We were supposed to be hit with about 5 inches of snow lastnight. Ha. Not even an inch. No biggie, it's too cold for me anyhow. They even delayed school even before it started snowing. That's a lot of trust in the weatherman if you ask me!!! :oP
I took Christmas pics for my friend and some of them turned out cute, the others are okay, but I've decided... I NEEEEEEED LIGHTS, and a new wide angle lens. I had to use the stinkin kit lens because it's my only lens that goes down to 18mm. Other than that it was fun. I am supposed to go back today to do the individuals. That's 7 kids!!!!!!!!!!! Yikes.
Just to add a few things that made me smile about cub3, just because... he insists he neeeeeeds a spongebob bike for Christmas. This is honestly the first year he has "requested" anything. He even told my dad that was his wish. Now here's the kicker... I've looked online and they have a spongebob big wheel, but nooooo bike. hmmmmmmm..... anyway the other cute thing.
He put some coins he found in an earring box without the back to hold the earrings, just one of those clam type thingies. He was counting his "moneys." The kid can count in spanish too, it's cute (thanks dora!) and off the topic though. He wanted to know which one was a quarter, I showed him. This went on with all of the ones he had. Well he was pretty good at remembering, so I call hubby in and he does it for him. It went something like this, " a quarter, a dime, a nickel, and a fifty-five cent piece." LOL I have no idea how he came up with that, but it was too cute.
2 prints done, should be 3 by the end of the week. Hubby went to get more paper yesterday. Get this!!! It's official, his prints have made the gallery. A reallllllllly nice one at that!!! He still needs to talk to about 5 or 6 more, but the response was more than he could have hoped for.
I returned my camera. I'm not a point and shoot gal anymore I think. I took about 16 pictures with it and only one turned out with the color I wanted. The rest had a bit of a cyan tint.
We also decorated our tree lastnight. I always have to wait until the dinner with hubby's father is done to decorate, but it feels good to have it up finally. For some reason I was really anxious this year, I could have put it up before halloween and been content. haha.
Dinner went well, although there was a slight change in guests. Hubby's dad and his wife were replaced by my dad and his wife. They were all amazed at the dinner hubby had made. It went really well and they are now officially invited to our Christmas dinner, which also takes place after the holiday.
I think I'm going to try to sneak in a nap, both boys are so wtheck.
Tuesday, November 29, 2005
Saturday, November 26, 2005
Black Friday...
Man oh man, was that tiring or what??? We left to go at 4am. I swear they are opening up earlier and earlier for those crazy sales. We got to Walmart at 4:15, so officially 45 minutes of anxious shoppers, just counting down the minutes to checkout. The lines were huge when we arrived and only got longer. I maneuvered quite easily through the madness though, I played it smart and didn't grab a cart. I was wandering around the electronics/photo center. There was a kodak camera 6.1 megapixel camera I was considering at a whopping $199. It wasn't that I needed it, I just want a camera that sits in my glove box for those moments you can't plan. My 20d is far too bulky to carry at all times. I thought about leaving the rebel under my chair in the van, but I honestly don't trust anyone, I'd hate to be out my digi rebel even if it is just my backup. People just suck, you can't trust anyone.
Anyway, I was standing around when they unloaded the pallet of kodaks and I still had 15 minutes to go. My brother was standing around with me, my mom had already gone to the car. To buy or not to buy... Well since I was there :oP I waited out the few minutes and grabbed one up and picked up a 256mb sd card for 13.88? It's all good. There was a woman who was crowding out the line to check out and she hadn't even gotten her stuff yet. I hate that. I, of course, asked the checkout lady to ring my stuff up as I was handing it to her. I could feel the woman burning a hole in the side of my head, but I really didn't care. I had places to go, money to spend. I quickly swiped my card and was swiftly making my way through the gobs of people. I was stopped at the door to make sure I paid for what I was walking out with, which took maybe 7 seconds and I was on my way. 5:04, we hit the freeway. That's not too shabby, considering it takes a minute to get to the freeway. So 3 minutes after the big announcement (on your marks get set go!) we were headed to our next stop.
5:17 we drive by Best Buy, oooooh heck no. People are in line just to get into the place and they'd been open for 17 minutes. I was looking for mp3 players for my girls, just little cheapo ones, I didn't want to make a huge investment unless they really like them. Okay, next stop ToysRUs... well that makes it easy they don't open until 6. Off to Walgreen's, they have cheapo mp3's there, a little tooooo cheap though I still didn't get them. We waste too much time at Walgreen's and the goofy part is, their sale didn't start until 7!!! They had other sales though, good ones for wrapping paper and foil gift tags. (buy one get two free or something like that!) Good deal, but we were missing out. My mom went through the other checkout line and the lady was VERY concerned my mom's tags weren't ringing up on sale. UGH! Anyhow, $1.07 & 10 minutes later it's 6:05. Target is already open and we aren't there. LOL
We fixed that shortly though. My mom dropped us off right at the front door, again I didn't grab a cart. (actually I needed one here.) Here I wanted a printer dock for my girls and another kodak cam for cub1, cub2 already has a kodak digi. I quickly grab all the dvd's that were advertised and looked of any interest to me. (simpson's season w/homer's head, not sure what number :OP, family guy season 3 I think, but lot of good that did, we already have it, and Lost season 1, and sex and the city season 6 part 2 :o) I am running out of space here already and don't have the camera or the dock. I grabbed the camera printer dock a couple aisles over then I hurried to the counter and waited in line, the camera was in the back of the counter. Woohooooo! I'm done. Or so I thought.
Hubby wanted me to get the Tumbling Tigger, and cub2 wanted the operation game. So I head off to the toy department, still no cart. I grab all the stuff plus a battleship game for cub1 and head back up to the front of the store. I am about ready to drop all the items, every which way and my brother came to the rescue!! Yay! We're outta there. We hit the checkout line for 10 items or less and turn around, there's mom at the other lane. Oh the timing. We have been doing this so long together I think it's down to a science. This was my brother's first year. Only time will tell if he got hooked or not.
By this time it is not quite 6:30 and we are headed across town to Shopko, still looking for an mp3 player or 3 :oP We luck out and get a parking spot right up front. Again, no cart. I go in and grab the last mp3 player for $99 (half off) for hubby. (shhh... he doesn't know LOL) Actually it was just a stupid little tag that had the price and the numbers/barcode on it. So I basically paid for a piece of paper. I paid 9.99 a pc. for 3 movies (that travelling pants movie, fever pitch w/Drew Barrymore, and Constantine.) Not really for anyone in general, but it was a good price. We were stuck waiting for them to bring me that player for about 10 minutes, I would have been upset, but I'm nearing my imaginary guesstimate of how much I wanted to spend by this time. Again, my mom is already in the car, man is she quick~ :o) They bring it out and we fight our way out through the crowds again.
My mom then asks if we want to go eat since that's what we do every year, only the restaurant changes. After a quick breakfast, we were across the way from the other walmart and it is not even 8 yet, so the sale is still on. So wtheck, we go again. I picked up some more 256mb cards and a dvd player/recorder for $68. Not sure if that is something we even needed, but oh well.
I was so dang tired by the end of that though, all I could do was come home and sleep. It wasn't the shopping or the getting up early part it was the getting to bed so late factor. I didn't get to sleep until 2:30 and had my alarm set for 3:45. That is just plain stupid. Fun, but stupid.
I was supposed to go out with hubby and make his 2nd print today. He went alone and it is done, turned out quite well. I'm really excited to be giving the business a little boost like that. He has 2 orders to fill right now, so I guess that makes my spending a little easier to swallow.
To top all of that, I got a new cell phone (motorola v276) and a new printer (epson 2200) The price on the two was just too good to pass up, so I don't feel screwed LOL. I still have to figure out the printer, unfortunately my computer froze while charging the inks, so it doesn't recognize them. It's a huge printer though. It oughta help out with the biz quite a bit. We have an art fair coming up on dec. 9th and we will be printing our own greeting cards with hubby's designs on the front. They are pretty good sellers though, at least they are for the people who are helping "boost" our biz.
Well that's it for now. I'm sure I'll find more to blabber about later, so until then I'm outta here.
Anyway, I was standing around when they unloaded the pallet of kodaks and I still had 15 minutes to go. My brother was standing around with me, my mom had already gone to the car. To buy or not to buy... Well since I was there :oP I waited out the few minutes and grabbed one up and picked up a 256mb sd card for 13.88? It's all good. There was a woman who was crowding out the line to check out and she hadn't even gotten her stuff yet. I hate that. I, of course, asked the checkout lady to ring my stuff up as I was handing it to her. I could feel the woman burning a hole in the side of my head, but I really didn't care. I had places to go, money to spend. I quickly swiped my card and was swiftly making my way through the gobs of people. I was stopped at the door to make sure I paid for what I was walking out with, which took maybe 7 seconds and I was on my way. 5:04, we hit the freeway. That's not too shabby, considering it takes a minute to get to the freeway. So 3 minutes after the big announcement (on your marks get set go!) we were headed to our next stop.
5:17 we drive by Best Buy, oooooh heck no. People are in line just to get into the place and they'd been open for 17 minutes. I was looking for mp3 players for my girls, just little cheapo ones, I didn't want to make a huge investment unless they really like them. Okay, next stop ToysRUs... well that makes it easy they don't open until 6. Off to Walgreen's, they have cheapo mp3's there, a little tooooo cheap though I still didn't get them. We waste too much time at Walgreen's and the goofy part is, their sale didn't start until 7!!! They had other sales though, good ones for wrapping paper and foil gift tags. (buy one get two free or something like that!) Good deal, but we were missing out. My mom went through the other checkout line and the lady was VERY concerned my mom's tags weren't ringing up on sale. UGH! Anyhow, $1.07 & 10 minutes later it's 6:05. Target is already open and we aren't there. LOL
We fixed that shortly though. My mom dropped us off right at the front door, again I didn't grab a cart. (actually I needed one here.) Here I wanted a printer dock for my girls and another kodak cam for cub1, cub2 already has a kodak digi. I quickly grab all the dvd's that were advertised and looked of any interest to me. (simpson's season w/homer's head, not sure what number :OP, family guy season 3 I think, but lot of good that did, we already have it, and Lost season 1, and sex and the city season 6 part 2 :o) I am running out of space here already and don't have the camera or the dock. I grabbed the camera printer dock a couple aisles over then I hurried to the counter and waited in line, the camera was in the back of the counter. Woohooooo! I'm done. Or so I thought.
Hubby wanted me to get the Tumbling Tigger, and cub2 wanted the operation game. So I head off to the toy department, still no cart. I grab all the stuff plus a battleship game for cub1 and head back up to the front of the store. I am about ready to drop all the items, every which way and my brother came to the rescue!! Yay! We're outta there. We hit the checkout line for 10 items or less and turn around, there's mom at the other lane. Oh the timing. We have been doing this so long together I think it's down to a science. This was my brother's first year. Only time will tell if he got hooked or not.
By this time it is not quite 6:30 and we are headed across town to Shopko, still looking for an mp3 player or 3 :oP We luck out and get a parking spot right up front. Again, no cart. I go in and grab the last mp3 player for $99 (half off) for hubby. (shhh... he doesn't know LOL) Actually it was just a stupid little tag that had the price and the numbers/barcode on it. So I basically paid for a piece of paper. I paid 9.99 a pc. for 3 movies (that travelling pants movie, fever pitch w/Drew Barrymore, and Constantine.) Not really for anyone in general, but it was a good price. We were stuck waiting for them to bring me that player for about 10 minutes, I would have been upset, but I'm nearing my imaginary guesstimate of how much I wanted to spend by this time. Again, my mom is already in the car, man is she quick~ :o) They bring it out and we fight our way out through the crowds again.
My mom then asks if we want to go eat since that's what we do every year, only the restaurant changes. After a quick breakfast, we were across the way from the other walmart and it is not even 8 yet, so the sale is still on. So wtheck, we go again. I picked up some more 256mb cards and a dvd player/recorder for $68. Not sure if that is something we even needed, but oh well.
I was so dang tired by the end of that though, all I could do was come home and sleep. It wasn't the shopping or the getting up early part it was the getting to bed so late factor. I didn't get to sleep until 2:30 and had my alarm set for 3:45. That is just plain stupid. Fun, but stupid.
I was supposed to go out with hubby and make his 2nd print today. He went alone and it is done, turned out quite well. I'm really excited to be giving the business a little boost like that. He has 2 orders to fill right now, so I guess that makes my spending a little easier to swallow.
To top all of that, I got a new cell phone (motorola v276) and a new printer (epson 2200) The price on the two was just too good to pass up, so I don't feel screwed LOL. I still have to figure out the printer, unfortunately my computer froze while charging the inks, so it doesn't recognize them. It's a huge printer though. It oughta help out with the biz quite a bit. We have an art fair coming up on dec. 9th and we will be printing our own greeting cards with hubby's designs on the front. They are pretty good sellers though, at least they are for the people who are helping "boost" our biz.
Well that's it for now. I'm sure I'll find more to blabber about later, so until then I'm outta here.
Thursday, November 24, 2005
Happy Turkey Day...
Turkey Day~ Round 1. Every year we have two thanksgivings. This is the one with my mom, sunday will be with hubby's father. YUM!
We will make hubby's second print on friday, if I can get it digitized right (*insert screaming here*) I've been working on it forever and a day it feels like.
Black Friday shopping on Friday~ woohoo. I go every year. Hubby's first year was last year, unfortunately he's staying to watch the cubs this time. That's okay though, I've done it many times without him, I'll survive.
We will make hubby's second print on friday, if I can get it digitized right (*insert screaming here*) I've been working on it forever and a day it feels like.
Black Friday shopping on Friday~ woohoo. I go every year. Hubby's first year was last year, unfortunately he's staying to watch the cubs this time. That's okay though, I've done it many times without him, I'll survive.
Wednesday, November 23, 2005
A day of firsts...
Well, that's it!! Cub4 finally has a tooth. It took a whoppin' 9 months, but it's there!!! LOL We also had hubby's first print made, which also turned into his first sale of a print. We also sandblasted our first plate, now that's something cool.
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Sunday, November 20, 2005
My brain is going 100 mph...
My oh my... So, last minute my mom tells us we can sell some of hubby's stuff at the holiday bazaar at the casino. That's where I've been. We aren't making anything and probably spending more than we are making. (We have the cubs with us all day long :oP one dollar here, two there, I'm hungry, etc.) Here's the cool part. I am learning corel draw from a cousin of mine. No biggie, I know editing software basics, but this is totally throwin me. If I can get this figured out and done, we'll have prints of hubby's paintings made in a few short weeks. The lady who is teaching me, is going to show us how to silk screen prints as well~ Yikes!!! Completely insane. My head is just whirling and whizzing with ideas, but corel draw is not cooperating!!! :( I guess I'll have to figure out why in the morning, it's getting late.
Friday, November 18, 2005
Email for me later, from me now...
Very cool. You can email yourself anywhere from 1,3,5, 10, or 20 years from now. I just emailed myself for a year from now. I'm sure I'll forget about it, but that's what makes it fun :O)
Link is above in the title or click here!
Link is above in the title or click here!
Thursday, November 17, 2005
Tuesday, November 15, 2005
Knock Knock...
Do you remember when the dumbest knock knock joke would have you laughing? I'm not talking the "ha did you see him trip?" or the "haha she's got toilet paper stuck to her shoe!" kinda laugh. 
I mean genuine happy laughter.
I was sitting in the car listening to my cubs (ages 3, 9 & 11) tell knock knock jokes back and forth. The laughter was just too much for me not to join in as well. It definately is contagious. (They say smiles are too.
) It makes me wonder if the adult in all of us is nothing more than an aged child. Not that it's a bad thing it just makes me wonder at what point in one's life does the laughter turn to a mere smirk and a hmmmph & a chuckle or two? Wasn't life much more interesting and fun when we could laugh openly? Who says we can't laugh out loud? Who says we can't enjoy ourselves? Why do we stop?
I once heard that a child can laugh approximately 300 times a day, while an average adult can laugh at the rate of 8 a day.
That's pitiful. We can do better. At least we should try.
So here's my questions...
1) How many times a day would you say you laugh?
2) What is one thing that makes you laugh?
3) Got any good jokes?
4) I'd be the coolest mom ever if you can share your favorite knock knock joke with my cubs, so let me have it ~ please!
Go out and laugh a little, you'll live longer and at least you'll have fun doing it.
I mean genuine happy laughter. I was sitting in the car listening to my cubs (ages 3, 9 & 11) tell knock knock jokes back and forth. The laughter was just too much for me not to join in as well. It definately is contagious. (They say smiles are too.
) It makes me wonder if the adult in all of us is nothing more than an aged child. Not that it's a bad thing it just makes me wonder at what point in one's life does the laughter turn to a mere smirk and a hmmmph & a chuckle or two? Wasn't life much more interesting and fun when we could laugh openly? Who says we can't laugh out loud? Who says we can't enjoy ourselves? Why do we stop?I once heard that a child can laugh approximately 300 times a day, while an average adult can laugh at the rate of 8 a day.
That's pitiful. We can do better. At least we should try.So here's my questions...
1) How many times a day would you say you laugh?
2) What is one thing that makes you laugh?
3) Got any good jokes?
4) I'd be the coolest mom ever if you can share your favorite knock knock joke with my cubs, so let me have it ~ please!
Go out and laugh a little, you'll live longer and at least you'll have fun doing it.
Sunday, November 13, 2005
Oops!!!
Well, we didn't go take pictures of the salmon. I plain out forgot!!! I did get to sleep in again :O) So it seems a little worth it for now. Of course I'll be thinking differently when we head out next weekend to see stinky fish.
I still haven't watched my netflix movies. I still don't have a clue what the other 2 are!!! I really should get to that. I know I probably won't though. Desperate Housewives is on tonight, so that is usually a late night workout. It's only a half hour later, but it sure seems to screw up the night. I could tivo it and watch it later, but hey guess what????!!?? I'm probably the most impatient person I know. Okay, I do know a few others who are slightly more impatient, but not by much!!
I did watch Little Black Book on Starz lastnight, tivo'd of course. I definately wouldn't buy it and add it to my dvd collection, but it made me smile a bit and also made me realize I like Carly Simon's music. LOL Again, I'm not going out to buy an album, but I just realized I "know" a lot of her songs and can actually enjoy them :oP Going to hide under a rock now.
I still haven't watched my netflix movies. I still don't have a clue what the other 2 are!!! I really should get to that. I know I probably won't though. Desperate Housewives is on tonight, so that is usually a late night workout. It's only a half hour later, but it sure seems to screw up the night. I could tivo it and watch it later, but hey guess what????!!?? I'm probably the most impatient person I know. Okay, I do know a few others who are slightly more impatient, but not by much!!
I did watch Little Black Book on Starz lastnight, tivo'd of course. I definately wouldn't buy it and add it to my dvd collection, but it made me smile a bit and also made me realize I like Carly Simon's music. LOL Again, I'm not going out to buy an album, but I just realized I "know" a lot of her songs and can actually enjoy them :oP Going to hide under a rock now.
Saturday, November 12, 2005
Yum!!!
Now hubby brought these home for me to try and I must say, these are reallllly realllllllly good. They aren't good enough to replace the originals, but they are yummy :o)
Are there any other must have cereals???
Other meaningless jibberish...
~Waking up super late on a Saturday feels wonderful.
~I should go to the post office before it closes, although I'm not really expecting anything.
~Tivo Rocks!!! I usually try and fast forward through the commercials, but it's those times I forget it's on Tivo I truly appreciate the convenience.
~I still have 3 movies from Netflix I haven't watched in the last two weeks. I don't even remember what I have?!?! I know House of D is one of them. The others I have no clue. I now have a goal, get these in the mail by Monday.
~It's a 3 day weekend, I really should get the house in order while I have the help.
~I went to the dentist last week and my gums still hurt from the dentist forcing the dental floss down into my gums. It wouldn't have been that big of a deal, but she just yanked and yanked until it went down. She was trying to get the dental dam in place. I have no idea why it wouldn't go this time. She was replacing a filling and I'm just very grateful I don't have any more to be replaced or filled. I am soooooo through with the dentist. This is crazy, it's been almost a week and my gums are still sore. She did her whole, "you should floss" routine. Honestly I floss like a maniac, pretty much every time I eat. Another one of those obsessive compulsive things. LOL
~I am so ready for it to be warm again. It's toooooo freakin' cold for my comfort. We are getting new wall heaters this week. Only 2 of the wall heaters are safe for use, at least I don't deem them safe. They attract way too much dust and junk. We are getting a coil kind, which apparently are supposed to be better? I sure hope so.
~Almost turkey day. I wonder if FIL will be up for it. Every year he and his wife come over, but after his heart thingie who knows. Hubby's sister was thinking of coming up from Utah too. I suppose I should ask Hubby if he knows if either two are coming...
~I bought a new tripod, which reminds me!!! Hey I know this is going to sound really nasty, but I better get the kiddos ready or maybe I can do it tomorrow. Here it goes. It's November, which here means the salmon are spawning. Doesn't sound all that cool~ does it? Well, every year we go and check it out and snap pictures. It's absolutely a gorgeous scenary, but if you go up there too late in November it STINKS!!!! It's still relatively early, so it should be okay!
~Looks like we are going to get the mail and groceries instead. Tomorrow it is!
Friday, November 11, 2005
It's definately fall...
I'm busy trying to gather pictures to put together a slideshow for a group of people of just random shots. This was one of the shots I took and thought I'd share. It's sooooo beautiful around here, this is just 2 minutes from my house. It is gorgeous any time of year, but there's just something about fall colors mixed in with all the shades of green. :o)
I was out late lastnight trying to gather some night shots too. This is abouty 20 min. from my house and only 5 from my dad's. Brrrr.. it was cold. Anyhow here is a picture of a powerhouse???? It's Hydroelectric anyway, it's the building with reflection on the water. :)
Two more, this first one of two was taken down by the post office about the same time the bars were letting out. That made it interesting. Picture squealing tires, racing headlights, a tripod in the middle of the crosswalk, and me rushing back every time headlights came within blocks. This is a lone taxi. I was hoping to get pictures of the street decorated for Christmas, but apparently that is after Thanksgiving, so I shall try again in a couple of weeks.
Lastly, a clock tower down by the post office. I couldn't help but think to myself "save the clock tower!!!" Back to the Future was one of my fave movies ~LOLIt was definately fun and I'm just surprised my brother was willing to help with this project.
*Images have been resized for the web.
Tuesday, November 08, 2005
Update...
Well, it's official Cub2 is 9. Her party at school was a hit, so was her skating party. Only half of the kiddos made it from school, but it was to be expected honestly. I would have been shocked if all of them made it. The party was about 40 minutes from school~ LOL.
The auction went well, hubby raised a couple thousand dollars for their organization. Only a third is ours, but it's fun and any little bit helps :o) My friend cancelled her photo shoot of her family and postponed until after Thanksgiving. That's good honestly, it's been raining for the past week and a half nonstop. I know, I know, I can't complain, it is just a rainy state :P
I left neutral feedback for the lady with the yoda and chewbacca costumes, basically because I didn't receive anything, but she did refund me after a couple emails. (here's what mine said~ "Took a chance, didn't pan out, she did refund like asked though.") I don't know what I expected, but she left me 2 neutrals too. I'm honestly kinda bummed. I don't know if it's the fact I have 2 neutrals now or what she said. It kinda irks me. clearly stated presale item, refund given upon request Seriously~ don't sell crap you don't have. If you're not sure you can get it, why ruin someone's halloween??? If I didn't go with my gut on this one and buy more outrageously priced costumes, the boys wouldn't have had any. She's got private feedback, so what's it matter what I wrote on hers. I guess that should have thrown up a flag right there, but I still sent her my money. I figured she was a powerseller, so it ought to be okay. I was wrong.
I paid in a timely manner, the product wasn't there. Why is this my problem??? It just seems a little retaliatory (sp?) to me. So answer me this... should I have left positive feedback because she held my money for a month and I received no product, but did receive my money back after 2 emails? Would I have received positive in return? Or if I would have gotten nasty and given negative, would 2 negatives been sitting in my profile???
It is just feedback, but seriously how many of you does your feedback matter to you? Am I just weird that it matters?
The auction went well, hubby raised a couple thousand dollars for their organization. Only a third is ours, but it's fun and any little bit helps :o) My friend cancelled her photo shoot of her family and postponed until after Thanksgiving. That's good honestly, it's been raining for the past week and a half nonstop. I know, I know, I can't complain, it is just a rainy state :P
I left neutral feedback for the lady with the yoda and chewbacca costumes, basically because I didn't receive anything, but she did refund me after a couple emails. (here's what mine said~ "Took a chance, didn't pan out, she did refund like asked though.") I don't know what I expected, but she left me 2 neutrals too. I'm honestly kinda bummed. I don't know if it's the fact I have 2 neutrals now or what she said. It kinda irks me. clearly stated presale item, refund given upon request Seriously~ don't sell crap you don't have. If you're not sure you can get it, why ruin someone's halloween??? If I didn't go with my gut on this one and buy more outrageously priced costumes, the boys wouldn't have had any. She's got private feedback, so what's it matter what I wrote on hers. I guess that should have thrown up a flag right there, but I still sent her my money. I figured she was a powerseller, so it ought to be okay. I was wrong.
I paid in a timely manner, the product wasn't there. Why is this my problem??? It just seems a little retaliatory (sp?) to me. So answer me this... should I have left positive feedback because she held my money for a month and I received no product, but did receive my money back after 2 emails? Would I have received positive in return? Or if I would have gotten nasty and given negative, would 2 negatives been sitting in my profile???
It is just feedback, but seriously how many of you does your feedback matter to you? Am I just weird that it matters?
Friday, November 04, 2005
Okey dokey...
the monkey cupcake cake. The names have been changed to protect the innocent FIL hasn't heard a thing, the dr. hasn't been in yet. We're off to go party it up at Cub2's class in a sec. Thought I'd drop the monkey pic by for PM
Thursday, November 03, 2005
Much Ado About Nothing...
Oct. 1st I ordered one yoda costume and one chewbacca costume for cub 3&4. Time passes I go with my gut and bid on replacements. Apparently, the lady sells them on a presale basis. If I wanted to wait to receive them she says after Nov.1 I can wait or request a refund. Her auction states after 29 days you can request a refund. As soon as the clock hit Oct.30th I emailed for my refund. That was my 29th day. She finally refunded me today. Big sigh of relief here.
Anyhow, back to me going with my gut. I ordered the replacements and they showed up with time to spare. We were able to dress the cubs up 3 times and have loads of fun each time. Poor hubby had tons of school work to do and his sleep suffered severely, but hey we had fun~ right? LOL I think we are just plain lucky it's only one time a year.
We've been busy trying to make sure the auction goes smoothly, that's saturday. A couple of the pictures I shot of hubby's art landed in the paper too. I love that feeling. Before the auction I am supposed to go take a billion and a half pictures of my friend's children for her. I think that will be fun, let's hope the weather cooperates though.
My sister had to get an MRI done on her shoulder. She has been having a heck of a time with her shoulder, they were thinking it was a torn rotator cuff? I think that's what they were saying. Well, she got the results back yesterday. She has a cyst in between the muscles in her shoulder. It's a pretty good sized one too. (5+cm long, 3.5 cm wide, almost 2 cm deep) That's a little freaky, not sure what to think about that or even what they can or will do. The doctor is referring her out to a surgeon to explore her options, but he doesn't want her to have surgery!?!! I'm not sure what his thinking on that is. She's a little freaked out as well, but has to wait until the 21st to speak with the surgeon about her options.
My FIL just got admitted into the hospital. He was there to have a stent? put in for his heart. It's not working as well as they had hoped and they want to do a bypass. We'll find out more on that tomorrow.
Other than all of that, the girls are still busy with basketball and cheerleading. Cub2's birthday is on Sunday. We'll have her skating party on Sunday and her classroom party at school tomorrow. I ordered a Monkey Cupcake Cake. I sure hope it turns out okay. Last time I ordered a duck and it was cute, but not what I had hoped for. Anyway, Hubby just walked in from the hospital, I'm off to see how it went.
Anyhow, back to me going with my gut. I ordered the replacements and they showed up with time to spare. We were able to dress the cubs up 3 times and have loads of fun each time. Poor hubby had tons of school work to do and his sleep suffered severely, but hey we had fun~ right? LOL I think we are just plain lucky it's only one time a year.
We've been busy trying to make sure the auction goes smoothly, that's saturday. A couple of the pictures I shot of hubby's art landed in the paper too. I love that feeling. Before the auction I am supposed to go take a billion and a half pictures of my friend's children for her. I think that will be fun, let's hope the weather cooperates though.
My sister had to get an MRI done on her shoulder. She has been having a heck of a time with her shoulder, they were thinking it was a torn rotator cuff? I think that's what they were saying. Well, she got the results back yesterday. She has a cyst in between the muscles in her shoulder. It's a pretty good sized one too. (5+cm long, 3.5 cm wide, almost 2 cm deep) That's a little freaky, not sure what to think about that or even what they can or will do. The doctor is referring her out to a surgeon to explore her options, but he doesn't want her to have surgery!?!! I'm not sure what his thinking on that is. She's a little freaked out as well, but has to wait until the 21st to speak with the surgeon about her options.
My FIL just got admitted into the hospital. He was there to have a stent? put in for his heart. It's not working as well as they had hoped and they want to do a bypass. We'll find out more on that tomorrow.
Other than all of that, the girls are still busy with basketball and cheerleading. Cub2's birthday is on Sunday. We'll have her skating party on Sunday and her classroom party at school tomorrow. I ordered a Monkey Cupcake Cake. I sure hope it turns out okay. Last time I ordered a duck and it was cute, but not what I had hoped for. Anyway, Hubby just walked in from the hospital, I'm off to see how it went.
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