Close - up of Kuma

Close - up of Kuma
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I like how this little doll or keychain depending on how you look at it looks as if he/she is part of the DollyBird 14 craft book by using the outer cover as a piece of paper that lays over Kuma's box. I have now just ordered four other kuma's through ebay and Mimiwoo. She has two other keychains that I would like to add one is a green Kuma and one is a white Kuma and the whte Kuma has hair like this little fellow, but I don't want to spend anymore money right now as I may just want to go to effiethedal's new living quarters down in California since she is only out here for about a year. I know she will be coming to stay with me and is going to be at BlytheCon 2011, yet it just isn't the same as when you visit the other person especially one that exists where it will be warm through winter and close only a few blocks to the beach something that I so miss living here as both in Chicago and in Vancouver I could quite quickly get to water that you could not see the other side of...here there are no really great swim spots plus the river is so polluted.
I also went ahead and ordered some of the new petite blythe made by hasbro in the states, well not exactly petite blythe in the Japanese sense as they are called Littlest petshop Blythe loves Littlest petshop and while the eyes do not close like the petites made by takara in Japan, the head tilts 4 different ways and her legs seem to be made well I have heard from Supernenek. I love that Supernenek added me to the group without even knowing that I had ordered not just one, but two. I should get my first two hasbro blythes on Tuesday then perhaps I will purchase one more or several more depending on how I like them.

Alligators, Frog Legs and Dragon Tatoos!

Went to a birthday last night at Montage.  Yes there was alligator to eat, oh and there were frog legs on the menu that I haven't had since I was a child.  I saw catfish listed too - a little more mainstream.  The singles in our group ended up at the table of 16.  While those of us married ended up at a table of 6 all down the same line or row.  Yes we were a group of 20!  Those of us at the table of 6, at least the women, all ordered the same thing the special Coho Salmon which was not as exciting as the other Cajun items on the menu such as even a Jambalya.  What has happened in my old age that I no longer eat the more interesting and adventuresome items on the menu?  I went to take photos of the event with my iPhone only to find out that it was dead.  So for this blog no photos...which is too bad as later the leftovers turned into various creatures and items out of tin foil to take home.  I had an island another had a flower, there was a raptor or a dragon depending on whose eyes you were looking through...oh and finally a standard swan.

The food wrapped up in foil reminded me of the restaurants that use to do the same thing back in Chicago, at least the good ones - supposedly!  it also reminded me of how I use to wrap Christmas presents in my first marriage and even early on in my present marriage.  I would use tin foil rather than wrapping paper and I created animals and one time even a two foot fountain gushing with water of tin foil keeping the tiny present a secret until the holiday it was for, be it Hanukkah or Christmas.  I was also reminded of the Doctor Oz show that I watched earlier that often the Special in a restaurant is actually the item they want to push as it is near it's end.  I could only think that at least I was living in a place where the fish had not been contaminated by oil and a river though polluted probably not as polluted at the moment as the Mississippi, so hopefully the fish was better than the other items; however, I was disappointed as the fish was overcooked, only when I got to the center did it taste properly done.

Montage is noisy and not for conversation, but I did have a good time with the people I was with...I was entertained even if I was not adventuresome this time.  Another time I will have the alligator there and perhaps it will be properly done in the future.  No more specials for me at Montage.

All these thoughts bring me to the book and to the movie, 'Eat, Pray and Love'.  I have only skimmed the book and need to read it now before I go see the movie with one of my good friends from my midwife group.  Should be good, yet I haven't heard the review of the movie yet.  Sounds like a nice fantasy for those of us married and with children.

Looking in at hubby reading on the iPad.

Another book that I have wanted to read like everyone else is 'The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo'.  I wanted to buy all 3 books at Costco, but hubby said we could only afford 2 and after all my doll purchases that is probably true.  He started to read the books right away after I suggested them and now has downloaded the third one on his iPad that I gave him for our anniversary.  Which anniversary I cannot remember I think around the Twenty Third, but I wanted to return the favor from a year or two ago when Hubby gave me the iPhone 3GS.  Yes, at some point I will upgrade and give him my iPhone 3GS, but I will wait until the iPhone 4 has been improved...maybe by the time I get a new iPhone it will be the iPhone 6 or 7 who knows.  I only know I want to see the original foreign film of 'The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo' and not the Hollywood version.  First I need to read the books like everyone else is doing this summer.

Hubby reading while on iPad.

It appears when I read the third book on the iPad that it could be downloaded like a Kindle or an eBook.  I do not know what system Hubby used on the iPad, but he can use more than one.  Pretty exciting I think.