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My weekend in review
Jun. 17th, 2013 07:52 amOver the weekend Widget went to a birthday party for the daughter of one of my brother's friends.* Despite being irked at the father and not knowing the daughter, I could not let Widget appear empty handed. So...
I sent him to the party with this loverly gift bag. It involved me stopping at Walmart a little before it officially opened (they technically open at 7am but don't really seem to care if you show up at 6:30) to see if they had anything new. I wasn't sure who she already had or who she liked, so I was hoping they'd have the new dolls. They didn't, which is just as well as I'd have bought some for me, I just know it. So I debated buying the last Catrine who was purrfectly flawless... but then I remembered Target is having a sale. So I put Catrine back and found this gift bag and went about my business.
Target yielded even less of a MH selection than Walmart did. o_O It was basically: Scary Tales, two Howleen sets, Ghouls Rule shelf sitters, DDG, Rollermaze Abbey, Scaris Frankie and Clawdeen, and basic Scaris Draculaura. I figured if the father gave everyone else the same list, this kid was going to end up with a thousand Draculauras, so I dug through the Scaris dolls and found one Abbey. Not nearly as cute as the ones at Walmart had been, but she was on sale and there wasn't anything wrong with her. I snagged two outfits for her (they were on sale, too) figuring Spectra's is awesome on anyone and Abbey's is as well.
Came home, realized I'd have to actually wrap the presents because it's half the fun, so I used up most of my Tiffany blue paper and remembered the favor bags![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
irishgypsie sent me. I couldn't just give this strange little girl an empty bag, so I thought for a minute what to put in it. MLP wasn't on her list of loves, so that was out. Then I remembered my MH cards that zallia and I are collecting. Since I couldn't remember which ones were set aside for her (why you no mark these things, past!me?) I decided any card that I had at least two of in my doubles section was safe for gifting. Put them carefully in the bag, added some Halloween confetti, and an envelope for her father with the gift receipt just in case and voilà!
I'm told it was a hit.
Widget brought home a kid from the party who spent the night. I think he'd have spent the weekend if anyone had allowed it. At first I was a bit confused as to why a kid would be spending the night on father's day and then I found out that his father is one of those people who is working somewhere in the midwest because that's where the jobs are. Not sure what happened to kid's mom since he's spending the summer with his grandmother. He and Widget hit it off and they... really are super similar. For Widget's sake, I hope this friendship sticks. If not, well, they had one good weekend.
Our upstairs AC is dead as a doornail. :( Mums, I think, is calling the same people who fixed it last time. I'm hopeful it won't be super expensive to fix because if it is, we'll just have to suffer because there's no point in throwing money at something we won't be using for that much longer.
Universe, I am begging you: have one of the guys we talked to last week get back to us with an "I choose you, Pikachu" moment.
And now, back to packing and stuff. Yesterday I found a box of Highlander cards from one of my crazy exes, a box of Sailor Moon cards from Jake, and even more magazines for me to sift through. Oi.
Also, I packed up my VC Andrews books since I found a box with half of them in it anyway. Oh, and ponytopia has been refound and boxed up. I'll have to properly clean and style them again when I debox them on the other side.
*- Same friend is renting his house and did not even think to mention it to the boy until after someone else had already gotten through 95% of the process which means I am officially Irked At Him. This place is near my job and he had to know we needed a house and AND ANNNNNNND it was in our price range. So as far as I'm concerned he and the boy can fuck off.
I sent him to the party with this loverly gift bag. It involved me stopping at Walmart a little before it officially opened (they technically open at 7am but don't really seem to care if you show up at 6:30) to see if they had anything new. I wasn't sure who she already had or who she liked, so I was hoping they'd have the new dolls. They didn't, which is just as well as I'd have bought some for me, I just know it. So I debated buying the last Catrine who was purrfectly flawless... but then I remembered Target is having a sale. So I put Catrine back and found this gift bag and went about my business.
Target yielded even less of a MH selection than Walmart did. o_O It was basically: Scary Tales, two Howleen sets, Ghouls Rule shelf sitters, DDG, Rollermaze Abbey, Scaris Frankie and Clawdeen, and basic Scaris Draculaura. I figured if the father gave everyone else the same list, this kid was going to end up with a thousand Draculauras, so I dug through the Scaris dolls and found one Abbey. Not nearly as cute as the ones at Walmart had been, but she was on sale and there wasn't anything wrong with her. I snagged two outfits for her (they were on sale, too) figuring Spectra's is awesome on anyone and Abbey's is as well.
Came home, realized I'd have to actually wrap the presents because it's half the fun, so I used up most of my Tiffany blue paper and remembered the favor bags
irishgypsie sent me. I couldn't just give this strange little girl an empty bag, so I thought for a minute what to put in it. MLP wasn't on her list of loves, so that was out. Then I remembered my MH cards that zallia and I are collecting. Since I couldn't remember which ones were set aside for her (why you no mark these things, past!me?) I decided any card that I had at least two of in my doubles section was safe for gifting. Put them carefully in the bag, added some Halloween confetti, and an envelope for her father with the gift receipt just in case and voilà! I'm told it was a hit.
Widget brought home a kid from the party who spent the night. I think he'd have spent the weekend if anyone had allowed it. At first I was a bit confused as to why a kid would be spending the night on father's day and then I found out that his father is one of those people who is working somewhere in the midwest because that's where the jobs are. Not sure what happened to kid's mom since he's spending the summer with his grandmother. He and Widget hit it off and they... really are super similar. For Widget's sake, I hope this friendship sticks. If not, well, they had one good weekend.
Our upstairs AC is dead as a doornail. :( Mums, I think, is calling the same people who fixed it last time. I'm hopeful it won't be super expensive to fix because if it is, we'll just have to suffer because there's no point in throwing money at something we won't be using for that much longer.
Universe, I am begging you: have one of the guys we talked to last week get back to us with an "I choose you, Pikachu" moment.
And now, back to packing and stuff. Yesterday I found a box of Highlander cards from one of my crazy exes, a box of Sailor Moon cards from Jake, and even more magazines for me to sift through. Oi.
Also, I packed up my VC Andrews books since I found a box with half of them in it anyway. Oh, and ponytopia has been refound and boxed up. I'll have to properly clean and style them again when I debox them on the other side.
*- Same friend is renting his house and did not even think to mention it to the boy until after someone else had already gotten through 95% of the process which means I am officially Irked At Him. This place is near my job and he had to know we needed a house and AND ANNNNNNND it was in our price range. So as far as I'm concerned he and the boy can fuck off.
