thingsiboughtthatilove.com just really disappointed me

thingsiboughtthatilove.com has just gone password protected. It is now a blog by invitation only.

What up Mindy! What up?

First you get your blog URL published in multiple news-sources, and if that's not an invitation and advertisement to readership then I don't know what is. Then, you stop writing for several months. I figured, "Hey, the writer's strike ended so maybe she has real work to do. I can be patient. I can." But, now, you have password protected your material.

What is up? That is all I can say. What is up?

I haven't felt this upset about something like this since they cancelled Veronica Mars. With V. Mars, sure, I saw it coming. The story was petering out; there were talks of Kristen Bell getting other gigs; actors who played minor characters were seen on other shows. Still, I was just living for new episodes, and watching the DVD of old ones too much, just too much. The story picked up and it looked like they might be able to take it somewhere. There was hope. And, then, with one double episode finale, it was gone, replace by The Pussycat Dolls. All that hope had just been wishful thinking.

This is just as bad. Just as bad. I have been waiting; I read the back log; I gave J. Crew another look. I know that blogs get abandoned all the time. People get bored with the concept or just bored with all that typing. It looked like maybe shoes would be the last entry. I was preparing myself, giving up. But, still, maybe she just was too busy to write. Maybe she just didn't have time to shop. Maybe she would come back, when we need her most, when the economy had gone to shit and there was a heightened need to be shopping vicariously. Shopping vicariously with someone in one of the two recession proof American industries. (Ahh, now a blog about what a Mafiosa liked to buy, that's an idea. But, no, a Hollywood shopper is just as fun, and probably better written. Probably. You hear that, that's how upset I am. I won't even concede that a murdered wouldn't write as well as you, Mindy. A murderer from New Jersey.)

And just in time for the stock market to drop below 8,000 for the first time in five years, she's back. It looks like there might be more blurbs on great products that could change your life. Just not for me. No things for me. Ugg. Seriously, ugg. I can only sit here and think wistfully of the great new products and silhouettes that I'm missing.