E-bay's the place for me ...

Before I start talking about my new addictions (nilla wafers and e-bay), I want to make one comment about "A Million Little Pieces", the book that Oprah was suckered by. Well, I gotta tell ya ... so was I. I think it had something to do with the desperation in his descriptions. As someone whose been there and done that, you feel this guy's pain with every word. True, some of that stuff (like no local anestesia during root canal and confronting a crack dealer when looking for his girlfriend ... unarmed) was a "tad" far-fetched, but I think the addict in all those of us who read the book, wanted it to be true. In my life, I have read many, what I like to call, "junkie" books. Starting, at age 10, with "D0wn These Mean Streets" thru William Burrough's "junkie" and "naked lunch" to Jim Carroll's "Basketball Diaries". All of these were brutal and gritty and depressing and everything a junkie's life really is and, again, I felt their pain. So, anyway, my point is whether James Frey was ever a junkie or just someone who dabbled, it makes no real difference to me. Anyone who can write like that either knew someone who was or has felt the pain himself, and either way, I say, it gives him the right to write about it. Even if he did commit the most horrible crime in the world and lie to Oprah. Afterall, Oprah is God. And, now to my new addictions for this week ... drumroll please ... I am now hooked on "Nilla" wafers and E-bay. The first is due to my diet (hoping to drop the 30 pounds quitting smoking has given me) and the second is to occupy my mind away from the first. According to my box of "Reduced Fat" Nilla wafers, I can eat 9 cookies for only 140 calories. Not bad, I thought, except I wind up eating the whole box in about two sittings. So much for the diet. As for E-bay, I woke up one day, looked around the house, and said "My God, this is e-bay heaven". Let me explain, my husband and I collect things. He's been collecting comics for over 30 something years and I collect anything else (dolls, books, magazines, old bills, broken snowglobes ... I know, I know ... I'm a pack-rack and I have a sickness). Anyhow, with business slow and money going out, but not coming in, I figured, what better time than now to try and sell it all. Funny thing, though, when we started getting questions about some comics I put up, my husband, to no one's surprise, was not happy and found every excuse not to sell (they don't appreciate them, that's not enough money, what it they go up in price after we dump them). God bless him, God bless men. They're worse than women when it comes to their things. They don't understand our feelings, and we can't understand their obsessions. Matches made in hell. But, what can I do ... I love the guy and I'll still sell his stuff. It's not like I really want to see my dolls in anyone else's hands. So, anyhow, if I'm not around as much as I usually am, you can always find me at http://stores.ebay.com/House-of-Kal-El-Collectibles. Cute name, don't you think?