trying to unearth the things you wanted to take out and sell?

It's a lot of a mess, and part of it it's because I turned it upside down looking for things to sell. It's also because the things that didn't sell got brought back in and dumped in my living room. Including a lot of empty boxes that I can't put back in my locker by myself.

I'm not complaining; it's all part of a process. The Foot slows me down. But it will all happen and the place will be stunning.

meaning, "normal = exactly like me." Sigh

No, normal doesn't mean "exactly like me", it means "behaving in a way I would expect or understand". People really aren't as narrow as you think, not most of the time. They just don't understand. (And then some are just stupid and thick.)

Have you been doing the exercises?

I certainly have.

You're intending to walk Hadrian's Wall, remember.

Yes. It's incentive. So is the official physiotherapy, starting tomorrow. Yay! I can hardly wait.

It is so hard to pick up something to eat on the fly...!

Don't go to places like Taco Bell. Get apples and fresh things - things without additives.

[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

No, normal doesn't mean "exactly like me", it means "behaving in a way I would expect or understand". People really aren't as narrow as you think, not most of the time. They just don't understand. (And then some are just stupid and thick.)

"People aren't as narrow as" as I was clumsily presenting at that moment in time because my articulation fell short of ideal. When I go ahead and keep talking/writing after I know I have lost the full grasp of it, things like "you are being so intolerant and narrow-minded and judgmental" occur. I regret this. The general, and that specific one.

Physiotherapy starts tomorrow? Whoa! I'm going to phone you and find out how it all went. No wonder you were already asleep when I phoned --tired out from Monday's adventures, and looking ahead to not wanting to be wiped out for Tuesday. I hope it all goes very well!

Re the clutter: yes, all part of a process. You are "in the midst." Cling to that [g]. Flow.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Yea, I understand about your articulation and my characteristic response. It's one of our patterns! But I just like to remind you not to be judgemental, just as you like to remind me that you aren't as judgemental as you sound. And if I don't comment on your comments as they stand, we don't get any real communication at all - because our most interesting mutual insights have been through this kind of back-and-forth.

I've been trying to go to bed early lately. Partly because I'm tired. Partly because I don't want to fall into the habit of staying up late because I can, and then sleeping the morning or day away.

all part of a process. You are "in the midst."

The more I clean and sort things, the worse things look. But it's progress! Really!

[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

This is where I am not able to talk about the talking. Maybe that will work in person. I can't do more here. It's too frustrating; I feel like a fool even to try, and to fail to accomplish it. Just saying so, not to criticize or anything.

I'm making respecting your early bedtimes one of my main goals. Just you watch me. You need your rest, and I need to be thoughtful!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I'm making respecting your early bedtimes one of my main goals.

I was sleepy last night, but not as bad as sometimes. Didn't get through all my exercises before falling asleep, though. But I did most of them.

[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

Do you feel them differently, the different times of the day that you do them?

And... after having said that about respecting your bedtime, I did it again. Called intending to ask two questions, and we talked for an hour! But it was such fun.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Do you feel them differently, the different times of the day that you do them?

Oh yes, very much so. As with yoga: I'm much stiffer in the mornings, and prefer doing exercises in the late afternoon.

[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

Hm! Guess I'm not the only one alive who has better and worse times of the day! Interesting thought.

Are you managing to try any yoga, with your new focus on physical activity? Hope so. I know how it vitalizes you, how you love doing it.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I'm not the only one alive who has better and worse times of the day! Interesting thought.

I think most people have some variation of this. The yoga books talk about it.

Are you managing to try any yoga, with your new focus on physical activity?

Not really. I'm doing stretches, and some of the physio-therapy is like yoga. I'm doing some breathing exercises, too.

I look forward to the day when I can do the real thing again.

[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

I think most people have some variation of this. The yoga books talk about it.

Really! Hm. Any that you can think of to recommend...?

[yoga] Not really. I'm doing stretches, and some of the physio-therapy is like yoga. I'm doing some breathing exercises, too.

Working up to it. Still good.

I look forward to the day when I can do the real thing again.

A worthy goal indeed.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Any that you can think of to recommend...?

Not specifically, but I'm planning to do a little yoga reading, so I'll let you know if I find something.

[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

Iyengar is the best, you'd say...? Anything that you know of that talks more about the inner workings of yoga, rather than mainly on the physical postures?

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Iyengar is the best, you'd say...?

Definitely. He does hatha yoga, which I prefer to the other kinds - if only because I've been doing it for so long. (I've done kundalini, too, and didn't like it as much.) But there's no kind of yoga that would be bad, if you like it.

Inner workings of yoga? Read Patanjali (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patanjali), with commentaries. "Yoga Sutras" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoga_Sutras). The basic foundations of yoga. It's a series of aphorisms, simple on the surface, but incredibly deep and dense - maybe difficult without a teacher.

The book I started with was Yoga, Youth and Reincarnation by Jess Stern - good, but journalistic and hence somewhat shallow.

One of the best books on the subject is The spirit of Yoga (http://www.amazon.ca/Spirit-Yoga-Cat-Rham/dp/0007108826) - sorry to give you the Canadian page, but I can't get into amazon dot com just now.

I haven't read it, but you might find The Seven Spiritual Laws of Yoga (http://www.amazon.ca/Seven-Spiritual-Laws-Yoga-Practical/dp/0471736279/ref=sr_1_23?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1216387012&sr=1-23) to be good - Deepak Chopra tends to give good, clear explanations of yoga principles.