Current Mood : Whirlwind-ish - joyful one minute, ticked off the next, hopeful ten minutes later. I'm all over the place !
I am the Laundry Master ! Did four loads today, and got it all put away - yup, all of it. Not just today's, but also the two loads I did last week, and a small mountain of clean Beloved Hubby apparel that didn't get hung up from the last big laundry throw-down. My clothes take maybe five minutes to arrange in the closet, but Beloved's have to be turned right side out, and he goes through a lot more than homebody me. So his had piled up and started getting in the way, and I was not gonna let it stay one day longer. Even the socks are paired up and put up. Whew ! Dearest Son wants to put his own laundry away, so he's doing that now - he says he feels like a big guy when he does his own, and ya'll know lazy me too well to think I'd ever keep him from that feeling !
Tabitha's fiancee (for some reason, I thought he was her brother- what a dim bulb I've been lately !) got the semi-commission I finished last week - another mini-notebook cover (with his name embroidered on the inside cover !) inside a black zipper bag with 'Evil Plant Master' embroidered on the outside, and my usual star-field fabric lining. The photos she posted don't lie - he really liked them. Whew ! It's always kind of a wrench to make gifts, you always end up hoping like anything that they do like and use it - so his happy smile made my week. And it's been a tough one, laundry and dishes not withstanding ! But I made someone happy who wasn't expecting it, and that's a gift I was so happy to receive. Thanks, Tabitha !
Beloved and I were talking, and it occurred to me that maybe his 'friend' (who really put us in a pickle this week) was just oblivious to what he inadvertently did to us. I mean, one of the things I love about Beloved is that he's so incredibly nice - so it's rare for the jackalopes around him to ever get told they're being jackalopes, at least, not hardly ever by him. Friend may actually not be aware of the true cost of his actions. So, Beloved let Friend know...and he is either so shocked by his actions that he's too ashamed to acknowledge it, or it's true, Friend doesn't give a fraction of a flatworm. Since Friend told Beloved to his face last night that he was going to a convention this weekend, I guess we'll know if he goes. Sometimes it's the best thing, to know exactly who you're dealing with - so you never go through * like this again.
Moving on, lest I explode... in a stunning display of either perfect or truly abysmal timing, a Toy Fair 2011 catalog from Mattel surfaced today - and it's in Spanish. Oh, well - the pictures need little translation. I had serious trouble getting the page view enlarged to work, but here's the link if you'd like to see the raw scans - http://issuu.com/toysamexico/docs/mattel-2011-1-125 . The MH stuff begins on page 79. Or you can go to Flickr or darn near any Monster High fan site, since the images have been ganked and posted about three dozen times since. I stole today's from the LiveJournal page - if money was no object, this'd be my first purchase after the Hydration Station, or possibly in place of it. One of Lagoona's little three-eyed frog 'bros' is riding on her shoulder - how adorable ! And I love the lockers !! Of course, I'd also snag Ghoulia's 'Physical Deaducation' set and swap out lab coats and clothes with Lagoona. On the off-chance you don't see these about a hundred times between now and tomorrow, I'll post the 'Ghoulia PD' image tomorrow.
Seriously, there's a ton to want here. There's a Frankie 'Home Ick' set, a Ghoulia Gloom Beach doll, bunk beds for Clawdeen, 'Dead Tired' pajamas for Cleo, DracuLaura, Frankie, and Ghoulia, two new outfits, and a Fearleading three-pack of Ghoulia, Cleo, and DLaura. Wow. Lotsa Ghoulia coming up, it's gonna be hard to pick and choose ! Goss knows our wallets won't survive the onslaught if we buy it all, but I'm sure Mattel - and I ! - would like it ! May have to arrange some splits and trades when these goodies start hitting the shelves...
But, it's not something I gotta worry about right now. Tomorrow's Thursday, and the reason I try like cats to get my housework done - or at least, where you can walk through the place - Creative Thursday ! I wanna try the tiny 'MH' logo I digitized, and sew something...maybe for a different doll, maybe one of my alterations, maybe one of the patterns I bought from Tarja a couple months ago. I don't know what I want to try next.
I'm just glad I want to.
