Now Playing: 'The Sandlot', Dearest Son's new fave
Current Mood : Fun with decisions...
Current Image Notes : Here's a lovely Lea doll, courtesy of BarbiePink on In The Pink, with some gorgeous stargazer lillies Beloved Hubby brought home. (happy sigh)
Well, that was an interesting yesterday. Well, what was supposed to happen was that ya'll saw that getting-old image of PDorrie with a pretty star fireworks display. It showed up for about ten minutes, then poof ! Nothing since. I emailed Slide.com, only to find out that their stuff just flat doesn't work with Tripod Blog. (sigh) So glad I'm paying for this...
Boils down to, there's no real HTML editor on this thing. The one that's here edits stuff even if you cut/paste it directly, so all my efforts were for nothing. Seriously, I gave myself a headache and actually overwrote the blog directory, so for a while, when you looked up the site here, all you got was PDorrie fireworks. Still not sure how I did that, just glad Beloved Hubby could fix it.
Anyway, if you click on the "View Fun Pix" button, you can see it. Click on ‘dorriebelle' on the Slide page, and you can see a couple slide shows I put together. Not sure if I'll spend much more time there - I can't use most of their stuff anywhere on my site. PITA, if you ask me, and I refuse to get a Facebook/My Space page just to display that stuff.
And I'm pretty much a sad sack. Of the ten Little Princess dolls Playmates makes, only one isn't represented in my sudden whirlwind collection. And a Playmates rep told me that a ‘Sun and Fun' Mulan would be in toy stores in the next month or two. Yet I still haunt eBay, looking for ‘Mulan doll', ‘Playmates doll', and ‘Playmates dolls'. Believe it or not, I get different results with each search. At least now, I can look at ‘newly listed' instead of all the search results.
I mean, seriously. Six months ago, I was happy having Belle and Ariel and a Cinderella I liked better. I can't find anything I wrote about ‘em even three months ago. Now, I'm darn near obsessed with the last one, and even knowing I can get a new one in a month or two, I'm still hunting, still searching. I am insane. And selfish.
That said, I found one that ends Wednesday. She comes with a Cinderella, identical to the one at Community Thrift, but this one has her shoes. I'm kinda ticked at Community. They bag all their dolls, so it's too bad if you just want this one for, say $3., you gotta take the bagload with two other dolls for $9. Of course, there's numerous rules about not opening bags at thrifts, and I've always respected them. Once I bought a bag of small toys because I tore it trying to see if one item was what I hoped. It wasn't, but I broke it = I bought it.
But last time I went in, someone had opened every last doll bag, and scattered the contents. I told the cashier, and helped her gather everything up. There was no time for me to have done that - I go in, and beeline straight back to Toys ! - and she already said she knew it was a mess back there. I mentioned, while handing her the Cindy doll (I don't have that particular dress) that I collect those. Before I could finish the sentence with, "but I already have two of her, I'd only want her dress", the cashier interrupted me with , "Sorry, you can't buy it, SOMEONE opened the bags !", while holding out her hand for the one I held. Now I know I didn't, and she should know I didn't, I greeted her when I came in. There's also cameras back there. So maybe I'm over-reacting, but I kinda resent the implication that I broke their rules to wrangle a better deal. Shoot, the darn doll's $17. new - if I wanted one that badly, I'd just buy one with shoes and props ! If there's one of these that's over-produced, it's Cinderella, by a wide margin ! Every last line, every single adaptation has had her in it, always.
So now, I'm trying to decide if I want to bid on Mulan - and if I do, is it because I want to get this insane obsession over with early, or because I'm impatient and can't wait for a new one ? Or am I really buying the better-shape Cinderella that Community Thrift seems determined not to sell to me ?
(sigh) If this keeps up much longer, someone's gonna call the Whaaaaambulance and shovel me into it !
