coexistapart's Diaryland Diary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- this one's for the girls... Just a quick entry to function as almost a placemarker in my mind. Big just finished watching his movie and I have spent the last hour or two fooling around online. I'm grateful for the time to unwind, but of course now I don't have the time to write an entry. Tomorrow I guess...without access to the car I won't have any guilt, and thus the day largely to myself. The last couple of days have been very productive. Today I made two trips to the post office; the first trip I autoshipped eight boxes at the self-serve machine in about 12 minutes. The second time I took THREE boxes (Singapore, Poland, APO) and it took almost an hour. Go figure. Otherwise I didn't get too much scratched off my list (I was supposed to get the car washed, take books to be sold at the used bookstore, and drop off clothing for charity) but I stayed on top of other things. I started praying again last night, so I guess I need to be grateful for small blessings. eBay has gone really well, overall. Tomorrow I need to work on a better spreadsheet to document net versus profit--Big is convinced that that I make something absurd like an extra $5 in S&H per item when really all I do is try to break even. But so far I'm happy with the results, especially considering we only really sold a handful of what we expected to be high dollar items; hopefully we'll come out of the past two weeks with about $640. It's a lot of work--the documenting for posting, especially--but I'm getting better and better each day. Today I got some feedback that said, essentially "the best packing job I've ever seen!" which validates the pride and diligence I take with my work. I've got maybe five or six things left to ship this week, and then I can try to focus in on a couple of other, personal projects before starting to post MORE things to start while I'm in New York/St. Kitt's this week. We spent this past weekend in Albuquerque for the Balloon Fiesta. It was far and away one of the most magnificent and exciting things I've seen in my entire life. Just so beautiful, breathtaking even. The mass ascension was rained out the second day, and there really wasn't too too much to do on the actual fair grounds once the ballons had taken off, but it was still so beautiful and peaceful...despite the thousands of people wandering around. Too bad Spoon & his girlfriend were on the outs the whole weekend; it would have been nice to have a meal out with them, but we got on fine ourselves. We took the tram up Sandia Peak, the largest (in terms of distance) aerial tramway in the world apparently--somehow still. We also went to the Old Town, which I loved. Cute little shops and a square, not too over-done but still quaint. Big met with a group of WWII Navajo Code Breakers that were signing books outside one store. We also went to the movies (Blindness), did a little bit of light shopping, and stayed home to have room service. It was definitely one of those instances where you kind of have to go on vacation to rest, not necessarily to actually do much. Albuquerque is lovely, and not too far away, so I wasn't exactly worried. That's it for now. I really do need to go spend time with my boyfriend seeing as, you know, he's home from work. 9:35 p.m. - 2008-10-06 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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