I opened a new ymail (yahoo e-mail) account when our cable got eaten up by Comcast. We weren't sure if we were going to stick with DSL - and still aren't sure. So, I have a yahoo address I primarily use, and our new att accounts. & work. & my psuedo gmail I use here. & this ymail that, I don't know, has the least important stuff. I didn't want to give my yahoo account to everyone because it is awfully similar to my psuedo one and I didn't want people spying on me online. Hehe.

Anyway, dh has been using my ebay account because I had more feedback - so when we started selling more - he just used my account.

He sold a bunch of stuff this week - I think sold Tuesday and he shipped everything out wednesday, first thing. Obviously you figure people want stuff before Christmas.

So on a whim I checked my ymail e-mail today and I got a pile of angry/grumpy ebay e-mails. I guess I hadn't checked it in a while.

I didn't realize that when you marked items as "shipped" that the buyer does not see. (& how stupid is that anyway? I like ebay's interface less and less every day). So, we are newbies sellers. We didn't know.

& anyway, for the last 50 items or so we sold, I think our stuff arrived before anyone thought to ask if we had shipped. So we just had no idea. NEVER been an issue.

So some people had e-mailed asking about their stuff. & when we didn't check our e-mail or answer, IMMEDIATELY, some started threatening to cancel their payment. (Can you do that???)

Anyway, so that was exciting. I researched the issue a bit and told dh that they can't see when he marked the items as shipped. So maybe if he sells anything next December, well, it's good to keep in mind. The rest of the year, I can't see bothering with separate notification. What a pain.

So I called him and yeah, told him to check the ebay messages, and calm them down a bit.

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In other news, I had gotten one present each for my parents, (birthdays this month), and was feeling a little guilty I didn't have a second present for Christmas. But I was also kind of not seeing the point in getting more. It's the kind of thing where if I had a great gift idea, I'd do it. BUT not so sure I wanted to get them more "stuff" out of obligation.

I hadn't quite made a decision on that, but tonight dh asked me if I remembered we had gifts for my parents already.

I had TOTALLY forgotten!!!!! Problem solved. They are GREAT gifts too.

Yeah, that is why I shop early. Because I can think clearer. Problem is remembering.

On a related note, I was looking in my purse today, in my sea of crap, and just kind of laughing to myself. What would the SA-ers say if they could see my purse. I know, even in person, I Come across very anal. But for the most part, I'm not. I think it's kind of like being a savant. In some areas of my life I am SUPER crazy organized. & in the rest, yeah, probably couldn't be more of a slob.

So if you think I am organized? I can't even remember I already bought gifts for the parents. Yeesh.

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Yesterday, for the heck of it, I took BM shopping. I usually wake up at 5am and crash around 1pm. I am MORNING person all the way. So by the time I get home from work? I am whipped. But I had some energy and decided we better take the opportunity to buy dh's gift. BM has an allowance now, and bought me a B-Day and an Xmas gift. So it occurred to me he needs to get something for dh!

So, we went to Rite Aid (I had seen some ads for some other things I needed) and we stumbled upon the perfect gift. Figured we'd just get something/anything, but they everything was marked 50% off and they had a little set for growing herbs. Came with pots/soil/seeds, etc.

That was it. Totally something I knew dh would enjoy. It could be CRAP. But maybe will give us a start. We can always retry and reuse the pots if it doesn't work the first time.

I just can't quite decide where would be a good place to put them. Probably why we haven't grown anything inside before. Our kitchen window pretty much gets no sun. *sigh* We'll figure something out. Since we got draped up in the front room, I think we can set them in the window sill there, and just pull up the blinds a bit. But we'd still have our privacy.

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We had a nice week. Yesterday we had a free car look over from the mechanic. He told us the engine on our 100k-mile car was immaculate. Of course, we just took the van in for a noise or something that turned out to be nothing. This time dh's car had some sort of leak. He thinks it is just water condensation because fluid levels were all fine and engine was "immaculate." Well, okay then. Was nice after taking the time he refused to charge us. I think he took pity on us. 2 "nothings" in a row. So, that was a nice surprise.

& Ms. Preschool offered to watch LM for free today for a couple of hours, for our loan signing. (Almost like, begged. She was going to miss him so much the next 6 weeks).

So, it's been a good week in that regard. Good karma comes around sometimes!