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A Day Off

January 17, 2006 |

Well I was lucky enough to get an unexpected day off yesterday. I don’t typically close for MLK day as I feel guilty at just having been closed for 10 days at Christmas time. But no one ended coming for daycare yesterday - so lucky me!!

Unfortunately I got stuck spending half the day helping my husband try to straighten out a PayPal problem. Yesterday morning he got an email telling him his account had been restricted then on their website they say they had closed his account. Upon further research it turns out to be because of some tobacco related products he had listed on eBay. They were items he had gotten from someone else off eBay in a miscellaneous lot of junk. He re-listed the items after he did a search and found that there were 100+ auctions with similar items and many of them from Power Sellers (sellers receive this qualification if they sell $1500+ per month for 3 months consecutive).

So we spent the day appealing, trying to reconfigure his listings as all of sudden he couldn’t receive any payments at his PayPal account and they have frozen his funds for 180 days! They are reviewing the appeal we wrote as we pulled the auction as soon as we found out it was a problem. Then last night, 10 hours after we had pulled the auction, eBay sends him an email saying they are ending his auction because it is for tobacco related products. We had already ended the auction!

So I had to turn my PayPal account over to him. How am I going to shop in secret now? LOL I don’t really mind. It’s all for the greater good. We figure that the hubs must have pissed someone off though as he gets auctions pulled all the time for items that hundreds of other sellers have listed. There appears to be a snitch.

A good thing that happened yesterday though is that I got 2 more calls for daycare. Once they are enrolled my weekly income will nearly double. Woohoo!! It’s been a POOR few months and its been getting pretty depressing. Speaking of which I have finally made an appointment for myself at the end of this week to talk with my doctor about depression. I’ve noticed that the swings are getting more substantial - the highs are really high and the lows are sinking ever lower. I know that the work I laid out in my plan for the New Year will help my overall well being but I know I really need some help with the day to day to find the strength and motivation to do the internal work I need to do. The hubs thinks its foolish and that you just suffer through things and move on. I think that if I keep up the way I have been pretty soon I won’t be able to move at all anymore. Wish me luck!


Comments

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  1. Theresa on January 17, 2006 10:19 am

    Good grief! If you need some pharmaceutical help, you need it. Nothing to be ashamed of, or try to hide. Good luck sweetie!

  2. mrs. diamond on January 17, 2006 1:58 pm

    If you need it you need it…it doesn’t have to be forever, but do what you have to do to help yourself.
    If you had bad eyes, you’d get glasses. If you had an ear infection you’d get antibiotics. I do not see a difference here.

    (hugs)

  3. Aimz on January 17, 2006 2:53 pm

    I’m not surprised you need help with the depression. Many people don’t understand it and I’ve had some say to me “why don’t you just get over it?” Easier said than done right?

  4. Andrea on January 17, 2006 5:50 pm

    Congrats on the new daycare kids! How many are you up to now?

    I just got a call today to keep another one, but I just can’t. At this point, I have cut my niece back to 2 days a week and then still have the 14 month old little boy every day.

    I don’t get paid enough to run a bigger operation! LOL

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