I ponder and eye the AG fall lineup

Oh cleaning off the cell phone, cleaning off the cell phone. So boring.

Annnnnnnd now here's where I need opinions, of which you lovely people have many. Just possibly not on this particular issue.

Cassy's birthday is coming up. Originally, when she was still living out of state, it was going to be road trip times. That fell through when they were sent packing and came back home. I... honestly have no idea what is happening for her birthday now because I will be working. This itself only makes me feel a little bit bad, and if that feeling grows, I'm fairly certain I can switch with someone if they're willing. (Never a sure thing.)

But that leaves present time. I wasn't too worried about this previously because expecting me to drop $300+ on your birthday trip means maybe I'll buy you a drink at dinner. Maaaaaaaybe. But I cannot afford a trip even if they're doing one so... yeah. I can, however, afford a present. Not as awesome as the year she got Sonali for her birthday, or the year she got me to foot the bill for a pair of Bitty Twins, but y'know, a gift.

The best thing about gifts and Cass is that she's got a mile long list of interests AND she's not prone to buying herself gifts in the immediate birthday zone. Fine, that's two things but who's counting here? Anyway, I've got ideas. But I like to ask the birthday person what they would like whenever possible, because sometimes you really, really want something and I can make that happen. (See Sonali.) I asked. And asked. And eventually got a shrug of an answer. Which I can understand as well, as sometimes you just don't know.

But I've also found that whenever I'm given the shrug, it means you want something but you're not going to let me know what it is until I've already bought something.

I've already bought her a little something that I think she'll enjoy. And I found these really pretty silver mercury glass pumpkins at Tuesday Morning that I think she'd love, but they're kind of limited for how much use she'd get out of them and I'd bet good money they wouldn't survive a move.

Then there's the AG stuff. For the past four years (maybe only three? I don't remember whether 2010 yielded an AG birthday or not) I've bought her something AG related. Usually this is the big part of her present (or all of it, depending on the year.) It's getting to be tradition, and I kind of like it and while she's not exceptionally fired up about AG at the moment, she's also not exceptionally fired up about anything, frankly. Also? She's big on tradition, and I think if we end up at year (possibly) five, it'll hit tradition status.

Aha! 2010 was the year of the BT, so we've got '08: bitty baby outfit for the BB she bought at the store, '09 was Sonali, 10 was BT, and last year was me putting down more than half for Kanani.This would be year 5! Tradition, people!

Finally, this year's holiday dress is this:

Which is pretty much


in everything but the price tag. Or the fact that there are accessories she might also be eying. But the dress! *flails* I want one for my army, so is it possible I'm projecting that onto her birthday present? I don't think so, but the problem with these things is that one never knows for sure. But she's a purple fanatic, she loves the holiday dresses more than I do, there are black accents which is totally a Cass thing, and I honestly think it would look good on ANY of her mini-army.

Also, there's a code and I can easily swing it up to meet the price required to use the code. Plus tradition!

This leads us to the MyAG/Bitty section of the new releases for Fall 2012.

( Ho-ho-ho! )

Oh, and the historical movies are $5 each. Hey, Felicity's movie! You will be mine.