Meet Nelly (NSFW?)

Look who knocked on my door today, asking for a place to stay:

I've named her Nelly, as in: "Whoa, Nelly! Put some clothes on. You tryin' to put my eye out with those things??"

I can't decide if I like her or not. I have a full plus-size dressform from my sewing days that has served me quite nicely. (She's a lot more modest too...). But she doesn't work well for small sized clothing or for pants, since she's on a pole. This is just a half form, so none of my clothes fit her right. I have to clothespin just about everything behind her back. She will do for now. I need to find her a male companion though.

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I haven't had much eBay activity today. I had a buyer from Argentina a week or so ago. He bought several jars of Meltonian cream and paid over $30 for priority shipping. Well, I knew they could safely ship in a priority padded mailer, which is only $13.25. So I refunded him about $15 with a note that he had overpaid. He emailed me in very broken English, wanting to know why I had put money back into his account. I explained and he said (translated here into less-broken English), "That's very nice of you, but I chose to pay extra for regular priority shipping so that it would arrive without problems."  Drat. I understood immediately what he meant. International flat rate envelopes don't have tracking. Regular priority international does. But it was too late. I had already sent the package out. I assured him that if they never showed up, I would be glad to reship using the regular priority shipping. Yes, it would have ended up costing me $30 out of my own pocket, but customer service (and my feedback!) are very important to me. Well lucky me ... he left positive feedback yesterday, so they must have arrived. Hooray!

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I bought a set of 8 reindeer salad plates at a yard sale a year and a half ago. Those things! Ugh. I was beginning to think they would NEVER sell! I finally sold the last one today. Hallelujah. Yes, Christmas items do sell after Christmas. I paid $2 for the set of 8, and altogether, they sold for a total of $117.35, so it was worth it, but my goodness, did I ever get sick of looking at those things.

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Other than that, I just sold a bunch of Meltonian today. Slow and easy day. I'm in the process of editing a bunch more pictures. I was thinking about another listing marathon tonight (I got 26 new listings up last night!), but I think it'll be a tv night instead.

My husband and I started watching Grey's Anatomy from the very beginning about 4 or 5 months ago. Neither of us had ever seen a single episode, so we figured it would be a good project. We got sucked right in and watched at least 2 episodes a night, sometimes more, as often as we were able. We are all caught up, and now we have to watch it like normal people do: one episode per week. Sigh. But now he's in school Thursday nights, so we STILL don't get to watch it as it airs. We have to watch it on Hulu the next night.  We need suggestions for a new series to start watching from the beginning. We haven't had cable in a long long time, so odds are good that we haven't seen most of the good shows out there. It also has to be available on Netflix or Amazon on Demand (free for prime members). Any suggestions?

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I've sold quite a few copies of my Inventory Tracking Spreadsheet in the brief time that it's been available (at the far bottom right of my blog). I'd like to start expanding the available documents. Are there any other documents that you'd like me to provide? I'm thinking of writing a step-by-step tutorial for how to build a microwave turntable box. I get requests for that one a lot. What else would be helpful?