If anyone here sells internationally on eBay, be sure to check your fees.  eBay has been visited by the ****-up Fairy and they are overcharging on the final value fee they ream us on on shipping.

For international orders, the fee is supposed to be based on the lowest domestic rate you have in your listing.  Instead, they are now charging it based on 9% of the actual international shipping cost.  If you have had overcharges, you should call their customer support and see if they can credit the overage to your account.

If you currently have any listings going and the current high bidder is outside the U.S., you should message them and request that they not pay through eBay's checkout.  Instead, have them wait until you can send a PayPal invoice and they can pay that way.  You only get charged the shipping final value fee if they buyer pays through the eBay invoice, so using a PayPal invoice should get around that.

No kids for me, ever.  But in the past, I thought that if it happened, I would consider Elery Arthur (named after my great grandpa on my dad's side, and my grandpa on my mom's side), for a boy.

For a girl, Ada Grace, named after 2 classic nerd ladies:  Ada Byron and Grace Hopper

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Byron
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper

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Any idea on the worth of this little lot?  I know some of it is Monster High, but not sure if everything is, as some looks too small to fit a 12 inch doll.

Only identifying information on that Penguin is on his butt tag:  Circus Circus Las Vegas/Reno

And here is my latest addition to the horde, found today at Goodwill where plushies are $1 unless otherwise tagged (and she was not otherwise tagged).

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She's from Ty (non-Beanie), 12 inches from bill to butt.  Not sure what her name is, and didn't think to check on her butt tag before I carefully snipped it off and tossed it.

Great Googly Moogly is from a preschool show called Maggie and the Ferocious Beast

Just as a minor FYI, Great Googly Moogly is from long before Maggie.  I know it was spoken professionally as early as 1974 by Frank Zappa in "Don't Eat the Yellow Snow":  http://www.karaoke-lyrics.net/lyrics/zappa-frank/dont-eat-the-yellow-snow-223564

And it could be even earlier than that.  But Zappa is the first that comes to mind when I hear or exclaim Great Googly Moogly. 

I think the G1s would all be fond of anything by ABBA.  In fact, I think in an alternate universe, ABBA would be a band of 4 Ponies.  They sure sound ponyish.

Voulez Vous?

Miis are one of the neatest features of the Wii.  They are user created avatars that can be inserted into many games (not all games support them, but a lot of good ones do).

Here is my Mii burning up the floor with Daisy and Mickey for the Ballad of DAvy Crockett in Dance Dance Revolution:  Disney Grooves

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMH4pbexDmE

And here is my Mii, best friend's Mii, and 3 pulled at Random from our collection of Miis doing Rhythm Kung Fu in Wii Fit Plus:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMH4pbexDmE (not one of my better performances.  Controllers were getting some sort of interference from somewhere that day)

Here's a Mii downloaded from the Check Mii Out Channel that I like using sometime in Mario and Sonic at the Winter Olympic Games...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OBmojS4t-o

And finally, Mii and my backup crew busting a move to Detroit Rock City in Dance Dance Revolution:  Hottest Party 3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGB7QYQJOVo

All time number one for me is Song of the South

After that, there is a 4 way tie for second place:

Mickey and the Beanstalk
The Sword in the Stone
Robin Hood
Rescuers Down Under - Most beautiful animated leading lady ever...  Marahute.