That's what I called it. I was hoping that by calling it an addiction I would stick with it. I'd been hearing a lot about people making money buying and selling with eBay and it seemed easy enough.
I started by buying a Macbook, i think that's what it was called. It was fairly cheap, just over $100 and my first computer. I figured I'd need a computer if I was going to be doing business on the internet plus I wanted somewhere to store photos besides on the CDs that I made at the local Kinkos.
When I was making my first eBay purchase it gave me an option to buy an AirPort card. I asked my roommate and my friend downstairs if they thought I needed one. We all decided I didn't go to the airport enough to justify spending $50 on it and when I do I wouldn't take a computer with me anyway. It wasn't the early 90's or anything, it was a little more than a decade later, but like I said it was my first computer and I was use to just going to school and using the computer lab.
Well when the computer arrived I learned that an AirPort card was the key to my wireless internet connection. My genius idea with getting a laptop was so I could carry it around and do business anywhere, around the house or elsewhere. Due to the age of the laptop I quickly found out it was more expensive and harder to find an AirPort card on it's own. And so I remained, stuck to a wall.
My second eBay flop was when I ordered a pair of hiking pants. I ordered them for me, an adult. When I got them not only did they not fit me but they fit the 11 year old boy I was mentoring. He was excited to give them a new home and that ended my eBay addiction. I never got far enough into the addiction to actually sell anything or make a business out of it but I learned I'm not good at buying things from eBay.
Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Friday, April 24, 2015
Sewing Project
I've been thinking about sewing projects for a while. I thought that it was going to help me get through the winter. Winter wasn't so bad this year and I made it anyway despite my lack of sewing. I need to find a bridesmaid dress to wear. I went to the bridal store and tried on a stack of dresses meeting the specifications. I couldn't find anything I was willing to be seen in not to mention pay over $100 for. This sparked my need to immediately pick up sewing again as a hobby. I'm pretty sure I haven't sewn with a pattern for over 20 years so wish me luck...
After a trip to the fabric store and asking the girl working to label my fabric so I wouldn't forget which fabric went with which pattern by the time I got home I'm ready to give it a try.
After a trip to the fabric store and asking the girl working to label my fabric so I wouldn't forget which fabric went with which pattern by the time I got home I'm ready to give it a try.
My hobbies don't last.
As I was driving back from the fabric store tonight I thought, "I wonder how long this will last?"
Some say I have ADD/ADHD and since I have not been officially diagnosed I prefer to think of it as an overactive mind overflowing with ideas and dreams. Also, on several occasions I've fallen into the category of not wanting to do something because everyone else is doing it and when I realize they are, I stop. I'm not sure why, I've been that way ever since I can remember...which may not be long since I have memory issues.
So why blog? Everybody blogs. Don't I realize that yet? Well about those memory issues. I have both long term and short term memory issues. I call them issues because yet again, no official diagnosis. I'm pretty sure everyone I know is aware of these memory issues. I remember odd facts, the details of events that happened that no one else seems to recall or random birthdays but not what I ate for lunch, what happened yesterday or names of familiar faces that I know. Example: I remember the Henderson Hasselbalch equation that I learned while studying for the MCAT. Nope I'm not a doctor but I know that pH = pKa + log multiplied by the conjugate base divided by the conjugate acid.
By piecing together this blog it will help me piece together my life, in the past and now. I'm curious about myself and my hobby patterns. Blogging might help me with that and give you something to do at the same time.
Some of my hobbies last what seems like five seconds and others come and go and come back again. Gardening is one of those that is coming back again. This is my third year trying to successfully grow tomatoes. By successfully I mean actually getting tomatoes to grow on the plant. I've sprouted plants from seeds but never actually grown a tomato. Well technically I had two grow last year but didn't realize it until they were long gone, just hanging there on the vine, dead. Maybe I shouldn't have given up on that hobby quite so soon.
Some say I have ADD/ADHD and since I have not been officially diagnosed I prefer to think of it as an overactive mind overflowing with ideas and dreams. Also, on several occasions I've fallen into the category of not wanting to do something because everyone else is doing it and when I realize they are, I stop. I'm not sure why, I've been that way ever since I can remember...which may not be long since I have memory issues.
So why blog? Everybody blogs. Don't I realize that yet? Well about those memory issues. I have both long term and short term memory issues. I call them issues because yet again, no official diagnosis. I'm pretty sure everyone I know is aware of these memory issues. I remember odd facts, the details of events that happened that no one else seems to recall or random birthdays but not what I ate for lunch, what happened yesterday or names of familiar faces that I know. Example: I remember the Henderson Hasselbalch equation that I learned while studying for the MCAT. Nope I'm not a doctor but I know that pH = pKa + log multiplied by the conjugate base divided by the conjugate acid.
Some of my hobbies last what seems like five seconds and others come and go and come back again. Gardening is one of those that is coming back again. This is my third year trying to successfully grow tomatoes. By successfully I mean actually getting tomatoes to grow on the plant. I've sprouted plants from seeds but never actually grown a tomato. Well technically I had two grow last year but didn't realize it until they were long gone, just hanging there on the vine, dead. Maybe I shouldn't have given up on that hobby quite so soon.
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