Two of my big interests outside of cel collecting 
are:

1. Ancient Egyptian society and art (not owning 
it, but collecting endless books on both 
subjects). I've only had time to actually read 
half of the library I've built up. My "to read" 
pile gets bigger with every trip to Borders. ^_^;

2. Collecting Hard Rock Cafe pins.

The bonus to #2 is that there are Hard Rock Cafe 
pins styled with ancient Egpytian themes, of 
which I'm only missing three -- two of the 
newest "common" ones, and one opening staff pin 
of which there were less than 100 made. (When I 
do finally nail that last one, it will probably 
cost me more than almost any one cel I've bought.)

Two times I almost had a chance to overlap my cel 
collecting with the ancient Egyptian theme! In 
Master of Mosquiton OVA, there is a sequence with 
a pyramid guardian riding a sphynx (of whom I 
dearly want a cel!! ;_;), but I was outbid on the 
one and only decent cel I've seen of her, which 
was on Yahoo Japan. Then last year ago or so, 
there was a pan Mosquiton TV cel of Inaho dressed 
up in ancient Egyptian-looking clothes. I didn't 
have the money to bid on it as high as I wanted 
to, but I've been saving some aside in case it 
shows up for sale again. ^_~~  So if you're the 
person who bought it and you need some cash. . . 
(*points to e-mail address above* ^_~~)

I don't know of any cels of Hard Rock Cafe pins, 
but if by some sick chance I did find one. . . I 
would absolutely HAVE to have it! It would be too 
funny to hang next to my six foot long banner 
full of pins. ^_^

But the rocks thing is so great!! *^_^*  I had 
huge rock collection when I was little. If a rock 
had spots, a striation(sp?), or mica in it, it 
got tucked away in my room somewhere. ^_^  I even 
have a 150carat piece of low-grade sapphire (named
"Icewater"). But rock-wise, nothing beat out 
quartz. Near where I lived, there was an old 
quarry full of quartz, through which I'd dig for 
the best pieces. I called it The White Rocks 
Place. Are they worthless? Three treasures from 
that collection now grace my fishtank, a piece of 
rose quartz, white quartz, and slate quartz -- 
each one about the size of a softball. ^_^  I saw 
similar rocks in an aquarium supply store for 
about $8-12 each. Mine were free and (I think) a 
better grade! ^_~~~~

If your little one still wants price stickers, 
drop me an e-mail with your address. ^_^  I get 
numerous cels from Anime World Star, which all 
come with price tags in yen. I usually throw them 
out, but for a fellow collector, I could put a 
few in an envelope with a stamp. ^_~

Many Sharp Smiles,
--Drac