Falling Down Yet Another Rabbit Hole

 

So, Eli must have overheard me talking about Photographing Cute Puppies at Work Tuesday Night and gushing about them?   And so now he was wanting his own Photo Shoot, super Rare for him!!!  *Insert Shocked Face of his Human Photographer WTF?!*  See, I'm Cute too... I'll even be Mardi and stick my Tongue out... how Cute is THAT?!  *Bwahahaha, not Typical at all for Eli!  But yeah, pretty Cute!*

And I'm even cooperating and giving good Face, just like that Bitch Puppy you were speaking so highly of!!!  *LMAOROTF*

I'll even roll over and give you the other Side, I simply don't have a Bad Side... see!!!  Handsome and Cute from any angle I am!!!  *Winks, he literally did Wink at me with his Left Eye!!!*

Well, now you're just Boring me Human, go away now and stop it!!!  *LOL*

I'm not kidding, see, I'm looking out the Window now and ignoring you!  *Smiles*

What!!!  You're still here??!??!  You've been Dismissed already, don't Test me!!!  It's so hard to get Good Help these days!!!  My Staff is very Annoying... and OLD!!!   Mebbe I have to Look at her Louder and Harder?!?   *Insert Feline Resting Cat Bastard Face*

Well, Okay, if you stand way over there I'll give you one last Shot of me gazing at my Tree.   Now just take Pixs of how my Human did our Tree... well, MY Tree, she just Thinks it's hers or ours!  *LOL*

It is a very nice Tree.  With Cute Ornamentation that matched our Bedspread and has Cute Kitties, like me, only not as Cute as me... coz, we're Hello Kitty Obsessed, both of us!!!  *Winks*   The Tree Decor needs no Words so here we go with it... before my Freefall down MY Rabbit Hole Topic hijacks this Post.  *Smiles and Winks*

So, right now her Room is Hello Kitty on Steroids for Christmas, coz she is a very matchy-matchy Child.  Don't know where she got that from {Eye Roll}, well, of coarse I DO... her Mother was and is Just like that too!!!   But, they definitely didn't get it from Moi coz I like Mismatched better.  In fact, a LOT better and Matchy-Matchy doesn't appeal to me personally at all.  I don't give Two Shits if anything ever matches.  My Mother said I had "Reservation Indian Style" like that, I'd put ANYTHING together, and I had no Rules about Fashion, Art, or Decorating, like my Dad!  *Bwahahahaha*   So, they could have gotten their Matchy-Matchy from either my Mom's side of the Family or their Paternal Sides, I dunno?  *Ha ha ha*

  

Okay, now Buckle Up Buttercups, we're now Free Falling down MY current Rabbit Hole and Obsession that got Triggered by these damned Two Younger Generations of mine!!!  *Le Sigh*  And now they know they've DONE it... and there's no Stopping me now, I'm off and running.  So, it's the current Joke around the House that Telling me NOT so Sell something they wanted to Inherit, has Triggered an OCD Response now.  Oh well...

And when you have OCD you can be easily Triggered to begin another Obsessive Compulsive Freefall down yet another Rabbit Hole without Bottom!!!   The damned Kiddos started this one when they panicked about me Selling Off all the Fiesta Ware I had!  *Oh shit, here we go*  I knew it would Trigger becoz I never fell out of Love with my Collection but had finally Let Go of it... dammit.  Now they wanted it back and I said I'd only take back Cereal/Salad Bowls with a Matching Color Mug.  Okay, now we're off and running and OCD has kicked into high gear, hasn't it?!  I had a lot of matching Mugs/Bowls already, just took them out of Inventory and brought 'em back Home.  Simple, Right?  Wrong!

 

I now had a dilemma that would not Rest in my Head, coz I had some Orphan Mugs and Orphan Bowls that didn't have a match, but were of a different Color.  Some Retired and harder to Source!  Oh no, here we go.  I knew what that meant, The Thrill and Challenge Of The Hunt was ON my Friends!  Could I now Source the missing Mug & missing Bowl for each.  Done Son, didn't take me but a Week... huh, wasn't all that hard or challenging, what Next?  Well, there ARE a lot of Colors you don't have Dawn!  Says that Crazy Woman's Voice in my Head that won't be ignored and gets me into Trouble all the fucking time, like the Devil on your Shoulder fighting the Angel on your other Shoulder!  *Le Sigh*

Okay, so let's Google how many fucking Colors there are shall we Dawn?  Fuck... that's a lot of Colors, luckily I don't Like them all and don't Want them ALL.  *Whew*  Yeah, but some of them would be Nice, huh?  And wouldn't it be Fun to Possess those you DO Like but don't have yet?  Yeah, it would, but, we have a Problem, you're Color Blind and some of them look kinda similar Dawn!  Shit.   Okay, so we may avoid the most similar and concentrate on those you can distinguish, Okay?  Game On.  Downloads now some Imagery Shared here to assess elusive missing Colors she does not have yet. 

  

Flamingo would be nice, Apricot and Lilac too, they're all Retired, so that would be a nice Challenge to Score the Set of those Mug/Bowl Combos, No?   Persimmon and Lemongrass, you don't have those and tho' not Retired, seem harder to Source, so let's Challenge ourself with those too, for a Start, shall we?  I mean, you already have over a Dozen Colors of the Sets, and what if you have a larger Gathering someday?  *Yeah, the Bipolar OCD Mind Works like this my Friends!*  Going deeper and deeper down the Rabbit Hole we go... The Mad Hatter and Cheshire Cat will show up any time now!!!   And unless The Red Queen stops me, there is probably no stopping me now!!!  *Le Sigh*

And they are so Bright and Cheerful, we really NEED that right now, don't we?   And you LOVE Color, and are a Colorful Bunch, aren't ya? Yep.  Uplifting, Colorful, Festive... it'll be a fucking Epic Fiesta when we're using this here Fiesta Ware, Ole'!  *LMAOROTF*  We'll have The Daughter crank up the Mexican Music she listens to and have a Partay!  *LOL... every Song having the Word Corazon in it!  My Spanglish Translation for the Non-Spanish Speakers: Heart-Love-Sweetheart... Smiles*  After Two Decades of living in Mexico and immersing herself completely in the Culture and Language, she Sings along to all the popular Songs and Ballads, belting it out in Tone Deaf Fashion, it's hilarious.  Much like when I Sing The Blues... but then again, anyone can Sing well to The Blues, which is Why it's my all time Fav Genre of Music!

 

But, you simply can't HAVE The Blues when you have Fiesta Ware, now can you?  *Winks*   And The Man has contributed to my delinquency coz now he's having Fun looking for the Missing Colors with me, and he's NOT Color Blind, so that's really Helpful to Yours Truly.   Since Flamingo, Lemongrass and Persimmon look quite similar to some other Colors of the Line.  Tho' Lilac and Apricot should be easier to distinguish, if not to find?  And so, we're off to the Races now in a Thrill Of The Hunt that our Children and Adult Grandchildren are totally responsible for!   And I'm not saying it's their Fault, I'm saying that I'm Blaming them!   And they know now what they Started too!  With their Nostalgic and Sentimental Attachments to my damned Fiesta Ware that I didn't know they even had such fond Memories of and wanted to Inherit! *Bwahahha*

Okay, so I did Sell Off a LOT of it, since, we're only Keeping a scant few Special Pieces of certain Colors that aren't a Mug or Bowl.  But I made it Clear that Mug/Bowl Sets will be the bulk of their Inheritance and I'll have enuf clearly to divvy up between them all when I Die.  Nobody will not have a Mug/Bowl, they can Fight over the Color distribution once I'm Gone.   And have Fiesta Ware Smackdown.  *Winks*  They're Cool with that and I may enlist them in The Hunt, since, they do have Eyes like a Rat and are Good Junquing Bird Dogs for me, always have been.  Once you give them the Scent of what they're looking for, they won't miss it.

I just heard the Craziest thing come out of a Defense Attorney's Mouth on The News as a Defense for their Client being on Trial for Murder of his Wife, whose Body hasn't been yet Found.   Saying:  "He may have Dismembered her but he didn't Kill her."   {WTF?!}  Okay, so let me get this straight then... we don't even have a Body yet, but IF you find one and she's all Cut Up, he's not the one that Killed her, just the one who Cut her Up?!  *LOL*  Like, let's just give the Defendant the Benefit of any Doubt and let's just surmise his Missing Wife Died of Natural Causes, and his response to that would be, well, shit, now I gotta Cut her Up and dispose of her??? 

 Or, somebody else Killed her and he steps up and steps in and says, well, I'll cut her up and dispose of the Body?  Any fucking one of those Scenarios is Crazy as fuck, coz, WHO DOES THAT?!  He's apparently not even countering with a Defense of she's just Missing and not Dead... or, I don't know if she is coz she's Missing and that's all I know!   I spent Years in my 2nd Corporate Life processing Homicide Files of all kinds and I never heard that one used as a Defense for a Murder Charge someone caught and was on Trial for!  So, I couldn't help see the Dark Gallow's Humor of it... tho' perhaps mishandling of a Corpse is gonna perhaps give the Defendant lesser Charges when they do find his Missing Missus... or the parts of her, apparently?  The whole dismemberment part was Curious and Interesting, since, no Body yet... so... who'd know if it's Whole or Parted Out?  Yeah, exactly.

I did Price some Merch to bring in Tonight, including Vintage Trolls, Starbucks Porcelain Tumblers, Disney Collectibles.  This all will Sell well which is why I'm being Curated about which Merch to put in our Spaces for the Holidays.  Crazy Ed and I talked it over during our Shift Last Night, he Specializes in Antiques and Vintage Furniture, Art Glass, Sculptures, Quality Art, and Higher End Collectibles, and that's just not Selling.  He knows that The Granddaughter and I switched up our Business Plan, our Strategy, our Showroom's Design and Vibe, and on what to Sell that Customers are Buying and looking for or Interested in right now.  We just had to, the demographics coming in, I see what they want and what they have no Interest in.  It's mostly a Younger Crowd Shopping there now too.

The Younger Shoppers actually Like our Mall and come most often as repeat Customers.   Most of our Regulars are Young now, the ones that compliment us on our Merch and our Showroom are usually Teens and Young Adults under 40.  They spend the most there as do Parents of Younger Children, that's our main Clientele now.  By far, when I'm Working our Space, I'm Interacting with Shoppers coming into our Room who are the Ages of my Grandkids and Kids, very Seldom anyone Older.  They have more in Common with Princess T and I too, so I don't mind our demographic at all and appealing to them.  I just Wish our Mall did a better job of Stimulating Trade and making it a destination, promoting existing Vendors and doing more for us, like they used to.

As I'm watching The News about these Illegal Boat Strikes off the Coast of Valenzuela and the controversies surrounding it all, which are numerous.  I can't help but think, why is nobody stating the obvious tho', especially the Media when asking Questions at their Press Conferences.  I'm looking at these Drone Strike Videos and thinking to myself, those are pretty small Boats really, with Outboard Motors.  How or why would anyone think they'd be running Major Drugs, in enuf volume even, from the Coast of Valenzuela all he way to the Coast of the United States in such small Vessels?  There wouldn't be enuf Gas to get them even a Quarter of the way there!   I think they'd have to fill up with Gas probably around 20 times to get to America from their place of origin and departure.  I think they're just using these Boats as Target Practice like some sick Video Game... and committing War Crimes.

And recall several Posts ago when I was in the Post Office Buying Stamps and that Karen was holding up the Line so I struck up a conversation with a Tattooed Gal from Da Hood who was from Boston?   Well, she came into our Antique Mall Last Night and I knew by the Tattoos mostly, which are fabulous Black & Grey Religious ones in a whole Sleeve on both Arms, and a Hamsa Hand on her Chest, that I knew her from somewhere.   She recognized me too but couldn't recall where we knew each other from... 'til it finally clicked to me where we'd met and Talked recently.  She was Shocked I recalled everything she'd talked about, including missing the Pizza of Boston, where she's from.  My Memory Care is hit and miss like that.  She had her Two Daughters with her this time and I waited on her... they were Buying Hello Kitty Merch for the Kiddos.

I decided to get those Vintage Pressed Glass Altered Art Mushroom Duo from SAVERS too and not risk waiting until Half Price Day, it was Military Discount Day so I did get a discounted price on them.  They also had Creepy Doll Porcelain Doll Parts in Bagged Lots, Kewpie Dolls, Thumbelina Dolls, and 1950's Looking Infant Baby Dolls.  I'm going to make Halloween Display Jars filled with them and hang some of the Limbs out of the Mouths of my Audrey Plants from "Little Shop Of Horrors".  They had a brand New medium sized Copper Chef square Skillet with Glass Lid too that I got.  The Kids don't like using my Cast Iron Pans, which I use most and they don't know how to properly clean Cast Iron either, so this gives them alternatives they won't ruin with improper Cleaning & Drying.  They're doing most of the Cooking now anyway, so I am Selling Off most of my Cast Iron.  I am now considering that Meadow Color of Fiesta Ware to try to Source a Mug & Bowl of.  It's the Line's 51st Color introduced in 2019.  *LOL*

 We decided to keep our Fisher Price Little People Nativity.  We've Sold Off all the others the Kiddos had when Little People themselves.  They Sell well and have great Margins.  Can't Believe how much this Set is fetching at Resale, Wow!!!  I'm sure I paid under Twenty Bucks for it, they last thru Generations of Kids and are indestructible.  Right now in our Showroom I have the Vintage  Fisher Price Barn & Silo with Livestock Animals {Circa 1960's}, Two Vintage Fisher Price Schoolhouses with the Magnetic Alphabet Letters they came with {Circa Early 1970's}, and the Vintage Fisher Price Castle with Original Queen {Circa Early 1970's}.  I have a lot of Vintage and more recent Fisher Price Little People and Animals I'm Selling Individually. 

Work was slow on Wednesday Night, but we had a good time working together, it's nice when your Friends are on Shift with you.  I didn't have any Sales that whole Day so I think it had been slow all day long.  There were some Young Pokemon Ballers spending as much as $250 on a Box of Pokemon Cards tho'.  They must be living at their Parents House Rent Free?  *LOL*  The Young Tattooed Gal from Boston came in again with her Two Young Daughters.  The Day before had been their first time there and her Kids now Love the place so much they told me it's their new favorite Store and they were spending their own Allowance this Day.  *Smiles*  It was so Cute and since they now knew their Mom knew me from the Post Office first encounter, and now where I Work, you'd think I was those Kid's Surrogate Grandma, they got so excited to see me again.  *Awwwww* 

For some reason Kiddos Connect to me that way, they did to my own Mom and my Maternal Nanna too.  My Mom and Nanna always had a slew of Young Children come Visit them and spend time doing little things for them when they were Old.  The Children of my Adult Kid's Friends tell me their Kids always ask when they're gonna get to visit me again?  *Awwwww*  Most of the time the Adults come to see my Kids, who are their Lifelong Friends, and don't have their Children in tow so that they can have some Me Time sans their Kids.  And they don't want to feel like I have to Entertain small Children, but they do say their Kids look forward to whenever they get to come along and visit with me, which is so Sweet that their Kiddos feel that way.   I don't think I'm THAT much Fun?  *Bwahahahaha*

Okay, so the Obsession with Fiesta Ware continued when I saw, during my Shift, that there was a Cinnabar Color Cereal/Salad Bowl with matching Mug in one Vendor's Space.  And I did pick up that Sage Mug & Bowl too.  There's one more Set I wanna get in Pearl Grey.  I couldn't risk it might Sell coz it's a Retired Color, the Sage.  But, since I'm Color Blind, I did mess up... with a Sea Mist Green Set that I didn't think I already had, but did... so I'll Resell that one coz I am not keeping duplicates.  Even tho' that's a desirable Color so I should have no problem Selling it and for more than I Paid for it... so, no harm, no foul on that mistake.   There are about Four Shades of their Greens that are hard to distinguish for me coz they're close enuf, that if all Four aren't beside each other, I can't tell the difference, and, that's what happened.

You all can probably distinguish some of these, and I can distinguish the very Dark from the very Light Shades.  But the ones close together look too similar if they're standing alone, for me to tell for sure.  Until I put Two different close Shades together to see the subtle difference side by side.  And I was seeking the Lighter Green Shade I knew I didn't have, since now I had the Dark Retired Sage and the Brighter Shamrock and the Sea Mist Greens.  I should just forget about it and figure that's enuf Greens.   Coz Fuck, Light Green, Meadow, Medium Green, Sea Mist and even some of their Turquoise Shades look too similar to me!!!   I mean, that's a lot of fucking Greens to compare, No?   So, I'm crossing Lemongrass off my Seeking List now too coz I can't tell it apart from the Chartreuse I already have!  *LOL*  Such is the OCD Adult's dilemma when Fixated on something and get Obsessed with it!!!  *Winks... Houston, we have a Problem!  LOL*

Other Comparisons of Shades is difficult for me too like the Yellows, Pinks and Oranges of the Line.  {See Below}  I'm not even certain which of some of those Colors I actually have?   I THINK I have a Tangerine Set and a Marigold Set, but, is it Butterscotch?   And is my other Orange Set Poppy or Persimmon... mebbe Mango?  *Shrugs*  I wasn't gonna mess with any of the Fiesta Ware Non-Colors or Neutral ones at all coz the whole point of the Line IMO is Bright Bold Color.  But, when I saw that Pearl Grey Set I did like it a lot.  The other Non-Colors just don't evoke Fiesta to me and misses the Point of Fiesta Ware.  *Smiles*  Now, differentiating the Yellows, impossible for me, so I won't even try to do more Yellow Sets.

Honestly, in that Yellow Lineup Above from Yellow, Sunflower, Daffodil, Marigold, Butterscotch, and Tangerine... its a blur to me to differentiate for sure until I get to Poppy!  *Bwahahahaha*   I know I have Poppy and Tangerine Sets, but my Yellow Set could be anything from the Butterscotch on down to the Yellow on the Far Left, I couldn't bet on which of those Five I actually have?   Sunflower MEBBE?  It's Yellow, Okay?  *LMAO*  And I'm not Risking the Color Wheel on Yellow, to try to get more Shades in between Yellow and Poppy, too Risky and not necessary.  *Smiles*   But, I do have a Flamingo Mug that doesn't have it's Bowl and since it's a Retired Color, I will keep that on the Search and Source List, even tho' Flamingo is hard for me to differentiate from some of their other Orange or Pink Shades.  *Le Sigh*  I KNOW for sure it's a Flamingo Mug next to the Orange or Pink Sets I already have tho', but I almost fucked up and went to Buy a Persimmon Bowl to go with it, close call.  *Whew*

  The Pedestrian Neutrals they're now coming out with for the Colorless People Trending right now, well, shit, Old Ivory, Linen and White are just Bleh to me.  I could Buy any kind of Dish in those Colors, it needn't be Fiesta Ware.  But I do understand why they wanna Corner that Market of the Colorless People and The Neutrals of the Population who won't have Color in their World.  *Winks*   Slate is a Retired Color.  And I have Sold some Chocolate & Black Fiesta Ware before.   If you're going full on Neutral Shades you'd probably like to mix and match their Colorless Line as much as those of us who've mixed and matched their Colorful Line tho', so, I 'Get' it.   Don't want it for myself, but if spied in some Chazza, I'd pick it up to Resell, coz of the Line being so recognizable and highly Collectible.  You can't go Wrong hawking it in an Antique Mall Space.

And I dunno, Collectors just like to Collect, what can I say?  *Winks*  We're Hunter-Gatherers deep into our DNA for some reason.  Those of you with the Affliction know what I mean... those of you who don't, might never Understand the Urge at all?   People who don't Collect at all simply have no Urge to or Passion and the Patience to do it either.  I've taken Non-Collectors along when they've asked to join me and it's really different than Partnering Up with one of our Tribe who are Kindred Spirits.  I don't even like it and will ditch them given the chance to, sorry, not sorry, it's a hindrance to have a Non-Collector or Non-Junquer Tagging along really.  We'd simply have to Connect on a different level, mebbe do Lunch or something.  I don't know what we'd talk about, but... I know what we wouldn't.    *Bwahahahaha*

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Merry Christmas... may it be a Colorful one... or Not... *Winks*... Dawn... The Bohemian