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And I am so chuffed and hopeful that Toys R Us will be coming back! I really really hope this Geoffrey's Toy Box thing will work so they may be able to expand back to their big stores. I seriously doubt the lenders planned all of this from the start, as that would be idiotic to let the store go bankrupt just to try to make money on risky ventures like this. Frankly, I do think they're idiots in another way, as they didn't realize the value of the store until it was almost too late yet they greedily wanted a ton of money for the Geoffrey character and such. I hope they can get the store rolling again. I've been eagerly trying to find out who they're partnering with. Some Midwest-headquartered store, so people think Meijer. I hope ShopKo, because it's Midwest, but it's also West. Maybe it's both; it indicated they were looking for more than one store to try this out.
For days Mom and I have been wanting to put up our old Halloween decorations, the cute black cat cut-outs and such. We only finally got to do it Friday night. I'm really happy we did, but I wish a time had opened up sooner. That feeling of childhood rushed back so strongly once they were up, especially that year I was nuts about the Beetlejuice cartoon and it was such a fun autumn. I did finally go over the episode guide again and discovered most episodes were Maybe and some were Yes; only about nine or ten were absolute No. That's not too bad, but I still don't know if I'll get the set. The heavy nostalgia sure makes it tempting, though. And I've never seen the movie. Part of me would like to finally do that, but I'm always leery wondering exactly what I might run into, especially with that sick cover picture. I never handle that sort of thing well....
Cosplay-wise, I never have been able to get the hair on my wig to stand up, and I had to make a cardboard Millennium Ring, but I did get gold foil for it and I think it came out pretty well. There's a picture of it on my figure box that's in scale and I traced it, then spent 45 minutes cutting it out of heavy cardboard. It probably took another hour covering it with the gold foil. And I needed a new wig that looked more correct style-wise, and when I got it, it was pretty much perfect (except, of course, that no hair stands up, lol). Everything was done just in time for the Halloween party, and I hope Halloween will go well too. I have a preview picture on dA, although I took it before I had the Ring done. I'll definitely take pictures with it on Halloween. http://meromeroyui.deviantart.com
I loved my Nancy Drew game. It looks like there was a fraud going on, although it was never expressly stated, and Nancy tried to think that the other ghost sightings were hallucinations from carbon monoxide poisoning that was going on in the house. But I don't buy it, especially since some people saw the ghost who were never in the house. So I will happily believe there was a ghost.
I also bought more Nancy Drew games. There's an Egyptian one I just had to have, and a haunted castle one. Those came on double bills with other creepy ones. The Egyptian one also has one about a monster in Bavaria, and the castle one comes with a New Orleans one about a crystal skull. I'm playing the Egyptian one now and adore it, but if it wasn't that the games take up so much memory, I would be sorely tempted to install another one and alternate playing them, since they all sound so fun. I should do that on the hall computer; it has much more space and could probably easily hold several games.
I had a Wal-Mart gift card and they actually got in more My Little Pony movie figures, so this past Monday I got the set with Capper and Rarity, because I love Capper in the movie and wanted the figure. And there was one Songbird Serenade figure amid a sea of new brushables, so I decided I'd better snap her up since I wanted her too. I was a little unprepared for the darkness of the movie when I first saw it, but on repeated watchings, I enjoy it a lot more. And I want the soundtrack.
I found a tablet. Near the beginning of the month QVC was doing a promotional sale on Amazon's new Fire tablet, and I was able to get a 16GB in blue for $59.99, just ten dollars more than an 8GB! I'm paying in the Easy Pay installments. I'm not to where I actually need it yet, but I really felt I should have it on hand for when I do, since when I do need it there might not be a sale. Meanwhile, it's great for YouTubing. I'm almost always charging a tablet now that there are three, lol. All used for different things, too.
I got a Target gift card and tried for days to figure out how to arrange an order to get the Kris doll on their website. But it wasn't easy, since the website doesn't have as much stuff as the stores. (Seriously, they don't even have the G1 Ponies! They do have a playset that has a Pony, but now it looks like I can't order that with Standard shipping. WTH.) Finally I decided, after learning that the sculpt may not be as good as I'd thought, that I'd wait on Kris, buy her in-store, and use my gift card to buy more Ponies. I did that on Tuesday and don't regret it, but I also discovered that they've taken away the Mego figure display, so now I wonder if they'll never put Kris in-store at all and I'm back to trying to figure out how to get her off the site. I don't want to buy her by herself; that would cost about $7 in shipping and handling fees! And my Red Card is messed-up. I don't know why they invalidated it; maybe because it was around when that data breach happened five years ago. I was supposed to get sent a new one, but I don't know that I ever was, and I tried to get them to see about it in-store once, but the cashier didn't want to. And I had thought the Red Card was just a rewards card, but now I learn that it's a debit (or credit) card with access to my bank account, and after the breach I'm leery of something from Target having access to my bank account, so I don't know whether I want to even try to renew my Red Card. If I did, though, I could get free shipping and buy Kris by herself, which is what I really wish I could do. There's just not much else I want on their website, although I would like The Monkees' Christmas CD since the Target version has extra tracks. But that plus Kris wouldn't add up to the free shipping minimum. And I'm really hesitant to spend as much as I need for that unless I have a gift card to cover some of it. I could scrounge up some other things on the site, like some Nancy Drew books. They have a few of the yellow old ones. I think I might be able to get another Target card soon.
When I got the Ponies, I also got some other things, mainly the gold foil and plushie crafting supplies. I still want to make David, and I turned the plushie I got on my birthday into Tea, and then I had the wild idea that I wanted to try to make Yami Bakura in Thief King form. Totally unnecessary, since I have that little one I commissioned years ago, but it sounded like such a fun challenge that I badly wanted to try. I'm working on him now and he's coming along pretty well. I've also been thinking of making Alister so I can make a Valon and a Raphael in scale to be with him. Although I'd be sad for my little commissioned Alister that he wouldn't have the others, heh. I may make the Ishtars too, although I'd run into the same problem of being sad for my commissioned Marik. I've thought of making Tristan too, and figuring I'd probably have to stuff the pointy part of his hair. I wonder how many cotton balls that would take.
That was a bizarre shopping experience, as the gear shift fell apart while running Dad's errands. Ugh. Rather, the button you push in fell out and then Dad couldn't push the thing inside the handle in enough and we were stuck in Park while he called places and no one knew anything (of course). Finally he had the idea to push a pen in there and he got the thing pushed in enough with that to get the car out of Park and into Drive and we were able to finish the shopping trip (mostly). I opted not to try going to the mall, as I was happy with everything I found and I was worried to get home.
I got my YGO fic finished (although I still need to proofread and print it), and I've been doing that Wild Wild West fic based on my dream. It won't be very long, but it's a lot of fun to work with. I love writing for Snakes especially. I also need to finish a YGO fic I was doing where Yami Marik mind-controls Tristan for jollies and has him nearly kill Yami Bakura. Tristan is devastated, gah. And there's that fic where Yami Bakura is fading into the darkness but is saved. It's mostly done, if not all done, but I keep waffling on posting that one.
And I am so chuffed and hopeful that Toys R Us will be coming back! I really really hope this Geoffrey's Toy Box thing will work so they may be able to expand back to their big stores. I seriously doubt the lenders planned all of this from the start, as that would be idiotic to let the store go bankrupt just to try to make money on risky ventures like this. Frankly, I do think they're idiots in another way, as they didn't realize the value of the store until it was almost too late yet they greedily wanted a ton of money for the Geoffrey character and such. I hope they can get the store rolling again. I've been eagerly trying to find out who they're partnering with. Some Midwest-headquartered store, so people think Meijer. I hope ShopKo, because it's Midwest, but it's also West. Maybe it's both; it indicated they were looking for more than one store to try this out.
For days Mom and I have been wanting to put up our old Halloween decorations, the cute black cat cut-outs and such. We only finally got to do it Friday night. I'm really happy we did, but I wish a time had opened up sooner. That feeling of childhood rushed back so strongly once they were up, especially that year I was nuts about the Beetlejuice cartoon and it was such a fun autumn. I did finally go over the episode guide again and discovered most episodes were Maybe and some were Yes; only about nine or ten were absolute No. That's not too bad, but I still don't know if I'll get the set. The heavy nostalgia sure makes it tempting, though. And I've never seen the movie. Part of me would like to finally do that, but I'm always leery wondering exactly what I might run into, especially with that sick cover picture. I never handle that sort of thing well....
Cosplay-wise, I never have been able to get the hair on my wig to stand up, and I had to make a cardboard Millennium Ring, but I did get gold foil for it and I think it came out pretty well. There's a picture of it on my figure box that's in scale and I traced it, then spent 45 minutes cutting it out of heavy cardboard. It probably took another hour covering it with the gold foil. And I needed a new wig that looked more correct style-wise, and when I got it, it was pretty much perfect (except, of course, that no hair stands up, lol). Everything was done just in time for the Halloween party, and I hope Halloween will go well too. I have a preview picture on dA, although I took it before I had the Ring done. I'll definitely take pictures with it on Halloween. http://meromeroyui.deviantart.com
I loved my Nancy Drew game. It looks like there was a fraud going on, although it was never expressly stated, and Nancy tried to think that the other ghost sightings were hallucinations from carbon monoxide poisoning that was going on in the house. But I don't buy it, especially since some people saw the ghost who were never in the house. So I will happily believe there was a ghost.
I also bought more Nancy Drew games. There's an Egyptian one I just had to have, and a haunted castle one. Those came on double bills with other creepy ones. The Egyptian one also has one about a monster in Bavaria, and the castle one comes with a New Orleans one about a crystal skull. I'm playing the Egyptian one now and adore it, but if it wasn't that the games take up so much memory, I would be sorely tempted to install another one and alternate playing them, since they all sound so fun. I should do that on the hall computer; it has much more space and could probably easily hold several games.
I had a Wal-Mart gift card and they actually got in more My Little Pony movie figures, so this past Monday I got the set with Capper and Rarity, because I love Capper in the movie and wanted the figure. And there was one Songbird Serenade figure amid a sea of new brushables, so I decided I'd better snap her up since I wanted her too. I was a little unprepared for the darkness of the movie when I first saw it, but on repeated watchings, I enjoy it a lot more. And I want the soundtrack.
I found a tablet. Near the beginning of the month QVC was doing a promotional sale on Amazon's new Fire tablet, and I was able to get a 16GB in blue for $59.99, just ten dollars more than an 8GB! I'm paying in the Easy Pay installments. I'm not to where I actually need it yet, but I really felt I should have it on hand for when I do, since when I do need it there might not be a sale. Meanwhile, it's great for YouTubing. I'm almost always charging a tablet now that there are three, lol. All used for different things, too.
I got a Target gift card and tried for days to figure out how to arrange an order to get the Kris doll on their website. But it wasn't easy, since the website doesn't have as much stuff as the stores. (Seriously, they don't even have the G1 Ponies! They do have a playset that has a Pony, but now it looks like I can't order that with Standard shipping. WTH.) Finally I decided, after learning that the sculpt may not be as good as I'd thought, that I'd wait on Kris, buy her in-store, and use my gift card to buy more Ponies. I did that on Tuesday and don't regret it, but I also discovered that they've taken away the Mego figure display, so now I wonder if they'll never put Kris in-store at all and I'm back to trying to figure out how to get her off the site. I don't want to buy her by herself; that would cost about $7 in shipping and handling fees! And my Red Card is messed-up. I don't know why they invalidated it; maybe because it was around when that data breach happened five years ago. I was supposed to get sent a new one, but I don't know that I ever was, and I tried to get them to see about it in-store once, but the cashier didn't want to. And I had thought the Red Card was just a rewards card, but now I learn that it's a debit (or credit) card with access to my bank account, and after the breach I'm leery of something from Target having access to my bank account, so I don't know whether I want to even try to renew my Red Card. If I did, though, I could get free shipping and buy Kris by herself, which is what I really wish I could do. There's just not much else I want on their website, although I would like The Monkees' Christmas CD since the Target version has extra tracks. But that plus Kris wouldn't add up to the free shipping minimum. And I'm really hesitant to spend as much as I need for that unless I have a gift card to cover some of it. I could scrounge up some other things on the site, like some Nancy Drew books. They have a few of the yellow old ones. I think I might be able to get another Target card soon.
When I got the Ponies, I also got some other things, mainly the gold foil and plushie crafting supplies. I still want to make David, and I turned the plushie I got on my birthday into Tea, and then I had the wild idea that I wanted to try to make Yami Bakura in Thief King form. Totally unnecessary, since I have that little one I commissioned years ago, but it sounded like such a fun challenge that I badly wanted to try. I'm working on him now and he's coming along pretty well. I've also been thinking of making Alister so I can make a Valon and a Raphael in scale to be with him. Although I'd be sad for my little commissioned Alister that he wouldn't have the others, heh. I may make the Ishtars too, although I'd run into the same problem of being sad for my commissioned Marik. I've thought of making Tristan too, and figuring I'd probably have to stuff the pointy part of his hair. I wonder how many cotton balls that would take.
That was a bizarre shopping experience, as the gear shift fell apart while running Dad's errands. Ugh. Rather, the button you push in fell out and then Dad couldn't push the thing inside the handle in enough and we were stuck in Park while he called places and no one knew anything (of course). Finally he had the idea to push a pen in there and he got the thing pushed in enough with that to get the car out of Park and into Drive and we were able to finish the shopping trip (mostly). I opted not to try going to the mall, as I was happy with everything I found and I was worried to get home.
I got my YGO fic finished (although I still need to proofread and print it), and I've been doing that Wild Wild West fic based on my dream. It won't be very long, but it's a lot of fun to work with. I love writing for Snakes especially. I also need to finish a YGO fic I was doing where Yami Marik mind-controls Tristan for jollies and has him nearly kill Yami Bakura. Tristan is devastated, gah. And there's that fic where Yami Bakura is fading into the darkness but is saved. It's mostly done, if not all done, but I keep waffling on posting that one.
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