Current Mood : Silly, but content
Current Image Notes : Here's Perfume Pretty Whitney, her hair braided for body, with a bunch of Madame Alexander books I scored. While the only MA dolls around here came from Happy Meals (or yard saled Happy Meal toys), cheap books are always fun to look through ! Can always sell 'em later. Tomorrow's 'Miss Sassy' and the pattern book !
Kept waking up last night, so I didn't sleep well. Ended up taking a two hour nap after everyone left for work and school. Lazy me !
Started watching the 15 or so episodes of Beauty and the Beast recorded for me. The ‘Chiller' channel runs several a week. It's the late-80s live-action series that aired on CBS, with Vincent and Catherine in the NYC tunnels. When Linda Hamilton left the show, I pretty much quit watching, and it ended shortly after. Guess I wasn't the only one not too impressed with the ‘new' Catherine. I only saw parts of it, since I was serving overseas when it debuted. But I saw some of it on AFRTS (Armed Forces Radio and Television Service) and had cash for fanzines, both graphic novels, and Starlog issues. And I often saw several episodes while on leave at Christmas. I was relegated to the kitchen TV, since Mother actively hated the show. Mystery Science Theater 3000, too, now that I think of it. I had to buy my own VCR to record MST3K when I was home for the summer from school. It was too late to tape Beauty and the Beast.
I have a few special memories of the series. By the third season, my Army term was over, and I was in college at Home State. Unfortunately, the long-awaited debut halted unceremoniously when our local CBS affiliate had both antenna problems and previous obligations to basketball games, so those episodes (the ‘Though Lovers Be Lost' ones) didn't air. They sent formal invitations to everyone who'd written about the series or the ‘lost' airings to come to their Capital City studio, to watch the unaired two-part episode in its entirety, commercial free. I went, feeling shy and silly, expecting to be nearly alone there to find a coffee and cookie reception, an eight-foot-high screen and a throng of excited fans. Shortly, I was in a cavernous studio with rows of weeping romantics, but I learned a lot. Primarily, not to be ashamed or apologetic of who I was or what I liked. Even if others, like my mother, couldn't understand them and had no problems criticizing them and me, what I liked was still valid and important. I was already in college when this event occurred, and was still kinda young and finding me. Doing something I wanted, just for myself, was still kind of alien to me, and rather uncomfortable - but I did it !
So, while it might end up like watching Speed Racer as an adult - OMG, was I an idiot as a child ? This is awful ! - it still has a small corner of my heart. Always will. But like visiting Beloved Hubby's grandmother, I put off ‘visiting', mostly out of fear of things not going well. Time for me to not fear so much.
Otherwise, it was a pretty busy afternoon. DFIL had asked to take Dearest Son shopping this afternoon, but ended up having to work. So I took him ! We went to Target, where he got a new Clone Wars action figure and a good look at the next $20. spaceship on his ‘want' list - and I got a jar of my favorite rice crackers ! Haven't had any since July, I think. On the way out, we went through the Dollar Spot - well, actually, I dragged a reluctant Dearest through it - and it bored him until he saw the Clone Wars bounty I'd found. Magnets, three kinds of stickers, dry-erase boards, coloring books, pens, pencils, notepads, you name it. I let him choose three, so he snagged his choice of two coloring books, the magnets, and the large single sheet of stickers. I think he was happiest with that stuff than he was with his figure !
Doll and Halloween sections were washouts. Nothing new. They don't have the Fashionistas or anything new, and still haven't gotten the Kelly Halloween dolls yet. They had tons of other holiday themed toys out, and even some of yer larger ‘yard' type Christmas decorations and light sets, but nothing else. Oh, well. They've restocked the Liv dolls, but the ship has pretty much sailed on ‘em for me. At the time they appealed, I just wanted something new, and the ‘Then and Now' Barbie pretty much took care of that. And I've added several more dolls since her ! So, aside from their clothes, which really aren't that difficult to make anyway, I'm just not interested anymore.
Came home and did an hour and a half's worth of dishes. We go through ‘em on weekends. I tend to wash up when we're out of either plates or glasses. Cleaned a buncha empty glass jars, too. While I've seen numerous crafts converting jars to vases using shoe polish and masking tape (that elusive ‘leather wrapped' look) or glue and twine (something I did in my brief time with Girl Scouts), I'm thinking of using the embroidery machine to make a sort of label that'll slide on and off, and masking the jar lid's threading with ribbon or lace. I especially like the Pace salsa / picante sauce jars, for their hourglass shape. With the threading covered, they already look like a vase without me doing anything. So, in essence, I just created six new vases !
Had to go back to the huge industrial-size pickle jars, Dearest'll eat a smaller jar a week ! Now if I could just find some use for those. We only need so much pasta storage. Maybe I can paint a couple orange on the inside, and use black paint or tape on the outside, add a candle, and have decorative glass pumpkins on the porch !
