Alien Prober And Skeleboner

 In Real Time its Irrigation Day and the Day before Princess T's 21st Birthday, she has to Work that Day tho', so we're Celebrating Today instead and picking out her Pressies. The Son lifted the Gates before he left for Work so Princess T and I only need to start the Pump once the Ditch is full and then drop the Gates after our Rotation is over.  Rob helped The Son with our Yardwork coz our Weed Whacker is on the fritz and I don't have enuf Saved right now to Buy another Commercial Grade one.  You can't have a cheap one with this much Acreage or it won't last.  Rob used his and did all the Edging until he ran out of Gas for it, so 90% got done of the Edging after The Son did everything else in preparation for getting our Irrigation.  I helped bag up the cut Grass.  

There's times I think about going around to Neighbors who have Goats and Llamas and asking them if they would like to get all the Grass cuttings for their Livestock to eat?  But I never see anyone outside to ask them, I might this Week only becoz I don't want the bags of cut Grass sitting around until the Bulk Garbage Pickup which won't be 'til the 1st Monday of October.  And why waste it if Livestock would benefit from eating it instead of it going to a Landfill?  I have about Seven Jumbo Garbage Bags full of fresh cut Grass.  Anyway, it would also be a good way to get to know Neighbors in the Community I don't already know or have met too.

The Niece is now saying she might move out by November rather than December.  I think she is anxious and excited to get her own place now she's found something she can afford.  She already got a Storage Unit for her stuff and a Gym Membership to go take Showers at so she's not running up Costs and using up Hot Water for us, being so many live here.  I appreciate that consideration, coz sometimes if you're not the 1st or 2nd... or even the 3rd person in the Shower, you need to wait a bit to ensure you're getting Hot Water or at least nice Warm Water and not taking a Cold Shower.  *LOL*  Allen will be here by end of the Week, after The Young Prince has his Psychiatric Evaluation by the Social Security Shrink on Thursday.

They plan to spend the rest of September in New Mexico and then the Lease is up on the House Allen has been Renting there and he can then move to Arizona again.  Then he and I, will likely Share the Caregiving of The Young Prince, which will perhaps make things work out better for all of us concerned?  I don't know they're going to go thru with a Divorce if they can work things out that will be doable and not overwhelming?  We'll see, at least he's giving it a shot to try to become a Caregiver, but, since he has to Work, since his VA Disability won't Support them, he cannot be a Full Time Unpaid Caregiver yet, if at all.  It is hard for Families that need one and receive no Salary from anywhere in order to do it for a Loved One. 

 I gave up a prosperous Career and my Benefits, dumping even 60% of my Pension in order to do the Full Time Unpaid Caregiving.  Not everyone can make that much of a Financial Sacrifice, coz it does Negatively impact your Family, Lifestyle, and Quality of Life, to Sacrifice that much of your Earnings, Pension and Benefits for a Lifetime.  Becoz it is a Lifetime commitment when you have a Disabled Loved One requiring Full Time Caregiving for a condition that won't improve or has no Cure.  Either the Caregiver Dies or the Loved One Dies, that's the only way it ever Ends.  So there are no "Happy Endings" to it, none whatsoever.  So, if you at least received an Income from doing it, that would be ever so Helpful and perhaps more Loved Ones would and could then do it.  Coz it would stil be Sacrificial and not for the Faint of Heart.

Anyway, if Allen gets Approved for the remaining 25% of his VA Disability, and go from 75% Status to 100% Disabled Veteran Status, then he'd have more Options.  And IF The Young Prince gets Approved for his SSI Disability Status, then they could actually make it on their own without my Assistance, or less of my Assistance anyway.  Since I don't Plan on becoming an Immortal, that's important for me to have a Peace about for the long run and their Future when I'm Gone.  Serious Mental Illness has no known Cure and I don't even think they're working on any Cures, so, it's for a Lifetime to those Afflicted.  And The System, as it stands, is woefully inadequate and even negligent and dysfunctional in providing the level of Care necessary and needed.  Whatever is available is parsed out sparingly so, or, not at all and Denied.  So, I am Hoping for a Positive Outcome for them both.

Allen works very hard in spite of significant impairment from Disability.  But he really struggles and he doesn't have anybody since his Family aren't tight knit and they've had a very difficult Relationship with one another.  He has a much better Relationship with his Grandparents than with his Parents and it's my understanding he spent more of his Childhood with the Grandparents, who The Young Prince said are very Nice people.  I liked the Grandpa when I met him, he's sympathetic to having a Grandson with Disabilities and more accepting of who Allen just is, Loving him unconditionally and without Judgment, Pious Condemnation, or Self-Righteousness, which, is never Pretty. 

 The Parents, I liked them, but I think he overwhelms their capacity to Love him unconditionally and accept him as he is.  With his Mom being a Doctor, and even Teaching Medicine, I think she is totally Aware of his Condition... and not having a "Cure" can be a bitter Pill to swallow, even if you're not in the Medical Profession.  When you can't make your Child be Well, or there is no Cures, it's Emotionally rough.  And for the Fundamentalist Religious, having a Gay Child goes against the Doctrine they're Taught within Extremist Religions.

I remember Comedian Wanda Sykes saying it was harder to be Gay than to be Black, coz she didn't have to Come Out being Black.  That spoke Volumes right there!!!  And then she said when she Came Out to her ultra Religious Parents their response was, Oh, NO, Lord, why couldn't she just have it be Cancer!?  Yeah, OMG, can you only Imagine a Parent saying THAT!!!  Or thinking it would have been preferable for their Child to have a horrible potentially Terminal Disease and Dying horribly, rather than just being Born Gay!!!!!!!!!!!!!   I cannot even Wrap my Head around that Sick Mindset, it's so abhorrent, insensitive, inhumane and Cruel to me!  Not to mention not at all "Godly" or Unconditionally Loving, as Jesus would have it for us to Love one another, if we're truly Walking In Christ's Teachings, as a Positive Witness to Christianity, in my humble Opinion.  I consider it Bad and Extremist Leaning Religion, not a Relationship with God whatsoever.  Just a form and a fashion of Religion.  It's like I've always said, instead of Fearing the Witches, folks should have been Fearing those that would Burn another Human Being Alive in the Name of whatever Religion they Practiced!

Anyway, so Allen is once again estranged from his Family, mostly becoz he isn't going thru with the Divorce and is still preferring to have a Husband rather than a Wife.  He can't change who and how he is, he's tried, it doesn't Work for him and he wouldn't be Living his Authentic Self, but trying to be who he is not to please other people and conform to their Opinions and preferred Lifestyle.   Rather than his own, which, would be Mentally unhealthy and miserable in my Opinion, to stay in a Closet just to be accepted by your own Family and pretend to be Straight when you're not.  Clearly the Praying The Gay Away did not Work... coz, that's not how it fucking Works!!!   Such ignorance and misunderstanding, along with biased Judgment, really Frosts me. *Eye Roll*  No Wonder Gay Children and Adults have a higher rate of Suicide and can't endure such persecution and prejudices by Society.

Anyway, so, by end of Week we'll have one more here for a little while, which is fine coz Allen was helping The Young Prince clean up his Space so that I didn't have to.  To keep it Sanitary and Safe, I'd told Allen it was problematic and Too Much for me to Manage solo.  So his Mom had tried to help me with it, but she struggles with keeping her own Space Clean and Sanitary for exactly the same reasons, same Illness, same Manifestations of it.   And Princess T and The Son can't handle it, too upsetting to them both... and of coarse The Man can't, wouldn't even be Safe for him to try.  Allen I know can wade thru it more effectively and efficiently than I can if things have unraveled in there... which, they do on The Regular.  The other Day he came to the Door, peeking out at me saying he was Naked so I couldn't come in, he was wearing Bunny Ears... I guess nothing but Bunny Ears and Makeup... I didn't even ask... you have to possess a Dark Sense of Humor about it all.  *Bwahahahaha* 

The Son was joking, well, mebbe he was updating his _________ Page... which I won't mention here, lest it snag an Algorithm I definitely don't want hitting my Feeds or attracting who it might!?  *LMAOROTF*  And, The Son could be Right... there's some things best left unsaid and I don't really wanna Know.  *LOL*   Rob is helping me with Irrigation, he's very Helpful like that and doesn't ask for anything in return.  I often loan him things and they often loan us things so that we don't have to Buy everything if one of us has what the other Family needs to borrow.  That's what I like about this Community, they Work together to help one another out, most of them, especially the ones who've lived here the longest and become Tight Knit.  Some of the Newbies aren't that way, but perhaps they'll Learn to be that way when they see it's a preferable way of Being???  You can only Hope so.  Some of the Newbies don't have the Pride of Ownership they should have for Properties this expensive.  Mostly coz they come from higher Cost of Living States where these Properties would be considered a Bargain.

So, the Demographic that is Migrating is not necessarily the Best of what's coming from those States either.  It's the folks that couldn't afford to Live there anymore and perhaps they had no Pride of Ownership there either I highly suspect?  But, they made enuf off Selling a shittier piece of Real Estate there, that they could afford to Buy Luxury Real Estate here and not change their bad Habits.  That's my speculation anyway, coz I don't know why you'd otherwise Buy a piece of Real Estate close to or exceeding a Million Dollars and not take Care of it?   A Friend of mine was saying she'd rather they Deport the people coming from California and the East Coast than to be deporting Immigrants, coz the Migration of Americans from High Cost of Living States is what's fucking up Arizona most for the rest of us.  *LMAO*  She's not entirely Wrong.  But, it was Funny in a Dark Gallow's Humor kinda way.

Anyway, I have the Wild Duck Pair again floating on our Irrigation Waters like it's a Pond.  This one Duck Couple, Male with his Mate, goes from Property to Property doing that, it's hilarious, they've found a good thing.  I like seeing them float by as I'm doing the Irrigation, they're kind of used to People since they hang out in our Subdivision of Mini Farms, a Solitary Duck Couple that decided to take up permanent Residency here.  *Smiles*  They get plenty to eat and so are quite content going from Mini Farm to whatever Mini Farm next gets the Irrigation Waters.  We'll be done with Irrigation around 11:00 a.m. and then I'm taking Princess T to The Mall to do her 21st Birthday Shopping while I still have Money.  *Winks*  I'll let her decide if she wants Cake or not, she doesn't do not like Ice-Cream coz she's Lactose intolerant.

She wants to find a "Spirit Halloween" Store that is better than the Small one nearby which had a disappointing Display and not much in the way of Inventory we'd be interested in.  I'll get ready only after I finish Irrigation coz I don't wanna get soaked and have to change Three times this Morning, I'll do it in my Jammies 'til it's done and then Shower and change.  *Smiles*   Well, Rob just dropped the Gates for us, Bless him, so all I have to do is unplug the Pump to the Front and Side Yard when it's both full, they don't get Gravity Feeds like the rest of the Property, I wish they did, it would be easier and cost less every time the Pump goes out, and distribute Water faster too.  When they Suspend Irrigation for the Winter, Rob and Jason, his Cousin, both wanna change our Gates to face into the Property to be able to lift and drop them easier and mebbe figure out a more efficient Feed to the Front and East Side Yard too?  As we're all getting Older, Rob said we need to streamline our Irrigation as much as we can while we're still able Bodied enuf to.  He's only slightly Younger than me and their Parents are in their 80's.

Above is one of my Nieces with her Mini Me... her Youngest looks exactly like she did at that Age, it's like she Cloned her.  *LOL*  Her other Two, the Older Daughter and the Younger Son, look more like their Daddy.   Below is Friend Aliyah on the last Day of the Halloween Event at "Sweet Salvage".  I don't know how the last couple days went, hopefully Stronger Sales and better turnout than the 1st Two Days where they didn't have any Social Media Advertising?  I felt badly for the Team coz they'd put so much hard Work into it and this is supposed to be their best Event of the whole Year, only the Christmas Event in November usually comes close to rivaling it.  Since other Halloween Events were Killin' it, I have to attribute it to their lack of putting anything out there to entice attendance and incentivize folks to turn out and make it a Destination.  You do have to remind people in advance for them to show up or even know what you're doing and when.

Princess T and I are going to a smaller Mall nearby rather than the larger one further away, which Surprised me, I'd thought she'd choose Arrowhead Mall over Desert Sky Mall.   I don't mind coz the one we're going to is One Level rather than Two Levels and less to traipse around on hard flooring that ends up hurting my Hips.  A lot of Mall Walkers do it for Exercise, but I find that their Flooring makes me hurt more than Walking on any other type of Ground.   And I'm not big on Malls now, they Closed most of those I enjoyed going to and had the types of Shops I'd actually Buy from.   Now the Specialty Stores tend to be prolific at Mall for Urban Youth Clientele, Tennis Shoe Stores, Baseball Style Hat Stores, Urban Fashion for Young People that you see Hip Hop and Rap Artists sporting.  Even Princess T doesn't Buy those kinds of Fashions or wanna look like that and I'd look ridiculous and don't wanna look like that either anyway even if I was still Young.  *LOL*

Now, this ensemble that my Friend Carol was Selling at the Event, I Loved everything about it all and would wear it if it came in my Size, which, it didn't.  It's for the Slender Woman like Carol is and tends to run Small.  Even some Pants I did Buy a few Shows ago I had to give to the Daughter coz tho' it said One Size Fits All... Nope, they don't.  I could squeeze them on but it wasn't comfortable and would rip the Seams if I bent or squatted or sat!   Rather than return them I just gave them to The Daughter to wear, but I was really disappointed and should have tried them on before Buying them rather than Trust the Sizing and what it claimed, but was inaccurate.   These Fashions at full Retail are too expensive NOT to fit properly.  Love this Look tho' and would totally wear it, the Snowflake Fossil Votivo Silver Necklace looked great with it too that my Friend Cyndie was Selling.  Tempting not to Buy it actually, but I Resisted Buying Jewelry coz I knew I have to indulge my Granddaughter on her Milestone 21st Birthday.  Can't do both.

 

We're still waiting on the Pump to get enuf Water into the very Front Yard and East Side Yard before unplugging it... it's pumping slowly, but then it always does even with a strong Pump, the distribution is slower than a Gravity Feed, which is pretty rapid and much more efficient and effective.   Whoever Designed the Irrigation for this Property didn't do it as we would have done it and re-doing it is gonna cost and be a lot of Labor, so if we didn't have Friends/Neighbors willing to tackle that, it probably would never get done to improve it and change the way it is.  I'd also prefer cementing the Irrigation Ditch, not covering it, just cementing the Ground so Weeds don't grow and it would be easier to Maintain and not have Water loss by seeping into the Ground and being muddy and slippery.  

 Our Ditch is way deeper and wider than most tho', and it runs behind our Property and the Neighbor we Share it with that lives directly behind us.  Some Properties don't Share a Ditch with a Neighbor and have very shallow narrow Irrigation Ditches for distribution, either in their Front Yard or Side Yard Streetside if they're on a Corner Lot, so I'm glad we have a big deep one instead.   Our new Neighbor behind us, Manuel, is Younger, probably the Age of my Older Grandkids, so he's capable of his end of the Maintenance, tho' we usually are the ones doing it coz Rob and The Son don't wanna rely on someone else to get it done Right or not get it done in time for the Water to come.  You can't have Debris or Weeds growing thick in it or it hinders distribution and clogs things badly.  As it is we sometimes have Neighbors Upstream who slack on that and then Debris flows Downstream and cocks things up for all of us Downstream of them, causing Work we shouldn't have coz they were either Negligent or Lazy, mebbe both.  It's irresponsible, but, some folks aren't all that responsible, it happens.

I'll probably take Princess T out for Lunch as part of her Birthday Celebration while we're having this Birthday Girl's Day Out Bash to get her Pressies and enjoy ourselves.   Her Grandpa will have to Celebrate at Home with mebbe something Simple like Cake, coz he can't Walk far and taking that Show on the Road means we would have to be in Caregiver Mode and not Birthday Celebration Mode making it all about her and not all about taking Care of his Needs.  So, I'm leaving him Home with The Young Prince until The Son gets Home from Work around Noon or 1:00 p.m..   The Niece is at some Job Interview, she's got a Job she took, but a better offer presented itself for a Remote Job where she doesn't have to commute and pays better, so she's applying for it and the 1st Interview went so well they're sending her to a 2nd one, which seems Promising. 

 Her New Employer won't be Happy and she could be burning that Bridge behind her... and I do Hope she's making the Right decision?   The Job she now has she knows everyone, has worked there before, and has good Benefits... she's made poor choices in the past of who to work FOR.  So, this new Offer could be iffy???  I dunno.  Sometimes when something seems too good to be True, it's becoz it is.   Who you're Working for matters... and I'd just move cautiously with any Company I didn't know or I'd never Worked for before.  Anyway, she's Grown, her decision to make, she could afford to live in a better area if she gets this Job so I don't blame her for wanting Quality of Life too if she's gonna be doing Work that should be well compensated for.   And Computer Programming and Designing for Companies is so iffy right now overall, that none of them knows when AI will completely eliminate what they do anyway. 

 So, get yours while there's still some left seems to be the best tactic really in case it all implodes for Humans and displaces them all.  The Great Fuckening is already in high gear and happening with no pumpking of the Brakes so far.  There might not even be any Brakes to actually Stop it now, we just aren't sure and don't know.   I know some Jobs haven't worked out for her so I Hope at least One of these does, coz she's had lengthy Unemployment Periods between Jobs even with all the Skill and Experience she has.  It's why she ended up Homeless and Broke... and a lot of folks may find themselves in that Situation when AI replaces and displaces 40%-60% of the Workforce within possibly less than 2 Years.  That's a lot of Unemployment, Lack and Desperation Society will be facing then.   It could collapse an Economy.   If more than half your Population has no way to Earn a Living anymore, shit will collapse, it's not sustainable.   Fewer will be paying into a System already on the brink of Bankruptcy.

  And to Survive, things will get hairy fast.  No wonder the Elite are Doomsday Prepping and Buying Bunkers.  They can Run but I don't think they can Hide for long enuf frankly.  Especially since most of them are the Cause of what will happen.  LATER:  Well, I had to schlep everything I'd put out for Big Kenny to look at away coz a Storm is rolling in and he never contacted me yet.  He'd said he'd call on Monday and a lot of the items needed to be inside, not outside.  So, that was a lot of Work for nothing, but, whatever, if he doesn't Call this Week I'll just tell him I Sold what I was ready to let go of and just put it in the Showroom instead.   I don't Care who I Sell it to and for Full Price always beats Selling it for Picker Price to a Friend as a Favor.  Now that I'm mostly left with Smalls to Turn, I'm in no big hurry to unload things that were large and I had no room for in my Antique Mall Spaces.  That's what I typically Sold to Industry folks and freed up Storage Space and not having to transport it or hire someone to move it for me.

So, anyway, I found an Unpublished Post languishing without a Publication Date, forgot I even had it so set it up to Post on The Daughter's 45th Birthday on the 14th of October.  I rarely forget to finish a Post but for some reason that one slipped thru the Cracks.  I don't know it was finished, but it was long enuf to just Stop and give it a Publication Date.  *Smiles*  I didn't wanna delete it coz it was loaded with Imagery and the content was still worth putting out here.  It will just probably be out of sequential order coz I don't know when I even Wrote it?  A Mystery of a Forgotten Post.  I did take Princess T out for her Birthday and then found out she did get her Birthday Off at Work after all, which is great, she has Plans with her Boyfriend to go on a Shopping Spree!  I thought he'd already spent all his Money on her, Guess not?  *Bwahahahaha* 

She didn't have me spend that much on her, she knew expenses have been so high for me, so was considerate and spent more on herself than I spent on her, but we had a Big Time at The Mall.  I took her to a really good "Spirit Halloween" Store that was on the way, it Rocked and had their usual big Display, this Year it was a Horror Summer Camp Theme.  We probably spent as much time there taking Pixs as we did visiting The Mall, where we hardly went in any of the Stores, but Bought her Anime Figurines from the Asian Kiosks Machines they Sell them at mostly.  I bought her Two of them, she bought herself a slew of them.  *LOL*  I took her to "Wildflower Bread Company" for Lunch.  We didn't Buy anything at Spirit Store, even tho' we had a 20% Off Coupon.  I only Bought some Halloween Metal Cute Characters Earrings at "Hot Topic" for myself, called The Animals have gone Mad... all Six of them for only $10 with my Military Discount!!!  Wow!

Princess T took a bunch of Pixs of me, I should have moved slightly, huh?  *LOL*  I'm not usually in front of the Lens so I stood there like a Stone Statue, frozen in Time.  *Ha ha ha*  Without even the Swamp Monster behind me being activated eliciting a response.  *Smiles*  We had such a good time there tho' and Surprisingly they weren't busy at all and weren't having any Sales either, that's not a good Omen, usually their Stores are packed!  This one had good Merchandise, just not anything we were ready to invest in coz their pricing had gone way up from last Year.  Likely a direct result of Tariff bullshit Negatively impacting all that is being Imported and made or grown outside of the Country, which, is damned near everything!!!  Example, the one thing I would have considered Buying is another Novelty Halloween Cross Body Bag, I've gotten one every Year... but this Year, Sixty Bucks... nah uh, that's Crazy compared to previous Years for a similar item.

So, No, I did not Buy the Ghost Face Cross Body Popcorn Bag at Sixty Bucks, even with a 20% Off incentive.   Coz that's almost Double what they Cost last Season.  Even tho' we made no purchases we enjoyed ourselves taking loads of Pixs and walking around beholding all the Halloween Offerings.  We noticed that for a 2nd Year in a row their offerings for Dia de los Muertos were pitiful and scant.  A Surprise and missed opportunity since it is Celebrated here in Arizona strongly and I'd imagine they'd Sell a lot of it.  But, perhaps not Nationally, and it is a National Chain.   We were Surprised at the Naughty Costume Section, which was risque' and huge!  We had a lot of Fun with that as you can see by Princess T Modeling some of it Below and Joking, it almost seems like we're in a Sex Shoppe Gramma... *LOL*!  I don't remember their Costumes ever being this Edgy either and wonder how many will be Buying them?  *Smiles*

There did seem to be quite a bit of Phallic Obsession going on with the Costumes this Year.  Down to the Knees I might add and over 8" Obsession... Princess T asking me, do they even make Condoms in XXL? *Bwahahahahaha*   Anyway, we had a lot of Naughty inappropriate Fun in that section of the Costume Department.   And the Names of some of the Costumes was Naughtily Clever... "Alien Prober" and "Skeleboner"! *Ha haha*  I felt bad for the one Employee working there at the Registers, she looked Bored out of her Mind and probably expected more interaction than was present.  It was a nice Store in a good location, so I Hope it picks up for them as Halloween gets closer?  Tho' people are Buying for the Holidays well in advance now and with Inventory being lower than usual, even if Pricing is higher than usual, I think they might just Sell Out of a lot of things if you don't get yours early on?

I watched "Halloween Baking Championship" and they had back to back Episodes, which was unexpected and enjoyed.  What Surprised me is how much Prize Money can be Won by the Winner this Year and they have $1,000 Bonus Wins for each Challenge for that Winner too.  The Winner this Year gets $35,000 all to themselves.  By contrast and comparison a whole Team of Three on "Halloween Wars" only gets $30,000 to split between them!  So, either they're Cheaping Out with their Contestants, who have much harder Challenges and higher Expectations for Excellence IMO and have to put out bigger more elaborate Creations of a higher Calibre, or, the other Show has a bigger Budget or better Sponsors, I dunno?   I like both Shows, the Baking Championship one I watch more for the Halloween Costumes of the Judges, which are Spectacular, than for the Quality of the Bakes and Decorating, which, can be more Amateurish IMO than with "Halloween Wars".

I was Surprised that Carla Hall didn't come back as a Judge for the 2026 Season of it, and was replaced by Aarti Sequeira.   I liked Carla as a Judge, she's hilarious, Aarti is more Serious and subdued in Personality.   I miss Carla already, tho' they've made some Cute Costumes for Aarti and she's a competent Judge.   And, of coarse there will be much, much more Visuals of the Season in Future Posts coz now I'm loaded up with fabulous Imagery and most of it turned out Okay... tho' some didn't and that was disappointing.   At The Mall both Gals and Guys were approaching Princess T and telling her how much they Loved how she looked, she never knows how to respond to random compliments from complete Strangers coming up and gushing flattery like that, it makes her a bit uncomfortable even tho' it's complimentary, coz she's not at all Social.  *Smiles*  The Guys mostly come up if they don't know I'm with her, so she said I'm like her Force Field Shield to keep Rando Males from approaching her.  It's always Surprising how many Rando Females do tho'.

She was out of her comfort Zone wearing Yellow, but her Bag is Yellow and she wanted to compliment it so had a Pale Yellow long Sleeve Shirt on.   She has the Right complexion to pull off Yellow or Purple, I'm too Sallow in a Ruddy High Yellow Complexion way with my Skin Tone, so they're both Colors I have to avoid wearing or I look Jaundiced.  *LOL*  I'm not opposed to that Color Palette but it's not for me and I don't look good in it.  She's rarely owned anything Yellow so wasn't sure if it suited her, but she got loads of compliments wearing it, even tho' it was a Simple ensemble and she didn't spend much time getting ready to go out.

I wanted her Pixs with her Gifts to turn out and sadly they didn't, I have no idea why either?   Out of focus and not good quality or flattering and there was no cleaning it up with Photo Editing either.   These were just some of the best of the worst... Le Sigh.  She got a lot of these little Dimoo Characters from the Japanese Kiosks at The Mall.  They're all Blind Boxes, which, I don't like that but the Kids seem to dig it and the Surprise of it even tho' for the Price, you don't always get what you really wanted and can end up with duplicates while trying to Score a favorite one.  Brilliant Marketing Strategy for the Sellers, kinda a rip-off for the Buyers IMO.  She did get several she liked tho'.  But she did end up with one duplicate, Luckily it wasn't one I got for her in the Blind Boxes I covered the cost of.  *Whew*   I like the Pop Mart Hirono Figures best, I think they're Cuter and more worth the Money.  Better Pixs of some of what Characters she got are pictured Below... along with Pixs of the whole of a Series if you were to Collect each they put out:

See, I would totally Cheat and Buy specific ones I know she wants off some of the E-Bay Listings with a Buy-It-Now sure thing Feature to avoid having to Bid against anyone either.  *LOL and Winks*  But, she wanted me to go with her to a Kiosk instead, Blind Box Surprise and have the Fun of opening them and being disappointed with some of what she got.  *LOL and Sighs*  I do not see the Appeal of getting a duplicate or a figure you're not so crazy about adding to your Collection.  I'd want the ones I wanted most if I'm Investing in a Collection, that's where we differ.  *Smiles*  She was fortunate that MOST of what she got she was Happy/Delighted with... only One duplicate *Whew* tho' it's at least a Cute duplicate... and one that neither of us was that Crazy about her getting... ah well.  She doesn't know I went to E-Bay and ordered a Lot of 5 she'd Jonesed for.   Shush, our Secret.  *Winks*  She won't Care that Gramma Cheated when she gets a whole Set with zero disappointments in it.  *LOL*   I waffled on getting a Lot with 20 in it coz I wasn't as thrilled with the Selection... quality versus quantity... I went with the quality of the figures being better ones.

 

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Happy Halloween from the Arizona Desert... Dawn... The Bohemian