I havent sold or bought anything on ebay before.
i do know how the selling works, ive looked into it once when i had alot of stuff to sell prior moving to melbourne (it was everything in our house almost) and ive looked into buying as i often drool thru some hello kitty items and other cute stuff..
i know a bad egg when i see one tho. And ebay trying to get immunity from the trade practices act in regard to using paypal & COD as only payment options isn't good..
besides charging double fees.. it wouldn't be too bad if they had some competition like other secure online paypal-ish things like the one google has?
anyways theres a online petition and the ACCC is open to public opinion till may 2.
Sign the petition if u think ebay is greedy ;)
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Friday, April 11, 2008
Iron Chef Tia & Chocolate crackles!!!
Ah gotta love em..
Need:
250g block of copha, melted.
4-5 cups cocoa pops (my rice bubbles always go soggy?)
1/3 cheap cooking dark chocolate block, melted.
1 tbsp of good cocoa
1 cup of coconut
1 cup of icing sugar or mixture
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
5 quick confessions
Time to fess up 5 things about yourself, what youve done this week, month, year or your whole life.. and then tag a few friends!
I tag: Maria and Johnhohx
1) Im afraid i never taught Tia to pick up and put away her toys after she finished playing with each single one... so her room goes from bombshell (not a inch of carpet to be seen) to cleaned up. I often get annoyed on how 'clean your room' means to her go play in your room.. instead its better if i stand in the doorway and instruct her 'pick up all your clothes', 'now pick up all your books' etc.. it drives me nutty. i feel for the pain i must have put my parents thru for 17years about my room!!!! rofl
2) i cant stand the amount of money spent on the cat. Biscuits, kitty litter, kitty milk, toys, mushy food in foil packs... registered the cat for $30! Have to take it to have the rest of its immunizations?!, wormed weekly.. i suppose its not all that bad!
3) Im lazy when it comes to laundry. I dont check pockets, i dont check that everything is the right way out (i will unravel hubbys socks so they get washed) i only separate the laundry into blacks and colours (whites go in the colours) anything new and coloured gets washed in with the blacks first, im lazy but not silly!
4) when im bored, i just troll online news sites.. even tho i could be doing the dishes, ironing, mending clothes or toys..
5)Seems every 6months i go thru a chocolate crackle thing.. altho i loathe looking at the block of copha!
I tag: Maria and Johnhohx
1) Im afraid i never taught Tia to pick up and put away her toys after she finished playing with each single one... so her room goes from bombshell (not a inch of carpet to be seen) to cleaned up. I often get annoyed on how 'clean your room' means to her go play in your room.. instead its better if i stand in the doorway and instruct her 'pick up all your clothes', 'now pick up all your books' etc.. it drives me nutty. i feel for the pain i must have put my parents thru for 17years about my room!!!! rofl
2) i cant stand the amount of money spent on the cat. Biscuits, kitty litter, kitty milk, toys, mushy food in foil packs... registered the cat for $30! Have to take it to have the rest of its immunizations?!, wormed weekly.. i suppose its not all that bad!
3) Im lazy when it comes to laundry. I dont check pockets, i dont check that everything is the right way out (i will unravel hubbys socks so they get washed) i only separate the laundry into blacks and colours (whites go in the colours) anything new and coloured gets washed in with the blacks first, im lazy but not silly!
4) when im bored, i just troll online news sites.. even tho i could be doing the dishes, ironing, mending clothes or toys..
5)Seems every 6months i go thru a chocolate crackle thing.. altho i loathe looking at the block of copha!
Monday, April 7, 2008
Cravings
This week ive had cravings for apple pie (mainly the pastry)
and last night i had a craving for a passionfruit flavoured soft drink, a sip of fanta and pineapple lollies. James was just happy it wasnt like last time, wanting a sausage mcmuffin at 9pm at night. ROFL that time might come again..
and last night i had a craving for a passionfruit flavoured soft drink, a sip of fanta and pineapple lollies. James was just happy it wasnt like last time, wanting a sausage mcmuffin at 9pm at night. ROFL that time might come again..
Friday, April 4, 2008
need a laugh?
everyone seems to have picked on the americans. I watched the cnnnn one a few times and spotted that they had written on australia 'north korea' and 'iran'.. which was pretty funny.. but still.. gosh.. this is the reason why americans dont have a clue on geography:
she gets it on round 2
Everything on the up
You can't escape it.. its in the business column of every newspaper, magazine or online news site.... its on every 'current affair' program, every breakfast program (minus the cartoon ones), its even in educational-bore-kids-news programs ttn (ten) and btn(abc).. its in every single freaking news program, morning, 11am, noon, 5pm, 6pm and the late night...
Money.. interest rates.. inflation.. recession..bank profits..rising/lowering house prices..tarifs..taxes..government spending.. federal spending..council rip-offs..fraud..scammers..credit woes.. credit card debt..
increase...increase...increase...
gosh its exhausting!!!!!!
Example.. sure go to any woolworths or coles in the area (if theres more than 1) and their prices will be different.. a 250g of 'unsalted butter' was $1.49 (woolworths brand) 250g of 'butter' was $0.99 (woolworths brand) a few weeks later i noticed they are both now $1.49.
Theres currently a inquiry into grocery prices, their lies, truths, profits, margins and all.. hopefully they can get to the bottom of it all!!
apparently 44% of people have private health care cover from a story i read today... one provider is slashing what you get for your $ and charging more, changing their 'packages'.. ugh!
Washing our dirty laundry at the laundrymat now costs $4.00 instead of $3.20.. saying its the first price hike in 3yrs due to rising costs of electricity, water and gas (the gas i thought was strange, i guess the water is heated via gas) like i keep saying.. it makes me want to get out of here and get a place big enough for a washing machine and a place with a clothes line!!! *not that theres any good rental choices lately* Don't remind me that come late april our rent (for a tiny 2bedroom, kitchen/lounge in one, bath/shower toilet in one) is going from $130 to $150 a week.. altho i'd pay extra if it came with decent neighbours! and yet we have no yard/garden no space for washing machine of *any* loader on any wall, floor.. except perhaps the ceiling.. (could imagine how cool it would be to have a front loader bolted to your ceiling?.. they'd have to work out the door to be half the size tho) anyways its a crap hole and clearly going up from like a price hike by the rental agency or via the news hype of theres no rentals left.. go on landlords charge what you look for your shit hole houses/apartments that you care so little about!
banks... where do u start.. the RBA saying rate hikes are good, i know its hurting people but tough! RBA saying yeah banks make insane profits but hey look at american banks arent u happy we have banks that do make money?! *rolls eyes*
Money.. interest rates.. inflation.. recession..bank profits..rising/lowering house prices..tarifs..taxes..government spending.. federal spending..council rip-offs..fraud..scammers..credit woes.. credit card debt..
increase...increase...increase...
gosh its exhausting!!!!!!
Example.. sure go to any woolworths or coles in the area (if theres more than 1) and their prices will be different.. a 250g of 'unsalted butter' was $1.49 (woolworths brand) 250g of 'butter' was $0.99 (woolworths brand) a few weeks later i noticed they are both now $1.49.
Theres currently a inquiry into grocery prices, their lies, truths, profits, margins and all.. hopefully they can get to the bottom of it all!!
apparently 44% of people have private health care cover from a story i read today... one provider is slashing what you get for your $ and charging more, changing their 'packages'.. ugh!
Washing our dirty laundry at the laundrymat now costs $4.00 instead of $3.20.. saying its the first price hike in 3yrs due to rising costs of electricity, water and gas (the gas i thought was strange, i guess the water is heated via gas) like i keep saying.. it makes me want to get out of here and get a place big enough for a washing machine and a place with a clothes line!!! *not that theres any good rental choices lately* Don't remind me that come late april our rent (for a tiny 2bedroom, kitchen/lounge in one, bath/shower toilet in one) is going from $130 to $150 a week.. altho i'd pay extra if it came with decent neighbours! and yet we have no yard/garden no space for washing machine of *any* loader on any wall, floor.. except perhaps the ceiling.. (could imagine how cool it would be to have a front loader bolted to your ceiling?.. they'd have to work out the door to be half the size tho) anyways its a crap hole and clearly going up from like a price hike by the rental agency or via the news hype of theres no rentals left.. go on landlords charge what you look for your shit hole houses/apartments that you care so little about!
banks... where do u start.. the RBA saying rate hikes are good, i know its hurting people but tough! RBA saying yeah banks make insane profits but hey look at american banks arent u happy we have banks that do make money?! *rolls eyes*
power is out..
today is a wow-ee dust storm gale force wind-ee day.
i thought to myself.. yeah the power has gone out for like the 3rd time today..
good thing i have a laptop i wont be bored.. i lurve u battery power... and then it hit me
darn the modem and the router.. why couldnt they be battery powered too?
Meanwhile i have some goji berry and sultana cupcakes in the oven.. im guessing the power shortage is going to make them rather flat! I then think of chefs cooking souffle.. and laugh. Yeah it could be worse.
I can hear my neighbors outside talking (shock) about whether the power is out with them too.. rofl.. i dont know why they are complaining its not like theres anything on tv worth watching.. but then one of my neighbors deals illegal movies and dvds (i dont like piracy.. but i do think its much worse if you try to sell stolen stuff for your own profit)
funny, the oven timer has gone off but its been like 5-10minutes since the power has gone off and hasnt come back on.
Im thinking about the effect it might be having on the fish n chip shop.. that is if anyone is braving this weather for some..
i do like this weather... altho i prefer rain to dust..
ive looked out the door previously this morning and seen a swarm of dirt fly past (the joy of the front of our flat looking across the old driveway) that at least was interesting.. until i saw the dirt around our front door.. theres no way i want to increase my cleaning just because i had the door open..
luckily there was enough heat in my oven to finish cooking the cupcakes! yay!!!
i thought to myself.. yeah the power has gone out for like the 3rd time today..
good thing i have a laptop i wont be bored.. i lurve u battery power... and then it hit me
darn the modem and the router.. why couldnt they be battery powered too?
Meanwhile i have some goji berry and sultana cupcakes in the oven.. im guessing the power shortage is going to make them rather flat! I then think of chefs cooking souffle.. and laugh. Yeah it could be worse.
I can hear my neighbors outside talking (shock) about whether the power is out with them too.. rofl.. i dont know why they are complaining its not like theres anything on tv worth watching.. but then one of my neighbors deals illegal movies and dvds (i dont like piracy.. but i do think its much worse if you try to sell stolen stuff for your own profit)
funny, the oven timer has gone off but its been like 5-10minutes since the power has gone off and hasnt come back on.
Im thinking about the effect it might be having on the fish n chip shop.. that is if anyone is braving this weather for some..
i do like this weather... altho i prefer rain to dust..
ive looked out the door previously this morning and seen a swarm of dirt fly past (the joy of the front of our flat looking across the old driveway) that at least was interesting.. until i saw the dirt around our front door.. theres no way i want to increase my cleaning just because i had the door open..
luckily there was enough heat in my oven to finish cooking the cupcakes! yay!!!
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