AC Dickson: eBay Power Seller

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AC ties the knot
by acdickson

True story. AC Dickson has wed longtime lady friend Susan Beal aka susanstars. We got hitched August 7th at the Contemporary Crafts Museum in SW Portland.

I was told it was so beforehand, and I can now attest to the truth of the maxim... your own wedding is a blur. In our case we had 150 guests with about 3 hours to hang out with folks after you deduct the ceremony, pictures, toasts, and dancing. Do the math! That works out to be a little over a minute a person. A minute? And that doesn't even include talking to the person you just married, not to mention you really think your parents, siblings, in-laws, aunts, uncles, cousins, in-law aunts, uncles, and cousins, and family friends are going to settle for a mere minute? Man, there were a good 25 people I didn't even see! Just trust that you did your homework and worked out a good time/wedding and everyone involved had fun.

Was there an eBay aspect to the affair? Hell yes! Not only were our wedding invitations purchased on eBay, our officiant made an eBay joke during the ceremony.

Now who is this Susan anyway?

Susan is a remarkable woman. So much more than my partner in eBay PowerSelling crime. In fact, I'm going to sing her praises a little bit. Not only does she have a thriving jewelry business with beautiful things for sale in over twenty stores across the country, but she's become quite the journalist. She and her posse have a book coming out this fall (stay tuned for a Portland, Oregon book release party in late October with yours truly as MC). That's right, a book! But that's not all, Susan is making projects and writing for magazines all over the darn place these days. Hit your local magazine store and you can find her strutting her stuff in the latest issues of Venus, Bust, JoAnn, and Punk Planet. And I won't even mention the books she edits.

Did you notice I haven't even begun to illuminate her generosity, beauty, energy, intelligence, and eagle eye for spell-checking my eBay auction titles. To sum up, I'll paraphrase her mother's toast at our nuptials. There are two important questions to ask in regards to a romantic relationship. First off, is your work better? In our cases, no doubt. Since meeting one another 7 years ago AC and Susan have become people we could have only dreamt of being, doing things in our professional-slash-creative lives we could barely have imagined. Big check in the box there. We're a team and if you take us on we're going to take you down.

Secondly, her toast went, do you have more love for other people in your life? While AC doesn't throw the L work around loosely, he can certainly say that since knowing Susan he's come to embrace his fellow man and woman in a hug so tight he won't let go. I think this is another way of saying when you're lonely you might have a lot of company, but it's of the misery variety. But when you find yourself with someone like Ms. Susan Beal, you got so much love going on your friendships and relationship with all people become stronger and more fruitful.

eBay success is one thing (one very important thing), but finding a soul mate and declaring your love before friends, family and state is about as good as it gets.

Even if the eBay gods decide to put you to the penultimate test during your first 24 hours of marriage!?!?!?!

To be continued...

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