Journey through Faerieland

I am feeling hypomanic today, filled with energy. I didn't take klonopin or anything. I feel very energetic and with thoughts racing. I feel like everything will turn out all right and everything is great. Unfortunately these feelings lead me to order a very expensive doll (Pullip, as I've been talking about). Her name is ALa.

Here she is: http://www.thevalleyofthedolls.com/dollshop.php/Pullip/ALa

I like that she has brown hair and brown eyes like me:-) I considered another doll named Aquel but I felt she looked too similar to Alice for my first full-sized Pullip doll. The money will come out of my savings account:-( I'm hoping after the holidays I go back to saving money...

I have never much cared for most dolls. Ever since I was five and caught my mother watching the horror movie Dolls they have scared me. However, I have been looking into Pullips and Blythe dolls for a couple months now. They're too expensive for me, but they have some petite/little versions that are less expensive. I might get one of those. I like their big eyes and anime features. Some of them have cute hair and costumes. I added a few of the petite dolls on my amazon wishlist, though I didn't rank them according to how much I want them because I really don't know how to compare them to books, dvd's, etc. Hopefully I will get one someday. I'm not going to start a collection and I don't have room for a collection -- I just want one in a style I like. I don't know if I have a favorite at the moment... I'm trying to save money/recuperate money now, anyways, so it will probably be a few more months until I buy my doll, anyways (at least until after the new year and longer than that if I get more contacts).

Yesterday I went on a shopping trip with my mother to a bit north of here (far northern Illinois) to a small town filled with old Victorian houses. The date of the house was usually on a plaque, that also listed what the house had been used for originally. I love old houses and it reminded me of when we went to Massachusetts when I was 13:-) Autumn seemed like the perfect atmosphere to go, but it wasn't cold at all. I hope to go there again really soon. There were lovely fountains and ducks and ponds and all sorts of things in addition to the cute little shops/houses, but I had no idea where it was we were going or what it would be like, so I didn't bring a camera!!:( I hope to go back sometime soon, and I will definitely post pictures if I can!

We went there to look for a unique birthday gift for my uncle, who has a surprise birthday party this weekend. We ended up getting him a cast iron birdbath in the shape of a giant leaf with a little fairy girl sitting on it!:-) A lot of the stores had very cute fairy-related things, actually! I didn't think I should buy anything, but my mother thought I should since it was not a place we usually go. So I bought a few gifts, which I can't discuss here yet:-) I also bought myself an Amy Brown fairy print and a cute little wooden "potion"-type bottle that says "starlight." They had all kinds of words written on the bottles, a lot of which were really mundane and stupid-sounding to me (calories? ashes of ex-boyfriends?? Ick!). Starlight was my favorite, though there were a few other nice ones:-D

Unfortunately I can't find the title of the painting of my Amy Brown print:-( If anyone happens to know, please let me know! I did find the names of some of the other prints I saw in the fairy store.

( Picture of my Fairy Print and Picture of my Starlight Potion! )

I also have new, bright sweeping fabric for drapes from IKEA to put up in my living room, and a new bookcase. I don't think I've posted any remotely recent pictures of my bedroom here, either, and how it is decorated... Someday I will get around to doing that!

Mrs. Bates can be very pushy. Every time I try to get her to move off me so I can sleep, she pushes her body forward to fight against me. And if I can get her off she immediately climbs back on. When she's walking across my things or trying to rest on them when I need them, she will bite at me if I try to move her. She's sleeping next to me right now...

This is a cute video/song about eggs. It's really cheerful and it makes me happy: http://www.iloveegg.com/winopen_ani/eggsong.htm