How To Trick or Treat When You're Not Yet Two
We stayed up way later than we meant to trick or treating and waiting for the Great Pumpkin Sunday night. It was really the first time Oliver had been able to go Trick or Treating, and although it took him a couple of stops to figure out what was going on, once he did figure it out, he pushed past everyone else, ran to the door of the next house, pounded on it, and grabbed handfuls of candy from whatever friendly person answered. It was all kinds of awesome. And there was great food - garlic bread, burgers, apple and goulda sausage, chicken, apple crisp - I'm getting hungry just thinking about it.
The other awesome part of my Halloween weekend is that we have company. I knew Emma's cousin and aunt were coming in from Birmingham on Thursday for a couple of weeks, and was stoked to see them. (And they had never seen It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown before...but they have now! Mwhahahahahaha!) What I didn't know was that my friend rufusthered decided to make a pit stop by the house of krylyr on his epic three month road-trip through the U.S. (He took the Blue Bastard - now with 220,000 + miles on it - up to Alaska and is on his way back. It still seems to be running relatively well.) Emma and Claire knew Cordell was coming but managed to keep it a secret from me. I'm particularly impressed that Claire didn't even try and taunt me about knowing a secret that I did not.
To celebrate the latest sale and other stuff, we all went out to Pick Up Stix last night, and then some of us were brave enough to stay up late (heh - until like 9:30) and watch the premiere of The Walking Dead, which I thoroughly loved. How much did I love it? Too soon to say, but I was impressed by how much of the spirit of the story Darabont was able to maintain from the comics - especially the pathetic and horrible nature of the zombies, and the humanity of the living. I just might have a new weekly show to watch.
The other awesome part of my Halloween weekend is that we have company. I knew Emma's cousin and aunt were coming in from Birmingham on Thursday for a couple of weeks, and was stoked to see them. (And they had never seen It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown before...but they have now! Mwhahahahahaha!) What I didn't know was that my friend rufusthered decided to make a pit stop by the house of krylyr on his epic three month road-trip through the U.S. (He took the Blue Bastard - now with 220,000 + miles on it - up to Alaska and is on his way back. It still seems to be running relatively well.) Emma and Claire knew Cordell was coming but managed to keep it a secret from me. I'm particularly impressed that Claire didn't even try and taunt me about knowing a secret that I did not.
To celebrate the latest sale and other stuff, we all went out to Pick Up Stix last night, and then some of us were brave enough to stay up late (heh - until like 9:30) and watch the premiere of The Walking Dead, which I thoroughly loved. How much did I love it? Too soon to say, but I was impressed by how much of the spirit of the story Darabont was able to maintain from the comics - especially the pathetic and horrible nature of the zombies, and the humanity of the living. I just might have a new weekly show to watch.