What Would We Do Without Amazon........

As anyone who uses Amazon knows, they are running a contest that will give away a trip for you and a friend to the LA premiere of New Moon if you have a wishlist. Who here doesn't have a wish list, raise your hand?

While a paid for vacation in LA sounds like fun and the price is right, it is the other prizes I found interesting. So I started to check the regular pricing for said prizes and here's what I found.

The Twilight board game at $14.99 doesn't sound too bad. I loved board games when I was a kid, but then I haven't priced a regular old (not the super duper deluxe model) Monopoly game in a very long time, so who the hell knows what the price might be on it now.

For a mere $29.99 you can get a matching tobogan (hat) scarf and gloves emblazzoned with the Cullen crest in a really nice blue-gray color. Handy and useful if you live in an area that has cold weather. I live in Texas. Not since 1985 have we seen more than two days of what is considered cold weather. I grew up in Iowa. Has to get pretty darned cold for me to say it is cold. I have a feeling that these would go unused for me. Besides, my friend in Sydney sent me a lovely red and green striped South Sydney (rugby) scarf for my birthday several years ago. I dig it out when it gets that cold.

My least favorite of all the prizes: The Bella and Edward dolls made by Mattel. They're creepy. Now the Edward doll does have some of Edwards looks going on. However, Mattel got lazy with Bella. They merely recycled Barbie's face with brown hair and a toothless smile. Get over it Mattel. I'm calling you out. Why take the time and effort to do Edward pretty well and leave Bella looking like anything but Bella? Not that I would buy either of them. At $24.99 each, I can figure out a really good way to spend 50 bucks. I know, I know. No shipping cost. Don't care. Don't want them. Should I win (and of course with my luck I will--HA), I will gladly ship them to the first person who raises their hand.

What would a body do with them anyway? I had a Barbie as a kid (stone-age Barbie) and here's how I played with her. I undressed her. She spent more time naked than she did dressed because those damn tiny clothes where so bloody hard to get on. And her hooker heels wouldn't stay on unless she was propped up on her Barbie stand. What I found out later in life is, she was not anatomically correct. Neither was Ken.

My granddaughter wouldn't be impressed with these dolls either. She went through her naked Barbie and Bratz phase many moons ago. In fact they became her bath mates until they were so waterlogged they were useless. Besides they all were missing limbs reminding me of a monster movie attack. Ick!

I don't know. Somehow an Edward doll with out all his manly body parts is just wrong. I mean we know the Bella doll will have the same butt and boobs Barbie has, but Edward without his little man....come on. Just how much fun would that be? I tried for a time to figure out if Barbie and Ken would ever have kids. Hard to imagine that this Edward and Bella could ever make a little plastic Nessie. Oooo, another creepy thought. Double ick!!

I am more than willing to loose these two prizes should I win. Back off ladies. No one gets my plane tickets!!!