Amazon: The Continuing Saga

So I still haven't figured out what to buy on Amazon. But before I go into that again, I rented the disc from Netflix with The Suburbia Affair on it. LOL. It's been way too long since I've seen it. Oh man, it's funny seeing Napoleon and Illya try and fail to be domestic.

And I ended up with a possible multi-chapter plunnie from it. I imagine Napoleon and Illya having to go undercover at another, different community, one of the scary ones with all the bizarre rules. It would probably end up that there's something sinister about the whole place, rather than that the place is fine but just with a couple of baddies in it. And I have an image of them running across Ecks and Wye there and thinking maybe they're working for THRUSH or whoever's behind the creepy community. Ecks and Wye are not; they're undercover also trying to find out what's going on, perhaps because they're being paid to by the loved one of someone who moved into the place. And if Napoleon and Illya are still having issues while trying to live together, I have an image of them spying on Ecks and Wye, both to try to find out if they're involved with the creepy stuff going on and also to try to figure out how they live together in relative peace. LOL. I don't know if I'll actually write it, but I wanted to put the idea down somewhere so I'll remember it.

On Amazon, it seems like every time I think I've decided on something, something happens to change my mind again. I thought maybe I should get Mannix anyway, since my heart had been set on that, and then I see that it says "Ships in 9 to 12 business days." UGH! It's not bad enough they raise the price; they can't ship it in a timely manner!

Then I thought maybe I'd take Crystal's suggestion and get Six Million and Riverboat. But I'm reading the reviews for Six Million and someone else is complaining about Richard not being in it as much, so that makes me second-guess that some more. As I mentioned, I do have most of the episodes recorded from Cozi. They cut things out, but when I don't know if Richard scenes are missing, it's hard to think of getting a set that I know he isn't in as much.

I toyed with getting that Jim West figure and maybe either season 1 of My Little Pony or Riverboat. Those ideas are still possibles. I finally saw some better pictures of the figure on eBay and it does look like Jim. The resemblance isn't as great as the Oscar figures that look like Richard, but it's really not too shabby.

I also thought of furthering my 4 Seasons albums at long last and I added a couple to the Wish List. Then I considered getting a couple more Perry volumes. I only need four and I'll own the whole series uncut! The first half of season 1, both season 3 sets, and the latter half of season 5. Whereas with Six Million I don't know if Richard scenes are cut, I know for a fact that scenes with my favorites are cut in the television versions of Perry (as well as other scenes that are not frivolous and are actually needed in order for things to make sense), so getting the DVDs is a must.

I could also get either Batman season 2 part 1 or Sailor Moon season 1 part 2, since I haven't ever got around to buying them at Wal-Mart. I really wanted to get them from Wal-Mart, though, since it's so hard to find things I want locally (at least at reasonable prices) and those are two things that actually are available here in town. I kind of like to support that. Plus, it's just plain awesome to be able to buy stuff I want locally.

And since I'll need to add a bit of cash to the gift cards to buy anything, I wonder if I'd rather wait to buy anything until after we shop on Monday and I see what Care Bears are available at this Wal-Mart. If they have any of the ones I want in the small, velvety-fur size, I'd probably like to get at least one of them. I kind of thought I had a memory of seeing Grumpy Bear in that size once, but I'm not sure. The purple one is the one all Wal-Marts seem to have the most in that size, and I want that one too, but I'd like to get the blue ones first of all.

I wish I could remember where my little Wish Bear figure is. I don't think I've seen it since we moved. I also want to dig up the two books I have, if I can remember where they are. I hope they're not in the box under my bed; I've dreaded getting into that because I worry spiders might have gotten into it. I see spiders walking around my room a lot.

When the story doesn't fit the prompt all the way through.

Have put all serious thoughts of what to do on Amazon aside for the day. Although I must say, getting some more Perry sets is sounding awfully appealing now. There's some I especially want to have uncut on the second season 5 set and the second season 3 set.

And I'm exasperated with myself. I love to write slice-of-life conversational pieces between Ginger and Lou. But twice now, semi-recently, their conversations haven't strictly stuck to the prompts' subjects all the way through. Both times, I felt I just couldn't stretch their discussion of the prompts' themes for the entire length of the pieces, so, just like in real conversations, their topics meandered all over the place and didn't really connect with the prompts. But I feel guilty and like I'm cheating by not having them discuss the same topics all the way through.

Thoughts? Should a slice-of-life conversational piece stick to the prompt and nothing else? Or can it be more realistic and meander about (especially if the reason is because I can't stretch the topic)?