Halloween Countdown Day 14: My Birthday!

10 days later and I wasn't even going to bother with posting anything about my birthday because I didn't really get anything Halloween-y for my birthday anyway... Until today. Wanna see what I got? Let's take a look!

Out of the gate we're starting with the non-Halloween-y stuff, of which the MAJOR gift this year was this set of Disney Infinity Marvel: Guardians of the Galaxy figurines! Before anyone asks: No, I do not own the game... or even a system to play it on. But I LOVE Guardians of the Galaxy, and I LOVE the animated-style of these figures. They are simply stunning, and make a great addition to the shrine I am currently building to the GotG.

Slightly more Halloween-y is this Scooby-Doo PEZ set, which I mentioned during my tour of the Halloween aspects of my Geek cave... so I won't go into great detail here again. BUT PEZ + Scooby-Doo = AWESOME!!!

My daughter got me this book The Infinite Sea which is the second book in the 5th Wave series by Rick Yancey. This author is currently one of my favorites and this series is just GUT-wrenching. 

This set of TMNT PEZ dispensers was a last minute purchase by my wife the night of my birthday. Again... PEZ + Almost anything = AWESOME.

NOW. The inspiration for this post was the fact that when I arrived home today my wife's cousin gave me this awesome pillow from www.Horrordecor.com the creators of the Horror-Buddies line. This Handbook for the Recently Deceased from Beetlejuice is perfect for the chair in my Geek-Cave!!! Gorgeous AND functional!

The pillow came with a bag of (biohazardous) random goodies as well, including a Betelgeuse business card, a postcard of the Farmer from Motel Hell, a banana Laffy Taffy (which I promptly ate) and my favorite part: a random toy evil-clown head.

My wife greeted me with a late birthday present as well. A "Freddy vs. Jason: Forest of Fear Game" from Neca! She found this for four dollars at Mardens, a local chain of salvage and overstock stores here in Maine. Marden's doesn't always have awesome stuff... but when it does... It's INSANELY awesome stuff. Like this.

Here's a look at the Freddy Krueger pieces from the set. I'm loving all three, but if forced to choose I think the Freddy on the right is my favorite. I like worm-Freddy too, but I'm almost always more of a sucker for the iconic versions of characters vs. some sort of gimmick.

Again, if forced to choose my favorite Jason Voorhees, I would probably go with the Jason on the left this time. Although, the Jason in the middle is carrying Freddy Krueger's head, which is pretty badass in its own right. (I apologize for the crummy photographs throughout the post. Not even gonna make excuses.)

On a side note, another MAJOR birthday gift from my wife was a road-trip to three different Goodwills on the day of my birth, as they give you 25% off your purchase if its your birthday and you have a discount card with Goodwill. So I went on a Goodwill SPREE too.

That's it for tonight kids! I'll be back with some Ghostly Goodwill Goodies soon enough. Until then... Happy Haunting!

Halloween Countdown Day 4: My Birthday!

So today was my birthday! I love having an October birthday. I love Fall, and I love that it's the beginning of Halloween seasonl when I celebrate the day of my most holy birth. 

I woke up to pancakes!!! And not just any pancakes: 

A Jack 'o Lantern! A birthday cake! 

A heart! A Halloween cat 

(you can't tell because he's made of pancake, but he's a witch's BLACK cat)! 

Jack Skellington!

I'm not a big fan of birthday cake. I'll eat it, but it's not my favorite. So my wife always makes me a peach and strawberry pie instead! This year, on my pie dead Cthulu lay dreaming!

These are the birthday cards made for me by my kids. The two on the left were made for me by my two little boys (with some help from Mom) the one on the right was made by m 13 year old daughter. Who rocks.

Custom wrapping paper! The three bottom packages were all decorated by my kids. The top pile were all wrapped in some awesome paper my wife's been sitting on for a while. So what did I get?

Rick Yancey books! I talked a bit about why EVERYONE should be reading Rick Yancey's books a little after last year's Christmas. That all still holds true. I now officially own all of the YA books that Yancey has written. They're usually pretty graphic and ghastly... so I have that to look forward to. I probably won't get to any of these until after Halloween, but that's okay.

Some great Halloween-themed gifts! Here we have a novel called Dark Harvest by Norman Partridge, and the AWESOME stop-motion animated film, Paranorman in a Blu-ray DVD combo pack. 

And finally, a couple of DVDs. The excellent faux-80's film Take Me Home Tonight which I can't recommend enough to people who love 80's films... and whuuuaah? Cops and Robbersons? Leonard 6? What Planet are you From? Why did I get this abysmal four pack of movies? Wait... four pack? I only listed THREE movies just now!!! What's the FOURTH one?

Oh. 

Oh yeah. 

I love the movie Vibes. LOVE IT. Can't wait to watch it again and again actually. Not even kidding a little bit... (and actually, I don't hate Leonard 6 as much as most people seem to... it's bizarre but enjoyable for me).

My wife also took me out for dinner at a place called Maine-ly Meat for dinner and I ate my bod weight (which is considerable) in chicke, pork barbecue, baby-back ribs, and hot sausage. With beans, cole-slaw, potato salad, and cornbread on the side. Then we took a handful of boxes home, full of leftovers. Yum. 

So that was my birthday! Happy birthday to me! 

I'll be back soon with more Googly-eyed Goodwill Goodies! Until then Happy Haunting!

Be sure to check out all of the great blogs participating in this year's Halloween Countdown! You can do so by clicking this link, or clicking on the Cryptkeeper 2013 banner on the sidebar to the right! Also, check out the "Blog-O-Ween" Halloween Blog collective, again by following this link, or through the badge on the sidebar! Thanks!

I'm Just So Totally Proud of my Wife that I HAD to post this...

So my wife has been making a ton of cakes for folks lately. Mostly birthday cakes, but also a wedding cake and a few other occasions now. She's pretty damn talented IMO. This is a Star Wars LEGO cake she did for a friend's son named Zachary over this weekend. I'll post a few more pictures of other cakes she's done down at the bottom. 

Hunger Games and iPhone cakes.

80's Themed and Cars cakes 

A Sesame Street cake

 A Racecar cake and an old-style Mickey mouse cake from a vintage pan 

(she hand piped ALL that frosting) 

A-Grr-from-Invader-Zim-sleeping-on-a-giant-mustache-with-a-pile-of-Tacos-cake.

And a Splatter Cake.

This is a Construction Site Cake

Wedding cake.

Anyway, just a quick post to beam proudly at my ever-lovin's wife. She's pretty awesome. Between her cakes and my daughter's make-up work, I'm shaping up to have a pretty talented family. 

I'll be back soon with more Geeky Goodwill Goodies! Until then, Happy Hunting!