Gosh, I completely forgot about this blog! Doesn't matter, I haven't done much of anything other than the usual moaning and groaning. I was trying to get into Etsy and once again they are 'working on it' which means the site is down. They are supposed to be going from beta to v2 on Nov. 1st so there must be a lot of things going on there. It's just frustrating when you can't get to your shops to check on things. I don't have anything new to upload tonight so I won't freak out. I will have things very soon. I've been working on a few things and they should be done with in a few days. Providing I work steadily on them. That can change on an hourly basis.

I sure would like to get a few, no, a lot of things made for Christmas Shoppers. It's beginning on Etsy and I am totally not ready. I was so busy with all the large side orders that I haven't made anything. I could take a day off and go gung-ho but knowing me that would only produce one or two things. It takes me forever and a day to do anything anymore.

I sold another pair of booties to a sweet girl who is adopting a baby from China. These didn't go through Etsy so no fees to pay other than the Pay Pal fees. We sold Robyn's pirate doll to a girl in the UK and I had to hassle with pay pal because for some reason they kept saying I didn't accept international payments. Long story short I had to upgrade my account to premiere which it already had been done a couple of years ago. Whatever. I even have a pay pal credit card which I got when I upgraded. I think that place is so crooked. I wish there was another on line source for transactions other than pay pal. I had heard there was one starting with Google but so far I have not heard anymore about it. I even opened a Google account but I haven't heard a thing from them either. Who knows.

Speaking of google, this is actually googol, did you know a googol is the number 1 with 100 zeros after it. That is one huge number! They say you could never count to 1 million in your lifetime, so I wonder how many lifetimes it would take to count to a googol.

Have you been wondering about the lyrics to a song that's stuck in your head? Check this out, Lyrics Just wish they had a tiny piece you could actually hear so you know you've at least got the tune right.

Rob and Robyn leave for Africa on the 1st of December. That is not far away at all. I sure hope this is the last time they go during Christmas. It really upsets me. Mind you Rob has never been that in tune with the Christmas spirit, being he's half Scottish. More likely it was never a huge deal when he was growing up. They didn't do gifts there like they do here, nor did they make a big deal about anything else. I'm not totally sure if that is a trait of his family or if that is indicative of the whole of South Africa. Anyway, the next time they go it had better be in the summer, which is their winter and the weather in their winter is much like our summers so weather shouldn't be an issue.

I reckon that's it for tonight. I still have an hour or so to work on my things for Etsy so I will go and do that. It seems so strange sometimes to sit here and write to myself but oh, well, stranger things happen. Goodnight...