I some how wonder just what that was all about, the star business, I mean. But I sure found out who my supporters are! To refresh here, I needed only a few feedbacks to reach my thousand feedbacks and my star would change colors. Several of you emailed me that you would leave me feedback on eBay if you could, but they do have thier rules. First you have to buy something from me and then you can leave feedback. And you can only leave one feedback a week. So I lingered at the 998, then along came Cindy Darrow, my niece, to the rescue. She left lots of feedbacks for things she had bought previously. That put me up to 999. She then began buying Lip Bong and leaving feedback. But they still did not count! Only one per week counts. ;(
Then some time in the night pheadwood left feedback for an Avon necklace and my purple star quietly turned red. That was it! No glowing letter from eBay extolling my virtues as a seller. No fan fare. No nothing. But I do have to tell you about this niece of mine. She is the daughter of my late oldest sister. She lives in Oklahoma, so I do not see much of her, but I may make the effort to remedy that this summer when I head south to see my son in Dallas.
I am not sure just what the girl does down there, but I do know she sent me 250 of the big Crown Royal Bags. She also sends me lots of electronics that actually work along with new stuff that comes from Lord only knows where. I think she may have connections and may be one of "Lou's Little Angels" who are people who work quietly behind the scenes for my little causes.
Some of this is routed through her brother, my nephew. And why does she do this? These things are earmarked for the AIDS clients that I work with here in Pueblo. If we want money for something like candle wax to make candles for the homeless, the office in the Springs does not fund that! If we want to have an outing away from the office and just let out hair down, like at the bowling alley, the office in the Springs does not fund that. A long walk on the Nature Center trail followed by a hamburger some where; the office in the Springs does not fund that. While I do my own funding for most of the social events as far as the food aspect goes, there are a lot of little things this money furnishes. I call this the "Lou fundraiser".
Of course this is not tax deductible for you or me either. If I were walking the streets asking for money it would probably be illegal. What I have done is just let it be known to a few of my friends that here in the Pueblo office we like to do special things for our clients to kind of raise their spirits and make them feel a little more human. This money goes through no channels except me. My first donation came from my friends Kay and Frank. Then Cindy took up the banner and ran with it. Last week I put almost $300 in the "Lou Fundraiser" and I have more stuff on eBay now, along with a box right over there that needs to be photographed and listed. More then one way to skin a cat in this old world.
As long as I have friends like Cindy and Kay and Frank, I will do just fine operating on the skirt of the organization. And as for my feedback number and the sad little red star, life goes on. I am now setting at 1002 and I do not know when the next change will be, but I do know that I have friends out there rooting me on and that is all that really matters!
And do you know what sponsored links are? Those are places that pay me money when you go there and buy stuff. And where do you suppose that money goes?
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Then some time in the night pheadwood left feedback for an Avon necklace and my purple star quietly turned red. That was it! No glowing letter from eBay extolling my virtues as a seller. No fan fare. No nothing. But I do have to tell you about this niece of mine. She is the daughter of my late oldest sister. She lives in Oklahoma, so I do not see much of her, but I may make the effort to remedy that this summer when I head south to see my son in Dallas.
I am not sure just what the girl does down there, but I do know she sent me 250 of the big Crown Royal Bags. She also sends me lots of electronics that actually work along with new stuff that comes from Lord only knows where. I think she may have connections and may be one of "Lou's Little Angels" who are people who work quietly behind the scenes for my little causes.
Some of this is routed through her brother, my nephew. And why does she do this? These things are earmarked for the AIDS clients that I work with here in Pueblo. If we want money for something like candle wax to make candles for the homeless, the office in the Springs does not fund that! If we want to have an outing away from the office and just let out hair down, like at the bowling alley, the office in the Springs does not fund that. A long walk on the Nature Center trail followed by a hamburger some where; the office in the Springs does not fund that. While I do my own funding for most of the social events as far as the food aspect goes, there are a lot of little things this money furnishes. I call this the "Lou fundraiser".
Of course this is not tax deductible for you or me either. If I were walking the streets asking for money it would probably be illegal. What I have done is just let it be known to a few of my friends that here in the Pueblo office we like to do special things for our clients to kind of raise their spirits and make them feel a little more human. This money goes through no channels except me. My first donation came from my friends Kay and Frank. Then Cindy took up the banner and ran with it. Last week I put almost $300 in the "Lou Fundraiser" and I have more stuff on eBay now, along with a box right over there that needs to be photographed and listed. More then one way to skin a cat in this old world.
As long as I have friends like Cindy and Kay and Frank, I will do just fine operating on the skirt of the organization. And as for my feedback number and the sad little red star, life goes on. I am now setting at 1002 and I do not know when the next change will be, but I do know that I have friends out there rooting me on and that is all that really matters!
And do you know what sponsored links are? Those are places that pay me money when you go there and buy stuff. And where do you suppose that money goes?
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