I’m too impatient to figure out how to get the video on my digital camera to work right now, so here’s a handful of pics:

1000 lights.

Gods know how many ornaments (I lost count after the first 200).

You’ll notice there’s no gifts beneath it. If the scrap of paper isn’t a tip off, Ribbon decided to open a few presents herself.

And speaking of Ribbon:

Finally, I’ve complied my list. It took me so long I can’t remember who I gacked this from. But anyways:

Step 1: Put your media player on random.
Step 2: Pick your favorite lines from the first 25 songs that play.
Step 3: Post and let everyone you know guess what song the lines come from.
Step 4: Cross out the songs when someone guesses correctly.

Liner Notes

With eBay’s recent announcements of changes that can signifacantly hurt sellers, major changes being made during the holiday season after being promised they were going to spare us this year, and a whole lot of other things that are pissing off the store owners on eBay, many of us are either leaving eBay, or at least diversifying.

I am one of the ones who will be diversifying. I’ve already signed up with Wagglepop, where I will be among the first store owners open for business when it goes live next month. I’ll still keep listing individual items on eBay, but I’m closing down my eBay store soon after the move to Wagglepop.

Another option I’m thinking about is reviving my original idea to create a store within my website. I’m already paying for the space and considering how much Tripod Blogs have changed over the last year, I can fairly easily create a store using one. My only concerns are the lack of a decent shopping cart (I need one that is cheap, but can accept both PayPal, and checks and money orders, and be upgradeable should I ever do enough business to warrant having a merchant account), whether or not someone would shop from a non-eBay store that only accepts PayPal/checks/money orders, and how to handle stock issues (like one of a kind items, or someone ordering an out of stock item before I can update the item description with and “out of stock” notice).

*sigh* It’s days like these when the suck factor of running my own business can outweigh the excitement!

I was at Target today. Saw a sight that I’m still having trouble believing:

We were walking around the candy isles, looking for the multi-flavor mini candy canes that were suppose to be on sale. A young woman, in her twenties, walked by me, talking obliviously with someone on her cell phone. She kept walking forward until she walked into another shopper’s cart. As soon as she hit the cart, she stopped, but continued her conversation with the person on the phone.

Now, the cart was being used by an elderly woman who was busy searching for something on the shelves. It took her at least a minute before she realized the other woman was there. During this time the woman with the cell phone did not acknowledge the other shopper, nor their cart, nor anything else for that matter, besides the person she was talking to on the phone. When the elderly woman finally moved the cart, the other woman just continued walking as if nothing had been there.

*wonders if a “Hang Up and Pay Attention” t-shirt would sell*

I just downloaded, and played (at full blast) Merry, Merry, Merry Frickin’ Christmas.

For those of you who don’t have the pleasure of living in Massachusetts, this is also known as the World Champion Red Sox Anthem.

Glenn, the Yankees fan, keeps turning the song off everytime it comes on the radio. It’s such a shame he doesn’t know how to turn off WMP. *impish grin*

Between this and the Red Sox bottle opener the corps. gave him last night at the party (which Jarret is running aroung the apartment with, touching it to anything metal he can find to make the sound come on) we’ve been lots of fun torturing Glenn.

Serves him right for being so damn cocky about the Yankees all these years. )