She sends the craziest things sometimes! Hung-over pumpkins? Really?

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daniel · late morning · 1 comment · ping it

What am I going to do with all this candy? There is so much! All chocolate, of course. This neighborhood sucks for trick-or-treaters. I think we had like 5. Richard will tell you it was more, but don’t believe him. I ate that candy, I didn’t give it out. The really funny part was that Richard came home, and waited for like 2 hours in his Batman outfit to hand out candy. Not once did the bell ring. The minute he went up to shower they came. The first two I didn’t count. I don’t think those tots could even walk they were so young. I swear mom had a pulley system installed on the brats just to get the chocolate. Then there was this tiny boy dressed as.. something. I forget. I do know that his Dad was totally hawt and dressed as a cowboy in tight jeans. Awwww! Hawt dad! I gave them lots of candy. Lots.

After his shower Richard took over. It always reminds me of my youth, the way Richard answers the door on Halloween. “Oh hai! Look at yooooou! What are yoooou supposed to be? A bee! Oh realllly? Well that’s just great! Happy Halloween!”

I swear he’s like a grandma.

In other Halloween news, we never carved our pumpkins. Kinda sad, but the house looks deliciously autumn-ish now thru Thanksgiving! We have a lot of pumpkins. So that’s a good thing. (I swear I get gayer every year. But I do always say that I am so gay I pee glitter!)

So now I am just warming up my blogger mojo. November is a long and scary month for me, and I am challenging myself yet again with this NaBloPoMo business. National Blog Posting Month. I have to post once a day. Now I typically do that, but I want to actually type something. Not just click thru a link. Although that will still count, I want to do better than last year by providing personal blog entries that I actually like experienced or thought about or something. We’ll see. Maybe I’ll just make more people I know seem like lushes. Heh. Cause that’s the real magic yo. BTW, where’s my drink? *hic*

What else? Did I tell you about Fondue Night last night? It was a hoooge success. Basically I invited my good friend Fred over and served cheese. Boiling cheese. It was soooo good. We dipped shrimp, mushrooms, and the typical bread. All with a classy accompaniment of red wine.  We had a great time!

But that may have been because Richard answered the door as batman… Did I mention his Batman outfit had spandex pants?

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daniel · the wee hours · 5 comments · ping it

Gay Friday via Boing Boing.

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Just in time for Halloween!
15 Famous Freaky Ghost Pictures via glubibulga’.

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Zombies In Plain English via The Presurfer.

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daniel · mid-afternoon · say it · ping it

I love October. I just wish my work life would slow down so I could enjoy it! Today was one of my last 3 (?) Saturdays off this year, and I wanted to enjoy it. So I slept in and did minimal chores around the house. Then I gathered up my man and we went off to the Pumpkin Patch. Actually I elected to go to the “Pumpkin Farm” in Bonita. I put that in quotes because although it looked to be an actual pumpkin farm online, and it was one of the flagship locations of my favorite brand of pumpkin patch (Pumpkin Station if you are wondering), it was a bit disappointing. The maize maze was 50 cents a person, and you could see the fence that the corn was strapped to. The “pick your own pumpkin” area was a dead part of the field with the pumpkins set in amongst the dry vines. When I tried to go back to the actual farm for pictures I was stopped. Apparently no one is aloud back there. Bummer.

I made the best of it tho. It was as kitchy overall as I like, but when they where in Mission Valley last year the presentation was waaay better. I guess you try harder when your patch is in the Target parking lot versus an actual farm. The pumpkins were big and beautiful. That part was the same. I think I got one that is a bit too big. Once I got it home I was like “Where do I put this thing?”. We aren’t carving till next week! Now I have this enormous pumpkin in my living room. Oh, and another on my petite front stoop. The drama. My home is officially vomiting autumn decor. The fake pumpkins are now crowded out by the real ones.

You know, the holidays are supposed to be easier when you don’t have children. Whatever. Here’s Richard kissing on a Llama.

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daniel · early evening · 1 comment · ping it

So did you all get a lot of trick-or-treaters? We got exactly 10. And for the most part they were little. Really little. I was shoving candy in there bag before they got their greeting out! We still have a lot of candy too. I tried to get rid of it though. I was giving hooge handfuls when I opened the door. Richard on the other hand, he let them pick. Mom was usually behind the child coaching ‘just one sweetie’. One hell! Take the bowl! We have 3 more jumbo bags upstairs!! I was glad Richard made it home on time to get the door in his Louis the 14th (16th?) outfit. Heheh. He looked cute. Pictures should be up on richardallen.vox.com at some point today!

It was a nice relaxing night in. I installed Mint on my server. I had a glass of wine. I went to bed on time. It was nice.

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daniel · late morning · 1 comment · ping it

Happy Halloween!

Today is a good day, yeah? I find myself on a day off. I seem to be feeling a bit better. I didn’t sleep all day. I really thought I might though. Last night I didn’t make it much past ten before I made my way up to bed. I really thought I’d sleep my whole morning away, but I was up at 9. Earlier than usual! I feel more like me. This is a good thing, since I think Richard wants to do something after work. He is all dressed up as King Louis XVI. One of his co-workers is Marie Antoinette. Heheheh. I bet they are having a great time!

So anyhoo. I am trying to get all my chores out of the way just in case. I have some light shopping to do later and I also want to go see all the costumes no one bought or rented. Heh. I think that would be funny for a podcast. We’ll see. I also have to muster up the courage to call the District Attorney’s office regarding my subpoena. There is another trial next week and apparently I never responded to the subpoena. Oops. I wonder why… Could it be that I don’t want to fucking go?!?!? All of this still happening a year later really makes me question whether or not I’d call the police if something else ever happened to me. I mean if it’s over and you survive what’s the point? At least it’s over and you aren’t forced to relive it in a courtroom every 4 months with no end in sight…. Right. Well. This post lost its fun!

At any rate. Halloween is my least favorite holiday, ever since that year we were fed Beanie-Weinie for dinner before trick-or-treating and I threw up. It also marks the start of the holiday season retail roller-coaster ride. Up until this point we were being pulled to the top of the tracks. This weekend we go down that first hill. *shudder*

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Spooky, scary, creepy, crawly mp3s via Waxy.

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