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Toy Thursday

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Happy Thursday ya’ll! Instead of featuring some of my already existing toy collection – I am excited to present to you my newest members of the family! The first is the Ice Blue Skelanimal Qee by Jason Freeny. The second is a Crappy Cat blind box figure (named Puked) by Unacat, designed by VanBeater. The third is a Jibibuts blind box figure (named Suii) by Nofern. Last but not least is a Misko blind box figure by Nathan Jurevicius. Sadly I bought two of these and managed to get doubles. Ohhhh well, such is the life of a blind box fiend.

After picking up and putting down the Ice Blue Skelanimal Qee, Richard was sick of me whining so he bought it for me. Being the medical nerd that I am, and my super secret love of all toys clear, I was excited to finally get to check this one out closely. I love all the detail that was put into the painting, my only qualm is that the little bugger will not stand up, so I must lean him against my display.

Originally I told myself that I would hold off on buying more blind box toys, save up and buy some larger figures for my collection. We can apparently see how that went down. My first purchase was going to be a larger Crappy Cat figure, but to my dismay, it was no where to be found on Saturday. Apprehensively I picked up one of the Crappy Cat blind box figures. I say apprehensively because the entire series is not completely made of Crappy Cat figures. They also have Flunk Monkey and M. Skull in the mix as well – and despite liking both of those figures, I really wanted one of the Crappy Cat figures. Alas fate was on my side (or the odds of probability) and I scored Puked.

The Jibibut was a spur of the moment decision. There were only a handful of them left, and I do not have any wooden figures in my collection. I can’t say I was very excited about the figure I got. Am I the only one that noticed that the sticker seal is misspelled?

Finally, the main reason why we went to Dragatomi. As I mentioned before, I lacked wooden figures in my collection, how did I manage to get 2 (technically 3, but I gave Richard my Misko double) in one day?! If you are unfamiliar with Nathan Jurevicius – he created Scary Girl. The art stylings of the game made me fall completely in love with it, not to mention that you get to buy vinyl figures in the game, how meta. These figures come apart and you can mix and match them. Non matching things stress me out hardcore – so these little hoots will be staying as is. Anyhoot, check back next Thursday for more toy-yee.. toyeee, toy goodness.

31 May, 2012
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Edible Escapdes

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This week we sample: Ice Cream Oreos: Rainbow Shure,Bert!

It’s no secret that Richard and I are total snack food junkies. Rarely do we walk down an aisle at a store and find something we haven’t tried, but that doesn’t stop us from looking. Last night during a spur of the moment dash to the Wal of Marts for today’s lunch, we spotted these little babies on an endcap. Snack foodie protip # 375 – always check the endcaps. Both of us have worked in grocery retail for a while (I currently do not anymore). Vendors will often either pay to be on prime endcaps or beg department leads for space for new product. Simply hiding it down the aisle doesn’t move units, thus rarely you see new product thrown directly in the home location from the beginning.

Richard and I love all things Oreo, and between the two of us, have tried every flavor that has been produced. You would have thought someone said there was one million dollars stashed inside of one of the packages if you had witnessed how big our eyes got and how quickly we both snatched up a bag last night. Richard was so excited that he even grabbed the wrong ones – sucker! Creamsicle Oreos for you! After grabbing a few other goodies in the store and perusing the toy department for anything interesting (which is almost just as bad as the junk food addiction, if you’ve read any of my previous Toy Thursday blogs) we headed out to the car. These babies didn’t even make it out of the parking lot before being torn open. Being the gentleman that he is, Richard offered me the first one out of the bag, and our conversation followed as such:

Richard: mmmmm…. this smells really good, I could smell this forever.

me: mmmmm… it smells really citrus-y.

Richard: mmmmm….

me: *pops whole Oreo into mouth* The flavor is really underwhelming. (please note I said this with a mouth full of Oreo, always the lady).

Richard: Yeah I was expecting more of a sher-berty… taste.

me: the flavor is really light, like I could eat a whole bag and not even realize it vs. other ones that is so sugary the guilt sets in after #4 or so. At least they taste better than the Berry Blast Oreos. (note: I argued that the filling of the Berry Blast Oreo tasted fake, hi, has anyone ever looked on the back of the package? the whole damn thing is fake.)

Richard contests that golden Oreos are more of his preference because according to him “The golden cookies, are like a blank canvas, you can have a sugar cookie, or an orange cookie, or neopoloin cookie. Chocolate cookies already have a flavor to them and there is only so much you can do with the chocolate ones.” Then he proceeded to call himself a white pride activist. That last part is true in the sense that he said it, but untrue in the sense that he does not think that. He also prefers his chocolate items to be “moist”, such as cake, a candy bar, etc. Chocolate cookies are too dry dammit.*

*I may or may not have paraphrased some of that last paragraph. When he speaks, so much awesome comes out that I can hardly keep up on the keyboard, and this is why I keep threatening to record some of our conversations.

I prefer chocolate cookies myself. Give me the ole classic Oreo. Call me a creature of habit, but I will always go back to the old stand by. My package of Shure, Bert! Oreos will probably last me a week or two, but Richard’s on the other hand is probably already gone. If they were the classic version, I would have probably had the entire thing for breakfast, but instead I settled for honey mustard pretzels. Breakfast of Champions I say!

Conclusion: We would probably buy these again. And again…

Appearance:
Richard: 4/5 – looks well done, not messy and all over the place, appealing. would add another color to the frosting as the pink and green frosting is misleading, making you think that you are going to have a watermelon like treat.
Erin: 3/5 – i like the colors, but agree that the two colors does not give me the feeling of eating sherbet, where is the orange?!

Consistency:
Richard: 4/5 – very consistent with great taste. I don’t know. sure.
Erin: 3/5 – I prefer the cream in Oreos to be a little more firm so that when I twist them apart – my preferred method of eating Oreos, the cream stays on one side. When I twist these apart the cream will lift and trick me into thinking that its going to split in two, which totally bums me out.

Smell:
Richard: 3/5 – I wish there was more of a citrus burst. I don’t even know what I’m saying right now.
Erin: 5/5 – Yeah I said, these babies smell good!

Taste:
Richard: 4/5 – It tastes like sherbet, but I feel like the cookie dulls or takes away from the sherbet-y taste.
Erin: 4/5 – I agree with Richard that the flavor is a bit weak when combined with the Oreo. All alone its pretty delish.

29 May, 2012
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Toy Thursday

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Well kids, it’s that time again for another edition of Toy Thursday! I was previously asked on instagram (follow me! @pyropixie) to take a close up of some of the toys I posted last week. I figured I would pick and choose a few of my favorite pieces and talk a little bit about them. I was originally introduced to the Skelanimals brand when I was still working at Hot Topic. Who couldn’t resist those cute little animals with their little skeletons. I don’t recall buying much other than a plush skeleton cat, but I’ve always adored the brand. I was quite surprised to see the Skelanimal brand pop up when I was working at Target. I was even more excited to see that they came out with a toy line exclusively for Halloween – though I guess every day is Halloween in a Skelanimal world… and if you are Al Jourgensen. ANYWAYS. I guess one of the perks of working at a big box retailer that has something that you enjoy is that you are able to look up the inventory to make sure that you are buying all of the entire series. Let it be known that I am not really a rabid collector of series, I prefer to own the pieces I like instead of having 20 other pieces from the series that are OK. But, I’m also of the mindset of more is more. So why not have more?

I like that the bases of each of the animals are completely flat, and that they are light, which makes it easy to display them in various ways. I have a few toys, such as a couple of Dunnys that are a bit top heavy and like to fall down if they are not leaning up against the back of the display area or wall, thus creating a huge domino effect. The only downside is that they are wider than most of the toys that I have, which tends to take up more space. Currently these are featured in a row in the very front of my collection ontop of my book case-cube storage-upstairs pantry-type deal. I always check out the seasonal section to see if they put out any other series, but alas I have not seen any new ones since.

Well there you have it! Check back next Thursday for another feature on some of my toys! (a little birdy tells me that they will be brand new toys next week!)

24 May, 2012
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Chargin’ mah laser… pew pew pew

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(I was player 16)

Yesterday was my friend James’ birthday. He decided that we would have an awesome pizza party and play laser tag. I can’t even remember the last time I played a game of laser tag, I think I was 8… we won’t talk about how long ago that was. Anywhoo – we met up at Round Table Pizza and partook in their all you can eat buffet dinner special, which happened to be a total coincidence. We took over the special occasion room (even though there was only 10 of us) and managed to scare away the regular patrons on accident (I imagine it was all the talk of video games, dicks, and lumpy space princesses… and the fact that James got a fake sword for turning 28) After we all ate our weight in pizza – and I played a few rounds of pinball – we headed over to Sunsplash to play some laser tag. Sadly they close early during the week, which is totally stupid considering it’s becoming summertime and who doesn’t enjoy a good laser blasting on a Tuesday night. At least they made up for it by having a buy one get one free night. I had never ventured upstairs at Sunsplash, as I thought only fancy pants people could go up there, but it turns out that is where their laser arena is (I made up the arena part, they don’t call it that, but I think it sounds way more exciting).

We were forced to watch an informational video which sent mixed messages about running around in the dark, and whether or not we were allowed to – DONT RUN! but then they show a woman running out of the game… so confusing. Because there were 9 of us, we split into 3 groups of 3. I was on the red team and managed to pick the vest with horrid pit odor and a broken chest strap, luckily I made up for it by kicking some serious ass. We had the luxury of entering the arena first and scouting out the areas before the other two teams. We started out in the back corner, but an air cannon thing kept scaring the hell out of Johnny, Richard, and myself, and we could not contain our laughter, so we decided to pack up and move over to another area. Now is where I get accused of camping. We holed up in a spot that had a bonus target in it that you can shoot every 20 seconds or so for extra points. I figured since Richard was getting all black-ops on this shit and Jonny went rouge that I would offset our point deduction for getting hit by nailing the target every time I ducked back into the base. My plan worked and we came out scores ahead of the other teams. And to my defense I shot a shitload of people – so suck on that whiny babies. Sorry, I’m not bitter. Anyways – I hope it turns into a somewhat regular Tuesday night thing, since I had a ton of fun. I also managed to run into a wall despite being very aware that it was there. I bled a tiny speck of blood, therefore I think I should be able to play for free next time. I’ll be sure to let you all know how that goes. Behold my glowy hair and tron like shoelaces.

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After we were tapped out on laser tag, we headed to Denny’s for more birthday shenanigans. It mostly consisted of us ordering desserts and drawing dicks on things. This is literally sounding like the intro to Superbad. All in all, it was extremely fun and I hope we all get to hang out more often.

23 May, 2012
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Squidoo

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I like to consider myself the creative type. I can crochet and knit. I make jewelry, I used to be somewhat decent at drawing (who knew you could forget how to draw!), all around pretty crafty. But, I can say that I have never really dabbled in painting. For some reason, its a medium that scares the bajesus out of me – my guess is because its so unforgiving at times. Yesterday my friend Chris and I decided that we would do a small painting and swap them. He is extremely talented (I would link his design website here, but I don’t want him to see traffic from my site to his and have him see what I have been working on for him) He’s really into squids, so I figured I would give it ago. I am pretty satisfied with how it is turning out thus far – considering its my first time of creating anything of the sort.

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21 May, 2012
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