The Saga of Undeterminable Fate

I'm so happy right now. I've been trying to buy W.I.T.C.H. dolls lately, which I was dumb and didn't pay much attention until it's like 4 years too late. >_> And rather than being unwanted, the few released here are hard to find and there's apparently been a ton of different lines released in Italy that I can't even keep track of, but of course are still hella hard to find and/or get for decent prices.

So I was trolling around google for the tenth time trying to come across a store or community and saw some stuff still listed on amazon UK. 20GBP for some of them, but a 3rd party seller had listed some used for 1-4GPB! I messaged her and she agreed to ship to me and so I bought all 16 that she had. An odd assortment and a few are missing pieces, but even with the outrageous shipping (still not final but hoping it's what she quoted me), they'll be about $7.50 each shipped. Squee! For some reason Amazon won't let them ship a lot of things overseas, so I had to list the travel channel's London address as my own. *cough*

So I'll hold off on my Muscara order. They currently have free shipping if you spend over 90 euros which I can do easily with 5 or 6 dolls from there. They have different ones that what I'll be getting so I'm really hoping that that's a permanent deal and not fleeting.

I think I need to do like the Little Apple Dolls as well and make my own guide for these since I'm having a hard time keeping track of all the lines and can't find more than a handful of fan sites. *sigh*

I've also got a YahooJapan box in the mail too. Lots of plushies, a few dolls, keychains and some other fun stuff. I marked that as my last one and have bought a couple things through ShoppingMallJapan to try them out, but they make it way more difficult to bid and pay and since they charged me 500yen to batch ship over for just a few figures, I'm not really seeing how that method is going to save me much more money than the EMS from Japan since I'll still have to pay domestic shipping, as well. Luckily I haven't seen too many auctions that I'm keen on lately, at least.

Argh, and I'm trying not to, but I really want to buy more cels. The one I have is just so neat in person and I've got another one waiting for me at home. The neat ones are hella pricey of course, but I want at least one epic battle or Saturn/Hotaru/ChibiChibi one. Or like this one!

http://page9.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/k127056422

That only comes to about $1600US. Not too bad right? Heh. That would be really awesome to own, though.

I want to take pics of all my stuff, but I lost my camera. :( I very very much hope it's just lost in my house since I have the case and don't think I would have taken it out w/out it, but honestly I can barely remember anything that happened in late June/July so I'm a skosh worried that it's forever lost. *sigh* And it just won't cool down so that I can feel like cleaning after work instead of passing out on the couch from just going outside to feed the cats! Grrr!

Anyhow, one last thing. I'm accumulating quite a bit of extra Sailor Moon merchandise, so if anyone here is interested or looking for something particular, let me know. I've got a whole slew of cards coming in, a couple sets of gashapon and some loose ones, probably extra bottle cap figures and possibly some dolls. I think I'll only part with those if friends want them though since I get too attached. :) I know for sure I've got an extra Pluto Dream Pocket in the box since I have her loose now and she's not my favorite enough to keep two of.

Yay, got all the dolls I was waiting for yesterday!



My new little Bobobie (the new one's in red). She looks so sad, but the price was right! She's got a real pointy nose and overbite though so I may try to sand that down a bit next time I'm messing with that stuff. I'm looking for a wig for her too, probably something more normal. I still need to get green fur for the fairy niblet, but at this point she's been bald so long, she might look weird *with* hair. Funny how they've both ended up with purple eyes.

Oh and I did manage to enter two of the DoA contests. The costume and the photo one, so if any of you are inclined, mine are the last two in each of them with the green-eyed brunette...hehe. I know I won't win (not even honorable mention in the puki one >_>) but at least I don't think I'm in the bottom either. IMO, though.

I got my Cherished Friends package too, with my 2 new Kickits. I was fixing to email them, but decided to give it a couple more days and then it showed up at dinner! Never got a ship notice or anything, but oh well. No pics of them, yet, but one was the Fao exclusive 200pieces that seemed to be disappearing so I'm glad I got her cheap and the last one too since she then vanished from the website, so I was getting worried that I had missed out.

And Mom is going to buy a big bobobie doll, so I offered to place the order since my tinies and semi-bigger tinies are in desperate need of shoes. I might buy either Isabella http://www.denverdoll.com/bobobie27.php or one of the msds, too. http://www.denverdoll.com/bobobie45.php I like Mei and she seems to come in limited quantities. Blarg, of course both have a Normal skin in stock so that means I can't narrow it down that way. I kinda want some badass dolls now too that I can punk up and make look evil. Oh yeah, my big boy doll needs some new eyes too, but I can't decide which color. Same for vampire girl...oh crap I still need to pay for NeoNoir too. I preordered Kaela pullip too, which I kind of regret, so I'm not so much into the pullips these days. I'm glad I didn't just impulsively do that anime set, though I might end up buying the butler guy after seeing owner's pics.

I finally watched a couple movies this weekend. I haven't watched movies in foreeeever. Danny got Iron Man for xmas, but I wasn't real impressed with it, but then I also wasn't paying close attention either. I finally watched Golden Compass too, which I LOVED only to find out the next 2 movies have been shelved. HELLA LAME!! It didn't even have a pseudo-ending! Don't make me read the books, guys! The talking animals were actually done really well, too. >_<

Gaming, I've been playing Rhapsody and Safari adventure picture taking on the Wii. It's fun to piss of nature and then run away like a wuss. I went to gamestop to try and partake of the buy2get1free and they are cleaned. out. Ditto for target on that bogo free imagine games thing. Mom was even going to buy Iron Chef on the ds and those were all gone too!! She's suddenly back on the Schleich wagon too, so I'm working on updating my database to see what animals I need to blow some money on. Target's clearancing out some, so I picked up the last Ibex and hoping more drop lower. (Schleich makes these realistic animals and now faeries and soldiers and stuff too. http://www.schleich-s.com/cms_schleich/shop/index.php?lang=2&startnode=125&specialpage=new_products Some of the animals even have...parts*cough*)

I had forgotten that they had those Christmas peek-a-boo petites at Wal-mart so we didn't go on Friday night and they were long gone yesterday. Though they might've been before Christmas I'm still bummed I may have missed them on clearance. I did find...Taka from Tokyo though! Only one so I grabbed her, since I didn't know if I'd ever see her again. My grandma sent a giftcard so it was justified. I'm sure she'd be thrilled to know that I spent it on a tiny $6 doll. *^^

Oh and in case you need some cuteness to get you to New Year's, here's the catfam all piled up on my bed!





From Left to Right around the back: Chiblet, Mr. Sad Eyes, Little Gray, Sita and Mama Sasha's in the middle. Aw!!

Oh man, you guys, I feel so wrecked today. I don't know if it's the travel finally catching up with me or what, but I had nightmares all through the night and my throat feels just horrible. Oh and coughing now, too. Yay. So yeah, don't quite feel up to convention coverage just yet. I wanted to check out the pics last night, but I fell asleep watching tv and then ended up just trying to get a song downloaded. Actually I got it pretty easily, it was just a million updates the computer had to do from being off for a week. I think the theme from Paranoia agent was the best thing about it. Actually the best thing about all of Satoshi Kon's anime is the music by Susumu Hirasawa. Though I'd still like to make a Paprika pullip someday. Oh yeah, I think I was just going to name Asuka Paprika...

Anyhow, since I didn't find too much to buy up in the AZ, I've got the antsiness in me to buy something now. Unfortunately, there's a lot of expensive vying for that. Wilde Imagination has a $15 off coupon good for the next few days, but the outfit I want is ONE DOLLAR short of the minimum. There are a few more dolls I want, so I had planned on getting the outfit with either  http://www.wildeimagination.com/p-28-nevermore.aspx or http://www.wildeimagination.com/p-64-lingering-doubt.aspx but that would pretty much max out my budget until the credit cards roll over. 

But then, yesterday, someone put up a Hina Ichigo dal for sale on LJ that would be $87 shipped which is about 20 under retail. She's one of the two Rozen Maidens I need, and it's a pretty good deal. *sigh* 

And, the Heroes action figures just came out. Toynk's sent an email that they have them for $70 plus like 12 shipping which is a little over 15 a piece which is just about retail. I was hoping to find them in AZ, but no go, so I don't know if they'll filter down here eventually. The Castlevania figures never did and I don't know if they'll be like PotC and Lost and be on clearance everywhere, or get all bought up and become expensive. I can't even find the freaking trading cards anywhere either!!

And this morning Hot Topic sends out an email with more clearance stuff and there's about $40 of stuff that I want there. I still need to go through and pare stuff down, like maybe lose one of the hoodies and decide on which pair of crazy goth boots ($10 cheaper than a pair of Ellowyne Wilde shoes, how wrong is that?), but I'm pretty sure I'll be ordering from there. $6 ground shipping though. :D

So, yeah... :/