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ladybug_archiveBought stuff for Dad's birthday this past day, finally. I hope he likes it.
I also dropped in at the Wal-Mart in the town we were in. They don't have the new dolls; they're still clearancing the old. They had one of the Twilight dolls I've kind of wanted for $9 now! I seriously considered getting her. But I wanted to check another Wal-Mart for the Sunset plushie first, only I couldn't because when we tried to go, the freeway signs were messed up and the one claiming it went the right direction actually took us back home instead, not even letting us off until we were almost there, so Dad wouldn't go back. Ugh. Our car gets such bad mileage and money is so tight that he can't stand to waste a smidgen of gas. I can understand that, but it's still disappointing, especially when both towns are only about ten minutes away from here.
He might have gone back if I'd said that if I couldn't find what I wanted most, I was planning to get the other thing I wanted. But I really knew I should save my money for something else, so I just let it go. I already have one Twilight, and I'm planning to get one of the dolls of the naturally human Twilight (probably the one in the two-pack with Flash Sentry, when we get them around here, since I'll likely never be able to get the convention Twilight and I like the one in the two-pack best after that one). Still, when all the dolls are so unique, it's hard not buying several different ones of my favorite characters. This Twilight doll on clearance has her hair up and it looks so retro and classy.
It does seem like the local Wal-Mart still had some of those, so maybe if their price has lowered to $9 also, I'll have another chance to get her this coming week. I really should resist, but I don't know if I can when the price is that low.
At least I was able to get some headphones at a ShopKo sale. I usually get cheap headphones at Dollar Tree, and now they only have earbuds, which I don't like because they're too close to the ear and I get even more headaches that way. When I saw in an email that ShopKo had $10 headphones for half off, I wanted to get some. I just hope they'll last for a good, long while. I got a pair in dark blue. So pretty!
I also got some notebooks, as I always try to get some when they have them for literally pennies during the back to school time period. But I probably shouldn't have, because Wal-Mart had them for 2 cents cheaper. Ah well. I got the last five ShopKo had, so maybe we can get more at Wal-Mart this week. Always good to stock up.
And I am so excited that my Perry fic is so thoroughly on the move! Once I realized that the story didn't have to move so slowly with the bad guys' plot, it picked right up! The other day I read through the chapters and made out a list of important things that I needed to keep straight, and from that I planned the climax. I just put up the climax chapter. Now I only need the epilogue and it's done! That will be such a relief!
I waited to open the document until I was right ready to work on it near-constantly, and for once Avast! didn't give me trouble, which makes me think that it only does that when the document hasn't been touched in a while, as I already surmised. Perhaps if I don't leave them lying around, I won't have to go through the annoyance of turning off the File Shield System when I want to write and save. I looked up other antivirus programs and I really don't want to switch. Avast! takes up so little memory. And when I read that AVG can install a toolbar that hogs memory and is almost impossible to get rid of, I was horrified. I certainly don't want to get into a mess like that.
Crystal's been so excited this week having another Carmen/Rockapella renaissance, thanks to that hilarious new parody the Carmen-era Rockapella members did. She's even going to start writing fics in that fandom again. I kind of want to follow suit. Neither of us wants to do hurt/comfort fics for that fandom again, as we got so dark and twisted with our fics and RP that we both burned out. (It didn't help when Scott got hurt in real-life, either. Oh gosh that was scary.) But while Crystal hopes to write light-hearted fics, I think I'd like to write some slightly creepy mysteries again. I just won't throw in hurt/comfort or angst anymore. I'm already hoping to write a haunted house fic, because there can never be too many of those. My dreams can provide plenty of inspiration. Heh.
And I remembered something I'd kind of forgot I have: a plushie of Elliott, more or less. I commissioned SetsunaKou to make it, but because the only pictures I could find were terrible quality, the hair ended up not being quite long enough and he looks like a cross between Elliott and Kevin. But he's still very cute. And hey, maybe I could get some hair extensions for him or something. I also always meant to order a Scott plushie, but that never quite materialized. I think Elliott is currently under my Turtles; I'll get him out later and look him over.
I also dropped in at the Wal-Mart in the town we were in. They don't have the new dolls; they're still clearancing the old. They had one of the Twilight dolls I've kind of wanted for $9 now! I seriously considered getting her. But I wanted to check another Wal-Mart for the Sunset plushie first, only I couldn't because when we tried to go, the freeway signs were messed up and the one claiming it went the right direction actually took us back home instead, not even letting us off until we were almost there, so Dad wouldn't go back. Ugh. Our car gets such bad mileage and money is so tight that he can't stand to waste a smidgen of gas. I can understand that, but it's still disappointing, especially when both towns are only about ten minutes away from here.
He might have gone back if I'd said that if I couldn't find what I wanted most, I was planning to get the other thing I wanted. But I really knew I should save my money for something else, so I just let it go. I already have one Twilight, and I'm planning to get one of the dolls of the naturally human Twilight (probably the one in the two-pack with Flash Sentry, when we get them around here, since I'll likely never be able to get the convention Twilight and I like the one in the two-pack best after that one). Still, when all the dolls are so unique, it's hard not buying several different ones of my favorite characters. This Twilight doll on clearance has her hair up and it looks so retro and classy.
It does seem like the local Wal-Mart still had some of those, so maybe if their price has lowered to $9 also, I'll have another chance to get her this coming week. I really should resist, but I don't know if I can when the price is that low.
At least I was able to get some headphones at a ShopKo sale. I usually get cheap headphones at Dollar Tree, and now they only have earbuds, which I don't like because they're too close to the ear and I get even more headaches that way. When I saw in an email that ShopKo had $10 headphones for half off, I wanted to get some. I just hope they'll last for a good, long while. I got a pair in dark blue. So pretty!
I also got some notebooks, as I always try to get some when they have them for literally pennies during the back to school time period. But I probably shouldn't have, because Wal-Mart had them for 2 cents cheaper. Ah well. I got the last five ShopKo had, so maybe we can get more at Wal-Mart this week. Always good to stock up.
And I am so excited that my Perry fic is so thoroughly on the move! Once I realized that the story didn't have to move so slowly with the bad guys' plot, it picked right up! The other day I read through the chapters and made out a list of important things that I needed to keep straight, and from that I planned the climax. I just put up the climax chapter. Now I only need the epilogue and it's done! That will be such a relief!
I waited to open the document until I was right ready to work on it near-constantly, and for once Avast! didn't give me trouble, which makes me think that it only does that when the document hasn't been touched in a while, as I already surmised. Perhaps if I don't leave them lying around, I won't have to go through the annoyance of turning off the File Shield System when I want to write and save. I looked up other antivirus programs and I really don't want to switch. Avast! takes up so little memory. And when I read that AVG can install a toolbar that hogs memory and is almost impossible to get rid of, I was horrified. I certainly don't want to get into a mess like that.
Crystal's been so excited this week having another Carmen/Rockapella renaissance, thanks to that hilarious new parody the Carmen-era Rockapella members did. She's even going to start writing fics in that fandom again. I kind of want to follow suit. Neither of us wants to do hurt/comfort fics for that fandom again, as we got so dark and twisted with our fics and RP that we both burned out. (It didn't help when Scott got hurt in real-life, either. Oh gosh that was scary.) But while Crystal hopes to write light-hearted fics, I think I'd like to write some slightly creepy mysteries again. I just won't throw in hurt/comfort or angst anymore. I'm already hoping to write a haunted house fic, because there can never be too many of those. My dreams can provide plenty of inspiration. Heh.
And I remembered something I'd kind of forgot I have: a plushie of Elliott, more or less. I commissioned SetsunaKou to make it, but because the only pictures I could find were terrible quality, the hair ended up not being quite long enough and he looks like a cross between Elliott and Kevin. But he's still very cute. And hey, maybe I could get some hair extensions for him or something. I also always meant to order a Scott plushie, but that never quite materialized. I think Elliott is currently under my Turtles; I'll get him out later and look him over.
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Date: 2015-08-02 01:45 pm (UTC)well you two did take more than the recommended amount for H/C, I only used it in small doses (because I don't know how to use them properly) so now from now on if any of my fics have H/C I will put a reader discretion alert. I mean I love the H/C (not to mention the Scott/El friendship squee)
So he still looks cuddly, if anything he would like a bit like around season 4/5
speaking of which, season 1 episode 5 is now remastered
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Date: 2015-08-02 10:44 pm (UTC)I always love h/c, but we did go overboard with it in the Carmen stuff. I doubt regular h/c needs a discretion alert, but some of our old stuff probably did. LOL. I think we did use some form of alert for those.
Hmm, good point.
Yeah, I noticed that when I was about to get off in the morning. It's cool that everyone is getting inspiration again. :)
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Date: 2015-08-02 11:48 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2015-08-02 01:48 pm (UTC)Bleh again at the WalMart mess.
And ooh, yay for only the epilogue left! And for Avast not giving any trouble. Phew. And AVG isn't really good, either, btw--we used that on the old desktop computer, and we all know how that ended... We probably should have tried Avast, but at that point we got new laptops with Norton so we never did.
And that was a wonderful week! We did, indeed, burn out (and yeah, Scott getting hurt in real life did not help. Yikes), but maybe getting it all out of our systems was a good thing. Now we can move forward! Well, I say light-hearted, but I doubt I'll be able to resist a good adventure/mystery plot bunny if it hops along. :) Again without h/c, of course. Definitely looking forward to your haunted house fic!
Ah, I remember your Elliott plushie! :)
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Date: 2015-08-02 10:52 pm (UTC)Yeeep. Sigh.
Yes, such a relief on both counts! And yeah, I will never want AVG, not after what I heard about that toolbar. Yuck. And you having a bad experience with it makes it even less appealing than ever.
True; since the plunnies came and were so insistent, we had to do something with them. It will be nice to see about moving forward and creating new fics. And yay, possible adventure/mystery fics!
Thanks. :) Hopefully it will actually come together.
I was thinking idly of making plushies of the others myself. I suppose plushies the size of the Ginger and Lou plushies would actually be fairly in scale with the size difference between Sean/Barry and Elliott, LOL. But then Scott would be taller than he should be....
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Date: 2015-08-02 11:01 pm (UTC)Yup! I actually have a plunny biting already (LOL, that certainly didn't take long). I'm almost done with the Mario chapter; after dinner I'll do a quick drabble with this new plunny that I can later expand upon!
:)
Ooooh. Plushies of the others would be great! Huh, there's no way to find a smaller base doll for Scott? Or are they only available in one size?
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Date: 2015-08-02 11:07 pm (UTC)The only other size is a little too small. Sigh.
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Date: 2015-08-02 11:09 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2015-08-03 12:38 am (UTC)Ugh. That's such a shame about the Walmart fiasco.
It's seriously way too hard to resist the stuff that we want when the price is low - a drop in price is a sign that we just have to have it now as far as I'm concerned. ;)
Those earbud earphones really hurt my ear for some reason. I think I must have especially small and/or sensitive earlobes.
I never pay a lot of money for headphones though as I'm prone to lose or break them.
You can never have enough notebooks as far as I'm concerned. I'm always looking at pretty stationary.
Good luck with your writing! :)
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Date: 2015-08-03 12:47 am (UTC)Yeah, it was very annoying. That's a good way to look at price drops! ;) I've definitely had to rearrange plans more than once when Amazon suddenly drops the price on something I've been wanting, even if it's not at the very top of my list.
You and me both. I get headaches if I use headphones on some occasions, typically if I've had a certain amount of sleep. But headphones are way better than earbuds any day. I paid $5 for these. I wouldn't want to pay much more than that.
Stationery is awesome. :) I love kinds with flowers or cats. Or both.
Thank you!