Now Playing: local radio, still bleh.
Current Mood : Relieved but exhausted
Current Image Notes : This is the last of the 'Disney Princesses and their Underwear' exhibit (ha-ha). Next up ; Kittens !
The road to recovery begins again. (sigh) I will be sooo glad when this is over !
Decided to run a small, short errand or two, to see how well I was doing. Um, apparently, the answer to that is ‘not'. Just ran up to the PO, for a stamp to mail a bill, and drop off library books. Erg. I had a bit of fun - while holding the PO door for an older gentleman, I mentioned that door opening for good-lookin' men was my hobby. He laughed, and said he liked that hobby !
For some reason, I couldn't remember how much postage was, so I just kept feeding change into the machine until it said I could have two stamps. I also got back a bunch of pennies - which was odd, since I hadn't given the machine any. That mission accomplished, I headed to the car, my head pounding and feeling a bit dizzy. Guess I'm weaker than I thought. Luckily, our library has drive-up book drops, so I was soon on my way home. Ready and eager for a nap !
I guess I should admit I haven't been eating. Well, when ya can't breathe, eating's a hazard, or it just doesn't occur to you. Seriously, until dinner last night, I only ate a handful of chips, to take my other meds with. I meant to have lunch, but forgot. Funny, how the simple things can trip us up...
I also researched my ongoing ‘Before Once Upon A Time' Disney Princess doll collection. (sheepishly) I broke down and ordered a really inexpensive Snow White this week. Her shipping is nearly three times what I paid for the doll, but she really is lovely. And she's still second-hand ! Hopefully, she'll be here next week. That only leaves four ‘little princess' Playmates dolls I don't have - Pocahontas, Mulan, Tinker Bell, and Alice - out of the ten I know about. Wow. Those must be the really rare four. On eBay, Poca seems to only rarely turn up at all, and Mulan's going for $10. on the opening bids. Tinker and Alice are much the same, but there's more of them. Hmph.
So I did more research. Playmates, the manufacturer, didn't have any DPrincess stuff at Toy Fair, save for some ‘Baby Come Back' type crawling infant Princesses. And that part of their website hasn't been updated since the '05 Ballerina Princess ones. So I was wondering if the whole toddler angle had been dropped. After six years, they've had a good run...but nope. Found press releases - from December '07 ! - that promised ‘Sing ‘n Style' dolls with light-up hairbrushes and ‘Sun ‘n Fun' dolls, dressed for outdoor fun. The hairplay dolls were of the usual three (Cinderella, Ariel, Belle). But the summer dolls were even more limited, just Cinderella...and Mulan ! Whoo-hoo ! I will gladly break my ‘used only' rule (which is already kinda dented anyway) to get Mulan ! And it explains why I've found about eight Cinderellas, three Belles, and four Ariels on my secondhand haunts.
Only problem is, when are they due out ? I haven't seen anything new in stores in a while. The press release only said that they'd have ad saturation in spring and fall. Hmft. Doesn't make much sense to put a summer-themed doll out in October. So I wrote ‘em. Here's hoping they write back. Last time I wrote, I was whining about the ‘World Of Ariel' doll's flat feet not working with her heeled shoes. Of course, they didn't write back on that...
Oh, and they're also coming out with more Disney Fairies dolls, which will hopefully include a reissue of the Tinker Bell they're showing on their website. Evidently, there's a DVD tie-in, with a street date of October 28. The Playmates website offers computer wallpaper and a link to the Disney corp. site, where you can create your own fairy. Check ‘em out -> http://playmatestoys.com/disneyfairies/#
Funny...the 8" ‘Prilla' doll kind of looks like a Tyco Ariel to me...
And looks like the big 'Disney Platinum' holiday DVD release this year will be... Sleeping Beauty, including discs in Blu-Ray. So, you can expect to see lots of Aurora, also in October. I already have one more Aurora than I thought I'd ever need, so they'll have to create something exceptional for me to buy another !
Oh, and Disney Stores have their own ‘Little Princess' dolls, but I don't like them. Playmates tried to make the same head mold look unique for each character. These all look walleyed and unoriginal, and the original line had these narrowed eyes and awful smirks, like a teenager turned toddler in a princess dress. I have no idea who made the Disney Stores dolls - bodywise, they look much like the Playmates ones - but the ‘sweet innocence' is absent, in both the ‘smirk' and ‘non-smirk' versions.
And this auction for one says 'soft body'. You know me, I want all-vinyl, for some bizarre reason !
