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Todo list update:
- started reading Words Are My Matter since it was tied most of the day and it's due back soonest; about 1/3 of the way through
- have not written (yet)
- not cleaning bathroom due to emergency storm water supply being in the way
- have finished animals! opened box of "old doll clothes" expecting to find ones I played with back in the day; instead found ones my grandmother played with.
- have not done any sewing, except for repairs to animals. Did find cut-but-not-sewed antique doll clothes in box, though, so number of sewing WIPs has increased instead. sigh
- just put laundry in! mostly animals and doll clothes, but it counts.
- have not worked on knitting projects, that's up next
- officially not dealing with desk today. :P
- officially not working on books today. :P
- listened to lots podcasts!
- writing dreamwidth post as we speak. substance questionable :P
Here is a photo of all of my Daekor Potbelly bears and raccoons - Dropbear and his friends and relations. There are, apparently, 17 of them, which means I've acquired a new on on average every two years.
The koalas, going clockwise, are: Bonnie (by far the best condition, still has original fur texture); Bongo (not actually Daekor, but a very similar design, and as the largest, an honorary uncle); Big Boy (the one who is exactly the same size relative to me as KB was when I was a toddler, and is therefore on emergency hug duty at all times - he got a new nose today); Ol' One-Eye (with his brand-new eyepatch!); Nobody (named after the Emily Dickinson poem, distinguished by having no distinguishable features - the third one I ever owned); Scarface (lurking like the bear of mystery he is!); Joanie (so named because she came on a road trip with me to find America right after college); Drop-Bear (aka KB, the original who's been with me since I was born); and Little One.
The brown bears just go by The Three Bears. The raccoons mostly don't have names, but the pinkish-colored one in the middle is Posey, and one of the others has the name Kekko on her tag.
Names and genders subject to change without notice, I just go by what they tell me.
No I do not need 17 semi-identical stuffed animals (or the, uh, 100-ish others I repaired and re-displayed today) but they bring me joy. And those first three - KB, Scarface, and Nobody - taught me early on just how much three creatures theoretically made from the exact same pattern can all have very obviously different personalities.
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When I was a girl my brother and I had the raccoons, and I had also one of the big raccoons. I didn't know they were a thing a person could still obtain!
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You can probably still get them if you keep an eye on online used-stuff sites too - the keywords are "Daekor PotBelly" (which I didn't know until I finally found one where I could still read the tag.) They seem to've been pretty popular among people our age, but stopped being made by the mid-to-late 80s (when, judging by the tags on my wider collection, stuffed animal manufacturing in general shifted from Korea to China.)
Unfortunately they don't age real well - they have shredded-paper stuffing, so they can't handle getting wet or be washed, and if they're loved, they will get seams splitting pretty quickly. (My raccoons are mostly female because of, um, a particular seam that tends to split first on them) - so they are getting progressively harder to find, as resellers just toss the more well-loved ones. :/
Would it bring your life great joy if Ricky came back to you in the mail? Because obviously one of the small raccoons I hadn't had a name for yet is a Ricky, and if he hadn't told me that name in all these years he's clearly just been biding his time here...