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Last day/night in Germany. Packing, sorting, shipping a box home (each year I say I won't, each year I do- clothes not needed, brochures, cards, fliers, books bought and given, etc., etc.) cleaning the apartment at the farm and putting it to rights after a month's living in it. Paying for the month. Making sure we've packed what we meant to. Last bath, last sleep, last coffee in the morning.
Then it's off to the friend who will drive us to Hamburg, and over the water to London. Routes mapped (or at least half-mapped), plans made (realistic or not, they're MADE, and thus, can be met, altered, or scrapped altogether). Just about three years ago I'd never been to London and never expected to go: this will be my fourth time there. Amazing. Had such a good time there in June.
STILL not much 'net time. Should be lots of pics at the end, though, and stories to tell over time. In the mean time, be well, be kind, be excellent to one another, and blessings on your heads.
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The beauty of life and the world continues to amaze me.
Three days on the road with so many wonderful experiences and people it'll take me a month when I get home to write about them (and I'll catch up last year and the year before a bit, too, now I can sort out the personal/private from the travel/public a little better).
Today is the first day of my new year- in other words, my birthday. It's not always been an easy day for me to celebrate, but this year I'm so grateful for my life it's impossible to be anything BUT happy.
Be well, know I'm thinking of each of you- some are moving, some changing jobs, some facing health concerns themselves or in their families, some graduating *applause* and some starting school or new programs, new jobs, or trying to find ways to stay in their old one a bit longer until something new comes along. Each of you is someone to me, and all of you are worth this:
Blessings on your heads.
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A day and a half in Flensburg: Harbour, small courtyards, streets full of fun and people and music and shops, kilometres of walking and breaks to sit at small tables with coffee or a Harbour bench with a beer and a cigarette (poetic_self) or tea and gum (me) and listen to the conversations around us.
Highly recommend The Backpacker's Inn Hostel in Flensburg. More about that later- the Captain's Walk calls, and then on to Ribe.
Blessings on your heads *hugs*
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London was BRILLIANT. As one would hope.
http://asiprosper.com/ give it a try. <3<3
Flea market = everything I needed but didn't bring.
Travel is good.
That is all.
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As much as I didn't want to do this quite yet, I find that the twin deadlines of Graduation Day and Leaving for Europe are coming more quickly than I'm prepared for.
So it is with some sorrow and a bit of relief that I'm putting EnjoyIt on vacation.
If there's something you know you wanted, let me know- Everything will be there when I get back, and I'll be re-opening it while I find someplace else to list my books. If there's something you REALLY wanted soon, PM me here, and we can work it out.
I have really enjoyed this project, and am so very very appreciative of all of you who commented, supported, advertised, helped with problem-solving, donated, and of course, BOUGHT BOOKS!
Blessings on your heads.
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| 2009-05-06 07:36 |
| State of the Slashfairy, three weeks and counting |
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Yep, I'm graduating! have to pick up my cap&gown over at uni this week. If I remember I'll do it after work before my mammogram on Friday. *eyeroll* life of an older student.
EnjoyIt will go on vacation May 25th (last day I can ship) because I'm leaving for Europe May 26th! (London-Germany-Denmark-Germany-London) Home July 8th, back to work probably the 12th. Thank you every one who has bought or will buy, who has passed the word to friends and co-workers. It's been a real joy, becoming a book-seller, and it's made the difference between being able to pull off this trip nicely and have it be a grind and a worry.
Have started a WordPress Blog as a professional place to write; those of you who read along know that peace-work and despair-work are two lifetime interests/pursuits for me. My entire aim with pursuing my bachelors' has been to get the base for doing work in this area- yes, I know people do work in it without college degrees, but I want to change something in Nursing, open up a dialogue inside Nursing, so I thought I'd better get a bit more academic education in Nursing to give me some place to stand. It worked: I feel/AM better prepared to state my case. Now I'm making the place from which to speak. It's very satisfying.
Ok, I've a chance at an early bed this morning, and I'm going to take it. Blessings on your heads.
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Have updated 100 of 528 listings (must do each one manually) to include 'ships internationally'. Will have to do the others tonight & tomorrow. If there's something you want, or someone you know wants, and it's not updated to 'international' yet, just PM me through Amazon or here, and I'll fix it so you can order.
Thanks so much. My books, movies, and CDs are so happy to be having new homes.
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New & Used books, movies, and CDs. Selling my library & collection to find them new happy homes, and help finance my trip to Europe this summer.
For Earth Day, April 22nd:
Merl Saunders - Blues From the Rainforest: A Musical Suite [DVD]
Life on Earth: A Natural History By David Attenborough
PlanetHood: The key to your survival and prosperity by Benjamin B. Ferencz (still apropos. The best ideas never lose their value.)
30 Days to a Simpler Life [Paperback] by Cris Evatt & Connie Cox
Conservation Medicine: Ecological Health in Practice [Hardcover]; Gary M. Tabor
The Emerald Forest [VHS] Powers Boothe, Meg Foster, Dira Paes, Charley Boorman
Planet Steward: Journal of Wildlife Sanctuary by Stephen Levine
The Earth Work Group: 30 Simple Energy Things You Can Do to Save the Earth (Still innovative!)
The terrace gardener's handbook: Raising plants on a balcony, terrace, rooftop, penthouse, or patio (Hardcover) by Linda Yang
Gardening ... Naturally by D. X. Fenten
Some of these books and movies have been staunch companions and reliable resources, others are new and innovative, and each of them is worthy of finding a new owner who can use them in current academic or applied work, or research.
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Verb Noire in Publisher's Weekly and other good things, including links to more good writers, and interesting comments. Watch these spaces, folks. There's real stuff happening here.
I won't bother to link to updates on Amazon, because it seems to change hourly: just say that they're restoring rankings for now, and there's buzz all over the Seller Discussion blogs, which seems to me very hopeful. Amazon's not just Amazon. It's a lot of little people like me, too, and some of us are here, queer (or queer-friendly) and we're not being quiet.
It's not the not-buying from Amazon that's going to change them. It's the writing to them and telling them why you're unhappy with them. It's the getting to know your local bookshops (if you're a ways out of town, your locals quite likely are online, and ship to you. See this post from ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) jadelennox for more info and a good POV.
I took my books to my local bookshop- they bought what they wanted- and I might very well move to Alibris.com when I get back from Europe, but for now I've got GLBT, ethnic studies, women's studies, men's studies, history, feminism, poetry, politics, fiction, health, nursing, death&dying, pregnancy and birth, children's and young adult, home-schooling, psychology, philosophy, plays, and religion/spirituality. I'm a small local bookstall too, renting space in a big market named Amazon, selling my personal library so I can go to Europe and see my friends.
How cool is my housemate? They've just come back from 10 days helping her brother with a school field trip in Europe, and she brought me back her left-over Euro. I've got about 6 Euro now- that'll buy a bit of petrol. Not much, but a bit. *happy dance*
There's more, but I'm supposed to be sleeping, or at least keeping my head down except for staying hydrated and getting out from under this little lurking sinus infection. So I'm gonna slip in another disc of The West Wing (they run about 4 hours, and now that I'm getting to know them by heart, they're good soothing voices in the background that help me sleep) and lie down a bit longer.
Blessings on your heads, y'all. Keep on keeping on.
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Peter Rabbit, V-bear, O-bear, K-bear, and Easter Bunny!suit!Bear in the back.
It's lively here, at chez Slashfairy. Oh, yes it is. Sellin' books and gettin' ready to graduate, to travel, and to see beloveds. Newly listing: More children's books and books for older children (activities, reference, fiction); women's studies; nursing school texts and health-related books; history. Soon to come, another post of "Wonderful books I can't list on Amazon because they have no page for them, but you might be interested, so I will scan and post here."
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| 2009-03-31 15:09 |
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| amazon, black studies, books, child lit, education, europe 2009, friends, fun, gender studies, history, language, lj, movies, music, native american studies, nursing, philosophy, psychology, religion, women's studies |
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Apparel and shoes on sale at Amazon until April 3rd. (yeah, I get referral points if you buy after going in through my portal. geez, don't I sound like a pro, or a shill, or something? lol)
Sample listings:
( A Tolkien Treasury )
Amy's Eyes
( Read more... )
BRITISH COLUMBIA: A CENTENNIAL ANTHOLOGY [Hardcover] Edited by Reginald E. Watters
The five sections of this Centennial Anthology attempt to portray in words and B&W pictures the varied life of British Columbia in both the past and present.
30 Days to a Simpler Life; A Medieval Woman's Mirror of Honor: The Treasury of the City of Ladies; Boycott; Capitol Hill in Black and White; Canciones Infantiles [Audio CD] El patio de mi casa; Child in the Night [VHS Tape] JoBeth Williams; Tom Skerritt; Tim Choate, Elijah Wood IMDb; Conservation Medicine: Ecological Health in Practice [Hardcover] Gary M. Tabor; Core Curriculum for Lactation Consultant Practice [Paperback] by Walker, Marsha; Essentials of Nursing Research: Methods, Appraisal, and Utilization; Eve's Bayou [DVD] Jurnee Smollett; Meagan Good; Samuel L. Jackson; Gender and Religion: On the Complexity of Symbols by Bynum, Caroline W.; Guide to Rembering Japanese Characters (Tuttle language library); Howard Street by Nathan C. Heard; Savage Dreams: A Journey into the Landscape Wars of the American West by Rebecca Solnit; Spiritual Gardening [Audiobook] by Handelsman, Judith (cassettes) among other books, movies, and music.
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8 weeks (less) until graduation. eeps!
8 weeks and a day before I start traveling. yay!
thought i could pick up some overtime at work, but apparently not. so, must sell more books and music and movies. lol! I have no paid time off, no vacation or holiday time (agency doesn't give any- not that i'm spendthrift with it, i don't earn any!), so am selling as much to cover expenses while gone as to afford the trip.
( beneath the cut: cover (and sometimes illustration) scans of things I can't list on Amazon for one reason or another. Babies Board Books, YA novels that are long, long out of print, historical fiction that is long out of print. CDs not in Amazon's catalog. There may be magazines of Interest added to this list, so tag it, eh, if you collect magazines. )
So, you know. If you can help a girl out. Pass the word? Share my shop link with friends and family. If you're going to Amazon anyway, go in through my shop first, then to Search. That way, if you purchase something else on Amazon, I get referral bonuses.
Thanks for looking, sorry for the spam, am optimistic about your continuing ability to help me make this happen, and to find new homes for lovely books, movies, cds, and so on. And Blessings on your heads.
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| 2009-03-24 11:21 |
| Listings, with categories and some commentaries |
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Mystery, Intrigue, and Espionage:( Read more... )Historical Fiction and Novels:( Read more... )Biography and Autobiography( Read more... )Womens' and Gender Studies; Psychology: ( Read more... )Spirituality; Meditation; Religion, Questioning, Searching( Read more... )Children's books, movies, and CDs( Read more... )
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EnjoyIt! Now with added books (There are books which don't have a 'cover shot' in Amazon's vast warehouse of images- I will scan anything anyone's interested in if you've got any questions about quality, edition, etc.):
Health~
Andrew Weil, Herbs, Childproofing, Kim Chernin, .
Research~ (or the more things change, the more they remain the same?)
The American Political Dictionary (First Ed., 1965), Don't Know Much About History (First Ed., 1990), The Mother Earth News Handbook of Homemade Power (1974), Road Food/Good Food.
Fiction~
Jack London, Anna Waldo, Madeline L'Engle, John Jakes.
Priced to move. More to come. Whatever doesn't sell goes to the charity drive table at the bank, so it's all good. Tell your friends.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled IJ.
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Amazon Blu-Ray Sale as low as $13.99.
Amazon DVD sale, Movies and TV DVDs as low as $6.49.
and my store EnjoyIt! DVDs and Books (Thank you LJ buyers and word-passers-on for making this both fun and profitable for me! Europe, 2009, Here I Come!)
As always, VanKat Beadworks with beautiful hand-made jewelry (even the individual links made from silver wire, each one individually cut, beaded, looped, and closed).
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Back in 2003, laid up with a foot injury and newly introduced to the wonder that is a five-disc DVD player, I went on a spree of watching as much as I could of LOTR actors, to get my own sense of what they'd brought to make the LOTR characters come to life.
One I knew from before LOTR is Elijah, because Radio Flyer is one of my all-time favorite movies, for all its faults. I've met the director, Richard Donner, and it was filmed not far from where I live now, and Lij and Joseph Mazzello give very good performances.
Anyway.
This post isn't about Radio Flyer (though that IS for sale over at EnjoyIt! , my Amazon resellers shop.
No, this is about a copy of Chain of Fools that I bought during my I don't mind if it's not a Region 1 DVD, let me get a multi-region player and watch it anyway period. The notes on the back cover are in Swedish, and the subtitles are in- well, let the cover tell you: Språk: audio: Engelska
Textningar: Svenska, Engelska, Danska, Finska, Norska, HollaUandska, Poldsk, Tjedckiska, Ungerska, Turkiska
It's a Region 2 DVD. If I were able to sell it on Amazon USA I'd ask $3.00 US for it, and the shipping. Since I can't sell it there but want it to have a good home, I'm offering it here for 2 Eur. paid to my Paypal account, and you pay the shipping.
If I can't sell it here, I'll just bring it with me to Europe in summer and set it free at a flea-market or second hand store. But I thought i'd try you guys, first. Or, hey- I can bring it with me and ship it From Europe to you In Europe, too. but that won't be til June.
To those who've supported my movie sale by either buying yourselves, or passing on the word, Thank you Thank you! it's working!
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