Hallowe'en!!!
So my party was lame. Half my friends didn't show up, and the other half left early to go to other parties. The rest were just bums and just plain didn't want to come to a party where they didn't know everyone.
It wasn't all bad. I mean, we started early because three people did say when they accepted the invitation that they wanted to carve pumpkins but had another party to go to. So I had people showing up at 3:00pm and we started carving pumpkins around 4:00pm. Only 4 of us ended up carving pumpkins, but as I did 4 on my own it kept me busy the whole time. I did up a horror movie drinking game, but when the guys watched a movie on their own they didn't use it (they watched Army of Darkness and one of their cues was any time Ash threw out a one-liner. I don't know what other cues they used but I expect it doesn't matter - that one alone would have them wasted half-way through), and when we watched the remake of Friday the 13th it didn't quite follow many of the stereotypical rules, so even with amendments for Freddy I only got through 2 1/2 beer. Oh well.
But I'm really happy with the way my pumpkins turned out! I got the idea last year, when I did just the evil pumpkin. He turned out so good and I got lots of compliments on it (one little girl was too afraid of it to come up to get candy, so her dad came up, laughing), so I thought I would expand on the theme a little.
Bruenor standing guard in the window.
Murder is too much for some pumpkins.
Illuminated at dusk.
Mmmm, cannibalicious...
Since it was on a Sunday, Tino and I stayed in and just handed out candy. We put a dvd into the computer so we could stay upstairs to hand out candy and watched Jennifer's Body (interesting story idea, amusing movie - Megan Fox plays dumb very well. ...What do you mean she isn't acting?). The teenage slang in that movie and me bouncing between laughing at the absurdity of it and crying because I was clearly too old to know cool vernacular any more.
35 kidlets in all last night. Not lots, but better than our first year here when there were only 16!
Nothing exciting for Celtic New Year either. I did my annual oracle reading, which didn't seem so much a glimpse into the year to come but a 9-card reprimand about how I better shape the fuck up (those cards excel at telling me exactly want I don't want to hear but need to anyway). I wrote it all down, so I'll have to revisit it periodically and see what comes of it.
It wasn't all bad. I mean, we started early because three people did say when they accepted the invitation that they wanted to carve pumpkins but had another party to go to. So I had people showing up at 3:00pm and we started carving pumpkins around 4:00pm. Only 4 of us ended up carving pumpkins, but as I did 4 on my own it kept me busy the whole time. I did up a horror movie drinking game, but when the guys watched a movie on their own they didn't use it (they watched Army of Darkness and one of their cues was any time Ash threw out a one-liner. I don't know what other cues they used but I expect it doesn't matter - that one alone would have them wasted half-way through), and when we watched the remake of Friday the 13th it didn't quite follow many of the stereotypical rules, so even with amendments for Freddy I only got through 2 1/2 beer. Oh well.
But I'm really happy with the way my pumpkins turned out! I got the idea last year, when I did just the evil pumpkin. He turned out so good and I got lots of compliments on it (one little girl was too afraid of it to come up to get candy, so her dad came up, laughing), so I thought I would expand on the theme a little.
Bruenor standing guard in the window.
Murder is too much for some pumpkins.
Illuminated at dusk.
Mmmm, cannibalicious...
Since it was on a Sunday, Tino and I stayed in and just handed out candy. We put a dvd into the computer so we could stay upstairs to hand out candy and watched Jennifer's Body (interesting story idea, amusing movie - Megan Fox plays dumb very well. ...What do you mean she isn't acting?). The teenage slang in that movie and me bouncing between laughing at the absurdity of it and crying because I was clearly too old to know cool vernacular any more.
35 kidlets in all last night. Not lots, but better than our first year here when there were only 16!
Nothing exciting for Celtic New Year either. I did my annual oracle reading, which didn't seem so much a glimpse into the year to come but a 9-card reprimand about how I better shape the fuck up (those cards excel at telling me exactly want I don't want to hear but need to anyway). I wrote it all down, so I'll have to revisit it periodically and see what comes of it.