All I want for Christmas....

Wow. It is hard to believe it is almost Thanksgiving. Christmas is just around the corner. Different families have different traditions. For example, my family make out Christmas lists but my wife's family doesn't. One way isn't right or wrong, just different. I made up my list this year and put a few trade paperbacks I have been wanting for awhile:

Deadpool Classic Vol. 1
Arkham Asylum: Living Hell
Strange Girl Vol. 1: Girl Afraid

These are on my Amazon wish list (http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/2R6BN53Q4YSUM/ref=lst_llp_wl-go)

I would LOVE to be able to put commissioned art on my list, but it just isn't really practical. I have been loving Wellinton Alves' artwork on Nova. He does great 'cosmic' art. There are lots of talented artists who do commissions through www.comiconart.com but I just haven't been able to buy much lately due to other circumstances. Instead I filled up my list with practical stuff such as some tools, a chair to put in my comic reading area in the basement. I need a good sturdy bookshelf for my tpbs as well. I had to rearrange the set up in my basement a little bit. The city had to do some gas meter work on the houses in my area. they installed new meters and put new piping in the walls. In doing so they took down some of the art off my walls and a shelf where I geekishly had some action figures on display. I kind of like the new set up now though. I have an area on the wall where I can display 6 pieces of art framed. Right now I only have 5 up though. Thats a post for another time though. I guess I had better get back to work. Oh, and I REALLY need to figure out what to get my wife for Christmas..

1 Year Anniversary

My wife and I celebrated our 1 year wedding anniversary this weekend. Our anniversary was actually November 3rd but we weren't able to celebrate then. We decided to go downtown and stay at a nice hotel for a night and go to a really nice dinner. We stayed at the Westin hotel. We got their 'romace' package. We received a bottle of champagne and chocolate covered strawberries upon arrival. The package also included breakfast in bed and a late checkout. For dinner we went to Morton's Steakhouse (http://www.mortons.com/). It was really good. Expensive, but it was delicious. We split a salad. I got the porterhouse steak and my wife ordered the Chicken Christopher. For sides we shared green beans and the bast dang macaroni and cheese we have ever had. I wanted to get dessert, but we had our anniversary cake that we had just picked up earlier that day. Our server surprised us by bringing out their infamous chocolate cake, on the house. It was delicious. They also took our picture and put it in a little picture holder which said 'Happy Anniversary'. They were really nice. The picture is the one I have posted here. We ended up eating our anniversary cake this morning before breakfast. LOL. Oh well. It was a really nice first anniversary. Tomorrow is back to work. Yay!

My comics for the month of October

Due to the high cost of shipping I get my comics shipped to me monthly. Sometimes it pains me to wait that long. Maybe I'll reduce the amount of books I buy and get them bi-weekly.. Anyways, in no particular order:
Amazing Spider-Man 573, 575 (they didn't send 574...)and annual 2008
Nova 18
The Boys 23 and 24 (I am probably dropping this title unless these 2 issues are phenominal)
Final Crisis 4
Creature Feature 1
The Odd Squad 2 (this has now been dropped, the art just doesn't do it for me)
Terror Titans 1
City of Dust 1
The authority 3
Nightwing 149
Supergirl 34
Green Lantern Corps 29
Secret Six 2
Deadpool 3
Green Lantern 35
Stormwatch PHD 15
Final Crisis Legion of Three Worlds 2
Titans 6
Booster Gold 13
Epilogue 2
The Mighty Avengers 19
Dynamo 5 17
Robin 179
Justice Society America 19
Wildcats 4
Secret Invasion 7
The New Avengers 46
Cyblade 1
Captain America 43
X-Factor 36
Final Crisis: Rage of the Red Lanterns
The Incredible Hercules 122
The Immortal iron Fist 19
Thor 11
Justice League America 26
Teen titans 64

In a stck that big there are bound to be hits and misses. We'll see!