I had a nice long entry typed up when this worthless machine chose to gobble it up. Here's the abriged version to be expanded in a later entry IF this festering pile of maggot eaten, filth encrusted garbage starts behaving it's worthless self. 

1 I'm learning to sew

2 Limiting my plush dog collection to mini/pocket sized dogs from now on

3 Having computer problems

Well, I'm moved into the new place now. I had no internet access for about two weeks so I spent the time rereading some of my books. I'm back on the net, but unfortunately with only a dial up connection. Just for the record, DirectTV is run by a bunch of liars and crooks. They lied to us from the get go. They said we'd have local channels. We didn't. They said we could get high speed internet. We couldn't.So we ditched them and went with Dish network. Unfortunately, in this area, dial up is the only option for now. I'm going to have to get used to it. Fortunately it isn't as bad as I expected. I thought, for example, that I wouldn't be able to use livejournal on Dial up, but here I am. It's slower, but not excruciating most of the time.
Tommorrow, I'm going to take advantage of living near a big town and go hunting for new plush dogs. I also have to look for an orange Care Bear for my cousin.She set up my internet for me since I have an ear infection and can't hear out of my left ear very well and thus can't talk on the phone and operate the computer very well. The bear is just my way of saying thank you to her. She collects teddy bears and loves the color orange. I figured it'd be nice if I can find her an orange bear. Care Bears come in all sorts of colors so they're probably my best shot at finding an orange bear.

The updates have been scarce lately. It's been busy here. We found out we're definately moving. So we've been packing and making preperations. We'll have an acre of land, a house twice as big as the one we're currently in, and an above ground swimming pool. But more importantly, we'll have access to two huge towns, with anything one could possibly want so I won't have to rely on the internet to add to my plush dog collection.
And speaking of the internet, for awhile there it looked like I was going to have to go back to Dial up. Had that played out, I was going to delete this journal. It can be slow on even my high speed connection sometimes. I wouldn't want to fight it on dial up. Fortunately I found out Direct TV offers high speed internet in the new area so I won't have to do without High speed afterall.
Updates may be few and far between anyway, at least until I get moved and get settled.

I should have updated sooner, but I was distracted. My beanies arrived Tuesday, all 19 of them, bringing my collection from 28 to 47. My beanie bag is now full to bursting, and I'm going to need to purchase a second soon.

I got Sparky, an extra dotty, an extra bones, an extra Wrinkles, an extra Bruno, Blue,  Alps, Courage, Rescue, Tiny, an extra Doby, Cupid,  Jinglepup and Tinsel among others.

Courage and Rescue are a German Shepherd and a dalmation, each with an american flag embroidered on their shoulder.

Blue is from Blue's Clues. I know nothing of Blue's Clues. I have no opinions on it one way or another. However I took a liking to the beanie version and now I own him. He's kind of different from most Ty Beanies, in that he hasn't got a lot of beans and he's not floppy. Unlike other Beanies, Blue can't sit on my shoulder while I'm on  the internet, because since he has few beans he doesn't have the balance necessary to do so. This saddens me, but I'll cope.

Poor Sparky is defective. The thread that represents his mouth is coming out. I shudder to think what would have happened to Sparky had I not gotten him. A lot of Beanie collectors are perfectionists. If a beanie is not perfectly mint, it is rejected. I can easily see Sparky being returned. If he was considered not fit for sale he may have been destroyed. Fortunately, his defective mouth doesn't bother me. I love him anyway. He'll never have to worry about rejection now.

Tinsel and Jinglepup are Christmas dogs.

Tiny looks like a Beanie version of the Taco Bell Chihuahua.

I was very happy to recieve extras of Bones and Doby. Two of my favorite Beanies. I wish they'd had included a Rover too. Maybe next time.

And that closes this post, jumbled and disjointed though it may be.

I never did get through to that online store, but fortunately I did finally get a tracking number in my E-Mail. My beanies will be here Tuesday. With a lot of other places I've dealt with, you get a tracking number as soon as the items ship. This being different put me off. I'm pretty paranoid when dealing with a new place. I think from now on I'll only stick to ordering Beanies from places I'm used to. It's easier on my nerves.
Of course, now that I know how this new place operates, I won't be nervous about dealing with them next time. Now I have two places I can go to get my beanie fix. I gotta hand it to this new place, they ship quick. They shipped my beanies within three hours of getting my order. Now THAT'S service! 
So anyway, nineteen beanie dogs are on the way. I have no idea which ones ten of those will be. I ordered a mixed lot of 10 beanie dogs for $30. I also got Courage, rescue, Jinglepup, Tinsel, Tiny,  Alps, blue, Sparky and Cupid.

Okay, so I tried a new place online and ordered some beanies. I did this early this morning. Nineteen beanies in all. $120 worth. So a few hours later I check my status. It said my order had been processed and shipped. Okay, good, that was fast. But there's no tracking number. None in my order status and none in my E-Mail inbox. I was curious as to why this was, since I paid extra for two day shipping and it'd be nice to know exactly when to expect my package, y'know so I can be home to recieve it. Since this was a new place I wanted to see what was up. Maybe this place just didn't send out tracking numbers like most places I've dealt with. That's fine, I just want to make sure.
There's a phone number on the site to contact them, so I decide to try that. I call, and after the phone rings a couple times I get a recording telling me no one's in to take the call. Okay fine, I'll try again later. So I wait about a half hour and call back. Again I get a machine. Wait another half hour, call back. Machine. Again. Machine. Once more. A Damned shitspawn cocksucking motherfucking fuckwit MACHINE!! So tell me, am I missing something here? I mean what's the point of posting a phone number on the site if no one ever answers the fucking phone? So now I'm starting to get nervous about dealing with this company, and as a result of that I'm getting pretty frustrated that I can't speak to a human being. The first time I ever tried to order beanies online, I got jerked around a lot and the company ( allbeanies.com ) refused to ship my stuff after they got my money. I'm scared I'm about to go through the same shit all over again with this new place.
Fortunately I managed to check their ebay feedback and they have an overwhelming amount of positives. The only negatives they seem to have are from people who have no idea how online ordering is supposed to work, or people so anal that they find the slightest little thing to get pissed about. I really don't think this company is fraudulent, I just wish I could contact them so I could get my question answered.