i've been eBaying for 10 years. wow. and i still love it.

i've got my iBook up for auction on eBay right now. and it's at $202.50 with 17 hours to go, which is great. i've received a few questions over email, mainly asking for clarification about something i mentioned in the description. one guy asked a question and followed it up with, "I think you have the best ebay listing I have ever seen."

score. and you know, it's not even that good, but it's easy to read and gives you the important details. i shall let you view it here for your own education of course.

regarding the title of this post - i have been a member since january 11, 2000. and i've got 228 positive feedbacks - 100% - to show for it. it's been a good 10 years of buying and selling stuff. i've bought ski lift tickets, hard-to-find/discontinued beauty products, car parts, musical instruments, running shoes...the list goes on. one of the best deals i ever got was on my hockey skates, ~$35. i can't say i've ever been ripped off, but one time i did pay way too much for a snowboard with a flying pig graphic on it. so ebay, thanks for the memories. and i'll always continue to try on expensive sports gear in retail stores only to go home and immediately purchase it on ebay for way less.

you might enjoy these ads

good radio spot:

http://www.franksredhot.com/popups/radio_ad.html

and a favorite commercial on tv:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8QW0tT_xqQ
(also check out some of the related videos from the same channel)

fashion icon

a new season of project runway started last thursday and nicole richie was the guest judge. strange choice if you ask me, but apparently she's a fashion designer now. (i'd like to add andy's take on it: apparently any coke whore off the street can start her own clothing line.)

so you may have seen her on the show, but i'm guessing you missed the webisode where she explained the inspiration for her line:

click here for video

that's right, i'm on my way up.

lots of information

dudes. sorry it's been so long since i last posted. really...uh, i've been busy. i hope everyone's Christmas was excellent and i hope everyone had as much fun ringing in 2010 as i did. here are some photo highlights from the past three weeks:

got suckered into singing with mary ellen's
choir group. it was a lovely service of lessons & carols.

santa brought me a rack to display my
belts. kinda makes me want to train
for a black belt so i can fill that empty slot.

that's mary ann, andy's sis-in-law. andy's dad
gave us belvedere gift sets. the boys got scotch.

granne received a snuggie, just like every other person in america.

john sampled the brussel sprouts. i rather enjoyed them.

cathy, me, naomi (sari i am sorry you didn't make the pic!!)

i got a new digital camera for Christmas. it's waterproof.
i showed it to my friends, and the next thing i know my
camera's in the sink.

christmas gift?

it's not a party without rock band -
andy on the drums, jim on mike, chad on guitar.

here's what i am doing these days:

making my way through the stephanie plum series by janet evanovich. i guess you could classify them as suspense/mystery. and they make me laugh out loud. my friend liz jurick was always pushing me to read them, so i picked up "one for the money" a few years ago, then continued with "two for the dough." both were pretty good but i couldn't find books 3, 4, etc. in any of the thrift stores i frequented so i kinda gave up with the series and went back to harry potter [again]. and then the whole twilight thing happened... anyway, i decided i could finally afford used copies from amazon so i filled in my collection. right now i'm putting these things away at a rate of about one per week. currently on "to the nines." and even though they were written by a female with a female main character i'd say that guys would like them too since there's murder and drugs and weapons and explosions.

new iMac. ok, this is great- i can listen to music, backup my stuff with time machine, edit images, & blog all at the same time. vast improvement from my ibook g4. now i am trying to organize all my photos & mp3s and it's slow-going. didn't get a digital camera until 2003 so all the photos that i scanned don't have the correct date/time stamp. and i'm a freak so everything has to be in the right order of course. i'm looking to buy a video capture device for my new iMac so get ready for some freaking awesome highlights from the crap i watch on tv.