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Let's try this again without the anger issues cropping up, self. :P
On the homefront:
Widget has moved back home. I've become a raging hypocrite because I've laid down the law of no freakin' incense and somewhere I'm sure my mother, brother, and the ghost of my father are all cackling/rolling their eyes/whatever because 16 year old me was big on incense. And candles. And so I have no real leg to stand on except that when told to knock it off, I did. Also, unlike Widget, I wasn't the cause of the smoke smell in my room that I was trying to get rid of.
He's also created about a thousand messes already. It's impressive in a migraine inducing way.
Work:
I'll be working by myself for the next two weeks unless they ever got around to hiring someone new for overnight. Based on the schedule this week, I'm assuming they have not. I'm hoping that Ms. K will be doing the floors this week so my ankle can continue the slow march towards not hurting like crazy every day I work.
I hope they fix the outside lights because I am beyond sick and tired of people complaining to me about the lights not working. "We didn't even know y'all were open, it's so dark outside." Guys. We know. It's been like two weeks at this point. I'm not sure what went wrong in the storm, but it's going to involve an electrician and getting the company to pony up for something at a store is apparently next to impossible these days?
Extended Family:
My cousin's memorial was Saturday and in keeping with tradition, the cemetary gave his sister the wrong info, so the urn she selected for his ashes was too big and now I've no idea what happened. Originally he was to be laid to rest with our grandparents followed by a gathering at my aunt's house. The cemetery thing was scrapped, so I don't know what happened after that.
I am betting, however, that my brother returns home with at least one good story from this. And by good I mean eye-rolling, how are we related to you people kind of stories. Then again, maybe not because Sunday was the second anniversary of my uncle's death and that might've tempered things a bit.
Oh, who am I kidding. The vexing family members are drama queens and most likely to have done the most with that fact. I only regret that a) I didn't have the money to go and attend all the 'fun' things the group did beforehand (I mean, I could've pretended to enjoy baseball. Maybe. Probably not. But more than football which literally makes me sick each time I go to a game) and b) that cousin B was not there because oh, the stories.
Shtuff:
On the toy front, AG is allegedly finally putting out the Create Your Own line tomorrow. We'll see? People seem to be alternating between thinking it's a trainwreck already in progress (they're talking about the display dolls you can find on IG or at various stores already being wonky) or being completely baffled by how much AG hyped it at the start of July only to drop the ball so thoroughly. So meh or oh god. That's... a thing, I guess.
Nanea seems to be doing the usual new AG mold polarizing thing. People love her! They think she doesn't fit in with other AG molds! She'll never look like AG to them! No, she's awesome because she's a middle point between Wellies and regular AGs! No, Wellies are awful too! No, awesome! And so on.
I remain disappointed that they did one bundle and that it was with the hula costume that I have no interest in (and less interest once I heard the damn thing stains the doll's hands) but I will admit that I waffled hardcore when Mums offered to pay the difference between what I had and what she'd cost. However when her eyes bugged out for half a second at the final price, I decided to wait. I thought I'd be more green-eyed with jealousy over people getting her early (seriously, the people able to go into any store and snag her ASAP do kind of tick me off) buuuut mostly I've been otherwise occupied so I can just admire the parade of pictures of her in say, Molly and Emily's outfits. Which, btw, sold me completely on her. I knew I wanted her before, but dude! The cute, it burns.
Because I am snarky, I will say the one mod who keeps trying tomake fetch happen get the fandom to further differentiate between various eras by calling something High Classic is going to drive me insane before the month is out. She's been called out by various people over this and she keeps trying to make it happen and it's just... no. A) Calling anything in AG classic is just asking for confusion because we already use that to refer to one of the face molds. B) we already have a billion ways to section off collection eras. There's PC, Mattel, Beforever, pre-Beforever... you get the idea. It's enough. So very, very enough.
And then there's the fact that she's taking the way AG chose to do Nanea's eyes as proof, proof I say, that this is the direction they'll go for all future molds!
Whaaaa? I... words fail me. They truly do. Let's start with the obvious. AG doesn't release new molds all that often. The last one was what, Marie Grace in 2011? And before that was Sonali in 2009? And reactions to those were just as mixed (though I think mostly MG was a solid pass until people got her in hand and changed her out of that meet outfit and did something new with the wig) but I don't remember anyone being sure that this was the New Direction AG was taking. Maybe it's the combo of the Wellies along with Nanea. Then again, I'd probably be willing to bet more on that if she didn't keep pushing that High Classic Era shit. :P
And now I'm off to find some Benadryl because the problem with August is that the fleas are out in full force and I'm super allergic.
On the homefront:
Widget has moved back home. I've become a raging hypocrite because I've laid down the law of no freakin' incense and somewhere I'm sure my mother, brother, and the ghost of my father are all cackling/rolling their eyes/whatever because 16 year old me was big on incense. And candles. And so I have no real leg to stand on except that when told to knock it off, I did. Also, unlike Widget, I wasn't the cause of the smoke smell in my room that I was trying to get rid of.
He's also created about a thousand messes already. It's impressive in a migraine inducing way.
Work:
I'll be working by myself for the next two weeks unless they ever got around to hiring someone new for overnight. Based on the schedule this week, I'm assuming they have not. I'm hoping that Ms. K will be doing the floors this week so my ankle can continue the slow march towards not hurting like crazy every day I work.
I hope they fix the outside lights because I am beyond sick and tired of people complaining to me about the lights not working. "We didn't even know y'all were open, it's so dark outside." Guys. We know. It's been like two weeks at this point. I'm not sure what went wrong in the storm, but it's going to involve an electrician and getting the company to pony up for something at a store is apparently next to impossible these days?
Extended Family:
My cousin's memorial was Saturday and in keeping with tradition, the cemetary gave his sister the wrong info, so the urn she selected for his ashes was too big and now I've no idea what happened. Originally he was to be laid to rest with our grandparents followed by a gathering at my aunt's house. The cemetery thing was scrapped, so I don't know what happened after that.
I am betting, however, that my brother returns home with at least one good story from this. And by good I mean eye-rolling, how are we related to you people kind of stories. Then again, maybe not because Sunday was the second anniversary of my uncle's death and that might've tempered things a bit.
Oh, who am I kidding. The vexing family members are drama queens and most likely to have done the most with that fact. I only regret that a) I didn't have the money to go and attend all the 'fun' things the group did beforehand (I mean, I could've pretended to enjoy baseball. Maybe. Probably not. But more than football which literally makes me sick each time I go to a game) and b) that cousin B was not there because oh, the stories.
Shtuff:
On the toy front, AG is allegedly finally putting out the Create Your Own line tomorrow. We'll see? People seem to be alternating between thinking it's a trainwreck already in progress (they're talking about the display dolls you can find on IG or at various stores already being wonky) or being completely baffled by how much AG hyped it at the start of July only to drop the ball so thoroughly. So meh or oh god. That's... a thing, I guess.
Nanea seems to be doing the usual new AG mold polarizing thing. People love her! They think she doesn't fit in with other AG molds! She'll never look like AG to them! No, she's awesome because she's a middle point between Wellies and regular AGs! No, Wellies are awful too! No, awesome! And so on.
I remain disappointed that they did one bundle and that it was with the hula costume that I have no interest in (and less interest once I heard the damn thing stains the doll's hands) but I will admit that I waffled hardcore when Mums offered to pay the difference between what I had and what she'd cost. However when her eyes bugged out for half a second at the final price, I decided to wait. I thought I'd be more green-eyed with jealousy over people getting her early (seriously, the people able to go into any store and snag her ASAP do kind of tick me off) buuuut mostly I've been otherwise occupied so I can just admire the parade of pictures of her in say, Molly and Emily's outfits. Which, btw, sold me completely on her. I knew I wanted her before, but dude! The cute, it burns.
Because I am snarky, I will say the one mod who keeps trying to
And then there's the fact that she's taking the way AG chose to do Nanea's eyes as proof, proof I say, that this is the direction they'll go for all future molds!
Whaaaa? I... words fail me. They truly do. Let's start with the obvious. AG doesn't release new molds all that often. The last one was what, Marie Grace in 2011? And before that was Sonali in 2009? And reactions to those were just as mixed (though I think mostly MG was a solid pass until people got her in hand and changed her out of that meet outfit and did something new with the wig) but I don't remember anyone being sure that this was the New Direction AG was taking. Maybe it's the combo of the Wellies along with Nanea. Then again, I'd probably be willing to bet more on that if she didn't keep pushing that High Classic Era shit. :P
And now I'm off to find some Benadryl because the problem with August is that the fleas are out in full force and I'm super allergic.