It's My Party and I'll Complain If I Want To Complaint Thread
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Ebay, now there's an auction I've never participated in.
I've bought things outright from Ebay but never via the auction feature. Ebay is where I go when I can't find something I need at Amazon. Whereas, the on-line art auctions through "LiveAuctions.com" are where I go when I can't otherwise find things I "want" (v. "need").
When I was a kid back in the '50s and '60s I used to go to local auctions with my parents. Not fancy places, but just household stuff from dead people. That's how we got most of the furniture, appliances and tools in our house back then.
In fact just a few weeks ago I bought a wonderful oak bed frame with carved headboard and footboard for $25 at a local auction. 
Offsetting that bargain was the fact that I spent $400 for a new mattress and box springs. 
But at least the store provided delivery and take-away of the old mattress and box springs. 
Regarding collecting china. Yeah, I know the problem. One can't just collect examples of china. One feels compelled to collect a SET of china. 8 or 12 pieces of everything offered in the set. And 100 years ago, china was the Victorian gizmo to have. One had to be the first one on the block to have the latest design of the best manufacturer one could afford. It was the iPhone and it's matching accessories of the era. So sets of china included several sizes of plates, several sizes of cups, lemon dishes, lemon spoons, sugar bowls, tureens of different sizes, bone plates, sugar bowls, etc. etc. ... My mother collected old Noritake china. At least three different designs of it. When she died we became custodian of a lot of it. Boxes and boxes and boxes of it. After lugging it around from place to place we eventually sent it off to auction and made a tidy sum from it.
Argggh! The G8F character I want to play with is not being shown as installed and the WiFi I am on is not very fast.
My china collection is worth quite a bit more than I paid for it in bits and pieces. I do quite well at grabbing bargains on ebay. It is mostly bits and pieces that go well together. Only sets I have are the two I started off collecting when the stuff was brand new. One set from 70s and one set from 80s on till just over the turn of the millennium. The bit that amuses me is the number of people who advertise pieces that match my later 80s onwards bone china set as "Vintage" I will accept that maybe the 70s dinner set could maybe be just about called vintage, maybe possibly, but is still honestly think Vintage needs to be 60s and earlier. It isn't vintage just because it is no longer manufactured, but 2ndhand china doesn't sound so good as vintage china.
The '60s, vintage?
Egads, I was growing facial hair during the 60's. I prefer not to consider things "vintage" unless I don't remember them. "The Charleston" dance was vintage, WW-I was vintage, even WW-II was vintage but in-kitchen hand pumps, cast iron footed bathtubs, metal toothpaste tubes, and wide mouthed milk bottles, were just old-fashioned, not vintage. Egads, let's not rush things. 
In the sixties I was, um, what was I doing in the sixties? I cannot remember that far back.
I am playing a game called Runescape while playing with DS. Wonder if playing a game while DSing would slow down DS?
Well, the set of Spode that my daughter wants to collect is a multi colored reproduction of British Flowers done in like 2007. They must have done an insane number of small runs of different colors, shapes and designs. Me, my needs are so simple. I got an old tea set with shell shaped snack plates and made Russian Tea to solve everyone's tea bag questions. I learned to make a really nice ginger spice spritz cookie. My youngest daughter has one friend that comes over to spend the night. That is the end of my guest list. My oldest daughter says she'll drink the tea if she can avoid my tea set entirely. She is clumsy, its best for the tea set if she sticks to her Kingdom of Hearts mug. I really like nice flatware. My sister found insane deals on old flatware on ebay. I'll consult her about how she did it and go after the set I wanted until I had to go to work and buy things. At that point, I happy to not pay for that kind of thing. Everything I got when we got married is gone. Maybe a spoon here or there turns up. The rest is just gone. There was divorce for about 10 years so I packed up what I had left and I don't even know what I did with it. A few years ago I remarried him. We are starting fresh with the kids almost grown. Its the only excuse I have for mooning over housewares. That and we can finally afford them. With in reason, none of that I'm spending everything on a 200 years old set of plates we'll never have the courage to use.
I'm looking for part of my Daz Studio runtime. I thought I saved the zip files from Renderosity and Smith Micro. Where could the zip files be??
A 200 year old set of plates. Ye dogs. My oldest china is Victorian, fairly late Victorian 120/130 years old.
TEA
tea for two and two for tea
I home outside and home alone. That means I have no access to the inside until they come back. I want to go inside. I got to go inside.
Sounds familiar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUoO_YwQRh0
Inside now. Of course, I am in trouble now.
LeatherGryphon, that is so funny! I'm making the kids watch this with me as soon they finish their snacks! I use to watch this show all the time on PBS. Now that I have remarried and my income bracket jumped, I feel like I have to mend some of my ways. I'm not to the point of Keeping Up Appearances yet. Some days I look fresh from the trailer park running around town without my teeth in a tshirt and basketball shorts. My husband wishes I'd keep up appearances for his sake atleast. He usually stops me at the door and says sweet nothings like, "Rita! People actually know me and recognize me in this town, you are NOT going anywhere with me looking like THAT!
I need to create a story behind the fairy gal in my avatar.
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...remember watching that I still had a telly.
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Yes, it is for real.
Dana
Non decaying space food!!!
AAAACKKKK!!!! What happened to my avatar? I don't like those colors who inverted the colors and why would they do that ?
halloween?
Non-complaint: I won a bid at the auction! Yay!
Complaint: I won a bid at the auction!
I set myself a limit of $50 but I quit at $60 and the other guy stopped bidding. I really don't know what type of stone it's carved from. The description says it's "Jade-like", but it has an interesting white luster to it and I love the carved scrollwork. It could be a mottled light colored form of nephrite. And it's about 10 inches high so it's not an insignificant piece. I had to dig into future money (CC) but it's not so much that I'm in trouble. If it arrives intact I'll be happy.
I'm continuing to watch the auction. I want to see what that green jade flower boulder carving goes for. (my guess... $400)
Well, LeatherGryphon arn't you on a roll! I just added a free trial of BritBox to my Amazon. Actually watching the Adventures of Sherlock Holms with kids sounds really good. If they are painful about it, I watch it without them..... I am making a no cartoons in the livingroom rule. Take that kids. They are 20 and 16, just because they call it anime doesn't make it ok. They are watching cartoons. All the time. I barely learn whats on tv if it comes to netflicks unless I see it scroll by as they are looking for CARTOONS.
Well, I was way off on my gestimate for the jade flower boulder carving.
It went for $160. Somebody's happy.
I was a little worried about the vendor's use of the term "Jade-like" describing my item. I was afraid that I had just bought myself an ornate piece of glass until I noticed that they used the term "Jade-like" a lot for pieces of jade that were not pure color. Items that were obviously Pieces of jadeite or nephrite that had significant impurities or multiple colors in them. So, I'm not quite so paniced and believe that I actually did get a nice piece of light (almost white, but mottled) nephrite jade. Cool!
My experiences with on-line auction vendors has not always been smooth. But so far, I've managed in all cases to either get my money back on non-shipped items or items that were not as advertised, or repair the item that arrived broken.
pouring buckets outside
no thundahs tho
plaint - bus picking me up 5:45am tomorrow.
only slot they had open.
i dont start work til 8:30am
home nurse came visiting again today.
social worker hasnt shown up
i told these nurses i cant pay the 20 percents my ins doesnt pay,
44 bucks every time they show up
social worker supposed to help me find means
i missed week and a half of work, scared i cant finish a whole day tomorrow.
blood pressure and pills makin me lightheaded and dizzy, awful dry mouth.
nurses telling me i have to take the pills, they dont understand i need to function.
the hospital bill is comin
i have to runaway, go off grid , except is wet and soggy out there. and sqeetos
uummm I've hheard living off the grid is not all it's cracked up to be ........and as far as the bills pay what you can and don't stress it
...I've been doing the latter myself for a while now, though dropped my phone carrier as it was just not worth the high cost.
I know a few people who do live off the grid but you must be physically able to set up and maintain those systems (or pay someone to do it and then are you really ahead?). I know I cannot do so as it requires a lot of physical work my joints and bones are unable to handle anymore. Also this only works if you own your own place/property as most rentals are very strict about making any modifications, and then you usually need to be living in a rural area as cities have ordinances that make going off grid. very difficult to impossible (in parts of Florida they actually prohibit going off gird and becoming self sustaining). So you would also need to be able to drive and own a vehicle (to do things like take non-compostable rubbish to the dump, go shopping, get to work, and such) and for that you need insurance, so even if you paid off the vehicle.
Oh and don't forget having some form of communication service and health insurance, as well as having to pay property and income taxes, so you never can live completely "bill free" any more these days.
...major 'Plant: For some reason after I watched this clip. Youtube apparently started playing just the audio (not the videos) of an entire playlist of the Carol Burnett show and has been doing so for several hours now, cycling from one show to the next and loading them to my page as well as my "watched history" even though I have "autoplay" disabled. Most likely it is some sort of glitch on YouTube's end. I can find no way to make it stop and sent a support ticket to YouTube about it. It is extremely annoying as it overrides audio on any other video and continues playing in background even with YouTube closed, and/or when I am on another tab like Gmail, the Daz forums, or ESPN, the latter where I found it was happening when I clicked on a video and unticked "mute" (I generally mute the speakers after watching a video as I'm not into all the annoying "cutesy" Windows sounds). It is also affecting response of my system when I am online as it is chewing up bandwidth and hammering the CPU.
Going to close FF and see if that breaks the link.
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OK, that apparently fixed it. Still not sure how this happened.