geekent's Buy Nothing Year

So my store credit was chopped in half last week thanks to an unwise and yet utterly desired purchase on my part. I mean I could have coasted for months (if not weeks) had I just bought comics and avoided and evaded the peripherals, but no, I the beauty of plaster replicas of ladies in spandex was too much for me.

If we look back at this classic geekent post (geekent retro!), you can see me ranking statues on the tamale meter between "eh", and "hawt soss"... and the two statues I acquired received the following rankings:

Batgirl bust: the classic costume, classic Barbara Gordon, a powerful pose, and hot... reminds me of Aden (probably because she uses Batgirl as an avatar on occasion). Beautiful without being flaunty.
HAWT

Donna Troy bust: I was walking Aden through the various "Women of the DC Universe" busts yesterday, and when I told her that this is the one that most reminds me of her, and she was offended, because she LOATHES Donna Troy. But it's true. Though Donna's perhaps got way too much makeup on, the hair and the body just remind me of my special lady. Red spandex sweetie... :) I don't know why Aden hates Donna so much. I'm a little fond of her because Phil Jimenez likes her so much, and Phil's a cool guy.
HAWT

As you can see, this wasn't strictly hormone-driven lust for imaginary figures, but rather hormone-driven lust for imaginary figures who remind me of my wife, which cosmically must be okay and inoffensive to everyone... well except Aden who get compared to Donna Troy.

Anyway... these little (and I do mean little... they're about 5 inches tall) busts/statuettes now sit on our newly erected shelves next to Adrienne's plentiful statues of Robin and Nightwing and Magneto and Flash and Impulse and...

Hello ladies.