Saturday, April 2, 2016

Pinky:St figure review

After almost a week of waiting, my Pinky:St figures have finally arrived! I've been thinking about them a lot this past week. For those of you who don't know what Pinky:St is, it's a Japanese brand of toys that are a few inches tall. You can swap their hair, heads, torsos, and legs. Most of them are statues and don't have any articulation. Also, most of them are stuck standing up. You have to buy specific ones in sitting poses if you want them to sit. And from what I've seen, the ones in the sitting poses also have shoulder articulation. (Don't take my word on that, I'm no Pinky expert). Pinky:St figures are discontinued, but you can still find them for around $10 USD on sites such as Amazon and Ebay. There are a few playsets that cost more. Figures that were made after anime characters also tend to be more expensive.

Enough of that! Let's get onto the review. (Warning: All these pictures are extremely half-assed and terrible) I haven't seen many reviews of Pinkies online, so I hope this will help answer any questions you have about them!

My girls and their alternate fashions that they came with.
(I kinda cut off some of their alternate fashions at the top, sorry)

The girl in all pink with the short hair (who looks surprisingly a lot like me!) has some... problems. Firstly, her head always comes off. Upon some closer inspection, I realized her neck peg is shorter than my other girls! She's from series 3, and my others are from series 6-8 and have longer necks. The hole on the back of her head is also shaped differently than my others.

Series 3 (right) and series 8 (left)

If you can't tell the difference in their neck sizes in that picture, I took another one.


The series 8 girl (who I named Jane) has an abnormally large head, too. It permits her from sharing her hair with some other figures, as shown in the picture below.


Jane's hair is large for my series 6 girl who I named Victoria, although she still looks okay in her hair. However, Victoria's hair is too small for Jane's head and there's a space where the pieces don't completely fit. Good one with that, guys. Speaking of fails, I practically died when I read the blurb that's on all the Pinky's cards.

Classic Engrish.

Here's how a Pinky's body works.

With my series 3 girl, who I named May.

You can remove the hair in two separate parts, and you can also remove skirts. Shoes, however, aren't removable. When the Pinky has its head on, you can also position it to look around. Top-heavy Pinkies with larger hair (such as Jane) or earlier ones with shorter necks (like May) have heads that fall off easier.

The Pinkies come with lots of teeny tiny accessories that could easily be misplaced, but some of the larger accessories were this bag/stuffed animal that came with my series 7 girl, Ayame, and a handbag that came with Jane. They both have problems, though. It's hard to fit Jane's handbag into the hands of my Pinkies, and Ayame's stuffed animal practically fell apart. Its head fell off, but you can just pop that right back in. One of its arms fell off, however, and I'll probably need to glue it back. 

Sorry the arm that fell off is at such an awkward angle. It almost
looks like it could be part of the animal's tail.

Overall, Pinkies have their faults but are still cute figures to have out on display and make cute models for photos. I'll probably take some pictures of them outside when the weather gets nicer. It's spring but the weather is just TERRIBLE here. :/ 

I got these guys on sale for only around $5 and a half-ish bucks each with free shipping. If I'd paid full price for them, I'd probably be pissed because of the faulty accessories and just Jane's head in general. It falls off all the time and she can't even share hair with any of the other Pinkies. Maybe she can share hair with the other Pinkies from her series? I dunno. And when I first  got Victoria, she had some slight paint flecks visible on her face but I was able to remove that with a dab of nail polish remover.

The bottom line? I really like them. Sure, they aren't the GREATEST quality figures, but for the typical $10 price range they're nice. Besides, you get two outfits with them. What more could you ask for?

I'll end this post with a blurry picture of girlfriends Victoria and Ayame holding hands as best they can. :P

...Where are their mouths? Lmao

EDIT: I was finally able to get the head off my series 7 girl Ayame and her head is just a bit smaller than Jane's. She can't share hair with Victoria either, it's also too small on her. It kinda pisses me off because the whole point is that they can share everything, but they really can't if their heads are different sizes?? And Victoria's head is way smaller than everybody else's, too.


Monday, March 21, 2016

Flickr

I finally made a Flickr account you can visit by clicking here. I don't know how often I'll be able to upload photos but I'll try to upload sometimes. I love photography so I have no shortage of old photos that I could upload if I'm not able to take any new ones for some reason.

Saturday, March 19, 2016

BJD AIs

So, I've always thought ball jointed dolls (BJDs) were really nice and beautiful, but they're always way too expensive for me. Last weekend I got to thinking about buying some and checked out these cute ones called Brownies, but they're very small and cost around $300 with a complete face-up and outfit. Er... yeah, no thanks. However, I have found out about some BJDs that are about the same size as these Brownies and are ridiculously inexpensive: BJD AIs by Jun Planning/Groove.

I almost wish I didn't even find out about these dolls because they're literally all I've been thinking about for the past few days. They're sold anywhere from $30-120, from what I've seen. Not bad for such cute dolls! My absolute favorite is this darling girl, Thyme:

LOOK AT HER AAAHH!!

This one is my second favorite. I recently found out about her and I hope she won't start to cloud my thoughts like Thyme has too. Her name is Denphalae:

She looks like a bad girl.

All the dolls are named after various plants and they come in four different face molds. One is pouty (like Thyme and Denphalae), one is smiling slightly, one is asleep, and the other one is supposed to be sleepy, but I don't really see how. My friend says it looks grouchy. 

You be the judge.

Some people say their AIs have really tight stringing, which I hope isn't the case when I get Thyme. I don't have enough money to get her now but hopefully I can get her soon!! I'm thinking about calling her Annabelle or Octavia or something when I get her. 

Well, I can't really think of anything else to talk about in this post so I guess this concludes it. Bye for now!


Friday, March 11, 2016

The ponies finally arrived!!!

I wasn't expecting my ponies to come till Saturday but they actually came yesterday and were sitting on the table when I came home from school!! I was so happy because I'd had a shitty day at school and this really made me happy.


Here they are when they first arrived. Tropical Breeze is laying on her tail in this picture. I'll give you close-up pictures of these guys' (guys's?) flaws.


I was happy to see Sundance actually doesn't have tail rust like I'd predicted! She has a blue mark that's sorta shaped like a heart (you can't tell in this shitty pic) but at least it's on her NDS. She also has some scattered age spots and some rubs on her eyes. She's got some small dots on her legs on her DS but you'd have to get close to see them. Her hair is the driest out of all the ponies I've ever gotten, but she's way cuter than I'd expected so that makes up for it. She also had some surface dirt on her underside for some reason and I tried to scrub at that. 


There's nothing that wrong with Tropical Breeze--especially not her hair! I don't know if you can tell in this pic or not but her hair is actually very curly--I'm wondering if it's a factory curl? Either way I'm keeping it like that because I love it. Her DS symbol has been rubbed and in the spot where it's rubbed there's an age spot. She also has two other age spots but her hair covers one of them up. She also has some very faint blue marks on her DS front leg but I don't really notice them that much. A lot of these ponies have flaws I don't notice that much that I forgot to mention about in my Tumblr post about them haha. :P And, typical of Flutters, she's lacking her wings. However, unlike my other Flutters she actually doesn't have any shards from the wings still stuck in the holders. 


Now we move onto Curly Locks, the poorest condition pony in this lot. I don't know if you can tell in this pic but she has a brown stain on her lip and also some faint remnants of what looks to be red and blue "eyeshadow" that some kid must've given her a long time ago. She only has the "eyeshadow" on this eye though, which is strange. Maybe the kid found out they didn't like it so only did it on one eye.


She has lots of marks on her NDS that I wasn't able to remove. She has lots of age spots scattered on her NDS, back, and on one of her DS legs but her hair covers that up. Her bent front leg also bends in a little bit but it doesn't affect the way she stands so it doesn't really bother me that much. Of course, her tail mechanism doesn't work anymore and her tail is a lot shorter than it should be. Oh well, at least she has a tail at all! Her hair was also very disgusting but I was able to fix that thankfully.


Here they are after I washed them. Tropical Breeze didn't need anything and Sundance needed a little surface cleaning and a hair brushing. I tried to get some of the marks of Curly Locks but of course I couldn't, but I was at least able to clean her hair so it looks nicer. Here's a picture I just took of them today all nice and dry:

On your right you will see Barbie's legs being sniffed by a white monster toy.

I'm really happy with how Curly Locks' hair turned out. It's very nice and soft and it's a lot thicker than the average pony's hair. I've had a lot of fun playing with it and styling it. Playing with pony hair is my favorite thing to with the MLP so of course this ranks Curly Locks as one of my new favorites. 

So even though these guys were sold as a bait lot I'm still happy with them. I'm not a picky collector and I basically got them for around $4 each which isn't that bad at all. 

Well, that concludes this long-ish post. Bye for now!

Wednesday, March 9, 2016

Happy 57th!

Happy 57th birthday, Barbie! Hard to believe she's that old.

Here to celebrate this day is my 35th anniversary reproduction of the very first Barbie!


Sunday, March 6, 2016

Childhood online games

These are the main online games I used to play when I was a kid. The first game I ever played was Neopets. I never did the boards because that was restricted to me 'cause I was too young. I got into Neopets in like 2013 and occasionally go on there now. I still follow a lot of Neopets blogs on Tumblr for some reason though?? I don't know. Here are all my pets, and no I haven't fed them in a while because I don't care.

Seven years. Jesus Christ.

Ah yes, you may see I have a gallery specializing in gross foods. 

Some time after that I started playing Poptropica. My main accounts were named Purple Seal, Comical Seal, and Comical Peanut. I imagined they were all sisters. I played on Comical Peanut the most so I'll show you that profile. All her friends on there are some of the bajillion other accounts I made on there. Seriously I made so fucking many. Not even joking one day I made like forty different accounts, then lost the paper I wrote all the info on. Ah, Poptropica has so many nice memories. One of my old friends and I used to go on there and play islands and she used to help me with some of them. 

She has the 24 Carrot ears on because I was replaying that island. It was always my fav.

Now they've switched to having a shitty membership service and they have all these new stupid islands that frankly I'm not interested in. 

Now Moshi Monsters. I started playing this around 2010 or something?? I had a couple side accounts but I played on my main the most. I had oodles of friends on there and actually had a membership on there for a while! That's only because I could buy a membership card from Walmart without Mom having to pay online with her credit card, which she didn't wanna do. Anyway, here's part of the room on my main Moshi Monsters account, audpnut5600.

Jesus this is an old screenie, I have G1-G4 Twilight as my Firefox background!
(Btw, you can clearly see I'm literally ROLLING IN the rox)

Like Neopets, I never really used the forums when I went on there when I was little. I'm sure as hell glad I didn't because I went on there when I was like 14 and it was filled with a bunch of assholes. I even got into this petty fight on there with this stupid bitch who insisted I respect her and not crack harmless jokes on her threads. What a loser lmao. 

Now Fantage! I started playing this in May 2010. I had three accounts: A main and two sides. I always loved Fantage. I met my first real internet friend on there, named Desiree. We talked on there occasionally and it was fun as hell. I wonder whatever happened to her?

Here's my profile on there:


I saved this next one specially for last because sometimes I still get sad when I think about it. Build-a-Bearville, or as it later came to be known as simply Bearville. Out of aaaaaall the games on here I used to play Bearville the most. They shut it down last spring and I was so sad. I took screenshots of some things there so I would always be able to remember them.

I started playing Bearville in May 2009 after my friend (the one who I used to play Poptropica with) got me a gift card for BAB workshop for my birthday. I got my first bear there, Pink Rainbow, and started playing on the online game. Then at the end of that year I got my second bear, Stuffles, and then the following spring I got my next bear, Shamrock01. Around my birthday I got another one, Stripe. When I got her I got to talking to the cashier and I even did this quest for her on Bearville and she gave me a code for this inflatable ice cream hot air balloon. It was fun as hell. Then eventually I got another bear named Cocoa, another one named Lilac, and finally when I entered sixth grade I got my seventh and final bear--er, bunny--Flopsy May. I also had two Smallfries, a cat and a mini version of Pink Rainbow who I named Purple Rainbow. 

I remember every summer they used to have this "summer camp" called Camp Happy Heart and I always used to play it. It was so fun. And they used to have songs you could play on there that were bear themed, and the minigames you could play on there were fun, and I just loved all of it. I'm still salty about how they shut it down. Anyway, to conclude this post here are my Bearville screenies:

My profile: Clothes page.

My profile: Bears page.

My profile: Vehicles page

My profile: Bear's clothes page.

The exterior of my house. I had all three party rooms, a bunch of other rooms,
and I had a finished exterior so of course a bunch of people always came there. 
You can see somebody was there when I took this screenshot too.

RIP Bearville 2008-2015
You will be in our hearts forever


Webkinz

Like most kids I used to have a Webkinz account--well, I still do. Nothing happened to it. Anyway, I used to use it a lot when I was in fifth grade and every so often over the course of the past few years I would get more plush pets. The last one I got was in spring 2014, almost two years ago. Damn. Anyway, I got bored tonight and decided to play on there and then I decided to make a post about it because I can and I felt like it. So these are my pets:

I've only played with Kelly today, so I have no idea why 
it says I've played with all of them.

I got Ginger first, then Soft (she was expensive and is some sort of deluxe pet??), and then I got Hoppy virtually for watching this ad for that Easter movie called Hop with Russell Brand and the lady who plays Penny in the Big Bang Theory. Sky, Solstice, and Kelly are all mini pets that I got some time later. Kelly is my newest pet. My cat used to love to play with Kelly when he was a kitten. 

He's so TINY here!! <3

Anyway, my Webkinz membership has expired so I'm not a "full" member anymore. They've revamped a lot of stuff such as the dock and they have some new shops too. Like they have another clothing store that mostly seems to have a bunch of expensive ass clothing?? I'm also a bit sad because a lot of the features on there aren't accessible to me and are only accessible to either full members (meaning when you've paid for a plush toy) and deluxe members (when you pay extra for a deluxe membership. I used to HATE all that membership shit when I was little). 

As you can see I've been playing Webkinz for a little over six years. Jeeeeezus. Hilariously enough, I never got to play Webkinz for the first couple months because I lost my username and password but I eventually found it written on the back of the envelope. Even more hilariously, my username: Cutiegirlygirl56. What was going through my head when I did that? No idea. 

Now for the second half of the post: The goddamn stories I have on here. For the record, I don't remember writing ANY of these. I remember seeing that you could make these, but when I read these over again I became completely confused. 

The title honestly kills me.

I actually laughed reading this.

This one confuses me so bad. I always hated that Arte guy, why did I write something about him? Also, why is it called The Craziest Day if he dug for thirty years? Also, the EARWAX????

Here's another crazy story. I must've liked using crazy... And having titles that don't pertain to the story in the slightest?? I swear I was high my entire childhood.

What a twist at the ending.

This one is so boring.

When reading these I also noticed this bastard's comment:

For unknown reasons, Webkinz always used to shorten usernames to only the first 3 letters.

BOL, I appreciate you taking the time to comment on my stories... But please stay on topic. This is NOT the time to advertise about your stupid damn items, do you think I care? Do you think I care, BOL? I am trying to provide STORIES for the YOUTH of Webkinz!!

Now these Webkinz stories were actually pretty shitty. I remember I got excited to make some when I first discovered them but basically they're just generated by what genre you want it to be (comedy, action, adventure, etc) and if you want it to have one or two characters. Then it fills in all the rest and there are some blue words highlighted and you can change them to make it your own. How bland and boring. So basically almost all the stories are the same, which makes it really... impersonal?? I mean, I don't know. I don't know why I'm bitching about this small feature on Webkinz for so long lmao. 

Anyway here's my dining room because for some reason I'm proud of how nice this room is??

Please ignore the book sitting on the floor.

Ah shit, now I feel compelled to make another post about other childhood games of mine. Well, you just wait for that post.









Saturday, March 5, 2016

More poniesss

Today I ordered a "bait" lot of three ponies: Tropical Breeze, Sundance, and Curly Locks. I saw this listing a few days ago and I've been wanting it for several days and earlier tonight I ordered it!! I even had a brief dream about Curly Locks after seeing the listing a couple days ago. :P

Anyway, this was sold as a bait lot which means the ponies are in poor condition and are bait for customization. I'm sort of against customizing G1 ponies. I mean, I can see wanting to make a few of your own but don't go and make TONS of them because that's just depleting the supply of G1 ponies available. I'm not a picky collector at all, and I didn't really see much at all wrong with these guys:

(Not my photo, obviously, because they haven't even shipped yet)

Tropical Breeze has adorable curly hair and I don't see THAT much wrong with her. The seller didn't provide photos of both sides of the ponies but going by their display sides they look nice. All that's wrong with Tropical Breeze (aside from missing wings because like every Flutter is missing their wings and I hate their wings anyway) is that part of her symbol is rubbed and there's an age spot there. Sundance looks like she's got some tail rust (which I can fix!!) and some knotty hair. I don't visibly see anything wrong with Curly Locks but since she's in this lot I'm willing to bet she doesn't work anymore. Ah well, who cares? She looks nice to me.

Haha, I'm like reeeeeally excited for these guys. They should be coming the week after next which, coincidentally, is when the third term ends! And of course that means I'll have these guys to play with over spring break. :D (Well, most likely I'll just take pictures of them and not actually play with them but you get the idea)

I'll post pictures of these guys when they come. I just wanted to make a post on here before I went to bed tonight. (Or is it this morning, considering it's almost 2 am?) 

Goodnight and bye for now!

Tuesday, March 1, 2016

LPS Collection

This post will be showing you my Littlest Pet Shop (LPS) collection. These photos are fairly rushed (but yet it still took me a while to do them all?? lmao) but you'll get the idea. I organize my LPS in plastic bags by group, so you'll see these guys in groups. I don't know if I've mentioned this before on this blog but I acquired a vast majority of my collection when I was in sixth grade at a sleepover at my friend's house. She had TONS of LPS and wasn't interested in them anymore and so I asked, "Hey... can I have some?" She said I could take all that I wanted because her mom wanted to get rid of them anyway. And so... I wound up taking around 290 LPS. Around 70 of my LPS are from my original childhood collection. Anyway, let's start showing you guys my actual collection! First, we've got the birds and a couple other flying creatures like ladybugs and a bee.


Next we have reptiles such as turtles, lizards, and frogs. (in hindsight I should've put those frogs on the bottom but whatever)

The two turtles in the top left corner were my favorites. 
I used to pretend they were siblings.

Then we have rodents like hamsters, ferrets, chinchillas, and some skunks and other rodent-like animals?? The three brown hamsters in the top right corner were my first ever LPS. I got them when I was like four.

You can see the bears in the corner.

And here we have bears, pandas, monkeys, and an ape.

Going from left to right, my two favorite pandas were the fifth and sixth ones.
I always pretended they were siblings.

Here we have farm animals such as horses, cows, lambs, and pigs.


Sorry this next one is blurry. I didn't notice it till I'd already put everything away and I really didn't wanna set them up again and take it. Anyway, I'm sure you can still tell that these are my rabbits. I have three duplicate rabbits here, haha. Don't know how that happened!

The gray one with the pink flower on its ear used to be one of my favs.

Next we have a sideways picture of my only Blythe. I don't know how it got sideways but I don't feel like fixing it right now so tilt your head and look.

O_O

Next we have sea creatures such as fish, snails, a walrus, an octopus, and a hermit crab.


The seahores were my favorites. I even broke the pink one's fin off by accident.

Here we have random ones that don't really fit in anywhere else. We have two giraffes, an armadillo, some "special edition" ones, two seals, three spiders, a koala, some butterflies (they can't all fit into my "flying creatures" bag), some deer, some fairies, and then some tiny characters.

Not gonna lie, the giraffe with the hat in the top left corner
inspired one of my OCs (who isn't a giraffe).

Here we have my largest groups: Cats and dogs! My first photo for the dogs was blurry but thankfully I caught it before I put everything away. I have so many of these guys that I didn't have time to organize them all by species/pose.



The dogs.


The cats.

I have two LPS plushies, which I showed in my "Bookshelf of excellence" post a while back, and then I have several old LPS games and then a lot of McDonald's toys. I don't have time to do the McDonald's toys too since they're scattered everywhere and will probably save them for some Happy Meal post later on. 

If you're curious to see a breakdown of my entire collection, here it is:

  • McD's: 20
  • Small: 7
  • Etc: 24
  • Rabbits: 18
  • Reptiles: 18
  • Birds: 31
  • Bears: 19
  • Aquatic: 14
  • Rodents: 31
  • Farm: 21
  • Cats: 46
  • Dogs: 74
  • Total: 295
  • Total: 323 LPS!!!


Well, that concludes this post. Bye for now!



Monday, February 29, 2016

Trip to Galena, IL

I feel like rewarding whoever reads this blog with some pictures from this one-day trip I took to Galena, IL with my family the day after Christmas last December. If you read one of my previous posts I stated that the last time I uploaded pictures from my camera to my computer I only needed like 200 of them and it uploaded 2000. Well, most of those 200 were pictures I took on my trip to Galena. I've had these pictures for a while but have never actually gotten around to making any posts about it here or on my Tumblr for some reason. Even though it happened two months ago I can still remember it clearly because, although it got off to a rocky start, it's arguably my favorite day. It took around an hour and a half to drive there and an hour and a half to drive back. Most people would hate that but it was heaven to me because I LOOOOVE car rides. Only... I didn't like waking up early to go there haha. The morning of December 26, 2015 was very dreary but I also love dreary days so it was, like, perfect for me.

One perk of living in Iowa: Seeing this. Even though this is quite a ways from my town,
if you drive a few minutes away from the city you can see rural farmland like this. Turn around,
and you can see the city. It looks really cool at night.

I took quite a few pictures but they mostly turned out blurry. This picture also turned out blurry but I'd like to show it to you anyway so you can see what I was sitting with the whole ride: 

My Christmas presents!!

From left to right you can see: My camera case, my cheap MP3 player, Twist, Sugarberry, Galaxy, Stardancer, Num Noms, some Chester's Hot Fries (some of my fav snacks), my fucking shoes, and Mom's purse. I had taken off my shoes and put on these slippers I'd gotten the day previous because why wear shoes for an hour and a half when you can wear slippers?? Those slippers did make a funny malfunction later that night but I'll get to that later.

Anyway, here's a shot as we were crossing the Mississippi River into Illinois. 

It's mostly the sky but... if you look to the bottom you can see the river.

And Galaxy liked the Mississippi Palisades when we drove by. (I think they're the Mississippi Palisades anyway...)

"Can we go there? ...I don't care if it's winter and all the trees are bare."

When we finally got to Galena we went to this GIANT house my aunt and uncle rented. At first I went into the basement with my brother and our douchebag cousin who wound up pissing me off so much I wound up sitting on a pool table and then I finally went upstairs and enjoyed watching Harry Potter with my grandma who I don't talk to that much. We were sitting on a couch together and sometimes when she talked to me she farted and I could feel the fart vibrations in the couch and it took all my strength to keep from laughing. 

My brother and I also took turns flying this drone that my uncle had and it was fun as hell. I don't have any pictures of that but whatever. We tried to make it fly up to the top of the stairs and land there and then make it fly over these wooden beams on the roof which I was actually able to do. We stayed at the house most of the day and here are some of the pictures I took there:

Sugarberry on top of one of the posts on top of the rail upstairs. You can sorta
see those wooden beams that we tried to fly the drone over.

Twist in front of the fireplace.

Stardancer on the couch. Her tinsel's kind of a mess, sorry.

Surprisingly, I found a ladybug on the carpet there as well!!

Here he is. 

Because I love ladybugs, I decided to place him on the porch outside so nobody would step on him inside. Now, that brings me to outside. Oh boy. This house was literally in the middle of a goddamn FOREST. When you went outside it was chilly and you couldn't hear anything. I took Galaxy outside with me and took these pictures:

The forest itself. Just look at all those trees!!

Galaxy and the forest. I really like how this one turned out!

I also took some pictures of my Num Noms but they're just... sitting on the floor so I don't really think you'd be too interested in that. Besides, I've got way more interesting crap coming up. And that's the AMAZING shops of Galena... at night. Galaxy accompanied me there in my pocket.

Just an average pony in my pocket, officer. 
(Sorry this picture is blurry, I took it while I was walking
and I was already getting behind everybody else because I kept
stopping to take pictures)

This was taken by my mom on the way there. Look at THAT!!
Isn't it just amazing??

That light looks awful but it's the best shot I got of this scene.

There was this corridor/alley that I saw that I just HAD to photograph.
It took me a couple shots to get one that wasn't blurry but it was so worth it.


Some pretty Christmas decorations on one store.

Sadly, even though I took a shitload of pictures, we only went into one store since by the time we got there it was around closing time for most of the shops. The store we did go to was this candy shop that had a BUNCH of assorted candies and even some plushies.

There was a bunch of taffy, and here are just a couple of the taffy bins.
(Yes I did buy a bunch of the taffy and it was GOOD)

Just some of the candy jars. There were way more than this but I couldn't
take pictures of everything.

Near the cash register the owner had a bunch of Beanie Babies on a shelf (not for sale) which I thought was cool. I bet my dad liked it, considering he used to be one of those Beanie Baby collectors back in the 90s. :P

Impressive!

The candy there was expensive as hell, about $25 for the candies I got, which you can see in these pictures I took in the car:

Bag #1

Bag #2-Just taffy

However, that still isn't all for my pictures of Galena. I have some pictures I took on the walk back to the car too. 

There was this display that had some retro stuff and, being a Beatles fan, I took a 
picture of this Beatles section.

For some reason I really, really wanted a picture of this sign.
I took all these different pictures of it and this was the
one that turned out the best.

I also really wanted a picture of this wine store for some reason.




And... That's all for the pictures from Galena!! God it took way longer than it should've for me to add all those in lmao. I've probably spent longer making this post than I did the entire time I walked around in downtown Galena.

The arrangement of the ponies on the drive back.

Now here's the funny mishap: Once on the way to Galena and once on the way home we stopped at a gas station for a bathroom break. Both times I wore my slippers inside, but it just so happened that on the way back the parking lot of the gas station was SOAKED. My poor slippers that I'd just received as presents the day before had been soaked through and dirty. I felt so stupid when that happened haha. The rest of the ride home I just wore (dry) socks. 

On the ride home at night, we would've seen a bunch of stars in the sky which would have been AMAZING but it was still cloudy from earlier. Only now it was foggy as well. Honestly I thought the fog looked neat. Here's a picture I took of the fog when I stuck my camera out the car window.


After we got into town we got McDonald's and they happened to be giving out Shopkins toys. My brother and I both got Happy Meals and I got his Shopkins too. Here are the ones I got who I might've also put in another post?? I can't even remember.

I see you, Stardancer, Twist, and Sugarberry's ass.

Alright well that FINALLY concludes this extremely long post. See, I could've spent my time writing but what did I do? Spend forever making this post. Well now I know I'm never making a post this pic-heavy ever again. Bye for now!