i bought a bishoujo rogue figure yesterday at drawn to comics

so now the collection looks something like this:

my hero, rogue, of the x-men, as rendered by scott leberecht, in this 1996 limited edition (3500 made) sculpture. i though i had a picture of it, but couldn’t find it anywhere. so i took another one this morning while waiting for my laundry to finish its cycle.

apparently, there are several other statues available. another thing to save for…

we took an early ride over to starbucks this morning. good weather with a mostly cloudy sky made the ride quite comfortable. the new diamondback performed well, though i still want to get new pedals. we changed them to the metal ones, but they don’t work well for me. also the seat needs replacement too – it’s cracking and became hard with age. other than a few other adjustments, i’m quite happy with it.

our friendly barista’s at starbucks noticed our new matching tattoos that we got last saturday for our 5 year wedding anniversary.

i enjoy the different images that google uses to celebrate various dates. today, i learned that it’s the birthday of alphonse mucha , my favorite artist of all time. if you’re not familiar with his work, follow the link and browse the gallery.

just picked up a copy of x-women from atomic comics today. the artist, milo manara, is pretty well known, especially for his erotic art. i have his tarot card deck the erotic tarot, which is rather, well, interesting. funny that it took so long for x-women to show up as a book, though it appears it’s a one-off.

random picture, taken with my cell phone.

this post secret entry made me feel good today

i found this image of a texas mailbox on boing boing. the reason i was looking for mailbox images, is that our mailbox was broken into a few days ago. someone stole an envelope that had some of those access checks that the credit card companies send you in an effort to entice you to use the account for balance transfers, purchases, or anywhere you’d use a regular check. for a fee of course.

fortunately, our credit card company saw it as fraud, called us, and put a stop to it. i called our other credit card companies and turned off the access check mailings on all of our other accounts. i’d advise that anyone who has a credit card do the same. i’m inclined to use this as an excuse to turn off the statement mailings as well. but i sure like them as a reminder that the bill is coming due.

update:
i got an email from my credit card company this morning. apparently the asshole who stole my hubby’s access checks also stole mine and tried to use them. for what it’s worth, i put a fraud alert on my credit bureau, and i’ve found that it’s a lot easier to do that with equifax than it is to do with transunion…

we finished up one complete costume for halloween today after work, hooded full length robe along with skulled staff. it’s been a while since i’ve used a sewing machine, but it seemed (no pun intended) to come together fairly well. we used black denim as the material for the robe, which hangs quite well, and ought to keep us warm on those chilly romps through the moonlight. tomorrow, we’ll start on the second hooded robe.

i stumbled across this forum today while surfing and realized that i was steampunk before it was popular. i drew the above clock back in 2003, and used it for my resume while job hunting. who’d have thunk?