Current Mood : So sleepy...
We have much
happier fish – and a frog and snail ! – today ! But I think that, if my room-mates and I went
from a 5 gallon space to a 15 gallon one, I’d feel great to have so much more
space to stretch my fins in. Diggy-frog immediately found three or four great
places to hide, and the fish have chased each other around and hovered near
motionless by turns all day.
Dearest Son
wants to pick out his own fish and décor, so we simply found a good space for
the ‘old’ tank and set it up. We’ll take him out for fish later this week. I
did a survey from yesterday’s pet shop visit, so we have a $3. coupon to spend,
too ! I much prefer coupons to contests – I stand a chance of using (‘winning’
!) the coupon. I don’t have a prayer on winning that iPod-a-day drawing, much
less the million dollar one I forgot I entered at year’s end.
With that out
of the way, I was free to reinvent my table-arena. After scraping off dried
fish flakes and odd spills first, though. But it didn’t take long, and within
an hour, I had the sewing machines repositioned and the folded-up MH School up where they used to be. At
first, I wasn’t sure the table was gonna be big enough for it, but I lucked out
and have just enough space. Yaay !
So I grabbed
the never-opened plastic bags that held the larger props and started putting
them together. The picnic table was very similar to the one that came with the
Barbie ‘Manhattan International School’, part of the Generation Girl line, but
this one had a ‘woodgrain’ pattern embossed in the ‘wood’ part, complete with a
carved ‘DG + CdN’ heart at one corner of the tabletop. Squeee ! The desks are
like nothing I’ve ever seen, and fit together only one way. Well, they’ll fit
together ‘wrong’ but it soon shows that that little tab should fit in a slot,
like it does on the other side…oh, I used the wrong side piece here. Luckily, I
tend to keep things a bit loose ‘til I’m sure I got it right ! Wish it came
with two more desks and another set of bleachers, though.
This is gonna
sound so stupid, but I had a good hour of playing with the school without dolls
at all. I reinstalled the fragile staircase, put up the cobwebby things – had to
look at my box photos to see where they went ! – and placed everything, noting
the little details and tiny treats. Still don’t want the skullie ‘disco ball’
and the pink pumpkins, or the sticker sheet, though. From what I can tell, no
one’s ever sold those, so I’ll probably be lucky to get a dollar for ‘em. But
it’ll be fun to try !
Oh ! Duck is back ! Later, lovelies !
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