My little one is not quite so very little any more- he's 4! For the 1st time he's really getting the idea of a special day for him, and he's really enjoying himself. He woke up to a pile of presents this morning and did the "Oooo, what's this...yay its a xxx!" chucked it aside and started on the next parcel :) I am chuffed to bits that the big pressie from me has gone down so well. It's a r/c Roary Racing Car and he's pretty much played with it since I managed to wrestle it out of the packaging.
It's funny, but I came to terms with the idea of plastic character toys now, but when J was tiny I was all "it's organic food, and wood toys from sustainable forests". Plastic tat would not be tolerated, and he wouldn't watch telly til he's at school.
Yeah, right.
I'm still resisting sausages that are mostly lips and hooves... but not if they are in a sausage roll.
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Tuesday, February 05, 2008
It's over!
Not life as we knw it, or anything so melodramatic, but 2 very important events have passed...
1: My 1st online self assessment tax return is in! And
2: My 1st ever sale is over!
I promise, in front of millions of blog readers (well, all 2 of you anyway :) ) that I will never again leave it till the last week. I'm not promising to get it in early, or even in plenty of time, but I will leave enough time to have a few problems, get answers, try them out, get more answers, try them out, get more answers, try them out, and then figure it out myself without developing an ulcer. I certainly do not want to be sitting in front of my computer at 23:15, 45 minutes before the extended deadline screaming "why won't you go through! Go though, or don't go through, just don't show me a white screen and a busy sign for forty minutes when I don't have forty minutes! Arrrggghhh! Please, please, pease..." pause for sobbing.... thankfully I didn't wake up J, or he may have been perplexed to find his mummy sobbing and hugging the monitor.
And the sale was quite a success, I was mildly pleased with it. Here's to people coming back without the sale prices tempting them in! The lesson I learned through the sale was to work out the numbers for every product, as I managed to sell quite a bit of one product that barely scraped even after all the postages were factored in. Also, not to assume things will sell just because they are at a good price. It seems counter-intuitive, but I am coming to the conclusion that there's just some products that I cannot give away.
I blame ebay.
And I love ebay.
It depends on whether I'm buying or selling, really.
1: My 1st online self assessment tax return is in! And
2: My 1st ever sale is over!
I promise, in front of millions of blog readers (well, all 2 of you anyway :) ) that I will never again leave it till the last week. I'm not promising to get it in early, or even in plenty of time, but I will leave enough time to have a few problems, get answers, try them out, get more answers, try them out, get more answers, try them out, and then figure it out myself without developing an ulcer. I certainly do not want to be sitting in front of my computer at 23:15, 45 minutes before the extended deadline screaming "why won't you go through! Go though, or don't go through, just don't show me a white screen and a busy sign for forty minutes when I don't have forty minutes! Arrrggghhh! Please, please, pease..." pause for sobbing.... thankfully I didn't wake up J, or he may have been perplexed to find his mummy sobbing and hugging the monitor.
And the sale was quite a success, I was mildly pleased with it. Here's to people coming back without the sale prices tempting them in! The lesson I learned through the sale was to work out the numbers for every product, as I managed to sell quite a bit of one product that barely scraped even after all the postages were factored in.
I blame ebay.
And I love ebay.
It depends on whether I'm buying or selling, really.
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