Mood:
luckyNow Playing: "Caddyshack" - for laughs.
Ready for some irony in your diet ? Finally got out for some 'me' time today, while Dearest Son was attending Summer School (more like 'happy fun time school' to him !) and Beloved Hubby was resting. He's doing much better ! :)
Anyway, here's yer daily dose of irony. Ever since I got out of the hospital, I've craved rice crackers. Albertson's has 'em in their 'Oriental' section (no joke, that's the way the aisle reads) and they are so tasty. But Alb's kind of out-of-the-way for us, so if I wanted rice crackers, it'd be up to me to get 'em. Well, today was the day ! And - wait for it ! - they were completely sold out. At both stores. All that was there both times were shelf pricing labels mocking me, saying 'If we had 'em, they'd be right there.' I did find other rice crackers, for twice as much, so I bought 'em. They taste like crap. About the only good thing about 'em is that I can probably get a few cute joke photos of some dolls remarking how large the sushi is. So stay tuned.
It's been a while since I went 'me' shopping. So I thought that maybe the places I hit - Dollar Tree, Dollar General, a thrift store or two - might have new stuff in since the first of May. Nope. It was like time and stock stood still everywhere. Only rice crackers have sold. The Goodwill has managed to get junky *and* expensive at the same time, and their store's so packed fulla crap, it's difficult to walk around in there. No dolls of any type, of course.
They did have a Barbie-size doll house for $20., but it was in sad shape. It looked sort of like this -> http://www.target.com/gp/detail.html/ref=br_1_11/602-6061645-7465437?ie=UTF8&frombrowse=1&asin=B000AQD69G , but had a broken curved plastic roof, and some structural pieces were lying around on the various 'floors', couldn't really tell where they were supposed to go. Maybe it had an elevator, but I still think that one metal pole in the bedroom wasn't there for transportation. Possibly entertainment, but not movement beyond that. I gave it a close look, but it was too damaged and confusing for me to buy. Decor colors were rather garish for me, too. I already have a Mattel castle to repaint that I only paid $5. for - I don't need to shell out $20. for another project right now.
So I came home and put my few grocery purchases away, and started picking elastic off a yard-sale bra while waiting for Dearest Son's bus. Maybe this weekend I'll jaunt to that junk shop - I still want a Malibu Barbie to reroot as a brunette - and prowl amidst their scattered, but plentiful, offerings.
Since there isn't much else going on, I think I'll poke around the patterns, maybe reinstall my backed-up ones, or rescan the three that were lost when the computer bit it in March. It's 90 degrees out in 89% humidity, so as long as I don't have to do it outside, it doesn't matter much what I do !
Man, I am soooo spoiled...
