For my 38th birthday H placed a few action figures around the house with notes. Then, over the course of the year building toward my 39th in October of 2012 they kept appearing, about one per month. Showing up in the refrigerator, sock drawer, on my wallet, in the fruit bowl...each one caught me by surprise and the result was a super eccentric collection of my favorite characters. I could not let these go undocumented and unshared. Also around my 39th birthday figures started showing up in the mail from friends and family all over the country. The pic of that collection is also included below. (Many of them had thought bubbles too but they mostly said Happy Birthday.)