educating momster

Well, this "selling stuff on Amazon" idea seems to be working. I listed four things and two of them have sold. I am $18 richer. I'll ship both off Monday. Both were books that other people seem to have found perfectly charming, but which just didn't do it for me.

Today I had a fairly boring day. I got up, got ready to leave, and drove halfway across the freaking state to get to a larger Borders than the one I normally go to, so I could spend gift cards acquired from my uncles. I got the books I've been looking for (Perdido Street Station and All Tomorrow's Parties) plus the new Smashing Pumpkins set, the limited edition 2-cd greatest hits thing called Rotten Apples (I've been looking for it but most other places are only selling the edited single cd).

For the second time tonight I found something odd that record companies seem to be doing with cds that they want to seem "informal" - they did it with Judas 0, which is the 2nd cd in this Rotten Apples hits special edition package - I also saw it on a Sublime cd in the store, in passing - they are making the cd look like a CD-R with a handwritten-font title and all the CD-R markings and such. Very weird. The Sublime cd looks particularly homemade and the cd shows through the cover... if you didn't look closely at it you'd probably wonder if it was a rampant copyright violation.

When we got home I showed the momster how to list books of her own on Amazon. This was frustrating and uninteresting at first, but then I managed to convince her to get rid of most of her "psychic" books, that is, books by mediums who claim to communicate with the dead. Out of like 8 books she's keeping one by Sylvia Browne... could be better, but definitely not bad. She's also getting rid of a lot of self-help books that she bought and never read. I'm thrilled. The next step is to get her to read actual literature from time to time.

I could stand to get rid of some books too. It's just that it's always so hard to decide! (And most of my books are "good"... hehe... if I didn't like them, I probably already returned them to the store.)

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Three things.

First of all, Hilarykay's grandma died, so offer her your condolences if you get the chance.

Second, and no less important, is that TODAY IS AQUAGIRL'S BIRTHDAY! I loves me some Aquagirl. Happy b-day, sweet thing!

Third, I forgot to mention in my last post that I finally got the mysterious missing "food gift" that C. called me about on Monday. It was delivered mighty late. It ended up being this impossibly huge snack tray... yes, the kind with cheese and sausages! Hahahahaha! It's so large! I won't eat the sausage, but I probably will eat most of the rest of it. Seriously, there are like six jars of jam, three jars of mustard, two of peanut butter, three different kinds of honey... fruitcake slices, chocolate and creme de menthe torte bars, hard candies, turtle candies, you name it and there's probably at least a sample there. I appreciate it but I feel like I might need to call C and say, "Um, sweetie? You do remember that there are only two of us here now, right?" This thing is going to last for months! (But I have to say that when I was younger, I always wanted to be on the receiving end of one... and I do love those torte bars!)

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I'm having kind of a slack day today... resisting idea of going out because I've been out the last few evenings and it's been boring. I have too much I need to get done around here. Always. The usual housework, and also getting packages ready to send to Autumn and Brian and Donna and my Amazon buyers. I really miss people, why is everyone so scattered? My mom wants to go see Cyndi Lauper tomorrow night and I'm resisting. I haven't been to a concert since last year's Cure show with B.

Maybe I'll watch some anime later. I still have 2 unwatched DVDs.

My aunt is getting better, by the way. She was doing really badly the night before last, but yesterday her fever went down and the fluids were doing their job and stuff. The hospital still doesn't know what she has, but since she seems to be recovering, they aren't too worried.

my brain just ricochets around from topic to topic.