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!

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!

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!

Today's finds

Wow I've been neglecting this blog a lot. Anyway I went to an indoor flea market today and found a bunch of goodies. Accompanying me on this oddly warm February afternoon was my newest pony, Baby Graffiti!

"You just got me yesterday, now you're looking for other ponies? Hmph. The nerve." 

The first interesting thing I found today was this plushie. It's nothing really special, but thanks to those cheap GoAnimate videos Caillou has been ruined for me. 

"Kayloo you are GROUNDED GROUNDED GROUNDED GROUNDED 

for 54665498746514679 years."

I also found the coolest sunglasses ever. They're rose tinted, gold-rimmed, and are from around the 70s or 80s. I usually don't wear sunglasses but these ones just seemed to speak to me.

God I love them.

Something I found that made me laugh was this old 1949 Christmas book that I flipped through and I happened to find this page that killed me. 

A Gay Nineties Christmas

If you look in the background of that picture you might be able to see... Barbie?! Yeah, this flea market has TONS of Barbies there all the time. I mean TONS. I've only been able to find a handful of ponies there over the course of a few years but I've bought over 20 Barbies from there, mostly from the 1970s, 80s, and 90s. I found a reproduction of the Twist N Turn Barbie in box for like $26 but didn't get that or take a picture of it. I did, however, almost shit my pants when I saw these two for $15 a piece. 

A 35th anniversary reproduction of the very first ponytail Barbie from 1959!

Another reproduction of Barbie in this very long, beautiful black dress called "Solo in the Spotlight."

I could only get one of them, and it was pretty tough choosing. I could get Barbie in this absolutely stunning outfit, or I could get a reproduction of the ORIGINAL Barbie. I wound up getting the original Barbie because, hey, it's the first one! I also like the arched eyebrows on that Barbie better that the Solo in the Spotlight one. 

The top of the box on the Barbie I did buy was ripped and there was a book inside that moved around whenever you shook it so I just took her out of the box. Hell, even if the box was perfect I would've taken her out because that's just the kind of person I am. Uh oh, looks like the doll police is coming after me!! Honestly the only toy I'd ever leave MIB would be a pony because they're my favorite toys ever.

Oh well, that's all for now! 

Mirror Mirror mini-restoration??

Wow I haven't made any posts in ages. I really haven't had anything to post about?? Anyway this is a post about how I sort of restored my Mirror Mirror pony. I got her for only a little over $5 and of course she has some stray marks on her. I always noticed some of them but yesterday night I noticed she had more than I'd though so today after I came home from school I took them off with nail polish remover--I used Target's name brand if you're curious. I used their brand to get the excess cutie marks off my Cutie Mark Magic ponies.

Anyway, here are the before picture of Mirror Mirror. They aren't great, but they turned out the best out of all the photos I took:

Why yes, that is my Tumblr! I used my Tumblr because

I also posted about it on there and I put watermarks

on everything I post on there (and not here) because I figure

more people see it there than they would here.

Sorry if that logic is a little weird but I don't know

how else to explain it?

A closer view. She had a white mark on her neck.

(With my cat photobombing it in the corner)

Some marks on her left forehoof and a pen mark on the side of her right back hoof.

When I took off the marks, the acetone also took off a layer of dirt on Mirror Mirror so I scrubbed at her a little more intensely with a Q-tip covered in soap. 

Wow, a black watermark this time!

In hindsight I should've used this angle in the before picture so you 

could see the pen mark better. Oh well.

That's all for this post I guess. If you got this far then you deserve this bonus picture of Glow and Mirror Mirror looking absolutely adorable:

I think they look so cute from this angle.

Well, bye for now!