Ordinary. The beautiful, dangerous kind of ordinary you just can't leave alone.

[in_the_blue]

Swag, swag, swag: my birthday is complete.



This is hands down the prettiest cel I have. It went up for sale this past Saturday morning and luckily, I was the first to ask about it, and I still had almost enough birthday money and so... yeah. For any cel purists, this one has the original sketch too, and it's unstuck, and it has the background, and I know this scene and love this scene and sure, some of this is my inner Spike at work but some of it is just me the Cowboy Bebop fan doing a little celebrating. This one goes on the wall, specially framed.

When I went to the post office this morning, I had not only Julia waiting for me but a slip saying I had some registered mail waiting for me, sent from Singapore. I said hey, that's my SPIKE cel from Ballad of Fallen Angels! I knew it was coming in from Singapore, and it was the only other thing I was waiting for, and I thought the shipping was awfully fast since it wasn't sent out until Monday. Imagine my surprise when my post office boyfriend (ha ha) handed me a rather small and heavy package that wasn't big enough to hold a cel. But there was my name right on it, and a sticker on it with a PO Box in Singapore for return mail, and my heart sank when I opened it up and there was no cel but a few books. My thoughts went something like this:

Oh, man, the seller screwed up and sent me someone else's order instead! I wonder what happened to my Spike cel? This is crazy! How could he get the orders so mixed up? What am I going to do? So as soon as I got home I fired up the computer and started heading over to ebay to set things right with the seller when I noticed a little postcard in the package; I'd missed it the first time. Lo and behold, it was from my very own h311ybean!!! So now imagine my thoughts: how did a card from Ara Kane get stuck in a botched ebay order?

And then I laughed and laughed as I realized what an ass I was. She sent me a pair of cookbooks and a book of fiction by Filipina author Gilda Cordero-Fernando all of which I'm really excited to read! So...

...thank you for the birthday present, h311ybean ♥♥♥!!! Hahahaha, I'm still laughing at myself.

P.S. I'm going to get my copy of Y: The Last Man #59 this afternoon. And in less interesting news, I'm all caught up on the first season of Heroes, for what that's worth.

Edited to add: comments now contain spoilers for YTLM #59.

Comments

[dopplegl.livejournal.com]

YAY Cel! So pretty!

What did you think of the first season of Heroes?

[h311ybean]

Congratulations on scoring that cel in your post - it's gorgeous! Also, you are very welcome :) Yeehaw, it arrived! I'm sorry the package wasn't compatible with your ebay mode, though, LOL.

I must say I'm confused about that PO Box in Singapore sticker. The sticker I attached to the envelope was an address label. (Yay, I have address labels now!) I guess something happened to it in transit...or maybe the polka dots on the design made the text hard to read, oops. Must choose a different design after I use up the 30+ labels I have left :-p

[kit-the-brave.livejournal.com]

Swag is a great word. (Swagswagswagswag :D) And that cel is gorgeous! I love the way her hair follows the folds in her clothes.

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

[Hiro] YATTAAAAA! [/Hiro]

[jothra]

Did you read #59 yet??

[alemara.livejournal.com]

Oh damn! That's so pretty! What a great little celebratory thing to have.

(I'm also avoiding comments so as not to be too spoiled. I want to pick up the issue when I get back to Philly.)