"This is Burkettsville...formerly Kobe."

[phosfate]

Took Mom in for another check-up. They don't want to see her 'til July now, so unless she goes all Joyce Summers on my ass that's one less thing to worry about. Yeah right.

Then we went to Target to stock up on shampoo, etc. because she's suddenly in this WWII mindset that if we go to war, there will be no nylon stockings. Eh. If it makes her feel better and we FIFO the stuff, what the hell, y'know? Unfortunately she felt it necessary to explain this in great detail to the poor checkout teen, who has never experienced a war, and frightened the poor girl unnecessarily. (Of course many of you remember Desert Storm, when we had to hang out at the airfield and blow National Guard pilots for Dove chocolate and Reeboks. The less said about Nam and the things we had to do just to get Ticonderoga pencils, the better.)

More Battle Royale. I'm scared. Hold me. And now the novel of The Ring is being released in May. Thanks so very much, Japan. Here I thought y'all were totally down with the big-eyed kawaii, maybe the occasional tentacle rape, and you start exporting the scary. Fuckers.

Went out after dinno. Bought a blister of Indigo's liquid pencils, some pointless but interesting green drafting paper with magic! grids!, lavender buttons for Chu-Chu's joints, and some fabric remnants.

Button joints, by the way, are made with upholstery thread and these unbelievably nasty long steel needles with real sharp points, the sort of thing that Michael O'Donoghue was always hypothetically driving into B-list celebrities' eyes. It takes no small amount of force and care to get them through the stuffies' bodies, and the various potential accidents could easily surpass the X-Acto Knife/Super Glue Gel/Poison Control Hotline incident of a few years back. I love living on the edge, oh yeah.

Comments

[swussian.livejournal.com]

One good thing about all this war business is that the front pages of newspapers are not covered with "Princess Madeleines and her secret boyfriend were shopping in London, see the pictures here!" and "How much is your villa worth?", but "Save your money from the war" and "War starts on Thursday".
It feels good to know that I live in a society that , at least ocasionnaly, thinks that war is more important than the Royal family.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

You guys have a princess? We only get people who think they're princesses.

[swussian.livejournal.com]

We have two princesses. They are called Victoria (the one who'll get to be the queen unless she gets killed or something) and Madeleine (the youngest royal child). And a prince- Carl-Philip (between them). The princesses always have Secret Boyfriends, and everyone thinks Carl-Philip is gay (though he has recently been seen with a Secret Girlfrined). I like having a Royal Family, it's fun and commie-wannabes aged 13-19 get all annoyed.