Merry belated Christmas to me! Since she couldn't make it out Christmas day, Little Sister came over today to exchange presents. She got me Berkely Breathed's newest book (thus preventing a violent incident--I might have inflicted bodily harm on somebody if nobody got me this for Christmas), as well as a cool little lapel pin of a Lon Chaney/Phantom of the Opera postage stamp replica, that will fit nicely into my Phantom shri-- um, I mean, collection.

Speaking of collections (and continuing the unabashed fangirl theme of the day), it looks like I'm about to begin a new one. Doing a little post-Christmas online shopping for myself a while ago (after making myself wait a whole week to make sure it wasn't just an impulse buy), I picked up these, this, and a couple of other non-Slayer related items, all mainly for the purpose of getting one of these. I just couldn't help myself. I'm not normally into action figures, but that Spike figure ranked right up there with the McFarlane Movie Maniacs Ash figure (which I'm still trying to get ahold of) and Phantom of the Opera playset on my list of gotta-haves.