HI ALL!! what a weird time of year

    "    You move it to the left, and you go for yourself, you move it to the right, yeah if it takes all night, now take it kinda slow, with a whole lot of soul, don't move to fast, just make it last    "    Well how goes it? I have always thought this was an odd time of year. After Christmas and before New Years?? Some people go back to work some take extra time off. To each his own. I know when I was driving to work this week always had the least amount of traffic. And, that was GREAT! Getting settled back in after Christmas, STILL have NOT gotten my gifts I ordered. YES, I have "David-it'd" them!! Blasted them good. They don't even know where the package is. And, NOW are out of the item for 2 weeks. WOW!! Well so be it. I was hoping I would get something extra from Amazon for all the problems, but not yet!! Ebay has picked up a little, and I am re-listing again today. I am hoping that everyone got LOTS of Christmas CASH and want to spend it on my auctions!! CHOW MOI!!

HEY ALL!! the year in review, or I just don't remember

    "    Mama says yes Papa says no, make up your mind 'cause I gotta go, I'm gonna raise hell at the union hall, drive myself right over the wall    "    Well I have been late in posting, SORRY. But, I was overcome with Daughter-itis!! For maybe the first time, or the first time in a very long time. I spent part of the Christmas holiday with each daughter, SEPARATELY. One made it in on Sunday evening and stayed till Monday late afternoon. Then the other made it in Tuesday afternoon and stayed till Wednesday afternoon. So I was daughter-full for three straight days. It was fun having individual time with each of them. AND the presents were GREAT TOO!! My gifts that I was going to give out are STILL somewhere in shipping?? None can really tell me when they shipped OR where they are. The tracking number just says 'electronically sent to carrier'?? Well as the title says "year in review". It has been a challenge this year, I have finally gotten information to start my Medicare application for 04/01!! That will help ALOT!! Ebay has been interesting, and if nothing else it is slower then 2012, but a little more steady. The main reason it is slower is the value of cards I am now selling. When your selling sets from the 60's and early 70's EVERYONE wants them!! But most stuff from the 90's and 00's is geared towards a smaller group, and has MUCH LESS VALUE. If nothing else this year I got more settled in to retirement and all that surrounds that. And am really looking forward to a GREAT 2014. CHOW MOI!!

HI ALL!! is all your shopping done

    "    It's liberty for all, 'cause democracy's our style, unless you are against us, then it's prison without trail, but one thing that is certain, life is good at Haliburton, if you're really so astute, you should invest in Brown and Root    "    Well how goes the shopping battle? I am done!! But, will not have everything here by Christmas. I am having problems with one company. They sent me an e-mail on 12/10 " your package has shipped ". Then on 12/18 another e-mail " your package has shipped ". I mean REALLY?? So I e-mailed them and asked them to tell me WHAT day my package was shipped? Well they don't work on weekends, customer service will respond to my e-mail on Monday. WOW!! Probably the LAST TIME I order from them!! Ebay has been funny. I am getting bidders making me 'best offers' that are just TERRIBLE. They are about 15% to 20% of the items value, and less than half of what I got the item listed for. Now I will listen to reasonable offers, the operative word being REASONABLE! I don't consider an offer of 20% of what I have the item for as reasonable. So I take the time to 'educate' the bidder. Some don't like that. I tell them now they know how I feel about their bid!! CHOW MOI!!

HEY ALL!! what's your return policy

    "    Whoa, the servants they're so helpful dear, the cook she is a whore, yes the butler has a place for her, behind the pantry door, the maid she's French she's got no sense, she's from the Crazy Horse, and when she strips the chauffeur flips, the footman's eyes get crossed    "    Well Christmas gets closer every day, but it still seems to drag on. Ebay once again has slowed. In fact I had one buyer send me back his purchase! No e-mail nothing, just got this package in the mail one day, and it was cards I had sent out the week before. So I e-mailed him and asked what was going on. After two more e-mails he tells me that he went on a shopping spree that day and realized he bought too many things. He was trying to return some of them. I first thought that maybe the wife or girl friend found out and he got his ass chewed. Well the nice thing about eBay is you can investigate. I find that YES indeed he DID buy a TON, 40 plus items in less than a week!! But as I looked at the feedback I could NOT see where he had returned any of the others?? Now MOST of the feedback was not there yet. A sure sign that maybe he did return things. I insisted he leave me feedback to show that I honor my return policy. So I am not sure about his story, but I will take back the items and resell them. It was a grand total of $6.00!! Hope that makes things HAPPY with his better half!! CHOW MOI!!

HI ALL!! White Christmas .. OR Not

    "    You don't know what's going on, you've been away for far too long, you can't come back and think you are still mine, you're out of touch my baby, my poor discarded baby    "    You know in the Seattle area, you have a 7 percent chance of having a White Christmas in any given year. I've been here for more than 50 Christmas' and can only remember 4 or 5. But, then again, how good is MY memory? Just getting mentally ready for Christmas, all my shopping is done, and I think I am only waiting on one or two deliveries. I think my daughters have the plans all made out, but of course subject to last SECOND change!! Ebay has been plugging along, same thing as before. Lots of looks and a few buyers!! Funny how all the TV programs change their schedules around Christmas, I guess they figure either you won't be home, or lured to watch Charlie Brown's Christmas, for the 22nd time!! Not much going on, just fine with me. Still working on getting the end of year stuff packed up and a little extra cleaning to boot. CHOW MOI!!

HEY ALL!! LUCKY Friday the 13th!!

    "    I'm a fleabit peanut monkey, all my friends are junkies, that's not really true, I'm a cold Italian pizza, I could use a lemon squeezer, what you do, but I've been bit and I've been tossed around, by every she-rat in this town, have you babe    "    Well another LUCKY Friday the 13th. That day has traditionally been a good one for me. I can't say the same about Thursday the 12th! I remember back in school, we use to get chilly for hot lunches every once in awhile. AND, when they served chilly, you also got a BIG Cinnamon roll!! Well this one day I got the hot lunch with chilly and this HUGE, I mean HUGE cinnamon roll. It had to be Twice the size of any other I saw!! So I am walking over to my seat, and around the corner comes this guy, full running speed. Plows right into me, the chilly goes all over me and the cinnamon roll hits the floor and starts bouncing away. WOW!! Well the janitor picked up everything and threw it in the trash. I got a new lunch with the SMALLEST cinnamon roll you ever saw!! How dis-appointing!! And you know, since then Thursday the 12th has not been kind!! There are several more horror stories to tell, but I just can't retell them. They are STILL just TOO painful!! CHOW MOI!!

HI ALL!! SNOW? You think it will snow?

    "    I saw her today at the reception, a glass of wine in her hand, I knew she was gonna meet her connection, at her feet was a footloose man    "    Well it has been plenty cold, even cold enough to snow. But we haven't gotten the precipitation needed. Been dong some more closet clean out. Probably need to go through my old clothes and get those cleaned out as well. Ebay still plugging along, one sale here, one sale there. COOL!! Need to go grocery shopping again, soon. Been watching a LOT of TV during the day, it's the Winter Meetings for Baseball. Potential for trades and free agent signings. The Mariners have been quiet so far, but I think they are getting close. There are usually deals made but for sure the conversation starts and deals get done a little later. I just seemed tuned in this year. Got all my C-mas shopping done and waiting for deliveries. I should be getting a steady stream of deliveries for the nest week or so. What a nice way to shop for the holidays. CHOW MOI!!

HEY ALL!! Are you on thin ice?

    "    I'm feeling drunk juiced up and sloppy, ain't touched a drink all night, I'm feeling hungry can't see the reason, just ate a horse meat pie, yeah when you call my name, I salivate like a Pavlov dog, yeah when you lay me out, my heart is beating louder that a big bass drum alright    "    Well here comes more cold weather. Been in the teen's and colder tonight. FUN, FUN, FUN. Got some stuffed moved out to the shed today. My files and magazines I boxed up last week. NICE. Still got plenty of room in the shed. Ebay still plugs along, selling odds and ends, but still selling. Got all my Christmas shopping done!! Nothing elaborate, but there will be gifts!! I use to venture out to the malls and shop, I still enjoy going to the malls, but all my shopping is done on-line nowadays. I don't think I have the energy or stamina to shop in person any more. But I still like watching people fly around while they shop. Firming up plans with the daughters for Christmas. CHOW MOI!!

HI ALL!! bundle up it's cold out there

    "    Now I ain't lookin' for no pretty face oh no, or for some hooker workin' roughish trade, and there ain't nothin' like a perfect mate, and I ain't lookin' for no wedding cake, but I been talkin' 'bout it much too long, I think I better sing just one more song, I've got one heart and it hurts like hell, I'm simply dying for some thrills and spills, oh yeah    "    Well it IS chilly outside, but luckily there is NO snow yet. Ebay has been picking up, selling some odds and ends, but selling none the less. Been trying to clean out and rearrange my closet and files. Trying to pack up past years to put in a file box and packing up my old Beckett Magazines and storing them in file boxes. I think I will try to sell my old Beckett's and my old Sporting News that I have. Probably not for much, but I can sell them and get them out of my hair. I try to pack up previous years files and paper work and store them in file boxes. Just to keep things tiddy. Plus it gives me a chance to play a couple of albums while I am in my closet sorting away!! CHOW MOI!!

HEY ALL!! A DECEMBER to remember

    "    Well I heard a quiet man is half a man, with no sense of pride, if I have to dry to keep ya I don't mind weepin', if weepin gonna keep ya by my side    "    Well off to a new month today! Got items re-listed on eBay! Finally got my dead bolt locks installed yesterday, very nice and now just a little more secure. I am well aware, if they want to get in, THEY WILL!! But maybe an alarm and dead bolt locks will make them choose another place?? Did not get much cone over the weekend. Have had trouble sleeping at night. Some of it seems to be the AMOUNT of food I have been eating. WOW I feel like I am getting fattened up for a long cold winter. I had been dong so very well on my carb plan, now time to get back on it. I also know that part of my sleeping problem has been my compression socks, they feel like they are ' pinching' me at night. Sometimes on the heels, sometimes the big toes. I have also been falling asleep around 10pm then going to bed around 11pm. SO it's like a little nap before going to bed? So I hope to get back on the regular sleeping pattern soon!! Do need to do some end of year organizing. I got to pack up some stuff in my closet and then pack up yearly paper work and store it in the shed. I did get storage boxes the other day!! Not much else going on, I haer there my be snow coming in a day or tow. May be time to put on the STUDDED SNOW TIRES!! CHOW MOI!!