Welcome to my colorful side of life!

Of course, my next step is to sell much of my personal collections on Ebay...like the rest of the world's been doing!

Hey, better late than never...how long has ebay existed anyways? I think my girlfriend's niece sold a couple of Beanie Babies of mine for me when those were all the rage and it still took me this long to try ebay for myself! Whoops!!!

Anything I put up for bid is from a non-smoking home environment and I am the biggest kid in the room so nothing of my collection has been chewed on, drooled on, faded or ruffed-up! 

Just thought this would be a better place to have an apartment sale as I bet sales from the 3rd floor would be less than fruitful for me!

If you have questions about any items I am selling; please do not hesitate to ask! I also sell items for friends and family and I will advise about the condition of the items in each ad.

Plus I have heard from many buyers now who enthusiastically agreed that I am a darn, good packaging shipper! I take pride in what I have sold to anyone because I make every effort to ensure that my stuff in a box could handle being thrown about the airplane luggage room by a wild, gorilla like was the commercial from the 70's here in USA; anyone else remember that advertisement??? Back to the point, is that I want to make sure that you are receiving the item(s) I have had and maintained in my possession in the same condition as I have listed them on Ebay and when you receive in the mail. All of my invoices however do give you a choice to apply Insurance on shipments and I Require Insurance when the price of the item is valued over $100USD.

UPS as the shipper gives the best value if you want free tracking and the 1st hundred dollars of value of insurance is free on their handling the shipment whereas shipping with USPS charges you individually on additional services! I do offer both in most cases on all of my merchandise and if you buy from me in multiples or different items -- I am more than happy to combine shipping to save you MORE $$$$$!!! If you are waiting on an auction to end for combining shipping, I just ask that you make contact with me via Ebay or my email address of: HOLLYWOULDDUIT@SBCGLOBAL.NET so that I know to invoice you for the entire billing and not just a portion! Thanks so much for looking at my auctions and store items! http://stores.ebay.com/TARTSPARTS

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• I currently am a 5-year school bus driver worked w/various age groups of KD thru H.S.students & corporate charters! I love what I do for a living & cannot wait to get back to it -- if I possibly can after the "DOC" fixes me up!
• I have been side-lined since November 02,2004    due to a low back injury! (L5-S1 Ruptured,L4 herniated & misaligned, L-3 herniated; all 3 discs are compressed)
• I'm still waiting on my discogram & surgery...(12.09.05 still waiting)
• UPDATE: As of 05/20/05: Workman's comp. has denied my claims and I am no longer going to receive the workman's compensation I am entitled to!  "lovely, just lovely!"
• UPDATE: As of 07/31/05: Workman's comp. has denied any claims on the discography; so that brings everything I have accomplished this far to a screeching halt!
• per my doctor's if I dont get the discography, I cannot have the fusion surgery, and I am still unable to work so there goes 2006 for regaining my life back!
• LOOK OUT FOLKS>>> This means my TY Beanie Baby Collection will going on the auction block next! Remember that Milton-Bradley game called "TOSS ACROSS" thats what Beanie Babies are worth nowadays I see...Toss Across With Eyes & a Tail!!!!!!
• Thank Goodness for Food Stamps, Salvation Army, St. Peter's and the Food pantries & ebay id: superjerryswife aka Holly Fenn for sending me coupons to extend my Food stamps ...dont know how else to get by...
• Luckily, I have some great friends who help me out when I was trying to devise a way to clean out the apt & "lighten" my load and more!
•  Trudie & Roy for EVERYTHING B4, During & AFTER! 
• Felicia, for getting me to all my doctor visits & grilling in the middle of winter for dinner to cheer me up!
• Bee-Jay for my emergency seltzer water supply and the other goodies you brought over, too!
• neighbors: Joe Gagnepain http://www.artbyjoseph.com
• for bringing up groceries from the pantry & assistance with household chores.
• "Tiny 'Buffalo Nuts' McLarge" so I can get out of the apt occasionally besides physical therapy & For The Marshall Tucker Potlucker from Doug Gray! http://www.marshalltuckerband.com
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• And many thanks to Pam Miller for taking many of the photos w/her webcam & getting my laundry downstairs & back up again & more!
• Linda Kelley for keeping in touch and bringing stuff up to the 3rd floor...!
• Bruce "Floyd" Cox for suggesting me to selling on EBAY & taking me out to Ponderosa & Cracker Barrel, Long John Silver's for a break from these four walls!  PS...sorry Bill's Restaurant wasnt open on Mondays...it is now!
• Mike O'Cull for shipping assistance & answers to my zillion and one questions, (heads-up, more ?'s coming Mike!) and replaceing my broken coffee pot with a new coffee maker--yer a lifesaver! Also for buying my 80's Glam Metal Tele and showing me how easy it was to sell on Ebay, too! Check out Mike's sales here: http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQfgtpZ1QQfrppZ25QQsassZmikesrv69
• Laura Siebert & Tor Jenkins for coming over in the middle of winter with gloves and other goodies, thanks for keeping in touch and all the emails!
• Dan Sabia for starting the ball rolling for me in my sales on EBAY!
• Karel K. for talking dirtee to me on sundays!
• (but why only sunday?)
• Carolyn for being a mysterious "mystery caller" LOL
• Jo-Jo, Spooky,Helmet, SLIM, Sara, Susan (WFM Palatine 2000) & Dan for the wonderful emails to laugh the blues away with!
• HB for Bobstock 2004 & my 2 front tires!
• Gina Woods for ...keeping me on my toes, gurl~!
• http://www.openroadradio.com
• Barry in SD for reminding me that my sense of humor and mental outlook are still intact!
• FREAK being so helpful & keeping me laughing at the back blues!
• http://www.myspace.com/southlandfreak
• Art Kelly for being himself around me!
• Panhead Bobby & Liz for their AWESOME ABILITY TO SURPRISE ME!
• DOZER for reminding me when I am being too "TART"!!! LMAO :) http://www.myspace.com/04bigdog
• Bob Parker for his wonderful hospitality, friendship & awesome pineapple upside-down cake! Love da BUS, Man!!!
• Ronald McDonald for simply reminding me that I'm beautiful without makeup too!
• A.T.I. Aurora, IL :Cheri, Rick, Tina, Lark, Brian, Matt, Nick, Ryan, Dan, Salenia, & Brent!
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• I cannot thank everyone enough for all assistance since this whole matter started!
• Thanks to all for all of your support here on EBAY!
• If I missed anyone, please remember I was on all sorts of painkillers the first 7 months...I've stopped them since I dont like living with my brain numb -- the pills dont do the job right!
• I'll keep taking each day; day by day...all I can say is I'm hangin' in there!
• UPDATE: 08.22.05 finally got the dreaded pink slip in the mail from my employer: LAIDLAW
• UPDATE: 09.04.05 Will have to prevail in court for any further workman's compensation.
• UPDATE: 11.28.05 Have budgeted myself so tight I think I could bounce a quarter off my soul!!!
• UPDATE: 12.05.05 Hearing date set, my dr's disposition links my back injury on the MRI to injury from 11.02.04 
• I miss my independent self...I have no life anymore,...have to calculate every move, feel like a rat trapped in my cage aka body. This isnt the rat race I thought I was running!!!!!
• This "CRAP" is getting older than me real fast! It doesnt have to be a perfect life just one I can deal with again. One I can have fun with again! One I could...(fill in your favorite MAD LIB here)!!!
• UPDATE: 1st Trial on 12.15.05
• UPDATE: got a call from my attorney, I didn't have to show up in court; the other dr & atty for my company "threw in the towel" when it was proven in court with my MRI's about my injury & condition!
• Finally, had the discography on March 3rd,2006, and it still shows a clean & clear view of the problem for the doctor. However, I was also finger-pricked in the hospital and my blood-glucose was very high for someone who had fasted for 13 plus hours so with the entire staff I had that day focused their personal assistance & persistance to me--to get checked out further on the blood-glucose issue; I did and come to find out that I am diabetic Type 2 with Hypoglycemia! Well, never a dull moment again!! I didn't know about the hypoglycemia for a month after the original diagosis but it helps explain why i kept finding myself on the floor like a wilted flower because I completely got rid of any sugar or starches from my diet when I first found out what was making me so sick!
• Its just good to know that I can still stash some Oreo cookies in the glove box of my car and not feel guilty I had one!!!
• Did my F.C.E. yesterday 06.06.06..hope to convince my doctor that I am all-ready to be fixed so I can regain my life again! As I re-read this last sentence my sense of humor is chuckling at the me-getting-fixed part like I'm talking about being spayed or neutered by the doctor...Probably about the same difference anyways!!!
• UPDATE: 10/26/06 well, alot has been done or alot of nonsense has been done and im no better off than i was before but I am more tired! Was in a rear-end car crash(june 11) by another anxious driver who couldnt wait for the officers that I called to come to our aid. Luckily, I checked out the damages and memorized the driver's license plate number and was able to give an accurate description to the officers when they did arrive which was only a minute from when the other driver left the scene of the accident. Other officers caught up with that driver about 5 blocks away and arrested the driver for leaving the scene of an accident with injuries and towed the vehicle and made the rest of the passengers take cabs home because they could not drive the vehicle either...<<that's a big RED FLAG in my book>> but I'll let you, the reader decide!!!
• the car accident caused my neck injury C5&C6 are herniated and totalled my station wagon.
• I attemped to live without transportation for almost 2 months and taxis are way too expensive but i had no choice because most of my friends or family live too far away so a lot of times i stayed home or would occasionally hitch rides with friends and neighbors when schedules allowed them. I have to agree with my doctors for once that YES, I AM DEPRESSED WHEN I DONT HAVE WHEELS THAT ARE OPERATIONAL 24/7 -- OTHERWISE I AM A NORMAL PERSON!!!!
• I saved up ebay store sales for a used '88 Jeep Cherokee Pioneer for $350.00 just to have wheels again. Cars that are hauled out of demolition derbys and stock cars races-- exterior condition were better than the jalopy I got; but it ran!! It ran long enough for me to switch the title to my name ($65) & buy new plates and registration ($124) and in less than two weeks the engine block - heads cracked and radiator fluid and the motor oil mingled and danced together for another week and a half as I tried to salvage the fact the I just lost everything I saved the last year in ebay sales on this piece of crap!!!!
• To justify it to myself, this bit of unpleasureable life experience I mentioned above, was still cheaper than a rental car that when I turned it back in for about the same price after 2 weeks and maybe an extra weekend value rate, i would have nothing to show except a paper receipt. Whereas, I still owned a paper title (an acceptable bit for my local junking yard/salvage company), plates that were transferrable for the next prize-winner set of wheels I would acquire in the future, and the pride in knowing that I didnt have to ask anyone for rides anywhere for about a month and that it was mine and only mine! I had a ride so UGLY no one would JACK-ME at stoplights or dark parking lots and I apparently made a large cash donation to folks who were about to lose the rest of the crap they own at a public storage locker!!! With so many positives out there for everyone I helped but myself in this equation...I should have no right to complain about the matter or feel like I was duped; should I?????!!!
• Waited 3 months for a 2nd doctors opinion about a back surgery since Dr #1 tells me it wont work for my condition and it could make it worse so guess what, 3 months later and 3 days after my 34th birthday, Dr#2 agrees with Dr#1 and says no on back surgery.
• Dr#1 is treating me for my neck injury for the car accident and in that matter was ready to make me the surgery appointment before I had the chance to leave his office!!!
• I have one other doctor who teams with DR#1 and is a pain management specialist and does my steroid injections or epidural lumbar injections recommend to either do nothing or try a neuro-spine procedure where the disc is heated or cooked like a hard-boiled egg which shrinks the disc to elimate pain. has a 50/50 success rate but I need to look up more info before heading in that direction as I continue to lose options faster than gain new ones!