Current Ramblings
Tuesday, January 06, 2004
Retro is so surreal.
I was at Target today, even though I'm supposed to be staying at home because I'm sick. For those who want too much information, I had to go buy TAMPONS. But of course I went to look at the toys first. I've gotten used to things to a certain extent now. I'm not startled by the Care Bears or the Strawberry Shortcake, and I've been buying a lot of the My Little Ponies. And yes, there's TRANSFORMERS, which only sort of count as retro because they never properly went away. What I was not expecting was to find, on the same day, was both Rainbow Brite toys (which actually I thought were a Hot Topic exclusive) and Muppet Babies plushies. Neither seem to have exactly had a big makeover, either. At least Strawberry Shortcake's a bit of a tomboy now. It's not like all this retro business doesn't WORK. Yeah, I wanna go buy a Rainbow Brite. But it's still startling and surreal.
I'm not all that sick, in case you were worried. I've been having a bad cough, brought on by a kind of clenching irritation in my throat. I had it for a month last spring. I noticed it came on when the weather suddenly got really warm and humid for a couple days, and it got better after a good's night sleep two feet away from the gas heater only to start up again when I went outside. So I suspect it'll be clearing up now that the weather's drier again. I went to the doctor and he said it was an infection again, but given that antibiotics didn't do a damn thing last time, it seems to be clearing up already, and he didn't seem to put much work into coming to that conclusion, I'm not going to bother with the hassle that is antibiotics unless it gets worse again. Still, just to be on the safe side, I'm taking today off, staying inside where it's dry, and taking extra vitamin C. Maybe I'll even use this time at home to code a page for the New Year's pics.
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