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Top Ten Toys I Might Buy Tomorrow
RULES: $40 absolute max, but $30 or less would be ideal

1. Pink Ninja Ranger(s?)
2. Doorables: Olaf Presents, Snow White, Stitch
3. something something Monster High??? I still don't have ANY Clawdeens
4. Mixlings
5. Storm E Sky (& Cool Cat)
6. Across the Spider-Verse Gwen or Jess? Hobie is currently out of stock
7. Mirrorverse Belle and slash or Maleficent
8. Cyclone
9. Q Posket Terra
10. ATLA Final Battle 4-Pack? This is currently $16.50! For a four-pack! They're only 5" tall, but still (actually, now that I type it out like that, Aang should be shorter than Zuko or Azula and WAY shorter than Ozai, which might bug me enough that I don't even want this four-pack after all, in which case there are other Avatar 'verse figures I could get . . .)

Top Ten Things My Room Really "Needs"

1. The Perfect Desk
2. Comfortable Chair for The Perfect Desk
3. Area Rug for Comfortable Chair
4. So Many SHELVES, including one near the door and one for the kitchen
5. Storage Bench
6. Kitchen Cart
7. Blender
8. Slow Cooker
9. More Lights
10. Storage Bench

I really, really, ~really~  wish I could stay home to

GET STONED
&
WATCH BUFFY

Two of my very favorite things in the history of ever, even better together!

But alas—

Three full days until I can do that!

When Saturday finally arrives, I think I might walk to Del Taco and back before I start watching.

I can order more cannabis tomorrow, and on Friday evening I’ll be sure I have plenty of beverages in the fridge to go with my Del Taco. And some sort of fruit, because I am craving approximately half a dozen of them.

It would also be fun to watch a movie this weekend, but there is literally no point in even attempting to decide right now.

And, of course, I’ll have plenty of library comics to keep me entertained! Including but not limited to Calvin and Hobbes, W.I.T.C.H., Black Widow, Captain Marvel, X-Men, Catwoman, and Wonder Girl! I might just watch as little as two or three episodes of Buffy, then switch to Gilmore Girls and lower the volume and just read for hours.

Tuesday is so blergh. Obviously the worst day of the week has ended and that's technically reason to celebrate . . . but once today is over I will still have three full days until the weekend. On the other hand, Tuesday means a new episode of Buffy the Gilmore Slayer! For a few more weeks --- they're almost done.

I have two new toys waiting for me to pick them up! The Doorables Villains set (reduced from $22 to $16.30) and Mirrorverse Genie ($9).

If I ever make it to Friday evening, my "congratulations, you survived yet another week of stupid" gift to myself might be another Doorables set and Mirrorverse Belle. Or two Doorables sets. Or one of the Pink Ninja Rangers. Or some sort of Zord. Or Mirrorverse Maleficent and some Magic Mixlings (and a bag of M&Ms, just kidding). I don't know, there are too many choices and four days feels like a really long time.

On that note! I realize that my last check was on Thursday and only four full days have passed between then and now. I am very aware of how often I get paid. I understand how time works. And yet! July 7th is NEXT FRIDAY, and waiting that long until I get paid again makes my heart hurt. I know that weekly paydays are smaller, but if I had a choice that is what I would choose. Twice a month will never be enough.

I just realized that today is exactly two weeks until the beginning of Prime Days! Still not getting my hopes up, but I did make a whole list of things that I would like to buy then if they do get discounted.

I DO NOT need to go to Food4Less on my way to work today, because I have at least four drinks already in the barn (only one is actually taking up space in the tiny fridge, the others are waiting their turn on the shelf) and I have snacks in my backpack. I will need to get a few things on my way home, though, because I'm running low on hand soap.







In an effort to distract myself from how much I don't want to go to work, here is a quick list of things I might order as soon as I clock out on Friday:

• Doorables Sets: Snow White, Stitch, Olaf Presents
• WinxFate Q Posket Terra
• Super7 Yellow Ranger or Goldar
• some sort of Zord(s)
• MLP Meet the Mane 6 Collection
• Mirrorverse Belle or Maleficent (both would be about $34 . . .)
• One or both Pink Ninja Rangers

Technically my weekend won't "really" end for another twelve hours, but it's coming to a close now, and as usual I am not thrilled about Monday, so in an effort to cheer myself up, here are a few other things to think about:

Once the trolley leaves Arnele Avenue, I will be allowed to spend up to $30 on some sort of toy(s). Right now I'm kind of leaning toward one of the Pink Ninja Rangers, but we'll see if that's what I decide when it's actually time to decide. I could also choose Doorables or Mixlings or Monster High or, well, literally anything that's thirty dollars or less.

I can return some things to the library and check out some things that are waiting for me, including the first two volumes of an adjectiveless X-Men comic that started last year and more W.I.T.C.H.

As annoying as it can be sometimes, I always like to remind myself that, when you think about it, this job does pay me to walk slash drive around while listening to music, podcasts, or stand-up comedy in one ear. If they just paid me as little as five more dollars an hour, it would be a pretty perfect job.

It always feels nice to take a break and sit down in the shade while I have a snack and a very cold drink.

It feels even nicer when the sun goes down.

This isn't exactly a cheery thought, but obviously I am very aware that every day of showing up for work leads to my next check being as big as possible. Which means I'll have more furniture money on Prime Days, yes?

The Perfect Desk is now available in a fourth color, black. I don't like it very much? Obviously I would take it if that was the only thing available, but it's not. I really like both of the browns ("rustic" and "walnut"), and white would match the shelves I'm planning to get. Speaking of! It has occurred to me that the cheap five-tier corner shelf I was thinking of doesn't make any sense. What I should do with this wall is devote every inch that's not taken up by the desk to white & green shelving units!

Speaking of furniture, I might actually buy some very soon. Amazon is having another "Prime Days" event starting on July 11th, just a few days after I get paid on the 7th. Obviously I won't get my hopes up or anything, but it really would be nice if I could get some sort of deal on, for example, the desk or the comfortable chair for the desk or the area rug to roll the chair around on or a kitchen cart or a blender or something else I really want for my room that's usually a pricey purchase. I'll put together a whole list of Maybe Deals and see what happens.

Whether or not I find a deal on anything I just mentioned or anything I didn't, a portion of my July 22nd paycheck will go to some sort of shelf. I'm not going to let myself open toys until I have a space to ~dedicate~ to displaying them, and in the last few days I have spent money on a doll, a blind bag tiny toy, a Megazord, and an action figure. That's four new toys since Friday, and I'm very excited about all of them but can't open any yet.

Hey, I wonder if there might be deals on even one Monster High playset? They'll all go on my list! Heh. Collecting is such a thrill. My room in general will be a thrill once I get most of the stuff I need to make it more productive and more comfortable. I think I have a realistic chance of being mostly done before my birthday, so that's exciting - because then I'll be able to devote more of my limited disposable income to MORE TOYS, heh heh heh.

I guess, of all the things I need for my room, these are my top ten priority purchases (in no particular order, but they're all top ten):

1. THE PERFECT DESK, of course. In this exact moment I'm leaning toward white, but I do not have to choose a color right now.
2. At least two white & green shelves. I haven't actually done the measuring yet, but I think I will have enough space for one 11-Cube and two (?) 5-Tiers.
3. Comfortable chair for the perfect desk.
4. Area rug to roll the chair around on.
5. Storage bench.
6. Kitchen cart.
7. Blender!
8. Cutting board(s) so I can use my fancy knives and functional mixing bowls and make things like fresh salads.
9. Pentagram rug for the door, possibly the most important purchase of all.
10. More lights.

Laundry lasted longer than it needed to. What happened was, I had enough clothes to use two washing machines, so I got them going and set a timer . . . and only when that timer went off did I realize that I never pushed START on one of the machines, so it still needed twenty-five minutes.

So I can't go to the grocery store right away like I was thinking, because that time fuck-up drained my battery. After several minutes of charging, it's currently at forty-seven percent. In about an hour (?) or so, I will go to Food4Less and then Target.

I've decided to forego this grocery delivery I've been planning and just get it all myself to avoid the extra fees. Since I'm walking there and back and can only fit so much stuff in my backpack, it'll take a few trips, but totally worth it.

I really want Five Guys and slash or Del Taco. Maybe pizza. Maybe breakfast sandwiches at some point.

And I think I might order some Doorables tomorrow.

Despite the one hundred milligrams of THC in my system, I have not fallen asleep all night. It's three minutes 'til six, so I kind of feel like I might as well stay up and go do laundry shortly after they open in half an hour. If I do, I should be done by 8:00, so before it gets too terribly hot I could go to the grocery store. And Target!

Grocery deliveries are slightly annoying because I have to make multiple trips from my door to the front gate and back . . . and sometimes my idiot neighbors see stuff I haven't gotten to yet and pick things up to "take to the office" because they just cannot mind their own business, but it has occurred to me that if I empty my storage cart I can probably get everything in one trip.

So yeah, after carefully spending a certain amount of money on a certain amount of food this weekend, I will allow myself to order another Encanto doll. Wait, there's a "Deluxe" Doll Set that includes articulated versions of all three sisters and Antonio & three of his animal friends? That's good to know, but I'm not trying to spend $80 on dolls right now! Hmmm. I could get Dolores for $8, but she's also part of a family set that includes her parents and both brothers - yes, another Antonio. I also like the small doll Julieta's Kitchen playset, which is less than $12.

Laundromat opens in eleven minutes now, and my phone is at 66% even in Airplane Mode to help it charge faster. I'd really like to have it at 80 or higher before I leave the house. It's already jumped up to 68. So that shouldn't be a huge obstacle, I guess.

I know "perfect" sounds hyperbolic when it's used to describe a desk that I didn't know existed fifteen minutes ago, but for serious, it hath done blown my mind! Gaze upon it. I like all three colors, so let's not even get into that right now, but oh my, the features.

The stand for the monitor, which creates a bit of storage space underneath it. Eventually I'd like to indulge myself and buy this 32-inch monitor.

Words UTTERLY FAIL to convey how goddamn much I love that slide-out keyboard tray (note: I need this particular mouse pad and this particular wireless keyboard) (other note: As I can afford them, I will occasionally buy more wireless keyboards. Because I just love the concept of a wireless keyboard so gosh dang much, and there are so many of them and most of them look cool as heckckckck, so yeah, might get at least three).

Between monitor & keyboard, there is enough space to work on a puzzle, maybe even two puzzles at one time, which would really help to distract me from hating everything I write, in theory.

That "left arm" (it's 42.5x11.8") could potentially be used as a table for eating, My klutzy clumsy self would have to be extra careful, but with the keyboard tray tucked in, and the monitor so far from the corner where I would set my food, it could actually be just fine all the time? I don't know. It's certainly possible, is all I'm saying.

Unless the base is, like, painted with something that cancels its magnetic properties (I don't know for sure if that's actually possible), I should be able to use it for magnets, which is much cool!

The headphone hook is most convenient, although it does remind me that I should replace my headphones. Sigh.

And finally, oh glory, oh golly, the shelves! There are FIVE of them. Top shelf would be Monster High, of course. And some Doorables, I shouldn't wonder. Maybe Mixlings as well. But the focus of the display on the top shelf would be MH. If I suddenly got rich I would instantly order almost all of G3, I swear. Every single playset I could find, that's for damn sure. The second shelf is less than ten inches tall, so too short for most fashion dolls, but plenty of space for several of my favorite action figures, statues, many kinds of tiny toys that are not even Doorables or Mixlings. The lower three shelves have somewhat limited display potential, but I'll use shelf number three for library comics (and book books, if I ever check out one of those again) and four & five for notebooks, coloring books, puzzles, cannabis, witchy stuff (other than cannabis), cable management, ???

This not-a-desk will go between the desk and the door. The top is a perfect place to plant my backpack, and the other end is good for the basket I carry back and forth to the bathroom. The empty floor space between shelves is ideal for my shoes and (with something between it and the bare floor) laundry basket.

And then it has six shelves of storage.

1. Work clothes. Shirt, vest, and pants in a pile of neatly folded fabrics. Socks hanging off the edge of the shelf? Hand sanitizer, chapstick, and every single other thing I am going to need to have on my body when I leave home to go to my next shift. Except for my boots and my hat, which live elsewhere.
2. Multiple packs of toilet paper and, ideally, reserves of bathroom staples, from razorblades to shampoo to toothpaste
3. Towels
4. Library comics and slash or books that I have actually purchased
5. Cleaning products
6. Witchy stuff

Plus, toys can hang out on all six shelves if they want!

The door itself is currently a 97% blank space with seriously limited function, but I should get something like this: Voila, mini pantry, just enough shelf space for some snacks to grab on my way out the door, NyQuil, Tylenol, hand sanitizer, other apothecary crap, those hooks are an excuse for some scarves I should buy as a gift to myself, electric candles, other witchy stuff, etc . . .

And, now that I'm thinking about it, the corner over the Monster High shelf could be used for two or three of those simple triangle shelves that basically snap in place. For Megazords, FiguArts, ATLA, DCSG, extra precious stuff like that.

I rewarded myself for surviving another week full of stupid by ordering the Mega Mighties Megazord. It was less than $19 including tax, so I feel great about that. Another cheap toy I bought yesterday night, who was somehow delivered this morning, is the Isabela Madrigal doll for $8.65. She is so gorgeous that I may have audibly gasped when I took the mailer off of her box. Will probably buy at least one more cheap Encanto doll VERY soon. It almost feels weird to know that I have spent $27 (plus another $7.42 on something that won't be here until Sunday even though I ordered it with Isabela) on toys that are not Monster High, when that money could have gone toward a playset or purchased one of the cheaper dolls and had a few dollars left over, but then, it also feels extremely natural that my exceptions are MMPR and Encanto. Perhaps I'll watch one or both of those this weekend. Maybe even, hmm, one after the other? Power Rangers, Encanto, more Power Rangers?

Obviously, I am VERY VERY VERY HAPPY about this weekend.

For several reasons! One of which is: The cannabis gummies I ordered yesterday as soon as I deposited my check. I'm eating one bag right now. Twenty-five doses (five gummies) every forty-five minutes. Just had my second dose. It's an Indica strain called Forbidden Fruit, and every inch of my brain is beyond thrilled about the imminent prospect of getting a night of cannabis-fueled sleep (with a little NyQuil just in case) and then wake up and decide which fun thing to do first.

These are all of the library comics I could read so I can return them so I can borrow more:

• Marvels X, which I got for the Alex Ross art
• Uncanny X-Men: Disassembled
• DCSG: Ghosting
• DCSG: Powerless
• DCSG: Weird Science
• Captain Marvel Vol. 9 - bittersweet, since Vol. 10 will be the conclusion of Thompson's run!
• Strange Academy Vol. 2: Bright Side
• Strange Academy Vol. 3: Wish-craft - sadly, this is the end of the series
• Justice League Dark Vol. 1: In the Dark
• The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes
• The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes
• W.I.T.C.H. The Graphic Novel Part I, The Twelve Portals, Vol. 1
• All-New X-Men Vol. 6: Ultimate Adventure - haven't read the first five volumes, but I love this team (it's the Teen O5) and am excited about this story in particular because MILES
• Black Widow: SHIELD's Most Wanted
• Ariel and the Curse of the Sea Witches
• The Variants: A Jessica Jones Mystery (this has a high chance of being the thing I read first)
• Wonder Woman: Tempest Tossed

I have a meticulous grocery delivery order ready (?) to go, for which I give thanks because it will help be avoid spending too much on snacks when I am at work cuz Vons is more expensive than Food4Less, okay, but weekends are also a time to treat myself to a treat or two or maybe even more from a restaurant. I should avoid delivery because extra fees, but even if I am limited to places I walk past every day on my way to and from the trolley, I could eat at Del Taco, Five Guys, Dave's Hot Chicken, Jack in the Box (their breakfast biscuits are cheap & tasty), probably literally half a dozen Mexican restaurants including one El Pollo Loco, Little Caesar's, Panera, KFC question mark, and I'm not even sure what else. But that's quite a lot of interesting options already, clearly.

May or may not treat myself to another movie in the theater? Then again, maybe I'll just walk to (for example) Five Guys, which is technically part of the same mall as Regal Cinemas, but get my food to go, and bring it home, and watch a movie at home. This theater doesn't have recliners (they have stadium seating, which is fine, but fine is nowhere near as comfortable as recliners), and I couldn't smuggle in an entire hot meal, so the more I give this three and a half seconds of conscious thought, the more I think I should watch & eat at home.

One thing I've watched more than once in the last few weeks is the Buffy finale. I even took a video of the best scene and sent it to my sister and said it always makes me cry and she replied, "Wow, yeah, it made me cry with no context" (note: This would be an interesting clip to watch with no context, since it involves Buffy being taunted by First!Buffy, who looks exactly like her, down to the same outfit and matching mortal wounds). It is one of my favorite things to watch when I am stone'd. Sadly it's not on my yootoob playlist called "Still Blazin," but it should be. Some things that are on this playlist include . . .

"At the Winter Gala" (an MLP mash-up)

Ms Marvel trailer

Captain Marvel "Big Game" TV Spot (this is only thirty seconds, but it's such a rush that I've watched it hundreds of times in the handful of years since the movie came out)

The Marvels Teaser Trailer (to the great surprise of nobody, I am very excited to see Monica again! She has been my favorite MCU character since WandaVision. And obviously I love both Carol and Kamala quite a lot as well, so an entire film about all three of them? I haven't been this excited about the MCU since Wakanda Forever)

Yellowjackets Season 2 Trailer (I was and still am obsessed with this show, and it is honestly one of the best trailers I have ever seen)
Bonnie Bennett: Seven Nation Army (this starts with voice-over of four badass things she has said, including: "I don't belong to the spirits anymore. I belong to myself." Chills, every time. I love her so much. She deserved better, but when the writers let her do stuff she was fan fucking tastic)

Princess Rap Battle: Mrs Claus vs Mary Poppins

Buffy Season 7 Trailer (another one of the best trailers I have ever seen)

Buffy All You Wanted Legendado (this is a fan-made music video of Michelle Branch's "All You Wanted," which follows two storylines: Willow & Tara, and Buffy & Faith. I discovered it in high school, so the quality is not great, but in spite of that I have watched it so many times)

CHARMED 2018 Trailer ("You're better together, your differences are your strengths, and nothing is stronger than your sisterhood.)

When I was walking to the trolley this afternoon, CHARMED tried to make me cry. For some reason I had this brief mental flash of the time when Maggie was in danger, so Macy said "Get away from my sister!" and lashed out telekinetically. Which then also made me think of the moment in the very first episode when Jeremy shows up at the house to kill them all, and without even thinking about it Prue throws him back and says, "Piper, Phoebe, get outta here!" And I did start to get a little teary-eyed! And again just now, typing it up!
 

1. Amped Up Frankie!
2. Doorables: Villains, Olaf Presents, Stitch, etc . . .
3. pretty much every G3 Clawdeen, especially the one who comes with a playset
4. Purple Panic Christie (and Perfect Pink Teresa and Extreme Green Skipper and Cool Blue Barbie)
5. Goreganizer Draculaura
6. Coffin Bean Playset
7. Clawdeen Bedroom Playset (and all four Creepover dolls!)
8. G3 Toralei (and every Toralei)
9. Little Mermaid LEGO Set
10. lots, but not all, of Skulltimate Secrets

Oh snap, that was more than ten. Take my hard-earned money, Mattel. Heh.