Cheshire Cat...

I'm just sitting here finding it odd that we've offered our cel of the Cheshire cat for sale 3 different times now. Once for offers on Beta, Once on ebay & once to a private collector who had asked. Yet, here she is still with us. I'm not complaining mind you as perhaps the cel gods are simply trying to tell us maybe breaking up the Miyuki collection isn't such a good idea. I just wish that the cel god's could have come to that conclusion at a better time.

The current story is like this, when we had it up for offers on beta we only gto 2 responses one slightly higher than the other but, we decided not to seel if we didn't have to and as it turned out we didn't have to right then. A little while later we realize that we reallly should have probably sold her as due too some certain unexpected additions to our family. (If your interested in that read about it here: http://www.livejournal.com/users/ashenfairy/139725.html )

So we placed her on ebay. The auction ended below the reserve (which I'm not at all surprised about). However the high bidder int he auction emailed us to ask what the reserve was and offer s to pay. However seeing as how we had already went ahead and made other sacrifices, we decided once again not to sell her. Fast Forward to a couple of days later and we figure out one of us managed to make a really awful banking error which has caused us to be short for our mortgage payment. So we re-offered it to the same person. They said they were still interested but, now have dropped of the face of the planet. Which is where we are now. Under normal circumstances we would simply say, "alright world we get the hint, we'll keep the Cheshire cat." (which actually what we're ending up doing anyway)

However, The issue is we need those funds. Even though via savings and what not, we have enough money to cover paying the mortgage mistake (especially with the help of other collectors who bought tings) but, just covering the mortgage leaves no cash left over for necessities. Currently we have almost no groceries in the house and we're paying for gas on the credit card (I'd love to simply not go anywhere but, Jen's currently got a delivery Job so that's not going to happen) But, this money craziness is a large part of the reason we're selling so many cels and the only reason we're selling quite a few of them so cheaply. Meanwhile, as result of my worrying about the whole situation, I've been giving myself panic attacks and not sleeping. Which is really, really not fun. It does allow to be productive and do things like change the site layout and clean the house though. (might as well find some postive in there!)

But, anyway, to bring it all around, in the course of all this stressing & not sleeping I have time to think to myself. Of all the cels in our collection I've probably had the greatest number of people ask about the Cheshire cat and we've always polietly refused there offers but, now when it comes time that we actually need the money for something she doesn't sell. I've never ever had a problem selling such a high end cel. (I know how it's bad time for selling but, still it's the cheshire cat!) All in all though, I guess that our lovely Neko-san lives up to her namesake, as she's being very fickle. I'm sure that once we manage to work everything out we'll get a million offers on her. But, at this point when it happens we'll just go back to refusing them as she seems fated to stay with us for many many years to come. Besides she makes for nice eye candy while I'm sleeplessly pacing the house...

~Stephanie