Now Playing: coughing and complaining
Current Mood : Tired and overdrawn at the everything bank.
I know it drives everyone nuts - m'self included - when I drop out for a few days. I get all tense when I don't blog, believe it or not. But Chez Insanity has spent the past week in slow-time sickness, and we're just now slowly recovered (well, is still recovering). What's knocked us so hard ? House-wide case of flu.
I'm not kidding, I wish I was. Before I write another word, please get a flu shot if you haven't already ! I'm beggin' here. I've just put my poor body through a solid week of h@ll, everyone is still sick and exhausted, each convinced we've got it the worst, we've gone through gallons of soups and miles of tissues, not to mention a few bottles of ibuprofen (muscle aches), acetaminophen (massive headaches), there's still semi-solid gunk in my lungs, I've nearly drained an asthma inhaler in a week's time, and I'm not even gonna regale you with what'll happen to your digestive system. It ain't pretty to any of the senses.
Don't be the ‘learn the hard way' idiot I've had to be. Get the shot. It's worth it, both in cash and effort, to not miss a solid week of your life wondering if you're gonna die or not - and then wondering which you want.
As you can imagine, this week's gonna be interesting. I hit first, last Monday morning. Woke up with a painful cough, and I could feel my lungs rumble. Beloved hit it Wednesday, and Dearest Son bounced most of it, but is still coughing and sleepy. My PILs just hit it today, so this is gonna probably gonna ride the rest of February. I'm just not sure how, considering PILs got flu shots, but FIL is complaining loudest of all. House is completely trashed - let's face it, if I don't clean it, it don't get cleaned - and I can understand no one wanting to clean house, even when they're not sick. Just wish everyone'd cleaned up their own &^%$ messes instead of just piling their crap on top of the weekend out-of-place s#it. It's gonna take me the rest of the week just to get things back in order, and I'm still rather wiped out. I can just sit up and talk and type now.
So, as you can imagine, no doll stuff got done. Poor Growing Up Skipper is still wearing her hound's-tooth-print skirt as a dress, and Fashion Photo Barbie still needs a bath. I'm undecided about FP. She looks too much like Charlene to keep, but I like the weird way her body moves. Still, not something I have to decide today.
The pattern I won off eBay a few weeks ago arrived, and the seller had sweetly added a second pattern to it - how nice ! Surprisingly, I didn't already have that one, either ! So I'm looking forward to scanning them both. I also won a 1980 Star Princess and Pluta coloring book a few weeks back, from a seller liquidating the archives of Golden and Western Publishing ! I'm sure you've seen their names a few times in your youth - nearly every coloring book I remember had Western on it somewhere. Most paper doll sets, too.
It arrived (and I forgot about it -shame !) in pristine-perfect shape. I mean, the ones on Mal-Wart shelves right now have more wear on ‘em. If there was ever a coloring book or paper doll you had back in the day, and want again, you should check out seller goldentreasures-nyc. Lots of Barbie and Disney, among other licensed products, from the 30s through the 90s.
I never had Star Princess, but I remember seeing it, and laughing at the bizarre smiling silver robot with the Leia hair. The titular Princess looked more like Electro-Woman (or DynaGirl, your pick) than an interplanetary sovereign, but I sort of liked the idea. Eventually found a scan of the paper doll online - interesting fashion sense, but it reflected more Saturday Night Fever than 2001.
Anyway. Right now, there's an eBay boycott. You've probably heard about it elsewhere, most doll boards are a-buzz with it. Speak with your heart, your bucks, and your feet, that's what I always think. But I also know that a big corp. like eBay isn't likely to change its tune because some disgruntled users stamp and holler. Fees outrageous ? Move to another venue. Don't like the new terms of service ? Let ‘em know, but prepare to strike the tent. eBay's a business, and they are gonna do whatever they're allowed to do, to generate the biggest profit. There's other auction services out there, and if it's really skitty, Tripod offers free web hosting. It's not like it takes a degree to set up a site - I can barely code italics ! My entire website is cut/paste and pull-down menus provided by Tripod.
And it's not like most doll chat boards aren't already swimming in 50% ‘stuff for sale' or ‘here's my latest teaser, it goes on sale Thursday' waters already. Shoot, Doll Divas requires ya to scroll down a whole page, between the sponsored ads and the ‘preferred designer' crap that's permanently at the top. I'd love to say ‘forget it' to all doll chat boards, but occasionally, I like to feel connected. I just hate the usual BS that goes with ‘em. I've gotten so I can trawl five boards twice a week in less than ten minutes. Unfortunately, that means I know the names of most of the dolls I'm trying to avoid seeing twenty or thirty times...
So anyway. Hope your week was better. Our anniversary and Valentine's day got lost in the misery, but at least my estranged mother remembered to call and add her special touch of angst to the non-existant romance. About all I've done is sleep, and hope I could sleep more. About the only time I've felt good all week is when I was resting almost vertically - if I got too horizontal, my lungs would soon have me coughing in pain and awake.
And, please. Get a flu shot, if you haven't already. I don't want you in this much pain, ever.
Next : Some Toy Fair stuff, if you haven't found it already !
