Oh, Catrine....

Current Mood : Oddly pleased. 

It’s confirmed – I hate m’self. (sigh) I can’t believe I did that, but I still have no regrets. Got to go to TRU today, but despite a green sticker with ‘2/25’ written on nearly all the shelf-talker price stickers in front of bare shelves, they didn’t have squat that I was looking for. Ah, well. The only real disappointment is how used to that I am. They’re expecting a truck Thursday, and the manager said to drop her name if whoever I speak with (at around 11am) refuses to hold what I want for me. So that was nice of them.

From there, we hit the Mal-Wart nearby…where I saw similar bare shelves. Was giving serious consideration to Frankie’s Deluxe Fashion Pack when a flash of purple and white caught my eye. Yup. Catrine DeMew. Four of them, hiding behind a short wave of Dot Dead Gorgeous Lagoonas. (sigh)

I didn’t want Catrine. I’m tired of jumping through hoops, calling stores and chasing down dolls. I’m tired of being frustrated and hoping the latest line doesn’t sell out before I can get one – or the next line comes out. And I am monumentally sick of that stupid ‘race to that section before someone else buys the last one’ mentality I have to fight with every time I enter a store that sells toys. I don’t like feeling that way, and I kinda shoved it all onto Catrine, since she was the one I couldn’t find recently.

But here she was, in quadruplicate, without phonecalls or running around. I’d basically given up on her and moved on. Yet I still found m’self lining up all four – on the blank sections of shelf – and I’d barely stepped back when one seemed to ask ‘Please ?’.

You know what a sucker I am for cats. Especially when one seems to need me, I’m a pile of tuna-sharing gelatin. I had no idea the same was true for plastic ones. (sigh) As you already know from the photo, that one came home with us. Clearly, I hate m’self. I’d even bought her outfit already, so I wouldn’t buy her. Arrrgh.

I was still wrestling with my little self-drama when we stopped for lunch. Wasn’t very hungry, so I just got a Mighty Kids meal. Ever since BIL’s family was able to use a Ronald McDonald house, we like to support them with kid meal purchases when we can. Inside was a small pink Barbie doll – a ballerina that twirled on a stand. So I got a doll I didn’t want to want and a Barbie on the same day.

Tangentially, I had to look up an older doll photo, and found where I’d saved the first promo photos of Catrine. Dated July 14^th. Over seven months. It really doesn’t seem that long ago. I guess it was inevitable. I kinda fear what’s gonna happen when Headmistress Bloodgood comes to TRU – I’ve wanted her just as long, and she’s not due out for a couple months yet !