Ebay annoys me.

Hi Stephen,

I'm sitting here, looking at this blog page AND, at the same time, I am also looking at the Ebay page that has the item I'm hoping to win....in 9 minutes.  I just LOST a damned item because Pete called me on the phone and totally distracted me from winning it....grrrrr....I don't often sit on Ebay, but last night I typed in "Raggedy Ann and Andy" and holy CRAP, there were more than 20 pages of items....I never expected THAT much stuff to show up. But, for some bizarre reason, I want to collect these damned dolls.  I never cared for them while growing up, mind you, but NOW, I just think they are adorable.

I know, I will never have a kid, I will never decorate a nursery, I will never NEED anything that has Raggedy Ann and Andy on it.  I know this, logically, and as a responsible adult woman.  But.....as you well know, most responsible adult women also have an IMPULSIVE LITTLE GIRL inside of them too.

So, I was hoping to win these 2 plastic banks, which were totally vintage 1972....and one person bid against me so I outbid him, and then DAMMIT, the phone rang, I started talking to Pete, and the next thing I see on the screen is that I lost to that same person by 50 cents!!  GRRRRR.  That is so RUDE.

Oh well, I've lived without them for 43 years, I guess I'll survive somehow.

Now I'm 5 minutes away from winning a lunch box.  I know, I know, this is just stupid.  A grown woman bidding on Raggedy Ann and Andy shit.  (shaking my head in pathetic annoyance at myself).  Yes, I used to sit and look through all the Journey Junk on Ebay, and sometimes bid on a few things....but I never really did that for more than a few hours.  I'd get bored, frankly, and everybody acted so pissy about bidding that I felt it wasn't worth it.  I'd rather go to record shows and haggle with a human being in person, whilst showing off my bodacious bazoomba cleavage and batting my eyelashes.

(You'd be AMAZED at how many STEALS I got on all my Journey junk by doing that, when I was in my 20's)!!  hehehehehe  Yeah, well, if ya got it, ya might as well use it.  I have no shame.  No remorse.

THREE MINUTES!!! (The suspense is killing me....are you on the edge of YOUR seat too)??
TWO MINUTES!!!  (I'm chewing my damned fingernail like a lunatic)...

(So far I am the only person bidding on this stupid lunch box, for $1.00)!!!

ONE MINUTE!!!! AAAAUUUUGGGHHHH!!!
If somebody else swoops in and outbids me, I'll be highly aggravated.

LESS THAN ONE MINUTE!!!  (Don't you DARE get on Ebay right now and outbid me, dammit).

I know that thought has crossed your mind.
You can't fool me.
I know you.
I know how you are.

SON OF A BITCH.  Somebody swooped, and bid $1.25. GRRRRRRRR!!!! I hate Ebay so much.

Was it YOU?!!   Ya know Stephen, I really would have to bite your face off if I ever find out it was you.  You're supposed to LOVE ME dammit, not cause me GRIEF like that, ya turd.  Don't be sadistic!!  Or, well, if you HAVE to be sadistic, just show up on my doorstep in some buttless leather chaps with a flogger and a whip in hand, and a mean look on your face, and watch me melt into a puddle on the floor.

SIGH.  Oh well, I'm just not much of an Ebay fanatic I guess, so I am simply stuck SAVING MY MONEY, BOO-HOO-WOE-IS-ME-DAMMIT-TO-HELL.  Ain't life a bitch.

I really am not that competitive about material stuff though. I have TOO much stuff as it is.  I really do.

However....having said that....there IS a Raggedy Andy ceramic NIGHT LIGHT, that I really want.  In fact, I'm so stupid, I bid $20 as my maximum bid. So, if I have to get my REVENGE on these Ebay nutballs, by bidding stupidly HIGH so they'll leave it alone and LET ME HAVE THE DAMNED THING, then that's what I'll do I guess.

I am so frigging BORED.  It used to be, when I was single, I would spend the evening diddling myself into oblivion and then eating some popcorn, or maybe ice cream, in an endorphin-enduced happy satisfaction whilst watching an old movie.  But noooo, now that I"m MARRIED, and a frumpy damned HOUSEWIFE, I am scanning the internet to score some Raggedy Ann shit.  I just don't understand what the hell happened to me.

Pete won't be home until either tomorrow evening or Tuesday evening, we'll know for sure tomorrow when he meets with Nathan's doctors to discuss his discharge to go home.  So, until then, I am on my own and trying my best to stay away from the daily news stories and t.v. programs, play with my dog as much as I can (I even recorded a short video of it the other day...she's so fun to play with)....and just trying to enjoy my alone time, putzing around the house.  I actually CLEANED a lot today.  Jeezus.

Yeah. This is my life.  Spending my weekend perusing Raggedy Ann shit on Ebay.  BLEAHHHH!!! But hey, I guess it keeps me out of the casino, and out of jail, so I really shouldn't complain too much.

Oh yes, to answer that BURNING question you have in your mind right now, there are MANY OTHER lunch boxes on Ebay, but they all want $20-$40-even $130 bucks for 'em. That's why this $1.00 lunch box was so cool, ya know?  I'm totally a bargain shopping DIVA.

Well, I suppose I'd better go for now.  ARGHHHH, somebody just outbid me on another item.  I really really cannot stand Ebay.  Do you ever get into this kind of bizarre "zone" where you just GOTTA win this insane item that you really don't NEED, but it's only a BUCK and what the hell, ya just wanna buy it, and hope nobody outbids ya?

It sucks, doesn't it.  Boy, I'd like to be a fly on the wall, lookin' over your shoulder at the things YOU would want to bid on....and now, that thought will keep me occupied for awhile as I drift off to sleep.

Bye for now.  I hope you had a nice weekend, and I love you lots.

Love, Rebecca