Wow, already January 10th, 11th 2012!? I'm stunned how quickly time passes. Pretty soon it will be next year and I'll be wondering where the year went, writing a boring blog post about how quickly time flies.
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| Three American Girl dolls. |
A few people have inquired about Hannah. Seems our together days are mostly in the past since she now has the wicked stepsisters living with her. Competition is fierce. They all received American Girl dolls for Christmas even though one of the sisters is 17 years old and immediately threw them in a heap on the floor with the rest of their loot. Merry Christmas, baby Jesus! The wicked stepsisters then asked where my gift to them was hiding? I didn't buy them a gift. Well, I bought them Lifesaver® packets because I have no money and Lifesavers® aren't that expensive. But then I gave the Lifesavers® to my neighbor because he had threatened suicide -- plus a pound of coffee! Stay awake and eat! My solution to many of life's problems.
This is the first Christmas I bought Hannah a present - a tiny knitted sweater and pants for her American Girl doll. For some strange reason I've yet to determine, she got the American Girl® wheelchair and crutches kit to go with her doll. As if life isn't difficult enough in reality, now we pretend to be disabled, less-abled, wheel-chair bound with our dolls? I don't get it. What ever happened to Barbie, her three wigs, the Corvette and the hot-tub? Maybe to some those items might seem like disabilities, however, those are the kinds of perks with which I might fantasize. Not a wheelchair. Give me the American Girl doll with lymphedema in both legs and a cancer- filled uterus in a bucket next to the hospital bed any day over perfection. Give me the American Girl doll who is HIV positive.
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| Two American girl dolls and their ticks |
Yesterday Hannah came over to the office and laid in Bella's dog bed with Bella (reluctantly) on her lap. A not so subtle note to The Reptilian race -- because the global warming is real, I've been pulling ticks off of Bella, right and left. I'm sure the dog bed has its share of ticks too. We've had a very warm winter so far without rain. Last year I remember whining about everything the rain because it seemed to never stop. This year every weekend, Bella and I go to the beach, both days. (We have no life.) The sky is blue, - sun, warm and lots of stinking animal carcasses for Bella to wiggle inside. She is my flower blossom! With all the carcasses on the beach now, I predict in 20 years or so, we won't refer to the beach as the beach because the beach as we have known it will be covered with bones, feathers, and other miscellaneous body parts which as a scientist I must inform you - are the basic ingredients in sand.
7 comments:
Sorry your time with Hannah is limited now but I was so glad to see her cute face on the blog!
Glad to see Hannah!
I was actually IN an American Girl Store in Chicago this summer (else I would have had no freakin' idea what you were talking about!)
I did not, however, see the wheelchair/crutches/disabled doll. Nor did I see the one with lymphedema and the bucket of cancerous uterus. Sigh. Don't know how I missed them.
My friend Barbara - you met her - well, her daughter would like the wheelchair for one of her AG dolls, but then again, she had a cousin who was in a chair. I kinda go along with the whole "let's live a fantasy" and get the Barbie corvette thing.
Nice to see Hannah again. She's growing up so much! And Bradley just cracks me up - belly jeans.
I actually have my own American Girl doll, and I can't even duck and say she's a relict of my misspent youth, because she was instead purchased just a few months ago.
I'm 41, for the record.
All I can say in my defense is that I live in a house with a boatload of men including 2 sons, 1 spouse, 2 cats, and 1 dog. Only the final of the 3 cats is also female. So... enter The Doll. I realize not every woman in my position would respond this way, but there you have it.
She has clothes. She does not, however, possess crutches or a wheelchair.
Back to topic, Hannah certainly is a cutie!
Maybe those dolls will come out next year!
I've wondered about Hannah, and glad to see she's back, even if for a short time!
I grew up before Barbie Dolls, and I am thankful. But I still got large doses of Barbie mentality, no fear, it's all around us. In the forties and fifties girls got baby dolls. I still love babies, too.
I'd like to have an AG doll. I miss my Chatty Cathy. And well, I'm 55 today, but I guess the reference to Chatty Cathy gave that away, hmmf.
I think going to the beach every weekend would be a plus in my life :) I'm jealous.
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