Let's see. I came home today from work with a couple new Deluxe figs and the TRU 4-pack I found during lunch and low and behold, my wife is napping on the couch. Do I wake her and show her the new stuff, or do I as quietly as possible, take the bags up to the room where my collection is at.    You guessed it, upstairs they went with my wife none the wiser.  

Most stuff she does end up knowing about but there is the occassional thing that gets snuck past her. And oh, let's not forget the times where I "bend" the truth as far as how much I just spent on the stuff I walk in with. She, fortunately for me, doesn't have any clue as to pricing, so a $75 bag of goodies can easily be passed off as only spending $40.  

Thanks again everyone.  

And Matt and Brent. Neither of you are to blame solely, because I blame the both of you.    See if I ever share a story of me breaking something again.  

Sorry your fan broke.

Well, for the record, it was just a regular light fixture, not a fan. But as a result of it, we now have a ceiling fan in there. Probably explains why my wife didn't seem to care too much when I broke the light in the first place. She knew this was her chance to get that fan in there.

Thank you all for the birthday wishes guys.  

Happy birthday punk, hope you enjoy the ceiling fan you got as an early present

And thank you Brent for bringing that up.  

Guess I should explain now, though it's the abbreviated version of the story. It involves the MR  Anakin's FX saber, a glass ceiling light fixture in our bedroom and a high speed collision. The saber made out without a scratch, and the light fixture, well, let's just say it's gone to a better place now.    So with that out of the picture, that just opened up the door for the ceiling fan my wife has been wanting in there for several months. But no, just because I had to go buy it and pay for it yesterday, doesn't make it a birthday gift to myself.  

Gotta give a BIG thanks to Brent for hooking me up with a very nice carded MOTDS 2-pack. Twas a great surprise when he told me he had acquired one for the sole purpose of trading it to me.    Thanks again bud!!  

Yep, the baseball figures suck, as far as demand is concerned. I too am stuck with 2 baseball variants. But the good thing about collecting the baseball figs, those are real easy to find. There is only 1 out of all the series to date that I couldn't find in a store. And I can thank Brent for getting me that one.    That Hinske fig still has not shown up around here anywhere.

For the most part, I am out about my collection. My family knows about it and have seen it all displayed in one of our rooms at home. Most of my closer relatives know about it too, and many of them have seen the room also. They just stand there in the room with that expression of disbelief on their faces as they shake there heads and mutter "Oh..my...god". But they like it so it's all good.

Co-workers, that's a different story. No one here knows anything about it. I don't go around bringing it up in conversation but since no one has asked me anything about my hobbies either, I can't exactly be accused of hiding it or lieing about it either. But if asked, I'd "probably" tell them.