I decided a while back to sell some things on eBay. I waited for them to offer their "list 5 items for free" promo, and put up some of my old treasure from my parent's place. Turns out it's not worth very much at all. I think that part of the problem is shipping, people would ask me for a quote and then they wouldn't bid when they got it. In the end, I'm rather disappointed, but it's kind of fun to pack things up to send off around the globe. I don't think I'll do it again, though, garage sales, free listings and swap meets are the way to go.

On the plus side, What money I've made is good for a couple things. Jenn and I found this really cool online costume store, and bought ourselves some faux-leather costume boots. I got some black cavalry type boots I can use for the pirate outfit Jenn's going to sew for me, or a Jedi costume at some later indeterminate time. I've also placed an order for the last of the locally unobtainable Star Wars Lego sets, and once I have those there will be only one set I'm missing (not counting the other not yet released one), which is readily available from the Lego website. Oh, so close, I can't wait to be finished.

On the down side, I just got a letter from the Canada Revenue Agency. They've reasessed my 2002 return, and rejected all of my expense claims from when I worked as a diver, meaning I now owe them more money than I care to admit in my LJ. To be honest, I've been worried this might happen, I heard different things from different sources about what I could or couldn't claim, but at least it's only a reasessment, because in my more paranoid hours I imagined being hurled away for decades on fraud charges (stupid overactive imagination...). This has come at an unfortunate time though, as Jenn and I are still recovering from an oversight earlier this month when we went nuts at Ikea. The closest there is to a silver lining here is that I can pay the difference between that and this year's return, which will take out nearly a quarter of it, and the rest will fit on the line of credit. It's not really good, but at least I can manage it. On the other hand, I just talked to Fido, and my contract is up so I switched to another plan which should cut down my cellular bill by two thirds. Once Jenn's contract is up and we get her switched, we should be doing pretty good.

Things like this overwhelm me and make me anxious, but there's nothing I can do except to keep doing what I'm already doing. Keep putting money in the RRSP, keep taking bites out of debt, use a moderate amount of willpower to avoid overspending (sometimes), and over time things will get better.

Nothing much to report. I was a little late for work yesterday morning because Translink changed the bus schedule, but I didn't have to wait as long to get to Jenn's after, so meh. Jenn and I went to Rogers to rent a movie that we both wanted to see, but couldn't remember. So we looked all through the new releases and could't find anything that rang a bell. So I checked the release schedule, and saw that Big Fish wasn't out yet. That was definately it. Instead of renting a movie, we picked up some junkfood and went to her place to order pizza and watch a dvd that we already had.

Today I made more progress on Splashdown, I'm halfway through beating it on Hard mode. I went up the hill to do the greens, but it started to rain. Then it stopped. Then it started. Then it stopped. I tried waiting to see if the weather would make up its mind, but it didn't, so I skipped cutting the greens. Instead I went home and downloaded some Bettie Page pics for my phone, which was a nuisance because she was being censored by the word FIDO, so I found a transparent gif to get rid of the company logo.

You know, when I look closely at Bettie Page's face, there's nothing about it that's actually interesting, which is to say that I find it kind of average. But there's something about the expressions on her face which is really charming and playful. I'd comment below the face, but what can I say, she's Bettie Page?

Here are two really great Bettie Page sites:

http://www.bettiepage.com/
http://www.pp-i.com/bettypage/

Today I bussed home. I did some laundry, had some lunch, and got my tax forms finished off enough to submit. I walked out and bought stamps, and sent the forms off, along with my payment to Columbia House (with a little note asking them to cancel my membership), and my RSVP for Mason's wedding. I continued walking to the Doctor's office and got a prescription for Nasacort, which I got filled at the Superstore. Afterwards I went to the Canadian Tire across the street to get some spare inner tubes for my bike. I also found a 43 drawer small parts organizer that was 35% off, so I picked it up. When I got home, I went online and tried to find stuff to download for my new cell. After reading the instructions on a couple sites and perusing the browser section of the phone manual, I realized that if I make a 101x80 jpg and upload it to my website, I can just enter its URL on my phone and save it. So now the question is, do I make more wallpapers, or do I organize my spare Lego bricks? I'll probably stay up way too late doing both, and then realize that I still have to do some stuff to get ready for work, get very little sleep and grog my butt tomorrow.