Halloween pic post yo!
Originally I'd wanted to go trick-or-treating, but since most of my friends weren't going - either because they would be at Youmacon, or because they just didn't want to go - I decided I'd just wait until I have kids and steal all their candy. Then, on Friday, Peter mentioned he and Rux were going to go trick-or-treating, so of course I jumped at the chance ... I just didn't have a costume. So Peter and I decided that we'd cut up a couple boxes and I could go as Marvin the Robot, as a compliment to his Arthur Dent costume.
I didn't even make it to the car before I decided I would just wear one box one my head, as the body restricted my movement so that I couldn't even hold my pillowcase open, and just wearing it tired my arms out. Of course, that didn't stop the other box from smacking into my nose and turning to block my vision with every movement. When we got to the second (and last - all the other houses were dark, probably because we decided to go at 9:00, roughly two hours after all the little kids had gone) house, they asked what my costume was. I replied, "A sore nose and a broken ankle waiting to happen." Then we went to campus to visit Pyramid Head!Jimmy, and I decided that what my costume really was, was A Poor Life Decision.
The pumpkins that Nick and I carved. Mine is the awesome one on the left, with the Fu Man Chu moustache. Nick's is the "alien" wearing "sunglasses" (read: Nick apparently can't carve pumpkins without power tools) on the right.
Nick's costume. Later he added a stuffed turtle between the hats, and a raccoon puppet.
While Chris didn't go trick-or-treating with us, he did come to Gamer's Guild on Friday as Raptor Jesus.
Jimmy as Pyramid Head. Sorry for the horrible quality - these were all taken with my cell phone. I also never got a chance to take a photo of him with the sword.
Today we went to my grandma's house to help her out by raking the leaves off her lawn. Since Leaf Pile Olympics is this Friday, we figured we would make sure we had a nice supply of leaves and give Grandma some extra help my relieving her of all the leaves. So, after most of us had lunch, all seven of us (me, Nick, Ben, Peter, Gospel, Rux, and Jason) headed over and used some tarps to stuff all the leaves into the back of Nick's truck.
Nick and Jason claimed they were squashing down the leaves for more room, right before Nick said he was becoming one with nature. For the record, honey, eating nature doesn't mean you're becoming one with it.
Gospel's not much better at smushing the leaves down, either.
Nick managed to get to the little window at the back of his cab - he's mostly visible on the bottom right corner, under my reflection.
All in all, it was a pretty awesome Halloween. I think next year I'd like to throw a party.
I didn't even make it to the car before I decided I would just wear one box one my head, as the body restricted my movement so that I couldn't even hold my pillowcase open, and just wearing it tired my arms out. Of course, that didn't stop the other box from smacking into my nose and turning to block my vision with every movement. When we got to the second (and last - all the other houses were dark, probably because we decided to go at 9:00, roughly two hours after all the little kids had gone) house, they asked what my costume was. I replied, "A sore nose and a broken ankle waiting to happen." Then we went to campus to visit Pyramid Head!Jimmy, and I decided that what my costume really was, was A Poor Life Decision.
The pumpkins that Nick and I carved. Mine is the awesome one on the left, with the Fu Man Chu moustache. Nick's is the "alien" wearing "sunglasses" (read: Nick apparently can't carve pumpkins without power tools) on the right.
Nick's costume. Later he added a stuffed turtle between the hats, and a raccoon puppet.
While Chris didn't go trick-or-treating with us, he did come to Gamer's Guild on Friday as Raptor Jesus.
Jimmy as Pyramid Head. Sorry for the horrible quality - these were all taken with my cell phone. I also never got a chance to take a photo of him with the sword.
Today we went to my grandma's house to help her out by raking the leaves off her lawn. Since Leaf Pile Olympics is this Friday, we figured we would make sure we had a nice supply of leaves and give Grandma some extra help my relieving her of all the leaves. So, after most of us had lunch, all seven of us (me, Nick, Ben, Peter, Gospel, Rux, and Jason) headed over and used some tarps to stuff all the leaves into the back of Nick's truck.
Nick and Jason claimed they were squashing down the leaves for more room, right before Nick said he was becoming one with nature. For the record, honey, eating nature doesn't mean you're becoming one with it.
Gospel's not much better at smushing the leaves down, either.
Nick managed to get to the little window at the back of his cab - he's mostly visible on the bottom right corner, under my reflection.
All in all, it was a pretty awesome Halloween. I think next year I'd like to throw a party.