I have been listening to the stupid paypal info loop on their hold for about 25 minutes now. They updated their site to "offer more to sellers" and although I am very happy that now I can accept international sales from my website and not just ebay, but now my shoping cart isn't working properly. It is giving everyone FREE SHIPPING! I know that is great for my customers but it is eating into my profits. Luckily I've had big enough sales this week that I haven't actually lost money yet.
I'm writing about it now because I think it is funny (and annoying) that the automated thingy can't understand me because Lily is squawking in the background. She is trying to play ball with Zelda and every time Zelda gets the ball she squeals. And everytime she squeals the automated system tells me that they are sorry but they did not understand my response.
oh boy... this is annoying.
Crap.. they finally got a person on the phone and only to tell me that the department that I need is closed and to call back tomorrow....eerrrrr
Sunday, September 23, 2007
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Oh My Goodness!
I am here at the dining room table working away on my new laptop. I'm getting work done and Lily is happily typing away on the old broken laptop. I set it up on a small table next to her little chair so she has her own little office. And then, I hear that distinct sound of the computer booting up. Hmmm. I go over and check it out and sure enough whatever she did, she fixed the computer! It was on an online screen where she had reported the error! My child is a genius!
Monday, September 17, 2007
Out with the old, in with the new
My stupid slow laptop finally bit the bullet this weekend. It had been on its deathbed for about a year now and finally decided to quit completely. I bought it in '02 so I guess that is a decent life for a computer. I can sometimes get it to turn on, but only to show the bios screen telling me that the program that is causing the problem is ar5110. No clue what that means! I took it to the shop about 2 years ago and spent about $300 and it never worked right after that so I decided this time to just ditch it and get a new one. I'm going to keep it for Lily to type on though. She doesn't even care if the screen is on, she just likes to type.
So, bargain huntress that I am, I found a laptop for less than $400! Obviously not top of the line and the salesman tried to talk me out of it or at least into an upgrade, but nope, the cheapest of the cheap will do me just fine, thank you.
I'm so excited about it but I don't know how to use Vista yet. I guess I'll figure it out.
Lily has been waking up too early these days and she gets cranky and tired early in the morning and a couple of times has fallen asleep on the floor even before I get her out of her pajamas.
She is very into opening drawers and cabinets these days. This is my mom's old antique sewing machine that Lily is getting into here. It is funny because I've had this for almost two years and never even looked in these drawers before now. Lily keeps bringing me little things that make me reminisce. Mailing labels for our house in Pensacola, to-do lists that my mom wrote, wooden spools of thread, old stamps, etc. This used to sit in the foyer at our house in Pensacola, then it was hidden away and not really used in Atlanta. In Pensacola my mom kept our lunch money in one drawer, stamps in another and various junk in the other two. Now they hold mega blocks, a shoe, and a plastic spoon.
So, bargain huntress that I am, I found a laptop for less than $400! Obviously not top of the line and the salesman tried to talk me out of it or at least into an upgrade, but nope, the cheapest of the cheap will do me just fine, thank you.
I'm so excited about it but I don't know how to use Vista yet. I guess I'll figure it out.
Lily has been waking up too early these days and she gets cranky and tired early in the morning and a couple of times has fallen asleep on the floor even before I get her out of her pajamas.
She is very into opening drawers and cabinets these days. This is my mom's old antique sewing machine that Lily is getting into here. It is funny because I've had this for almost two years and never even looked in these drawers before now. Lily keeps bringing me little things that make me reminisce. Mailing labels for our house in Pensacola, to-do lists that my mom wrote, wooden spools of thread, old stamps, etc. This used to sit in the foyer at our house in Pensacola, then it was hidden away and not really used in Atlanta. In Pensacola my mom kept our lunch money in one drawer, stamps in another and various junk in the other two. Now they hold mega blocks, a shoe, and a plastic spoon.
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Sunday, September 09, 2007
Wednesday, September 05, 2007
Sunday, September 02, 2007
MTSU vs. FAU
If you want to see ALL the pictures CLICK HERE
My dad is here visiting right now and he conveniently planned his trip to coincide with the MTSU/FAU game yesterday. He bought us tickets to the game and although we had a great time and had a ton of fun, MTSU got whipped.
We got a babysitter Friday night so we went and had some world famous burgers at Le Tub (hence the toilet pictures) and a couple of drinks at O'Malley's. Yesterday we did the game all day and now today Daddy is insisting that I put some pictures of him and Lily up on the blog.
He has fed Lily her breakfast for two days now and now she is trying to make the silly noises that he makes.
He also has combed her hair to match his. I remember my poor brothers having to have my dad's same haircut for their entire childhood and so I guess now Lily has to have that hairdo too.
We got a babysitter Friday night so we went and had some world famous burgers at Le Tub (hence the toilet pictures) and a couple of drinks at O'Malley's. Yesterday we did the game all day and now today Daddy is insisting that I put some pictures of him and Lily up on the blog.
He has fed Lily her breakfast for two days now and now she is trying to make the silly noises that he makes.
He also has combed her hair to match his. I remember my poor brothers having to have my dad's same haircut for their entire childhood and so I guess now Lily has to have that hairdo too.
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