Shiny!

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Yesterday I did stuff. Without doing much of anything. But 95% of the day was spent with a splitting headache. The kind that you kind of think might actually kill you, just for a second, and then you stop being so overly dramatic in your own head but still want to whine to anyone who will listen that you hurt.

  After work, Mums and I stopped at the Teeter to pick up a newspaper, some cheese, and something for dinner. Somehow this also involved me cursing like crazy when I realized that this Teeter was sacrificing its magazine section (which was amazing, but not nearly as awesome as the book selection) for a fucking Starbucks. When I first saw the Starbucks coming soon sign I ... didn't realize they'd be putting in a sitting area. It's a fucking grocery store, people. Get in, get out, you don't need that much caffeine, man. :/

Anyway, this turned into the horrific realization that 50 Shades of Grey has a magazine. I promptly ignored that and went back to looking at the Halloween cards where I found one for zallia and one for Cass. Halloween! ♥


Then I get a text from Cass asking if I want her to pick me up once she hits WA or wait an hour. I choose the hour because I figure with the buffer of having to drive here and back to pick something up/drop husband off at work, I'll have time for a no hair washing shower, breakfast, and finishing this grocery trip that shouldn't take too long.

FOOL. So. Make it home, beg mums to start the water for my tortellini breakfast/dinner, and run off to shower and dress. Get out of shower, find message from Cass. Ten minutes! Crap, there goes breakfast. Cheese and Wheatables it is. And away we go!

We stop at Krispy Kreme because the Hot Now sign is on and Cass does a happy dance. We stop to visit her husband and to clean the car windows, donuts are eaten, and away we go to Walmart. You see, the reason we were heading off was to complete my Blind Bag pony collection. I was down to missing 7 when we started and there are quite a few Walmarts I never go to because I hate Walmart, and I really hate Super Walmarts. But if someone more experienced in the way of getting through the maze of pain is at the wheel, I'll go along.

First Walmart yields Halloween surprises. They have these light up tumblers or glow in the dark ones and they're 24 ounces and I wanted one so very badly. But I resisted. Ponies! And the promise of the Halloween store later. Priorities, people. Things are a bit hazy, but I believe this is the store that had them, but some little prick had opened all but one of them. They'd also swapped Pinkie Pie and Applejack, but they'd left four I needed. :D So we went to the checkout where Cass found a box of pony cards. I bought three and grabbed my pony posters. (I now have the map of Equestria, the villains, and the wedding. I think that leaves one more.)

We hit three more Walmarts I think and the Toys R Us and never found any other ponies. None! D: We also hit Michaels when the Halloween store declared it wasn't open for another week. So much goodness, I want to go back NOW. Can't. Not open (6am and all) and also I don't trust myself not to spend money. Maybe next weekend? Annnnnnyway. We hit McDonald's and then go back to her place where, as we unload the car, we find her box of donuts is being devoured by ants. OHNOES.


We flee into the house and have lunch. Then we loaf about and look up various Halloween happenings in the area (slim pickings thus far, but it's early-ish in the season) and I explain what Skinful is. I spend much of this time trying to convince my face not to explode. I'm pretty sure the headache is actually my sinuses trying to murder me at this point but I never made it past the pharmacy section of any of our stops so I'm hoping home or the final Walmart will be soon. I'm trying to figure out how embarrassed I'll be if I fall asleep versus how much good it'll do when we find the third ant on her bed and off we go to return the car seat in the back and Do Something About The Ants. Turns out the car seat is filled with m&ms and cookies and juice so that's... nice. Drop it off and I have a moment where I'm unsure if the combination of my lack of sleep, my sinuses trying to explode, and my aversion to the sun (it's blinding!) are making me see things or if her friend is vaguely orange.

Final Walmart is hit. We fail to find anything there beyond her bugspray and I've officially reached the point where I'm ready to smash myself in the face with things just to kill the pain. We stop back by the friend's place to pick up money for gas (backstory would go here but it's not all that thrilling) and I decide I was delirious earlier because she doesn't seem orange now. Gas station! Where I buy a drink and then dose myself with Goodys for the first time. Like ass it tastes. Like ass. Cass takes a dose too and sputters everywhere. This is actually how I was sure my first try would go, so I'm a little surprised she's the one doing the inadvertent spittake. This necessitates a trip back to her place (which meant I could've saved $2 on the soda!) and theeeeeeeeen we head to my house. Where we vacuum the car, spray it down, and come inside to see Ozma. Who spurns us. Kitties. So fickle.


I'm still missing three of the glittery blind bag ponies. See Cheat Sheet here. I'm missing #14 (Rarity, clear glittery), #15 (Sassaflash), and #20 (Orange Mosely) but I'm also on the look out for a double of #14 or #12 (metallic Rarity) for Cass since she was so nice to take me to a gazillion stores looking for these, as well as helping me pick through in an attempt to pick the right ones when we originally found them. I made a post on the mlp comm, so we'll see if that yields anything.

Anyone got any interesting Halloween decorating/crafting/store sites? I'm taking a week off from my cleaning (beyond maybe an hour of touch-ups to pick up after myself from my week of No Sleep) and I'm in the mood to look at awesome stuff. Don't care if it's from last year or five years ago, so long as there are pretty pictures to inspire. :D