My website is almost FINISHED!!!! Yes!!! I don't know if ebay allows us to post up downloadable items, but my UMG Productions site is almost done, and I just wanted to shout it out! Hopefully next week, it will be fully up and running.

On this site, I will be posting full copies of stories--in the form of ebooks-- our little "group" has been writing over the course of the past 30 years. Up until this year, these stories have only been available to family and close friends. Now we are going global. Due to ebay restrictions on these blogs, I cannot post up the link, since they don't like us to post links to sites that sell things I don't think they sell on this site. And this site does not sell ebooks (seems to sell everything else though--LOL!) Of course full printed copies complete with covers and bound to bookstore-quality specs will also be available for each story as well. (hmm, maybe that would make it OK?)

The stories mostly target a children and young adult audience, but there are some that adults can enjoy as well.

Shoot!! Can't post pics!!!

I am upset. I won an item here and unbeknownst to me, it was sent to my old address, which I haven't lived in for almost a year. I contacted the seller (from the UK) and asked her if it had been returned to her yet, and she said no. She told me to contact the current residents at our old place and ask if they have it, so I did. At first they said they hadn't seen it. Then a couple of days ago they changed their minds and said they did see it and sent it back last Friday. I tried contacting the seller again. I guess (rather hope) she is on vacation because she has not responded at all. I wrote to her on Saturday and asked if it does come back to her if she would send it to me again at my new address and I still have not heard from her.

Yesterday, I took some action into my own hands and contacted UPS, but they would not help me at all unless I had a tracking #. Then I tried the regular postal carrier in that area, and the guy I spoke to said he would ask the man who worked that route last week and let me know if he hears anything. So far I have not heard from him yet. Then I tried UPS International line, and they still could not help me without a tracking #. So I tried contacting the seller again and asked for a tracking #, and I still have not heard anything from her!! Last night, I decided to give her a couple of weeks, and if I don't at least hear from her in that time, I'm going to have to report the item not recieved. Am I being too lenient? The seller is all the way in the UK. I hate to seem unfair, but the communication between this seller is very bad! I'd also hate to be nasty and leave bad feedback. What if she really is on vacation? But then again, what if she is playing me for a sucker and she gets the item back and decides to sell it to someone else? I just don't know. I spent $23 on this item (in US dollars) including the shipping! I've hit so many dead ends with this transaction, it's upsetting!!

1. I don't judge anyone based on beliefs or what they sell. I judge based on the honesty of the sale and their content of character.

2. I never buy anything unless I know I can pay for it. Which is why my feedback number is so low for someone who has been with ebay since 2001.

3. I always keep communication open with people I am selling to.

4. If I buy from someone, I never leave feedback until I recieve the item.

5. If I am selling, I never leave feedback until after the payment has been made.

6. If I am looking and I see a rare item, I bid! Whether I have the money or not. It just may be a week or so if I win before I can pay for it.

Hello all! Just thought I would take some time to explain about myself. I don't use ebay very much. I use it when I can and that's basically about it. I usually prowl the site looking for little odds and ends. My most favorite things to purchase are INXS items, collectables like small figurines, DVDs--series box sets or movies, books about animals or anything that might aid in my drawing. That's about it. I'm easy to please. Characteristics I like in people are loyalty, honesty, dependability and fairness. I like people who can read the things I write on my blogs and not think the worst about me. Though I don't mind being called crazy because I'm an artist. What kind of artist would I be if I weren't a little bit crazy? Not much of one I can tell you that! Nothing worse in an artist than one who lets the World dictacte how they should act or feel! If I'm going to create something myself, I'm going to do it with honesty and integrity.

Characteristics I despise in people are insincerity, people who judge others, vindictiveness, snottiness and people who think they are Adolph Hitler!! I always tell those people to get over themselves! The only ones I answer to is GOD and Nature. That's my "religion" by the way. I mean, I don't have a regular religion so I made one up of my own where I worship both GOD and Mother Nature. I don't like organized religion anyway! It's for the birds!! Too many people saying their beliefs are right and all others are wrong! I don't think GOD intended religion to be that way, so I just went ahead and created one, combining the beliefs in GOD and Nature that I've come to know. It's these beliefs is the reason why I do not inhabit forums anymore, I've been to so many and the mods all want me to follow their rules, or kiss their behinds!! More than once I told them to kiss my behind and left!! Most of the time, their "rules" sucked!! One forum I was in, the moderator censored people she didn't like, just because she didn't like them! Another said she was going to kick me off her forum just because I didn't like her hoodlum friends!

Anyway, I have 2 lovely dogs, chihuahuas named Odessa and Vegas. These are not the ugly, run-of-the-mill, Taco Bell dog look-alikes. These are classy, showy chihuahuas, great in conformation and bred to the AKC standard. I don't show though, but I have been studying dog breeds for more than half my life, and I think pretty much I can tell a good representative of the breeds. Besides, I've found too many show breeders to have the same characteristics I despise in all people! With more unfavorable attributes added in. Not all have been like that, I've met some who were actually nice. But too many were not so nice, and I had never been anything but nice to them.

I love INXS! It's my favorite band, although right now my interest in them is not as high as it was 2 years ago. But I still love them. And Tim Farriss is my most favorite band member. My default pic is of me and Timmy as we met in Seattle in January of 2006. He was sweet enough to let me have a photo-op with him. That's the kind of person he is---very sweet and kind. I'm always on the lookout for INXS magazine articles, pictures, posters, tour books. There's a catch though, I have zero interest in Michael! I only like the man for his singing, nothing else. Any pictures or posters, anything, absolutely MUST have Tim conspicuously in it or I am just not interested at all.

Yes, I am stubborn. I cling to my interests very tightly and mostly am unyeilding. But I am that way for a reason. It's a long story.

Anyway, that's me in a nutshell. hehe!