grrlTravels

Support Half the Sky! Rah! Rah!

The auction has begun. The items donated to Half the Sky will be listed on eBay for the next week. Things have just started and so there isn't all that much action just yet. The excitement, well, I hope it's building because right now it's kind of s---l---o---w. But that is how eBay works. Like basketball (which I loathe and detest) the interest is all in the last 2 minutes. But you should go over and browse anyway.

The Half the Sky Auction items

I will admit that I haven't bid on anything yet. I am waiting for them to list the Scrubs! thing. K. says, "Where is it filmed? Probably LA, right? Because if it was NY you could bid on it." The Scrubs! thing happens to be one of those things that sounds good in theory, but when I think of touring the set and potentially being forced into making small talk with people I think are very funny on tv but probably complete jerks in real life the desire dwindles quickly. But that is just me. If you think you can swing LA you should totally bid on it and I am sure that you and Zach Braff won't be making awkward small talk at any point during your tour.

I do manage to participate

All of my big plans and pronouncements have come to naught. Despite my continued obsessing over making something for the auction I have not in fact made anything for the auction. Shame on me! You can say it! I have been shaming myself into a corner for a week and a half now. The grandiose plans for the contributed items have been scaled down and scaled down and scaled down, and still no items! Ack. I have a faint hope that I can get something together between now and Saturday and throw it in, but that is probably my obsessive crazy lunatic mind that thinks it might still be possible. Even when it isn't.

I am going to make something and list it this weekend.

In the mean time I am selling a bunch of shoes that we bought for Z. that she never wore. It's a bit sad for me. The reason she never wore them is because she walked so late and for a long, long time we carried her everywhere and she didn't need shoes and by the time she started walking she had outgrown them all. And. We probably aren't going to have another girl. So I'm selling the shoes. The red ones at the top are the hardest ones to let go. I am having a time of it.

Did you bid yet? The rambling is designed to drive you from the entry to somewhere, anywhere, well why not click on the link up there and get the heck out of here? And then bid?

(I just found that there are 15 listings for the exact same red shoes shown above on eBay right now. Huh? We bought them randomly somewhere between Changsha and Guangzhou, but apparently they are the bees knees of squeaky shoes. I must, must, must go and make something that someone might want to buy. I have a minimum amount that I have committed myself to donating through the auction, and I am not even going to get close. Why am I still typing. I need to go work.)

Posted by grrlTravels at October 18, 2007 9:21 PM