FFIV Mini Figures

Since Final Fantasy IV was re-released in Japan on the Nintendo DS (and hopefully will come out stateside soon enough), a bunch of promotional goodies came out, like this badass mini figure set. I ordered mine over at HobbyLink Japan. What you're actually ordering is a box of nine figures. Obviously, there will be extras, but you're guaranteed to get a complete set in the box. Most of the sites that I've come across are selling them this way as opposed to selling single figures. Anyway, they're tiny, detailed, and extremely cute, making them an excellent addition to my collection of tchotchkes. :D

Office Flair 2008

Welcome to the 2008 edition of my office flair. This isn't all of it, but I wanted to point out some of my newer acquisitions. From left to right:

-The R2-D2 toy has been featured before; it's a Japanese import that I bought online, I forget where now.
-The jellyfish lamp was a purchase from ThinkGeek.
-The sunglasses are the Oakley Grapevine model. They're also not flair, but they're in the picture, so...
-The picture I bought from a friend of mine who does that stuff on the side...I don't think he has a website yet, otherwise I'd link to it. The frame I got from Target.
-The notepad is from the Anne Taintor collection.

Office Flair

I've shown pictures of my workspace before, but I wanted to showcase some new items. Yeah, there's that card (I bought it for myself...feh...), but what I really wanted to show you was a gift I got today from a friend and former co-worker. :) She's had a lot of free time lately, so she's been making a bunch of stuff from subversive cross stitch. I love it. If I had free time I could see myself doing that too, even making up my own. I have some bathroom-related ideas...

Pixel Dioramas

I recently discovered the .s dioramas over at ThinkGeek, and I absolutely adore them. I wonder where else they're sold, because I'd love to get the Legend of Zelda ones. Perhaps a trip to SF Japantown is in order? (Or I'll just look around on the web some more, whichever.)

Cheer up already!

A number of recent events have left me somewhat depressed...so today during my lunch break I went to a very dangerous place known as the second floor of Draeger's, where I found the super cute pen you see here. I didn't notice the added bonus until the end of the day, when I looked at the receipt and noticed it had been rung up as "light up duck":

Office Flair

I am a crazy person with a crazy desk full of flair. I was bored yesterday and it was slightly after hours, so I decided to take pictures of the stuff on my desk. The monkey is a white elephant. (I know, shocker.) He doesn't have an official name, though he's been called many things. Raj and Spank immediately come to mind. And as some of you can probably tell, yes, I was at the Sharks' home opener.

Um, let's see...there's a duck, some normal office supplies, a high school picture of one of my friends, some national flags, and Eve, the sensitivity consultant. Go here for more information. The calendar you can kind of see in this picture is the 2006 Cubes Calendar, which came with my order. It's quite amusing.

The elephant came from Target when they had their "Global Bazaar". R2-D2 makes noise, which is fun. (Not at random, though. That would not be good for the workplace.) The lightsaber is a Disneyland souvenir, the perfume was a Christmas present from my sister, and I have a few different masks that I rotate. Oh, and between the perfume and the mask is Hanae. Touch her and face my wrath. :P