I hadn’t seen Vanessa since before my birthday, which I didn’t realize until she brought me my birthday present last nite. I’d gone home right after work to pack for the weekend cruise, and Vanessa and I had talked ab0ut watching Transformers, so she drove down after I got done packing. We met up with James at The Yard House in Brea and I was handed two compact packages which unraveled to become this:

That little gift bag spewed Happy Bunny (TM) products! Vanessa must be Jim Benton‘s new best friend! I hadn’t gone to the Happy Bunny website in awhile and I did not know there was all this new stuff out there. Lollipops, candles in tins (at least that’s what we believe is in the tin that none of us were able to open), license plate frames, keyboard stickers, keychains, stationery, metal thermos, just to name a few. To even out the karmically-questionable Happy Bunny vibes, she included a pendulum kit for getting in touch with my inner Ethereal Cindy and/or the Other Side. Vanessa always knows just what to get to make someone feel like she was paying attention. Thanks, Vanessa! Everyone got me such great stuff this year, I’m spoiled sick.

Vanessa also treated me to the Transformers movie, for which I had yet to find a negative review from anyone I know who’s seen it, all of whom were in my Transformers TV cartoons generation. I remember the days when I would watch G.I. Joe and then Transformers right after that. Speaking of those two cartoons, the Transformers movie was actually like G.I. Joe meets Transformers. Meets The Iron Giant (which was a better movie). But as I was saying earlier, I have yet to read a negative review, so I won’t write my own. Maybe I’ll like it better the second time around, when I re-watch it with Mr. W.