Happy Birthday to Me!

52 years young and I don't feel a day over 48, LOL. I really can't take a day off though because I have so much packing to do. I know I keep waffling but I am still packing to go back to NYC by the first week of December. Re-listing a bunch of stuff on my Etsy hoping some will sell and help pay for the move. Dinner tonight with Dad and CJ, I think I want seafood.

To list or not to list

I am torn between listing everything I have and closing up shop so I can pack to move. It will be so much work to update photos and list newer items and then shipping if I sell. I need the money to move so I think I have to list. Oh the perils of being a "business owner".

Torn between two cities

What to do, what to do. I am being torn apart by wanting to stay near my family and going where I know I can get a job. All the lists of pros and cons are not helping this decision. Snipes (my sons cat) bit my leg again and I don't know how long it will be before he adjusts to this house or me. It seems that he is only happy when I am at his level. When I stand up, wham! he attacks my leg (owie).

It's not a dog eat dog world, it's a bug eat bug world

Sell it all

Well, I am cutting prices and trying to sell as much as I can right now in my Etsy store. First, to have some money to move and B, to not have to move so much inventory. Even at half off I haven't sold anything since I have been home from NYC. This is getting real discouraging.

Moving on up

Yep, I will be moving back to the Big Apple, land of opportunity. I already talked to a union rep and I get the impression that a job will be no problem. And the fact that I don't have a car will be a moot point. New York, New York, a hellava town. I might miss stuff like this though

Spending too much time in the forums on Etsy will make you forget you have food in the oven!

Friday Sept. 21st 2007 and every Sept. 21st is the United Nations International Day of Peace and Ceasefire. This year I was in NYC so...

Here is my story.

I made my flag to honor the International Day of Peace and I walked from 9th Ave and 45th street where I was staying to the United Nations building. Along the way I got many thumbs up and smiles from most of the people I passed. When I arrived at the UN building I did not see any signs that prohibited me from walking up and down in front of the building, which I did until some guards came and informed me I had to go across the street to demonstrate. One of the guards said to me "Peace, who cares about that?" and when I asked him if he knew that today was the United Nations, officially declared, Day of Peace and Ceasefire he replied that they had been briefed. This lead me to believe that he didn't know about it before he showed up for work that day. Many other people in the street asked me about it and I explained what the day meant to me. On two separate occasions someone started singing "All we are saying, is give Peace a chance"(by John Lennon). I watched two men walk by that had tags on indicating they also worked in the building and one said to the other "Oh yeah, it's Peace Day" in a tone of voice that was very dismissive. Just as I was about to leave the area and continue my walk around Times Square I met a woman who was kind enough to take the pictures you see on Flickr. She said she knew the creators of the movie that had inspired me to make my commitment on the website "Peace One Day" and carry my flag all around midtown Manhattan last Friday. Thank you Donna for the wonderful conversation we had. I hope to go back next year and do it all again.