Thanks to Rachel and Danalyn at Weblog Design Studios, I found a great web host who helped me fix up my blog: Blogs About. Many thanks to both Lisa and Chris, especially Lisa, for putting up with all of my questions and helping me get this new WP 2.1.2 straightened out. I’m sad that my old template isn’t quite ready for this version yet, and I still have many image and other things to fix, but I’ll deal. Oh, yeah — Lisa designed the one I’m currently using and a whole bunch more available for download at the WordPress site. She’s also a designer at E. Webscapes and is writing the new WordPress for Dummies — she comes highly recommended!
It’s been a tough last week or so: blog problems; Internet problems; PC problems, which is why I now have this new laptop with the built-in webcam. If you’re lucky, maybe you’ll get to see Hopper’s butt. 
Brian’s been traveling for work since Monday and his flight’s been delayed tonight; he may not be home ’til tomorrow afternoon because of the weather. My pdoc assured me that it’s a good opportunity for me to start regaining my autonomy, except that all sorts of shit happened. On Monday, I was on my way to the gym before my pdoc appointment and got into a fender bender — minor, not a big deal, everyone’s fine. I forced myself to drive to the health club anyway and the pdoc’s office said it was OK if I was late.
Later that night, the living room fuse blew, and I had no idea where the fusebox is located, plus I never go into the basement because I’m a huge scaredy-cat when it comes to basements. All I can think of is Blair Witch. I didn’t think I could, but Brian walked me through it, even though our calls kept getting dropped. I think I managed the strength to do that because I had to feed the cats, and do chores and stuff, and because my blog and Web access were still fucked up, all I wanted to do was sit in the living room and read.
For the most part, I’m fine, but there are all of these little things that keep adding up and turning me into a huge basket case. It is my goal to regain autonomy, but not like this. I’ve jumped into doing all sorts of things in the past when I’ve felt better after an ECT, and I always end up crashing.
I went out to dinner with a friend last night, so that was a very welcome distraction. I hadn’t seen her in a while, and we had a lot of fun. But I should have just gone to bed when I got home. Oh, well.
Check my bad self out:
Why not add your bad self there, as well? I submitted my photo a few days ago, so be patient! Go visit 25peeps.com now!
I’m just taking it off of my 43 Things because this particular goal isn’t measurable, which is something that I learned in the Goals Setting group I sometimes go to at the SSvcA–that a goal should be measurable.
Once my mental health benefits kick in again in January I’ll start looking for a DBT program. I did come across this site called DBT Self Help, so I’ll look into that in the meantime.
See more progress on: Learn DBT
(If you haven’t been following this story line, read part 1 here and part 2 here. Or not.)
As it turns out, a seller account isn’t the same as having an eBay store, so there’s nothing for me to cancel, unless I want to delete my eBay account completely, which I’m not ready to do.
The fees they recently deducted automatically from my PayPal account were the fees from our last sale–the Ohio State vs. Penn State tickets. It wasn’t some required monthly fee just to be able to sell anything on their site. Apparently, they don’t deduct the fees immediately after each sale–rather, they wait until the end of the month to do this, which supposedly saves you money. For example, if we sold some other things that month, they would have deducted all of the fees at the same time.
If anyone’s interested, you can read their response to me below.
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heh. it’s easier to become a fucking Jedi Master. think all you have to do is click on a link that says “cancel my seller account”? wrong. you have to click a “Contact Us” link to personally tell them. i checked the option for them to send a copy of my request to my e-mail, which you can see here:
Home > Help Topics >Account Information and Billing>Managing Your eBay Member Account>Closing Your eBay Account
Message: Please close my eBay Store. Thank you.
once i clicked the send button while still logged on to eBay, here’s the message i got in return:
My Messages: Contact eBay Customer Support
Green Check Your message has been sent to eBay Customer Support.
You should receive a response within 24-48 hours.
A copy of your message has been sent to your My Messages “Sent” folder and to your registered email account.
you may also have to cancel your PayPal account or bank account or something, which i think Brian already did. that would be a pain in case i actually still would want to buy something there, which i seriously doubt i’ll ever do again.
Jesus fucking Christ. why is this such a pain? wait! i just received a reply from them! here it is:
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i’ve had an eBay account for years now, because i used to buy and sell comic books and Star Wars and Harry Potter LEGO sets. i would still, but money’s tight, plus i wasn’t even online for months and months, remember? (well, if you’re a regular, then you remember.)
anyway, i hadn’t used eBay since like, February at the very least? well recently, we sold our Ohio State-Penn State tickets because there was no way we’d be able to make it to the game (this past September 23, the undefeated Buckeyes won 28 - 6). i realize that there’s a fee for posting the item and whatnot, but now all of a sudden we’re getting these automated billing statements for $14.26?
excuse me? what the fuck am i missing here? the buyer paid the price (he got it as a Buy It Now item) and the shipping and all that, so why are we still having to pay stuff? i got the invoice for this bill just the other day, and the tickets were sold weeks ago!
what the fucking fuck? i’m so tempted to cancel my account since i haven’t used it for months and months, especially if they’re going to charge me mysterious, automated fees. however, i’m not sure if i should really cancel because what if i need to use it? oh, and trying to contact their customer service and look stuff up on their support/help pages? joke. fuckers.
i’ve decided to implement imood once again, though i opened a new account under barbnatividad. if you want to be imood buddies, let me know. i highly recommend this site to anyone with a mood disorder. it’s a great way to keep track of your moods because it contains a mood history, which will show you how many times you’ve felt sad, or angry, or whatever. you can also write a little post when you change your mood if you want, so if you click on “depressed” in your mood history, it’ll bring up all of the posts you wrote that are related to that mood. so if you’re say, Brian (heehee), and want to know why i’m worried, nervous, or whatnot, all you’d have to do is click the little icon thingy in the Currently section of my sidebar.
i haven’t been on the computer much, which is why it’s taken me so long to answer previous comments and why i haven’t been visiting anyone. i suppose i’ve been isolating a bit, too. i’ve been busy–which is a good thing–working really hard on my metals projects and taking advantage of the available studio time outside of class. there were a couple of days this past week when i was gone the whole entire day, like from 9am to after 6pm, just like a fully-functioning working person! on Friday i was out all day, then after i picked up Brian from work we went to dinner and a movie, just like a normal couple. (l) we had Indian food at Essence of India. if you live in Chicago, you must try this place out! then we saw The Black Dahlia movie, which i will write a review about. someday.
this morning i had a really hard time getting out of bed, which had me worried. though i had my metals class today, i wasn’t even looking forward to it. but i forced myself up and into the shower and went. and of course i felt better, especially because i got over my fear of soldering. we don’t use a soldering iron, we use a torch! like the kind connected to a tank of some type of gas and looks like something welders use! anyway, after a bit of practice, i successfully soldered posts onto the earrings that i made. *sigh* if only we had a working camera. (p) boy, the things we take for granted.
we haven’t gotten back into our workout routine yet, so hopefully we’ll wake up early enough tomorrow.
woohoo! check out this site that i recently discovered: Wists. they describe themselves as a “social shopping scrapbook.” try to say that three times really fast.
you can bookmark stuff you like from any Web site or online store so you’ll have all of the material items you want all on one site! that is, one wishlist! er, one Wists list! you can also subscribe to other people’s lists. ingenious, eh?
wanna see mine? click here. i’ve also added a handy-dandy link to it under My Links. 
i found the link to this sign generator at SourAaron. want to make your own Dummies book? click the link below:
Online Image Creators
is it me, or has this feature been glitchy lately? last weekend i noticed that it took my site forever to load because of that rental code. i also know that you folks must have paid more visits to The T Stop, my previous tenant, than what the stats actually are, am i right? 
if it’s glitchy, i’m going to hold off renting for a bit. glitches give me twitches.
