Rainbow Trite | TCWH | Sweet Nothings, Courtesy of E-bay

I have to say that I have stolen this happily from Toni over at Electric Mist. Another serendipitous blog explosion find.

So what happened, you say?

This happened. As I was exploding my blog *ahem* (brain), I encountered her story of nocturnal admission and laughed. Seems like this is not an uncommon happening between people who sleep together. It also reminded me of the other night. At the risk of sounding like Julia Roberts as Tinkerbell a la that movie where Robin Williams is Peter Pan, you know that place between asleep and awake? I was there. My body was restful, but my brain was still not fully asleep, which explains why I was enjoying my reign as the cover model of BigUn's with a classroom of surprisingly compliant and angelic children. I rolled over to attain maximum sleeping comfort and was promptly awoken by one word blurted into my ear by a comatose dh.
"BUY."
Because I am a female and excited at the prospect of engaging in any type of retail therapy, I immediately jolted up in bed. "Buy what? What can I buy? Will it be cute?" but even as these thoughts were making themselves known to me as I was in my percoceted haze, I realized that this one word was the root of a bigger problem.

dh is addicted to E-bay.

Birthday present? Ring from E-bay. Eagles tickets? E-bay! Car parts? E-bay! Need a new shirt? E-bay! Need some more corduroy pants from American Eagle? E-bay! Has them in 49 colors! Just the other day I mentioned that I wanted a rain coat and dh came home, plunked himself down at the computer and said, "What about these?" He had at least 38 different raincoats, ranging in length and price on the page. Where did he find them? All together now...E-BAY!

Dh's ex=wife said that she used to talk to him in his sleep to find out all his "secrets". Well, I'll be damned if I can get a word in edgewise. I try whispering words like "diamonds" and "shiny" and the like. He bought this:

A visor for the bug he is restoring. pffttt. Well, I guess it's shiny, and the little cutouts could be interpreted as diamond shaped, what do you think, will it make my butt look big?

Afterthought: Maybe I should pry his eyelids open and show him pictures.

i had to move my site.

sagaofjack.blogspot.com

just thought i'd let you know.

and it's only a bad adiction if he can't quit for even a day. you'll both survive, i'm sure :)

comment by jack at 03:12 PM on 11.06.04 [ link ]

That is too funny, with the subliminal suggestions. Man, I wish I'd have thought to do that! And Carl is also hooked on e-bay, too. I check it daily for what he's "watching" to make sure there's nothing too insane on that list. It's the scariest part of the morning.

comment by toni at 03:28 AM on 11.07.04 [ link ]

hey :) dariana http://dariana.tblog.com/ (here on Tblog) set my blog and blog explosion up for me :) I havent actually used my blog explosion account yet, so this is the first time Ive actually looked at your site. She was showing me how to use it, and get more traffic in! If you leave her a message, i am sure she can make some pointers for you! She is great at all this stuff!!

i think it looks very nice though!

comment by Ana at 02:32 PM on 11.07.04 [ link ]

Thanks for the note! Love your blog.

Actually, I was the cashier, the Crackhead was the customer. I know, I'm awful.

My step-sister always did/said crazy (read: scary) things in her sleep when we shared a room. For one thing, she sleeps with her eyes open. One night, she sat straight up in bed, looked at me, and said, "I have to get the jumprope!" Then she laid right back down like nothing had happened.

comment by stumblebee at 02:56 PM on 11.07.04 [ link ]

The last thing we ordered off of eBay was our new espresso machine. Oh sweet nectar of the gods, does it make great coffee.

Nice to meet another eBay addict!

comment by The Zero Boss at 04:46 PM on 11.07.04 [ link ]

I love it.

I am addicted to eBay, but even more to the weird things that happen while asleep. My boyfriend is particularly prone to talking in that mostly-asleep state, and saying funny things.

At a party one night, I'd gone to bed early and he'd started dozing on the couch.Friends told me later that out of nowhere he asked, "Is there a woman in my bed?"

"Um, yes..." they replied.

"Who is it?"

"Uh.... Marian...."

"Awesome."

That tickled me pink.

And the other night, I woke in the middle of a dream where I was tugging open a box and found myself pulling on his leg. Very strange experience.

Okay, I'll stop talking now.

comment by Marian at 11:33 AM on 11.08.04 [ link ]

Kind of Fredricks of Hollywood kinky.. but a touch wide. Maybe in black? More slimming though the space age look is cutting edge. Ebay is good for obscure shit you can't find anywhere else and the one thing I have noticed is people will put -anything- on there to sell. Btw, nice blog you have here, found you while surfing.

comment by Diearist at 11:01 PM on 11.08.04 [ link ]