Category: self-confidence

It’s Never Just A Little Thing

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After posting the awesome video that Emily originally made, (which she has since redone, as not to cause undue concern for visitors) I noticed at the top, there was a “warning: This site is not secure.” message, which is not something I want my potential customers to be greeted with.

Honestly, my store was always secure. It was just that the coding wasn’t quite right, so my shoppe showed the warning. This is something that I appreciate and value very much about internet.

Most people don’t realize it, but in actuality and in my opinion, the internet makes a real effort to keep people safe. I find it funny in some respects how people (especially “older minded” ones) say they don’t trust the internet. Yet often those same people will pop cash or a money order in the mail and not register it to the sender – which is honestly more dangerous than buying something online.

A little while back, I had someone send me a significant amount of funds, in a greeting card. When I opened it and saw it, I was horrified that they had sent it through regular mail. Then when I tried to deposit it at my bank, I was informed that what I assumed was a cheque, was actually a bank draft and needed to be signed by the originating bank but wasn’t. Therefore, I could not deposit it in my account. I then learned that the funds had immediately come out of that person’s account, so they were pretty much sending me cash. If that card had gotten lost in the mail, there would have been nothing that either one of us could have done to retrieve it. That person’s good intentions would never became reality and we would both have been out that amount of money.

Nonetheless, as is often the case with technical coding, it’s never just a little thing. It took a couple “tech support” chats, followed by some “specialist” emails, acquiring the correct plugins and such to “fix” the false error. Through all these steps, I did discover what caused my shoppe to falsely show my site as “unsecured” and I have replaced the coding.

So as my readers and customers, rest assured that my shoppe is secured and it is as secure as any other out there. I take your security extremely seriously and do everything I can to optimize your shopping safety on my shoppe. And with this post, there’s a second video, which was done by Angara. She’s seems to be a natural sales person and videotographer!

Thanks to both Emily and Angara for doing these vignettes.

So visit my site and shoppe. Enjoy. And watch it grow!

Super Excited!!!

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I’m super excited and super stoked because my “7-in-1 Stylus-Pens” finally arrived!!! (at least the replacement shipment.)

As my readers know, UPS lost the first shipment and has never found that shipment – not that I know of anyway.) So getting these babies has been quite the ordeal, but alas, they are here and now available for purchase through Annie’s Online Shoppe!

Earlier this week, my attendant, Emily, helped me with the “visuals,” by taking some awesome pics of these stylus-pens, which you can now see on the store. She even did the short video that accompanies this post!

I am amazed at all the uses for this one tool! It goes well beyond a stylus or a pen. The level is great and the two screwdrivers are really cool.

All in all, this is a great product which I’m thrilled to be able to offer to my customers. (It will also be really easy to mail to people who order from “away.”

So check them out!

Light At The End of The Tunnel

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Coincidence or not, shortly after I posted “Tunnel Vision,” this past Thursday, all of a sudden my online shoppe was working the way I wanted it to. Whether iPage saw my post, which embarrassed them enough to actually fix it; or whether the email I sent them shortly before my post, in which I called them idiots and imbeciles, (but yes, I did used both “in a proper sentence,”) did the trick, I honestly don’t know; but now my shoppe is set up and you can see it from my website’s menu.

At the moment there is still only one item for sale, but at last, it is set up the way I want it to be, and I can grow it from there.

I do have another item on the way, which I think is super cool. It’s a seven function pen/stylus, which includes: a ruler, a level, a knurl grip, among other cool things.

I am just waiting for my replacement order because UPS lost the first shipment. One of their “highly trained professional drivers” delivered my package to the wrong address and at least a month later, they still haven’t been able to retrieve it from the incorrect address.

Also, despite its claims and several attempts to connect the two, it seems that Facebook does not allow external forward linkage to shop pages. My new shoppe is listed in our “About” tab, under “General Information” on fb though, proving once again, “there’s more than one way to out-smart a fox!”

Tunnel Vision

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When I am trying to do something, I have to get it done. I’m not one of those people who can go back to it later and carry on with other things in the meantime. If that “thing” doesn’t go well….. well, I become obsessed with it. I get narrow focused – like going into a dimly lit tunnel; like a dog with a bone; like a cat chasing its tail, like a bull who sees a red flag; like a….. Well you get my drift. Add to that the Gemini’s need for perfection, the creative compulsion to make a mental imagine into reality, and well….. you’ve got me.

So about ten days ago, I supposedly upgraded my online store. (At least I paid for a “professional” package) which would add extra security, more bells and whistles, and I was able to design an awesome front door to “Annie’s Online Shoppe.” I’m honestly thrilled with how it looks from my end.

Only… 😤

As much as I tried, I couldn’t properrly install the new store on my blog.

SO!….. I turned to the tech support people, on iPage online chat.

After three or four online chats, which resulted in not only not making any progress at all, but actually being given incorrect instructions, among other things, the techs on chat then forwarded my “issue” on to iPage’s “special experts.”

After about another 6 days of this, with numerous emails going back and forth, I am no further ahead. Zero progress has been made.

So today, I am going to try again, on my own and hope that I can do a better job of figuring this out than the so called “Special Experts,” at iPage.

Wish me luck!!!!!….. And lots of it! 😧🙄😵

A Bit of A Tricky Decision

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As you may have noticed, I’ve updated my profile picture on the disabilitypride.net Facebook page.

I’ve actually been thinking about this for a couple days and honestly, I feel kind of unsettled about my decision, because I love the picture of DisabilityPride.net’s name sake, (Dave Hingsburger) & Joe, and myself.

Every time I look at it, I think about the history that the three of us share. Yet I know that Dave would be the first one to tell me I’m just being silly, which I am, but all the same there’s a twinge of sadness that comes with changing the pic.

Still, with this new pic, you can get a glimpse of me at work, at my computer, using my trusty head pointer – which I’m sure Dave will say is very cool.