Current Mood : Kinda drowsy from dinner - spaghetti !
Well, believe this or not - we actually got more bad news late last night. (sigh) But it's nothing we can do anything about, all we can do is remain calm and soldier on. I'm getting really tired of Beloved Hubby getting jerked around though. Especially when this person is supposedly a friend. With friends like that, we'll be out on the street by July...
Anyway. It wasn't a good day for being creative, the few ideas I tried to futz with fizzled out. Dearest Son was home, hopped up on Easter sugar, and towing a new-to-him bicycle that FIL had curb-shopped for him. He was hyper-excited over it, which I couldn't quite figure out, since it was exactly the same size as the bike he has now. Same shape, same tires, same everything, but his old one's a Huffy, and the 'new' one is a Murray. He has grand plans for both bikes, so we'll see what happens.
Got the dishes done, and since Beloved had quite a few of his tools with him today, I got that area and the kitchen swept out, then took the rugs outside and beat heck and dirt out of 'em. Therapeutic, and beneficial ! That made the stacks of dishes look worse, so I got those knocked out, and did them again after dinner. Well, if ya can't quite create, ya might as well clean !
The owner of the Clawd and DracuLaura set posted a ton of new photos on the LiveJournal site...umm. She said she found them in an Asian imports hole-in-the-wall shop, and along with a first-issue Frankie, it was all the MH the place had. I'll probably still get the set for Clawd, but my first impression seems to have been correct - several folks will make cash designing and sewing hats for him. His hair is nearly as sparse as that of a #1 Ken, and just like the early incarnations of Mr. Carson, Clawd's hair is flocked for the most part. No real way of fluffing it up a bit. It seems to be rooted in almost a mohawk between his ears, but there's large areas of blank space in front of them, and it's super-short flocking everywhere else. Some people may find wigmaking a fun and profitable hobby, too... His pet, a gargoyle bulldog, must be fun around the house with Clawdeen's cat Crescent.
As for DLaura, nothing really new here, besides clothes and props. Her hands are the same as her first issue's, and her facial screening and hair stripes look about the same. The poem on the back of the box is pretty bad, about on par with what a pre-teen would write, with bad rhymes and attempts at upselling the vocabulary. Honestly, I would wait to see if I could score Clawd cheap, but if Ghoulia was any indication, it'd be cheaper for me to just buy the set at retail, and sell off what I don't want. Right now, though, I'm worn. Too worn to care much about Clawd.
Maybe once I slog through some laundry tomorrow, the other mess magnet at Chez Insanity, I'll feel a bit brighter about things. Here's hoping !
