what is barbie coming too...

so... lately i've been working on a *very* tedious project for work... we're doing a gift guide (the one benefit: it increases inches so i can get more $$$ :)

basically, i spend my day walking into every shop i can looking for good gifts for one of my 11 catagories... it's not really as much fun as one would think because although it's free for the company i don't get any cool thingys... they just smile and take my letter expecting that i'll return whatever merchandise i *borrow*...

at any rate... when browsing through the toy store i came across this amazing discovery:

it's not really the fact that it's a family that bothers me... or that the pediatrician is included in the gift set... nor the fact that the guys both have real afro's ?(yay! mattel is p.c.- no self respecting black man has hard jerry curled hair in this day and age...*shudder*) ...

it's really the fact that the mother (right... for you dumb-o's) is preggers... and what's better... her big fat belly is removeable... and there is a little baby!

am i the only person that is bothered by how unneseccarily graphic this is for little kids...??? please don't let me be (the only one that is) ... look at her... modeling her belly... for shame!

then there was this *which really got me laughing*:

(i had a nice annotated one but being the computer loser that i am... i lost it amongst the megabites and whatever else make up the stupid machine that is the bane of my existance... or something like that)

anyway. he's got wrinkle lines, grey hair, that swanky grandpa sweater and khakis... not to mention the ever present spectales and finally the proof that dolls can wed, an unremoveable wedding band on the all important finger.

grandpa and grandma can come as a set or seperate for those kids with morbid imaginations who want to imagine that grandpa lost gramma to cancer or some other horrible thing and is now trying to pick up barbie's h.o.t.t. friends

*sigh* i don't know... what is barbie coming too?? equal opportunity, non-offensive company that it is... where's the asian family? or the irish? i wonder if they sell the babies seperately so mormon kids can play realistically... well... maybe they don't play realistically.. maybe they fantasize about only having one kid... *tangent in my head*

neway. tonight i'm going to a surprise party for someone i work with but don't know that well. i wasn't invited initially but was asked as a guest because that person's original guest is indisposed at this moment...

and it's costume themed and i don't have a costume (i do however, have one for next week... i've decided to be mariah carey... she's not scary but if i do it right she can be... i've got the hair for it anyway)... so my friend was scrounging through our local *thrift* store (open thursday and saturday only!!!) and came across what i guess she thought would be the perfect ensembleh for me...

it set her back a whopping $15. i wish i had a camera so i could convey the *insert describing world here* of this outfit...

electric purple... dashiki and skirt with matching head piece... : (yes... i know- and as cute as she is.. she keeps telling people i'm going to be a dashiki...)

so i may be mulatto but i'm on the pale side *very* and i never envisioned myself as an african anything... (i think we're from venezuela- that would explain my fantastic eyes and hair *that sentence was shamless self-plugging... deal with it) and the comments will abound when i walk down the street in this... flowing... costume... how can i make it sexy???? *wah* i don't know...

this will be an interesting night to say the least...