I like shiny things
Jun. 13th, 2011 01:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
impyToday I have things to do. THINGS TO DO. But I'm killing time here, going on about things. Things, man. Things. Anyway, first went vent, and then we squee.
First: Widget returned from his mother's with another food thing. I thought we were mostly past this, but apparently not. Once upon a time, Widget would eat all kinds of things unless he found out that you didn't like something. Then he didn't like it either. Even if he loved it. And his mother would work in her food quirks about him eating too much to the point that he all but stopped eating. No. I'm serious. It took much coaxing and prodding and begging to get him to start eating semi-normally (for him, anyway) and he still doesn't eat in any way I would consider normal, but hey. He eats.
One of his favorite things to have for breakfast is bacon. Since it takes an act of God to get him to eat breakfast to begin with, we usually go with bacon as a part of his meal because then he'll eat almost anything else to get his bacon. Mums made him bacon. He wouldn't eat it. Wouldn't eat it. Screamed and yelled and eventually, when I asked him "Since when?" to his "I hate bacon!" he replied:
"My momma says bacon is bad for you."
Well. Damn. It's not good for you, this is true, but I've got to think that it's better than skipping breakfast altogether. So I bargain/reason with him. Tell him that too much and all the time, yes. Bad. But a little, well, unless you've gone veggie on us, will not be killing you anytime soon. "MY MOMMA SAID!"
For fuck's sake, woman. Your kid eats a smaller variety of foods than I do, so stop narrowing the field down even more. *headdesk*
Now we squee.
Saturday I talked Mums into trying Target for the new MH stuff. I wasn't really thinking this through since Target is the one store no one's found anything new, but still. We tried. We failed. Mums took pity on me and we drove out to Toys R Us. I hurried inside and made my way to the MH display. Where I zeroed in on the Dead Tired doll I saw. Draculaura! I glomped onto her. "MINE!" my brain screamed. Behind her was Ghoulia, and I grabbed her, too. I looked behind the others but no one else was hiding, so I took a minute to check the MH section on the nearby aisle. Clawd/Draculaura! But 34.99 and I'm still not sold on Ulla D's outfit. So I decided to be good and wait. Birthday present or something. Mums hadn't made it inside yet (Yes. I may have sprinted to the door before the car fully stopped. What of it?) so I took another minute to look at the dolls for possible wonk-i-tude. Ghoulia's glasses were sitting funny, but Draculaura was adorable. As I tried to figure out whether she had the sultry eye screening or just slightly less wide eyed and bushy-tailed than normal, I noticed her left eye sort of sparkled. It's hard to explain since there's no glitter. So I took it as a sign that magic was afoot.
Mums appeared with a cart and we slowly walked the MH aisle. I decided that since I was there I'd see if they still had Bijou, the Moxie Teenz doll I want. (Well, her and first!Tristen) No. Figures. But to the right of where she should have been, there was another DT box. I grabbed it and voila! It was another Draculaura. Which is perfect because I was hoping to find a double of someone for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
zallia, should she want 'em. That's how you know it's MH hunting season.
Hers is on the right, mine is on the left.
I'm so stupidly excited for this line. I love dolly jamma lines. I blame Skipper and all those BSC sleepovers. (Which were then reinacted with my Skipper dolls.) Also, I think this Ghoulia looks more like webisode Ghoulia than her original version did.
Someone explain to me how I've bought 2 Fluttershys and neither are the one that comes with Angel? D'oh! It probably helps that I think Fluttershy is one of the few who translates pretty well to toy form. I did see the big, plush Pinkie. I'm sorry, I think it's hideous. But it was cheaper than I thought it would be, so there's that.
Now, we slide back to Friday. I had to go stand outside in our backyard to wait on the mailman to get my box from Korea. You see, during the photo challenge (consider this another one!),zallia introduced me to ddung. Name aside, I thought they were adorable. I wanted one. Waaaaaanted. But I was good. I waited until I was sure it wasn't just a knee-jerk reaction to the cute.
Thing is, I didn't want this to turn out like some of my other doll loves where I end up buying a lot. Don't get me wrong. I love my Pullip army. LOVE. I love my fleet of My Scene dolls. I'm fairly happy with my AG dolls (I wish there were less of a certain mold, but you make do) but I didn't really want to be adding a million dolls, you know? So, I had to whittle down the choices. Some were pretty easy and didn't speak at all. Others spoke in promo pics, but Flickr told me otherwise. Finally I saw this:
I die. The cute! Still, I had to be sure. Flickr told me I had a 50/50 shot of loving her. And none of the others spoke to me the same way. So...
LOVE. So far she's still in her box, but I don't feel the need for another yet.
(Consider this the "someone else is to blame for this" challenge? Or make your own theme.)
Which is good, since I finished my DT non-bedded dolls this morning. Now to wait for delivery.
Oh, and Mr. Mailman brought me Kirsten's World on Saturday and Samantha's Short Story Collection this morning. :D Books and dolls and... crap. I have to clean. Well, two outta three, right?
First: Widget returned from his mother's with another food thing. I thought we were mostly past this, but apparently not. Once upon a time, Widget would eat all kinds of things unless he found out that you didn't like something. Then he didn't like it either. Even if he loved it. And his mother would work in her food quirks about him eating too much to the point that he all but stopped eating. No. I'm serious. It took much coaxing and prodding and begging to get him to start eating semi-normally (for him, anyway) and he still doesn't eat in any way I would consider normal, but hey. He eats.
One of his favorite things to have for breakfast is bacon. Since it takes an act of God to get him to eat breakfast to begin with, we usually go with bacon as a part of his meal because then he'll eat almost anything else to get his bacon. Mums made him bacon. He wouldn't eat it. Wouldn't eat it. Screamed and yelled and eventually, when I asked him "Since when?" to his "I hate bacon!" he replied:
"My momma says bacon is bad for you."
Well. Damn. It's not good for you, this is true, but I've got to think that it's better than skipping breakfast altogether. So I bargain/reason with him. Tell him that too much and all the time, yes. Bad. But a little, well, unless you've gone veggie on us, will not be killing you anytime soon. "MY MOMMA SAID!"
For fuck's sake, woman. Your kid eats a smaller variety of foods than I do, so stop narrowing the field down even more. *headdesk*
Now we squee.
Saturday I talked Mums into trying Target for the new MH stuff. I wasn't really thinking this through since Target is the one store no one's found anything new, but still. We tried. We failed. Mums took pity on me and we drove out to Toys R Us. I hurried inside and made my way to the MH display. Where I zeroed in on the Dead Tired doll I saw. Draculaura! I glomped onto her. "MINE!" my brain screamed. Behind her was Ghoulia, and I grabbed her, too. I looked behind the others but no one else was hiding, so I took a minute to check the MH section on the nearby aisle. Clawd/Draculaura! But 34.99 and I'm still not sold on Ulla D's outfit. So I decided to be good and wait. Birthday present or something. Mums hadn't made it inside yet (Yes. I may have sprinted to the door before the car fully stopped. What of it?) so I took another minute to look at the dolls for possible wonk-i-tude. Ghoulia's glasses were sitting funny, but Draculaura was adorable. As I tried to figure out whether she had the sultry eye screening or just slightly less wide eyed and bushy-tailed than normal, I noticed her left eye sort of sparkled. It's hard to explain since there's no glitter. So I took it as a sign that magic was afoot.
Mums appeared with a cart and we slowly walked the MH aisle. I decided that since I was there I'd see if they still had Bijou, the Moxie Teenz doll I want. (Well, her and first!Tristen) No. Figures. But to the right of where she should have been, there was another DT box. I grabbed it and voila! It was another Draculaura. Which is perfect because I was hoping to find a double of someone for
zallia, should she want 'em. That's how you know it's MH hunting season.Hers is on the right, mine is on the left.
I'm so stupidly excited for this line. I love dolly jamma lines. I blame Skipper and all those BSC sleepovers. (Which were then reinacted with my Skipper dolls.) Also, I think this Ghoulia looks more like webisode Ghoulia than her original version did.
Someone explain to me how I've bought 2 Fluttershys and neither are the one that comes with Angel? D'oh! It probably helps that I think Fluttershy is one of the few who translates pretty well to toy form. I did see the big, plush Pinkie. I'm sorry, I think it's hideous. But it was cheaper than I thought it would be, so there's that.
Now, we slide back to Friday. I had to go stand outside in our backyard to wait on the mailman to get my box from Korea. You see, during the photo challenge (consider this another one!),
zallia introduced me to ddung. Name aside, I thought they were adorable. I wanted one. Waaaaaanted. But I was good. I waited until I was sure it wasn't just a knee-jerk reaction to the cute. Thing is, I didn't want this to turn out like some of my other doll loves where I end up buying a lot. Don't get me wrong. I love my Pullip army. LOVE. I love my fleet of My Scene dolls. I'm fairly happy with my AG dolls (I wish there were less of a certain mold, but you make do) but I didn't really want to be adding a million dolls, you know? So, I had to whittle down the choices. Some were pretty easy and didn't speak at all. Others spoke in promo pics, but Flickr told me otherwise. Finally I saw this:
I die. The cute! Still, I had to be sure. Flickr told me I had a 50/50 shot of loving her. And none of the others spoke to me the same way. So...
LOVE. So far she's still in her box, but I don't feel the need for another yet.
(Consider this the "someone else is to blame for this" challenge? Or make your own theme.)
Which is good, since I finished my DT non-bedded dolls this morning. Now to wait for delivery.
Oh, and Mr. Mailman brought me Kirsten's World on Saturday and Samantha's Short Story Collection this morning. :D Books and dolls and... crap. I have to clean. Well, two outta three, right?
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Date: 2011-06-14 07:51 pm (UTC)Oooh, have you seen these?
http://alpacadreaming.blogspot.com/
That sucks about Widget and his mom. It's so frustrating when people don't see the impact they're having or worse choose to pursue that path even though it's hurting others.
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Date: 2011-06-20 10:47 am (UTC)She's so cute, I die of sugar shock every time I walk by. :D
And I haven't seen those. Ooooh, excuse me while I shriek about more cuteness! You find the niftiest things, ma'am. The niftiest. Oh, and now they're open for ordering, too. *clamps down on hands*
Widget and his parents. Oi. I'm glad he's around, but the poor kidlet.