Sitting on eBay waiting for an auction to end. Its the kind of fun that’s not. I might be a little less bored and impatient if the end result didn’t also mean that I’d know if I could get something for my Operetta doll. I’ve been in kind of a Monster High zone lately.

(Do I have an MH category, here? …it appears not. Well, now I do.)

I kind of consciously decided recently that for the official character dolls, I wanted to put together my own personal “uber” versions of them. I’d already kind of done it with Ghoulia and Lagoona, without really thinking about it – the original Lagoona is still my favorite face for her, I just swapped out part of her outfit for something I liked better, and with Ghoulia, I fell for the Comic Club fashion, and got Skull Shores Ghoulia specifically to wear it. Lagoona’s not 100%, I think, I want different jewelry for her, but mostly I’m happy with her.

It was really Operetta that made me officially, consciously decide to do it, and to do it for the others as well. I love The Phantom of the Opera. LOVE. Like, in high school, people who my mother worked with went to see it and brought me back PotO souvenirs, even. And while I don’t really understand MH’s decision to go rockabilly with her, and make her from New Orleans (yes, I know the French influence there, but…why not just make her French?), I do love that her scars and tattoos are based on music, roses, and spider webs. Also, rockabilly tends to skew ’50s and I’m something of a sucker for the 1950s. So I kind of just love Operetta on principal, even while I was not entirely taken with any of the dolls.

Something similar happened with Spectra, except in her case, I hate the character, and kind of dig the dolls. Vexing.

Anyway! I have the Operetta with the hair and make-up I love, and I got the outfit for her that I love, and now she just needs shoes and jewelry. And of course, being so close is making my kind of impatient to just finish her, and arrrrrrrrrrgh, when is this auction ending? (…an hour and a half. I can make it an hour and a half. Theoretically.)

But, hey, at least I know what I want to do with her, some of them I have no real idea. And some of them I have no current interest in (I’m looking at you, Clawd and Holt). And some of them I can’t really decide if I have an interest or not (Twyla, Wydowna, pretty much all of the cat characters). And in the case of one special one, I would probably take anything so long as it was both affordable and semi-easily available (Scarah <3 ). Bah, the auction made a sudden jump. Of course it did. But I am still in the game! The hideously boring, slow game. So...football. eBay is football. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.