ETSY and the Bowels of Retail Hell - Welcome To My World

I'm fairly certain that this will be my final "call out to vote" on LJ Idol this session. It's a write-off between me and another very talented author, and I'm simply in too deeply. No real time. I'll put the link for voting here, and I'd love to get more than the two votes I had already received as of this morning, but I'm not holding out a lot of hope on this one. My opponent wrote a lovely piece and, so that's how it can be and probably will be. Nonetheless, if you're up to voting for me, the link to vote is right here. Read my opponent's piece also, though. It's excellent. Here's the link: https://www.dreamwidth.org/poll/?id=32317

I have my write-off story up on LJ Idol (link is above 
in the paragraph). If you're so inclined after reading the 
two entries to place your vote for me, I'd REALLY 
appreciate it. If not, that's OK too. This is a really hard 
time of the year for me to take the time to write something 
excellent. And I've had a total BLAST participating 
in this challenge with so many talented people. 

Today I start out with swimming, then a quick breakfast, and then on to the shop. I have two mail orders to finalize so that I can mail them today. I'm stumbling over what Etsy is charging people for Priority Mail, my computer screen decided that I didn't need that information *sigh* and we were BUSY towards the end of the day, so I couldn't finalize the orders the way I usually would. Crap! Sometimes having product on Etsy is a total PITA. Every time I have one, I go onto their website and they've changed a BUNCH of things, making me re-learn stuff just to process the sale. ARGH! 

There are times when I really hate Etsy. I don't mind 
selling down product on it, but their format is becoming 
harder and harder for me to navigate easily. 

It's a "day off" today - a joke because days off are not in my wheelhouse. Today I need to make a soup for the next few days of dinners, and I also need to make my Ogre Juice - something I can usually reserve for my Fridays except I had my last one yesterday. Still, if possible, I'm going to try and take my Friday off and get it done then. I work on Sunday, so I can't really squeeze it in then, and that's too many days away from "Ogre Juice" anyway. I'll have to check my calendar quite carefully when I'm at the shop and make sure I also have Friday off this week. 

I might have to purchase this book and add 
it to my book list to read. I'm sure there's a 
lot in these pages that I would be able 
to associate with. 

So, from the bowels of retail hell, I'm striding out to drown those flames in the swimming pool. I think I really need a serious exercise session because my life right now is insane! Have an excellent Wednesday and please vote, if you're so inclined. I appreciate all of the support I've had from all of you over these past few months of LJ Idol. It's meant the world to me! Slava Ukraini.