just a general whine...

1.30 am and I'm awake and I don't know why...

Awful day yesterday. Dust storm came through, turned the sky all yellow, blew down part of the fence, blew down the yucca in the front yard, about blew me off the road when I was driving... and then when the dust cleared up, just turned bitter cold. But that dust issue was very hard to deal with... not dense enough to cause major visibility probs, but it was getting a little hard to breath, And I think Lubbock Texas blew over the top of the house...

Of course, none of this is terribly uncommon, just winters last shout. Our last frost date is March 15, so everything should be warming up for good in a couple of weeks...

It was 80 degrees outside for a couple of days last week. Of course, I had caught this flu bug that was going around, so I couldn't enjoy it as much as everyone else, but it was nice...

Man, I didn't start a blog so that I could have a podium to whine!

Funny story... the cat, last Thursday, went running outside about 10 PM. Now as usual, this involves bolting out the door at top speed... Unfortunately, the spot outside was already occupied by one of the local opposums. Little cat bounced into the air three times about 5 feet skreaching at a decibal I haven't heard in a while. Possum just looked around like he was thinking... "What's the problem?" then wandered off. Seriously, I was laughing my head off.

Did hear that my friend Deb and her new husband were in a car wreck... bashed into by an illegal alien who of course doesn't have a liscense , much less insurance. Deb was in the ER all day, and when the cops showed up, they just let the illegal alien leave ... So now Deb is filing with internal affairs.

Drama... Drama... everywhere, HUH?

nothing much...

I really have to start blogging more often... but I've been running around and I haven't much to say... or more accurately, I have a huge amount ot say, and absolutely no time to say it... Shucks, most of the time I'm not entirely sure what I'm doing...

Flea Market stall is looking good... and the sales are way up... so I guess the front window is a good thing... but I have a huge amount of stuff that has to move in there so I need some of the bigger pieces to sell...

but the truth is that I'm kind of enjoying it, so don't take me wrong... I'm in no way shape or form complaining...

Got a couple of pairs of Cowboy boots listed on ebay, Tony Lama, these definitly need resoled, but they sell decent anyway...

Valentines day's a-coming...

I've always hated Valentines day... In all my various relationships, none of them coincided with Valentines so I never had a date, and then the people who do have dates all are so cute that it's sickening... What? Me bitter? Hmmph.

but seriously, I've worked for florist on Valentines, and the panicked phone calls and the general stress level is generally just pitiful...

On another subject entirely, we have been listing some small hand-crochet patches on ebay... just for the fun of it. Mom makes them up while she's watching TV. gives her something to do... Not making much money off them... but they're fun...

Most of the little appliques on ebay are made of 4-ply knitting worsted... which makes them thick and fuzzy... and uncomfortable on a back pocket, kind of like a little hard pillow on your butt... these are made of bedspread cotton... tiny thread that has a nice look to it.

Anyway... if you're interested go to the store listings

http://stores.ebay.com/luckypennyfleamarket

The big appliques are .99 each and the small ones like the stars are 3 / .99.

They do look good on jeans, denim jackets , that sort of thing...

Will be heading out to the flea market stall today... Evidently I sold a bunch of Franciscan plates and since I moved the stall from the back to the front, I still haven't got it looking like I want it... I've got to get it looking decent to boost the sales... and I don't really know what I'm going to do about the clothes I have up there... no place for a rack and no wall space since one side of the booth is a great big window...

I'll figure out something I suppose...

Wow...

Over a month since I posted. Wouldn't have believed that could happen...

Anyway, been buzy... the house sprung a leak under the slab, so that had to be taken care of, and then the stall at the market in Ft. Worth has to be moved... which will increase sales, it's just the timing could be better... moving up to the front window...

and then of course there is the continuing trauma on the ebay feedback board... One of our favorite(NOT) trolls has come back with yet a new incarnation... LeRoy is back is the name she's using now. Was once badleroybrown, attorneyalice and a whole slew of pinkrose, yellowrose, redrose names. Just shows up, performs a few illegal actions like posting another users information, then gets kicked off until the next id.

Gotta love those talking sock id's...

Don't really have the time to mess with this right now... when it rains it pours...

And of course, the cats and the dog are always here to keep me cheered up.

Will start listing in the store again soon... Later...

Well, did we survive the holidays?

Not sure I did.

Actually, spent Christmas blessedly alone...

except for two cats and a dog... played all those CD's I have that drive everyone else crazy and had one of the most relaxing days of my life...

Anyway, been listing like crazy over the last couple of days...

check it out if you're interested...

http://stores.ebay.com/luckypennyfleamarket

really, just a drive by post today...

got to gear up....

Well, the truth of the matter is that I'm just not listing like I used to... but there is some stuff happening... between running around getting Christmas stuff, and getting the new market stall stocked, and trying to deal with crazy siblings... well, ebay just didn't get the attention it deserves. But I'll be listing today... and we'll see what happens...

Everything just seems to be a bit more of a chore than it has to be right now...

I know people who publicly declare themselves Pagan every Thanksgiving so they don't have to deal with Christmas. I'm starting to understand them... Anyway, I guess I'll just spare the blog-world from my ranting...

Well, I'm back....

wow, haven't posted in a while. Been busy. Off to stock up a new stall in Forrests Antiques and More, and listing on ebay has suffered while I've been running around...

anyway, it's not much of a stall, just an 8 x 9, but you'd be amazed at how much stuff you can fit in one of those...

listing driftwood for you reptile fans... you'll need it for those vivariums, or reptile cages, or whatever we're calling them this week, and I'll have a nice hand-tooled leather vest, as soon as I get the pics took, and there's always that stuff that you just list to see what happens...

Gearing up for Christmas.

Not looking forward to it...

getting ready for thansgiving...

Well, we're not cooking for Thanksgiving, so you'd think it would be nice and calm, right... No way. The Store suddenly has china sales... I guess people just got out the holiday china and realized that they had pieces missing. Of course, there's no way in hell it's gonna get there in time for Thanksgiving, but I guess they want it for next year...

Anyway, we're going to a restaraunt this year.

I don't want to cook, Mom isn't up to cooking, and of course my Sister ain't gonna cook, and even if she did I wouldn't be invited, so we're going to a restaraunt.

Don't know why. Never really liked Turkey anyway.

But I am wishing everybody out there a wonderful Thanksgiving, and hoping you have a great holiday season...

Well, It seems that everything is working out OK. Crazy lady went poof, her auctions got pulled, and most of my friends survived the board. It was all very distracting... I'm afraid I gave too much of my time to the drama and not enough to listing... But I will be listing most of today and tomorrow...

business, this time of year, is slow... But I will just have to keep plugging along...

anyway, there isn't much to do about it, but keep listing and hope that everything starts to pick up...

We are moving into Christmas... so maybe some shoppers will come out of the woodwork...

well, I don't know...

so, we've been enjoying ourselves on the old ebay message board, and then everything just started going haywire... there was a post about a crazy seller, so we're all having a good old time telling the poster what to do and how to deal, then the crazy seller shows up. And we're talking seriously crazy... Big auctions for "colonic cleansing" and Jesus, along with pictures of human crap that came out of people, and telling us that she had a doctorate and, well just absolute tripe... and then everytime somebody took a position against her, or just told her that pictures of crap in an auction might turn people off, she started reporting them to the moderators, who don't really seem to actually check what was said they just hand out slaps...

So, the final outcome is that even though her auctions are breaking about fifty rules, she's managed to get a whole bunch of my online friends into trouble... and a few of them won't be allowed to post anymore, at least for a week, and I'm feeling a little guilty because I certainly took a few shots at her, and I didn't get any slaps, but I was contrbuting to the problem that got some of my friends slaps, and really it's all just disgusting...

Oh well, my friends will be back...

There really isn't anything I can think of doing right now... I guess that I'll have to kind of wait and see...

Maybe a voodoo curse...