Lisa's Geekery

The Vegas Golden Knights won the Stanley Cup last night. This is my beautiful friend Brie, who was a huge Knights fan from the time the team started playing in 2017.  (Her favorite player was Mark Stone).  I met her on a message board in the spring of 1999 and we talked several times a week, if not every day, for nearly 23 years.  She passed away in April of last year.   A few weeks before she died, I found a Golden Knights teddy bear on one of my many trips to Value Village.   I bought the bear with the full intention of sending it to her.  But she passed away before I could send it.  In fact, the last time I ever talked to her, I asked for her mailing address so I could send the bear.  I wish our last conversation hadn't been about something so trivial as a teddy bear.  Anyway, I decided to keep the bear as a memory of her.  Then my friend Lacey on Facebook suggested that I put her name on the back of the bear's jersey as a tribute.   I bought some iron-on letters from Michae

Dusting off this blog after a looooong hiatus.  I have so much to share about my thrifting adventures and other things, and this will be the outlet for it. Long ago, back when I was a little girl, my beloved grandmother and I got into an argument.  She was insistent that a Barbie jukebox existed.  I said, no way.  We kept on back and forth about it for a while until she presented me with a Barbie '50s diner playset...complete with the aforementioned jukebox.  I stood corrected. Fast-forward to today.  I was thrifting (as usual) and collecting all things Barbie is my passion (as usual).  I came across something that's just as random and weird as a Barbie jukebox, if not even more so. Introducing the Barbie snowmobile!  Ignore the fact that Barbie is in attire that is completely not appropriate for snowmobiling.  What makes this find even more ridiculous is that the snowmobile is entirely too small for the doll.   I guess Barbie really does have everything!