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And I could really use the business. Am on worker's compensation while this shoulder gets better (got to love a good physical therapist, I'm tellin' ya!), but the money from that won't be coming for a while. So, to keep the purse from turning inside out, I'm reminding y'all that I Sell Books (&).
I have a selection of Usborne books; I have classics, I have science, gardening, art, children's books, poetry, fiction, travel, health sciences, movies on VHS and DVD (all NTSC/Region 1 though, sorry my international friends!), psychology and esoterica, philosophy, politics, biography, autobiography, and historical novels; I ship internationally as well as provide expedited shipping if need be.
If, dear friends/readers, you were willing to do a shout-out in your journals (only if you want to! no pressure! honest) I'd really appreciate it.
EnjoyIt! books&. I know, I'm still with Amazon- am still looking for another place, but so far I've not got one. So please- if your conscience will let you order from me, or recommend me, I'll really really appreciate the help.
Thank you for your time, and have a good weekend/week (whenever you read this.)
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| 2009-04-15 21:47 |
| yes! persistance, or, Your Money or Your Life |
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So, by this time next year, all else being equal, I will have paid off my back taxes and get a refund. I will have at least consolidated my student loans and have a single payment. And I will have cleared out at least a third of my storage, which will be at the very least less of a psychic burden and possibly a continuing source of some income. This all from following, slowly, the nine-step program in Your Money or Your Life.
Which will put me closer to "Enough" on my fulfillment curve, and closer to my goal of Financial Intelligence, Financial Integrity, and Financial Independence.
*wild happy dance inserted here*
New listings here @EnjoyIt. I wish it would sort by category for you, and that I had images for all the books, but it doesn't, and I don't.
Important: IF you have ordered from me, or someone you know has ordered from me, and there has been ANY problem, please let me know via Amazon PM/Email. There are some odd things the site does, like re-listing already sold items (making up inventory, essentially) and listing new orders lower down in the order listings than filled listings (making it easy to miss new orders) which, the more I read in the seller discussion blogs, are neither new problems (though I was unaware of them) nor anything Amazon seems inclined to fix anytime soon (insert thinly veiled surprise here). I however AM a good seller. I make good on errors when I make them, and I do my absolute best to be sure you a) get what you ordered and b) if you are not happy to reach a happy outcome.
cross-posted to DW and LJ
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| 2009-03-24 11:21 |
| Listings, with categories and some commentaries |
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| amazon, books, children's books and movies, europe 2009, fun, glbt studies, movies, music, thanks, women's studies, ymoyl |
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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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New listings at EnjoyIt: more movies, CDs, books. I've turned up a number of things that are not in Amazon's inventory: out-of-print children's books, young adult books, and adult books of all kinds: reference, non-fiction, fiction; and CDs. I'm going to scan those and post them here, in hopes that there'll be something you've been looking AGES for and this will re-unite you. PLEASE, if you would, when you to to Amazon, go in through my store: I get referral bonuses when you do, if you buy something there. And please, if you would, buy something from me (if there's something you want) or pass the news of my little store on to friends. It all helps. Thank you SO MUCH to everyone who's bought, advertised, or just said "yay!"
I think there're still anime/manga goodies at LoyalDreamer's place, so if you tend more that way, drop by and see what she's got.
Who knows? we might have those Mother's Day, Father's Day, Graduation... out-of-the-blue "Because I thought of you!" presents.
Otherwise, sleep has been at a real premium, for no single reason. I'm sure hoping to sleep today AND tonight, though. Yoga/stretching/physical therapy program continues apace: it must be working, because a) I notice when I'm sore (which is good) and the difference between that and achey (which is not so good).
FINALLY nearly finished with these two little papers for Critical Thinking. This is where sleep is so essential- I can work, I can chat, I can sell movies. But I can't write good papers without adequate sleep. *sigh* in two weeks I'll have the house to myself for two weeks. I'm hoping to have that time to finish these, get them to the prof, and do any changes he wants.
I know there've been some sad things happen this week in friends' and acquaintances lives. You are in my thoughts.
The rest of you, be well, have fun, and blessings on ALL your heads.
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First, though, I need to give credit where it's due, and I haven't done that yet.
To lj users undrocknroll, cynical_terror, and to angstslashhope, who are the first people I ever saw use LJ as a marketplace. I so admired that, that entrepreneurship and bravery.
To lj user apocalypsos who is the first person I saw use Amazon to list her stuff. Man, this isn't bad at ALL, especially given the constraints of night shift. Thanks, you!
To lj user magickalmolly whose virtual yard sales have been inspiring.
To lj user kitty_van_kat and to Jack, whose Etsy stores encouraged me to have fun with this.
And now, to our sponsors:
In the spirit of passing a little time, 4 Donna Leon Inspector Guido Brunetti novels. Buy 'em, read 'em, then donate them to your library's book sale. Win all around.
Curious about cooking? Want some new ideas, new techniques?
The Chesapeake Collection, recipes and lore: "The really great cooks of the Eastern Shore, when confronted to share their recipes, usually hedge with, 'Well, I put in smidgen of honey, a little tad of onion, a small sliver of fat back ... a handful of walnuts, but then again, I use a handful of raisins if I don't have the nuts.'" -- from the foreword by Dr. Thomas A. Flowers . Nicole Routhier's Fruit Cookbook: Here are 400-plus recipes using fruit in more ways than most cooks might think imaginable, from Roasted Pepper and Apple Dip to Lemon-Lime Spaghetti to Gratin of Red and Black Berries. (Library Journal).
How about making art and having fun? Learning some practical hands-on techniques AND making something you can give, sell, donate?
Stitchery, Needlepoint, Applique and Patchwork: A Complete Guide (Hardcover). Stitchery in all its forms has been in a period of change and regeneration for several years. The traditional arts of needlepoint, embroidery and patchwork are enjoying a popularity unknown for decades and are being adapted to uses hitherto undreamed of. Shirley Marein is fully conversant with all the latest trends in stitchery, and in her stimulating text, she explains in detail how to master the basic technique of these crafts, how to do your own designing, and how to adapt design forms to the uses and materials you have chosen for them.
Or how about The Big Book of Soft Toys? I learned so much about making toys and stuffed animals for my sons and their friends from this book, out of print for a long time, and truly a treasure.
Anyway, look if you will, buy if it pleases you, share the links if you would be so kind, enjoy your day/night/ and thank you for your time.
Blessings on your heads.
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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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Yep, I'm selling off my books, too.
Not all of them, but a lot. Either I've read them over and over, or am done with the project I needed them for, or have more than one copy. I've got history, politics, nursing (and nursing textbooks, lol!), fiction, women's studies, psychology, parenting, language, children's books, alternative and complementary health... And I'll be listing new frequently, so check back often Prices as low as one penny- yes, that's right, on some very popular fiction, one penny!
Feel free to share the link. I'm enjoying very much the idea that my beloved movies are finding new homes. I'd be thrilled for my books to do the same.
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I know I'm spamming with the Amazon links, so no more of those until I have fresh movies up there, and start putting books up. (My books are so old, and not pristine, but a lot of them are out of print, and I'm pretty sure I'm not going to be reading them anytime soon, so why not let them find new homes, if they can?)
But it's working, it's working- I've made some money at it, I've made some space, getting the movies to new homes, I'm supporting the economy (at least the Postal Service and the mailer-envelope people, and Longs, Walgreen's, and Raley's), and I'm feeling oddly accomplished about it all.
I'm also managing to do some yoga and stretching every night I work (though not always on my nights/days off, there's just not the space in my room). I take my yoga mat and block and strap and pillow and ice packs with me to work, and do what I can. And that's helping, too.
Sleep remains an issue. Mostly that's just night shift. And a bit of arthritis, now, and sometimes too much monkey-mind scampering over the synapses. Otoh, I'm eating more healthily- I know this for a fact, because I'm doing better keeping track of my expenses every day week or two- it's part of the Financial Intelligence track of Your Money or Your Life, and I like breaking it down into the exact things that I buy. It helps me see what habits I'm in, where I'm not paying attention, and where my life energy's leaking away from where I want it to be to somewhere else, somewhere that doesn't contribute to my over-all well-being.
I'm not able to visit as much on AIM or YIM as I'd like. I hit Facebook off and on, but can't really keep up with the green patch goodies and pirates vs. ninjas (sorry). I'm doing a bit of writing, here and there, but most of it's just scraps and doesn't make its way out of the notebooks. When I read, I'm reading Adrienne Rich and Ariel Dorfman and Ray Bradbury and Barbara Tuchman and Howard Zinn, but mostly I'm not even reading, these days. I'm nearly done with the two critical thinking papers (down to the freakin' wire, what?) and will be graduating in May, then off to Europe, and friends, and beloveds, and adventures.
It's ok. I feel, for the most part, accomplished, well cared for, intelligent, able to think for myself and ask for help with things I can't do by myself, and really. That's not bad. Can't complain about that. :)
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so, it is autumn, even here, even in northern coastal-ish california, where there are still tomatoes on the vine and i have the temerity to start bok choy and peas, in case i can get a crop in before the real chill comes.
but it is autumn. the days are shorter, the nights darker-feeling. our election less than a month away, and it seems it will be a battle (i made phone calls for Obama last night).
still, i have hope. there are figs ripening on the trees at uni, and apples, and i have found two persimmon trees there as well; uni itself, the coursework, goes as well as it can, and the reading and movies continue to be both interesting and food for thought.
i know the economy world-wide is ricocheting off people's lives with little care for individuals. in my own mind, this is the 60-year cost-come-home for maintaining nuclear arsenals and living as consumers rather than producers, as creatures of habit and want instead of partners with nature and each other- but i find that, once i've used those ideas as a way to settle my own thoughts, i have to step back from them or i become arrogant, and judge, and i have no extra energy to devote to being right or condemnatory. i need to focus on keeping my personal economy honest and functioning as best i can, not giving my life energy over to this latest round of bread and circuses and sleight-of-hand.
i've mentioned it before, but i shall yet again: the ideas and practices in Your Money or Your Life have given me a way to live in this world and be of it, and yet not be completely at the mercy of prevailing winds of woe and upset. it's easy to find the book on www.alibris.com, used, for not very much- and support independent booksellers by buying it there- and it's worth the reading and taking your time but doing, eventually, the steps it takes to reach financial intelligence, financial integrity, and financial independence.
so. time for a nap before uni. then native american studies, come home for a bit, study, perhaps nap again, then work tonight at the lads.
be well, be gracious, be kind, be blessed. be excellent to one another.
ETA: The Kindness Offensive in London. *G*
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amazing. month's half gone. how does that happen?
Anyway.
Film analysis paper due in two weeks. I will be doing mine on Real Women Have Curves, because I enjoyed it AND I think it will do me good to look at it again, not from the point of view of having been 'the fat girl' or 'the rebellious one' or whatever, but trying to get out of my white privilege corner and see what I can be taught by, learn from, this movie, these characters, this life.
Also, I am finding it interesting to be one of the people on the edge in this odd financial world. I don't know if it's really clear, but Your Money or Your Life notwithstanding, when I finish uni at the end of this term (god willing, saints providing, rain don't fall, creek don't rise, etc. etc. etc.) I will have about $46,000 in student loans due. Just exactly how I'm going to pay all that off, being as how I'm already 57 years old and not exactly earning at the top of my profession (that 10% cut I came home to in July? Still in effect. *sigh* and not exactly clear how/if/when the California budget situation will affect that). What I do know is, I'm getting healthier each week, night shift notwithstanding, and more intelligent about my money and my life energy and my fulfillment curve, and so the uproar about financial markets and disaster relief and war and all the rest of it, while it brings me cause for unhappiness and sorrow and compassion, does not make me crazy-with-worry like it would have before I started working with YMOYL.
Am going to try growing watercress. I like it, it's supposed to be fairly simple, something I can grow inside even, maybe, and it'll be a fun project.
So that's today's post- I'm glad I've put all this time and effort into finishing uni, old as I am, and by god, I propose to enjoy the heck out of life for the rest of my years, watching movies and traveling and growing vegetables here and there in whatever yard I've got access to, and just being alive.
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