Ebay Buyer~~~emtdbg

Hey you guys!

As most of you know, I sell on ebay.  I did have 99.9% until ebay changed there feedback policy and now it is at 99.5.  Can I just say I HATE there new feedback system as a seller.  I have a buying account as well and I think it is unfair as a buyer even.

Anyway on to this buyer emtdbg. BLOCK,BLOCK,BLOCK….you don’t want this buyer’s harrassement!

She received her item on 12.12.07 and she left this feedback~~~lightning fast shipping. great ebayer. thanks!

So I in tern on my auto feedback reply left her postive feedback. On 1.07.08 she left a follow-up comment

very crappy, item fell apart after 1 day. would not respond to request 4 refund  (She never emailed me stating that there was a problem.  I do give refunds within 7 business days if wanted.)  I was fuming at that point…because she lied.  I respond to ALL emails within 24 hours.  I didn’t receive ONE from her.

So in turn I did get a little nasty and that I am embarrassed by. And I regretted that I left it right after I did.  I replied with this….(and left it at that)

My reply:

Received 12-12. Never heard from. Would have refunded. Crappy buyer!

Then Today ONE lousy day after my birthday I received this email from her.

*Words are *** out but I bet you can guess what she said!**LOL

Emtdbg’s email

Yeah, i bought a this bracelet from a while back and i asked you many times, 4 times to be exact, to refund the item. You never responded, then 3 months later you finally respond to leaving me a feedback comment reply, saying that i never contacted you and that i was a crappy buyer. Yes im the crappy buyer who paid you 30 seconds after the auction ended. right. so i jusy wanted to stop by and say that its shi**y people like you that make ebay a risky place to shop. thanks for the gift that fell apart after being worn for 5 minutes, you no good c*ck s*ck*r. have a shi**y day

She sent it through eBay email channels.  I did report the email to eBay because I do feel it is harrassment and shouldn’t have got to this point to begin with.  I didn’t repspond back because I am done with this whole deal.

I just felt like other ‘blogger’s’ who ebay should be made aware of this buyer.  I just might have to make a list of bad buyers! hahhahha….This is the ONLY one out of over 3,000 transactions I have had.

35th ~Thirty Five Birthday

Today is my 35th Birthday!  THIRTY FIVE!  You know some people ‘hate’ turning 20, 30, 40, 50.  But I ‘hate’ turnring 25,35,45,45.  It is the birthday’s that end in 5 that I don’t like. 

I now have been out of school longer than I was in.  I don’t think I ‘feel’ 35.  But Lord knows, I look it.  I was born on this day in 1973.  On my Parental grandparents Anniversary.   I weighed in at 8 pounds even and 22 inches long.  I was born in Weatherford, Oklahoma and my mom’s Doctor was Dr. Ingram.  He is actually related to us…..although I am not sure how. He is no longer practicing Medicine.  He retired about 5 years ago I believe.  He also delivered my sister.

My maternal grandfather named me.  I am named after a German woman.  And my middle name is my mother’s middle name which is ‘Jane’.  We are both named after my great grandma Ross.  Her middle name was also Jane.  Unfortantely, my daughter’s middle name is NOT Jane.  Had to compromise in the naming of my daughter.

I grew up in the small town of Eakly, Oklahoma. There were only 8 in my graduating class.  And 6 of us were girls.  Needless to say we didn’t have a very good selection of boyfriends.

As I grew up and reached 15 years old, I began baby sitting my Aunts kids.  And then I baby sat a little girl named Britany and Luva for a time. After Graduating High school I worked at 3M in Weatherford making 5″ floppy discs.  I did that for 2 summers.  While going to college in the fall and spring.  I also worked in my grandparents farming business at King’s Irrigation in Eakly.  My cousin Justin also worked there as well as several other of my cousins.

Then I meet and married my husand and have been with him for 14 years.  And the rest is pretty self explanatory.

Anyway, I don’t know what the post is suppose to serve other than to draw attention to myself and let you all know that I am another year old…..YAYAY!!!!…….NOT!

Have a wonderful Friday and a safe weekend!

 

 

Our Newest Family Members

Hey Guys!

Here are our newest member to our family are Goldfish.  There tank is not nearly big enough.  I found that out after doing research on them last night.  Hopefully, it will be okay for the next few months.  Then we will get a better tank for them.  Wish us luck that our fish will grow and survive.  I read that goldfishes lifespan are between 10 and 20 years.  And that they can grow to be between 6 and 12 inches long. 

We have renamed them.

Please meet Roxie, Moxie and Doxie!

We believe that Rox’s is a Calico Goldfish. (although a still a little uncertain)

We have noticed that Roxie has an attitude.  And sometimes she likes to hog the camera space! And you can tell them all apart due to there spots or lack thereof.  I didn’t think I would like them as much as I do.  I really want to see them grow and thrive. 

I hope you all have a wonderful day.  This evening is going to be hard as our friends will leave….

Have a great Thursday!

A Sad week…

Hey Guys!

  Sorry I haven’t posted much this week.  It has been an emotional week of sorts for my kids and my heart breaks for them.  There first REAL close friends are moving on Friday….Tomorrow, will be there last Day to play with them.

Aimee is have a rough time with it….more than I thought she would. She and Ava have been best friends for almost 3 years now.  She is a great kid.  She is 2 years younger than Aimee but them playing together you wouldn’t know it.

Daniel and Austin were close buddies for the first 18 months that we lived here.  And then they got interested in ‘different’ friends.  Only to find out the past 6 months they have become great buddies again.  Austin is the same age as Aimee. 

Out of the deal though we have acquired 3 new goldfish.  There names right now are Austin, Ava, and Emma. We figure after there friends leave on Friday we will rename them.  I just pray I can keep them alive!!!!

Aimee and Ava play on webkinz a lot.  And we have given them our phone numbers and email addresses.  As well as our mailing address.  I told the girls on Tuesday that they can become penpals and they seemed to like that idea.

Friday Morning the kids want to be up early to see them off…don’t know if that is such a good idea or not…we might not make it in time…I know they want to head out pretty early.  But we will try. 

For those of you that pray…please keep this family of 5 in your prayers as they make the move from Tennessee to Utah.  And pray for all 4 of the kids that they will handle it smoothly and without to much turmoil.

And for those that don’t pray just send us your good thoughts.  We are all going to be needing them.  This is going to be a tearful start to our weekend.

Have a wonderful day!

*Can anyone come up with some good name for three sweet goldfish????*

Graduation Day~Picutres.

Hey guys,

 We only took a few pictures at Daniel’s Graduation.  This is how come.  We had been asking him for weeks—even months what we needed to get him to wear.  He always told us “Our Dare Shirts”.  So being the naive mother that I am….I believed him.  I should have phoned his teacher and asked.  They were all dressed a classy casual look with  a handful of kids wearing just shorts and a sloppy t-shirt.  And that was my son.  And to top it off my 11 year old son wrote on his arm….GRRRRR!!!

Anyway, here are the pictures…

Daniel and his class walking back after graduation

Daniel Giving David a Hug

Daniel and David inside Daniel’s Classroom—Yes, Our cat scratched David pretty good on the face.

Daniel with his Best Friend Nate!

Daniel with his last elementary teacher.  She was the BEST teacher!  Just Awesome!

Here is Aimee with her Best Friend Savannah!  Yes, they are in the same class.  My daughter is the tallest one. They both will be in 5th grade next year.  However, Savannah was rezoned for a different school.

And finally my now 2nd grader.  Zachary.  Look he is already a ladies man surrounded by three girls!

We also took video that we haven’t uploaded yet.

Have a wonderful Long weekend.

End of School Report Cards….

Today, was the start of the kids summer break.   And here I thought I was ready for them to be out.

Anyhow, they all did amazing the last 9 weeks.  Zachary received all S’s-Satisfactory.  Daniel made the A/B honor roll and Aimee made the principals honor roll—she had straight A’s again!  We are SO extremely proud of all three of them.

Bedtimes have changed for the summer.  Daniel and Aimee get to stay up until 10:30 at night and Zachary till 9.  It will change back to there normal ’school’ schedule two weeks before school starts.

Daniel is sleeping over at a friends tonight.  This ‘friend’ will be moving in about 3 weeks.  I believe he is having a few friends over tonight as well.  And next week both Daniel and Aimee have friends moving.  Aimee is really going to miss Ava.  They have been very close ever since we moved here.  I believe there last full day here in our neighborhood is May 28th.  And May 29th they leave. 

We have told Aimee that she will just have to get out and ride her bike around the neighborhood to see if she can find more little girls around her age.  Truth be told there is a 9 year old girl that lives directly behind us.  But she and Aimee just don’t seem to ‘click’ as friends.

Tomorrow, I am going to be posting some recipes on my recipe blog.

I hope you all had a great week. 

 

Daniel’s Big Day

Hey Guys!

Daniels big day is tomorrow—-His 5th grade graduation!  He is so excited.  It is being held at 10 am in the cafeteria.  I am wondering how they are going to get all the students and teacher’s, faculty and parents in there.  There are between 7 and 9 graduating 5th graders.  Each class has 20 to 28 kids.  I guess we will find out tomorrow.

Daniel is going to get the suprise of his life tomorrow.  We thought that Eric wouldn’t be able to attended due to his class schedule.  However, he spoke with his professor and she gave him ‘permission’ to go.  All he has to do is take a picture with Daniel to prove he was there.  So instead of it being just me and David.  It will be Eric, Myself and David.

And then the last day of school is Thursday.  Which it is a half day.  And Daniel probably will not be going.  We are going to see if Eric can just pick up his report card for him.  It wouldn’t be a big deal to get his report card.  We basically know what his grades are.  It is just that there is an important sheet attached to his report card with 3 dates that he needs to be at the middle school for 6th grade orientation.

Eric is off on Thursday.  That will be nice.  To have both him and the kids home.  However, that afternoon I will get a break as I go to my next door neighbors and ‘teach’ her how to list her stuff on eBay.  I have some awesome neighbors.

Dinner is going to be easy tonight.  We are having Hot Dogs.  I am just not in the mood to cook.  I can’t wait until we can purchase a new grill.  I will be cooking out every evening!  I love to cook out!  That will be sometime in June!  WHOOHOO can’t wait.

I hope you all had a awesome Tuesday.

Now if I can just get through tomorrow without shedding a tear…..then I will be good!

Have a good evening guys!

About family…

Be prepared…a Little bit of sad venting on my part. Fair warning—it will be a long post today!

I have been thinking about this ever since I found out my aunt passed away last week.  Just how close to you are you and your family???

The reason I ask…Is growing up.  I felt extremely close to my mom’s side of the family.  I felt close to my dad’s side be in a completely different way.  My mom’s side of the family, I could go to them for ANYTHING.  I could talk to them about anything.  My grandpa Coats was the best.  He made me feel like I could do anything.  He made me feel so special.  My grandma Coats, taught me the foundations of cooking.  I would sit on the counter right next to her and watch her cook.    I feel close to her because there were only two people I would stay with when I was little (extremely shy I tell ya)  And she was one of them.

My parents thought I was going to be a boy when I was born.  They had NO girl name picked out.  Know who named me….My grandpa Coats.  I will also love him for it.  I didn’t like it very well growing up.  Everyone called me Sabrina.  Which it is pro-nouced SUE-PRE-NUH.  My grandmother didn’t start driving until after my grandfather passed away.  When I hit driving Age, my grandpa didn’t like to drive in the early evening and night.  So if they had to go somewhere at night.  They would call me.  He was not only my grandfather but also someone that I admired and looked up to so much.

My grandparents on my dad’s side were more stricked and like to keep ‘up’ appearances.    They treated there step-grandchildren better than there grandchildren (at least I think sometimes).  The ironic thing about there step-grandchildren is that they were actually my 3rd or 4thcousins from there dad’s side of the family.  I know….strange!  Truth be told, they got on my nerves and continue to do so.  (notice I am not mentioning names but I am sure if you are my cousin or a relative reading this you know exactly who they are). 

My grandparents would do something for you and always let other people know exactly how much they have done for you.  And continue to be constantly reminded about it.  Don’t get me wrong.  I have a awesome connection with One unlce and One Aunt and there children on my grandpa and grand-dad k’s side.  And the Aunt that I just lost I was SUPER close to one of there daughters.  I was born on my grandma and grandpa K’s wedding anniversary.  Although, I when we got together to celebrate there wedding anniversary….my birthday was NEVER brought up.  I truly think everyone forgot about it being my birthday as well.  And that is tough on a kid.

These days, I keep in touch with my sister Shawna (who I am extremely close to) and my brother in law Jason.  My mom and step-dad, and my grandma Coats.  I haven’t spoke withmy dad in over 8 years.  And no I am NOT joking.  It has been 8 years.  And truth be told.  It really doesn’t bother me in the least.  What does bother me is that if something does ever happen to him.  Shawna nor I will not be notified.  And I can truly see that happening.

Now….With my extended side of Eric’s family….

Truth be told.  I don’t really know them that well….not even a smidgen.  But this is what I do know…

My father in law—He is a TRUE Texan.  You can tell that just by looking at him.  He has that rugged Texan look about him.  He loves his kids and his grandchildren dearly.  When I first ‘meet’ him, he said he couldn’t remember my name.  So he gave me a nick name of “Soapapia”.  That has stay with me.  Eric will sometimes even call me ‘Soapapia”.  I actually like it.  Now Eric’s dad really doesn’t remember it.  But Eric and I do.

My mother in law—-I want to say this first.  It has been about 7.5 to 8 years since I have spoken to her on the phone or even seen her.  So I don’t really ‘know’ her all that well. She absolutely loves and adores her kids and grandchildren.  She is such a classy lady.  She is a Christian.  She knows how to dress.  And dress her age not looking frumpy but classy!  I swear this lady exudesclass!  I know she doesn’t know this.  But when we did speak I highly valued her opinions and respected her greatly.  Oh and I might add…she is just GORGEOUS!  Silly thing is David (my littlest) looks EXACTLY like her. And they have never ‘meet’ each other.

My brother -in-law Troy~~~Again, I ‘think’ I might have said 10 sentences to him ever….Isn’t that Sad.  Okay, truth be told.  I feel extremely intimidated by him.  He has a big master’s degree.  And I think that is what gets me.  But even before that I felt that way.. Don’t know why.  I know he loves and adores his wife Debbie and there Children.  Which I might add.  Are just WAY to cute…ooooh sorry.  I better say Beautiful and Handsome.  My nephew is 15 years old (Oh Gosh, I hope I got that right.)  And just as handsome young man. My niece is a pretty thing.  Granted, I don’t know them at all.  They probably don’t even think of me as there ‘Aunt’.  But I will claim them as my niece and nephew.  Who wouldn’t that are smart, intelligent kids.  And to continue about Troy.  I am jealous of My husband Eric and there Sister Leslie.  I never had an older brother.  But if I did I would want one like Troy.

My sister in law—-SHE CAN TALK!!!! And a THOUSAND WORDS A MINUTE!  Okay, Okay maybe not a Thousand but 500 at least.  Again, I haven’t spoke to her in a LOOOOOONNNG time.  I do know again that she is a dotting wife and mother.  She is smart to and just beautiful.  She has two awesome kids as well.  Both very smart and outgoing from what I can tell.  Again, I can’t tell much, but from what I hear from Eric.  Her brother constantly tease her about being adopted.  I think it is the other way around and maybe the boys are adopted. 

I do wish I could just pick up the phone and call my sister in laws….because sometimes I desperatelyneed advice.  You see I am the youngest. Eric’s Brother is 46 (I believe) his sister is 38/39, Eric is 41.  And I will be turning 35 at the end of the month. And soon to be the only one without a degree.  That might be my problem as well. 

Anyway, I guess with my Aunt passing away.  I feel like I just don’t hardly have any family.  That I can truly talk to.  Yes, I have my mom, grandma and sister.  But gosh….I just wish I had a extra ear or too to talk to.  Yes, I know I can always talk to Eric. There are things sometimes that you just need a women to talk to and not your mom or your sister.  I really feel like If anything every happened to my sister I would be VERY VERY alone.  And I hate that feeling.

Gosh, this is SO EXTREMELY LOOOONNG!  I am so sorry.  Tomorrow, I will be more upbeat….

Have a great Monday!!!!

Where do I start??????

Family….

Sometimes family can be so odd and cruel.  I don’t know what to think about my extended family sometimes….

They drive me nuts and I don’t even speak to them….

You see…..I posted a few months ago that I had an Aunt Diagnosed with Lung Cancer.  I knew she probably wouldn’t survive the year.  Well she died this past Wednesday.  My sister nor I didn’t even find out until FRIDAY night at 7.  Why is that???

My sister and I didn’t even have time to get anything together to send a plant or something.  And what makes it even worse.  The services for my Aunt were this morning.  It makes us look like we don’t even care.  Which we do!!!!!

Why on earth is it so hard for my dad to pick up the phone and call his daughters??? Why didn’t a Aunt just call one of us to verify that dad did call us.

 When my sister phoned my dad last night, he didn’t even know who it was and had to ask…”Who is this?”  What does he mean “Who is this???”  Come on you don’t even recognize your own daughters voice.  Which is a load of you know what!

I have a feeling if something ever happened to my dad….my sister and I would NEVER know about it.

Anyway, I want to send out my condolences to my cousins.  They have lost both parents now.

So Lezlie & Mike and there kids, Valerie, Justin and his wife and girls, and Marla and her husband and kids…I am so sorry about your mom.  I loved her very much and thought of her often.  It broke my heart that I couldn’t be there.  I know your mother loved you very much….she told you and she acted it out.  She was a great source of comfort for me when I went home to visit.  I could always count on going to visit Aunt Kay.

Much Love and Hugs to All of you!

 

Not enough hours in the day….

Have you ever felt like I just need 2 more hours of this day to get everything accomplished??

I feel like I am trying to force 32 hours of “work” and housework and being a Mother into a 24 hour period and 7 of those hours I am sleeping.

Next week is the end of school and Daniel’s 5th grade graduation.  They even have a ‘after’ party for the 5th graders.  I got a laugh out of that.  I can tell that all of my kids are ready for school to be out.  David continually asks where his brothers and sister is.

There attitudes are stretching thin, just like they did last summer at the end of school.

May 28, 29 and 30 Daniel gets to go to Middle School Orientation.  Eric is going with him. It is only for an hour each day.  But he will get first dibs on his locker.

Eric is in his “Maymester” at College.  His last Day is th 30th.  And then he turns right around and starts the summer sememster.  He seems to really like his class.  Which makes it much easier on him, and me.

David’s 4th Birthday is coming up.  I can’t believe it has almost been 4 years since that little guy was born.  Seems like yesterday.

I have been making headbands like crazy.  And I have a few new ‘designs’.  When picking out fabric it is hard for me to step out of the box so to speak. And pick fabric that I do not necessarily like but someone else may.

Here are some of my new headbands…

Pink Panther-

 

I better get back to my busy day.  I hate it because I feel like I am neglecting my blog.  And I LOVE to blog!

Have a wonderful Friday!