I have a 100% eBay user feedback score. I'm saying it right now because in a couple of days it might not be true anymore.

In the past two days, I've commit to buy one item by error (didn't notice the color till I'd already committed) and bid on one other item that I shouldn't have (THOSE curtains were the wrong length...)

eBay really stresses me out and I'm not sure why I am a user. I am one of those losers who frets over my score ALL.THE.TIME. I am always worrying that it is going to drop. Someone is going to say something negative and kill my positive streak. I think I've only ever made something like 40 deals on eBay, really, but I've had the account for longer than I've been a licensed driver. Seriously.

And then this week and all it's bad luck with shopping rolls along and here I am stressing out because I've never made eBay mistakes before. And twice in one week I've "oopsed" and then wrote sellers apologetic emails - quite literally red-faced.

With that being said, I also love eBay. Those curtains I complained about in a previous entry - the discontinued Pottery Barn Kids ones - I bought them. I got two of them on eBay, brand new, for the same price I would have paid for ONE panel from PBKids. I also got the matching area rug for about $50 less than retail.

All that remains for Amaris' bedroom makeover is the bedding (which I see I can get for $10 less than retail on eBay) and pinboard. Well, and a curtain rod.

I'm feeling a lot better. Did I ever discuss why I am so adamantly re-doing Amaris' bedroom? I love her furniture. But she has no curtains and really not much to hang on the walls. I never thought too much about it until I started really putting thought into baby girl's room. And her room is set to be awesome. (Well, it will be as soon as we get a freaking crib in there...) She's got this cool cherry blossom themed bedding, with all the matching accessories - a lamp, pillow, window valances, laundry hamper, wall hangings, area rug... And then I decided to go with the theme we'd have to get her a couple of those round paper lanterns. How cool will that be, right?

So I'm looking in baby girl's bedroom and thinking how neat it's going to be, and then I walk past Amaris' bedroom and am consumed by guilt. Like, overwhelming guilt. I mean, Amaris' furniture is cool. No doubt about it. But she has a bare window, nothing on the floor... Poor girl.

Then I find this Pottery Barn crap and it's way overpriced but it's literally the only matching set of anything that I can find that matches her bedroom PERFECTLY. It was like, meant to be. Love at first sight. Whatever you want to call it. That was what happened. It took some convincing but Mark agreed to it. I've been waiting for an ideal time (as far as our bank account is concerned) to buy it all ever since, up till the discontinued curtain catastrophe.

Anyways that is the story. And that's why I am so elated about the whole purchase. And of course that's why I am so damned obsessive in the first place. Amaris deserves a room at LEAST as cool (if not MORE cool) than her little sister gets. And since they will be sharing a room in a few years, I figure I'd better buy two bedding sets, one for each girl. That way I get some mileage out of it.