Like @ebertchicago, I remember. http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/politics/i-remember.html (My absentee ballot was sent many weeks ago.)
Just completed a 6.32 km run with RunKeeper – 1st run in a week – felt pretty good. Stupid foot is NOT happy though.
Photos from the House on the Rock Halloween Weekend. Awesome. I especially like the one of Neil as the Doctor.
I really should post my pictures from our trip sometime…
Stress. Why am I so susceptible to it? Friday’s Halloween party celebrations were cut short when I started feeling a tell-tale tingle on my lip in the afternoon. Crap. I haven’t had a cold sore for well over a year. I felt worse and worse as the day progressed. I left the party as soon as I could and rushed home to get my anti-viral prescription filled. It had expired, but luckily my doctor was working late and able to authorise a new one. I took the drugs and then basically spent the next 72 hours lying on our couch. I’m not sure if it’s the virus or the medicine, but I just feel so horrible and dizzy and sore. The glands in my jaw were swollen and tender. On the plus side, the antivirals stopped me from having shooting neuralgia pains going up my whole head. The drugs worked quickly, and by Monday I was starting to feel myself again. The sore is already healing, enough that I’m not too self-conscious about it. Man, could they just hurry up and cure this already? It SUUUUCKS.
Like Roger Ebert, I remember. My absentee ballot was sent weeks ago. I didn’t vote Republican.
@kunaal84 SUIT UP. Or else I’ll look silly!
My Melbourne Cup look: Joan Holloway in the 21st century.
No fascinator, but I did bring a — hangs head in shame — hipster fedora.
@AusVintageGrrl On you it looks good. On me it looks like Hillary Duff in Gossip Girl. Ugh.
@redambition Gorgeous! Love that it matches the shoes. 🙂
My package from Heartbreaker Fashion cleared customs last night! So I should get it today, right? (PRETTY FROCKS AHOY!)
Chrontendo is a video podcast that aims to examine every single Nintendo game in chronological order. The Snook and I watched Episode 1 tonight. (So far the guy is up to Episode 33!) It’s AMAZING, and I love it so much. The Snook was incredulous at first that someone could even get through every NES game in a liftime. “There are probably over a thousand!” he said. “This guy has a CALLING,” I answered. “Don’t disparage it! It’s a beautiful thing!” (This Metafilter post has handy links to each episode.) I predict many enjoyable hours of nostalgia watching this.
Spent the whole day vegging on the couch and sleeping. Snook woke me up with a Dutch Baby pancake and a coffee. He is awesome.
The Halloween hate makes me sad. We just need some education on proper trick-or-treating etiquette! Put me on the news; I’ll fix it!
@Bells_G T-o-T is an organised activity. The town nominates one day. Kids only go to houses with lights on & decorations. It’s easy!
@Bells_G If people don’t want to participate, they just don’t. It’s just that no one here understands how it’s meant to work.
@Bells_G But we celebrate Chinese New Year here. And Bastille Day. And Guy Fawkes Day. Multiculturalism means getting all the fun stuff!
I just feel that some anti-Halloween sentiment is less about the holiday and more about anti-Americanism.
And avoiding a fun excuse for fancy dress and candy is cutting off your cultural nose to spite your face! 🙂
@Bells_G That’s a valid point. But Halloween is also the *craftiest* of holidays in the US, truly. For us it’s all about being creative!
@Lauren_lolly_ Fully agree that sucks. That’s why I need ten minutes on “Today Tonight” to sort out the ankle-biters. 🙂
Just sad that folks are resistant to a holiday that, for me, is all about celebrating craft, costumes, & community. Bah, humbug indeed. 🙁
RT @nellasantos: @web_goddess I got inspired by your Halloween parties so I held one tonight with coworkers. Huge success! http://plixi. …
@nellasantos That’s awesome! Well done, glad to have inspired you guys. 🙂
@Lauren_lolly_ Yes, it takes a lot longer than 9 years to undo an accent. Though I do same some words “strine”.
@infoholic You aren’t looking very hard. For a lot of people, Halloween is all about craft and making stuff. I make SO MUCH every year.
@Lauren_lolly_ My father’s fam are from Kentucky, so I can do an Appalachian if I need to. I do a better Sookie than Anna Paquin, frankly.
@kunaal84 Getting there. Not sure if I’ll be in tomorrow yet. Might take another day to rest. Just wiped out…
All the stuff I made for Halloween 2010, including my contest-winning homemade costume: https://web-goddess.org/archive/9424
@Lauren_lolly_ Only if you like corn fields.
@ghimmelmann I guess. It just seems more vitriolic when it involves US though. Candy and costumes are fun, regardless of who popularised it!
@imdominating That would be awesome. “Dr Chin, I’m gonna need some Percocet for my costume this year. I’m all about authenticity.”
@mpesce Nothing so far in Chippo at our end. Have you had any yet? We had a few in previous years, but we were having an obvious party then.
Realisation: Halloween = graffiti knitting, but I’m on the opposite side of this one. 🙂
@steven_noble You reckon? To me the anti-Halloween sentiment was louder than ever this year. Depressed me a bit. Glad the kids had fun tho!
RT @Fifikins: Our virginal Halloween: http://bit.ly/bIQUui // AWESOME POST. I love how you approached it for your street, great idea!
Feeling better, but my head is still sore and my jaw feels like it’s been punched. I think I’ll rest up for one more day. Stupid virus.
Snookums is doing Movember again, so this morning this http://twitpic.com/32rc99 became this http://twitpic.com/32rcci. So weird. 🙂
@morethanaride Kept the ‘tache? I’d love him to, actually, but he objects to the work involved in trimming. Can’t really blame him!
@imdominating I said, It makes your nose look bigger! He said, I understand a lot of dudes take advantage of that effect… elsewhere. HA!
Who loves me? Petey does. http://twitpic.com/32rtwk http://twitpic.com/32rtyz http://twitpic.com/32ru4f http://twitpic.com/32ru76
Check out Snookums’s #Movember effort to change the face of men’s health http://t.co/HbJaR82 via @movember
Spent the whole day vegging on the couch and sleeping. Snook woke me up with a Dutch Baby pancake and a coffee. He is awesome.
All the stuff I made for Halloween this year, including my contest-winning homemade costume…
Who loves me? Petey does.
Snook’s doing Movember! As of this morning, he looked like this: http://twitpic.com/32rcci
Even though we cancelled our annual party this year, I still felt the need to exercise my Halloween crafty impulses. Luckily there are a couple other people at work who like the holiday, so we combined forces to throw a party on Friday. (It was also our end-of-the-month drinks, so that worked out nicely.)
Throughout the week, I brought in Halloween decorations to liven up my corner of the office. I also made a pilgrimage to Sugar Fix to get candy corn and mini Reese’s Cups, which I put out in bowls on my desk. (Want to be popular? Free Reese’s Cups are the answer.) Thursday night I made a batch of my traditional Witches’ Finger Cookies. I went with a shortbread recipe this year, which helped retain the details a little better. They were a huge hit! I also broke out my brain mould and whipped up Igor’s Pickled Brain. I’ve done panna cotta before, but this one is basically a giant White Russian set with gelatin. I kept in the fridge all day at work and unmolded it at the end of the day. For sauce, I just poured on some stewed berries from a can, which looked suitably gross. People went NUTS! At one point there were like six people around it taking photos. Very gratifying! It was tasty too, with a strong coffee flavour. Quite a kick, too. My co-worker Gemma brought a lot of other snacks, including some excellent sugar cookies, chocolate crackles, and decorated cupcakes. Most of the office was on a sugar high all day long.
My costume was very last minute. I’d been toying with a few different ideas. In the end, I pulled out my Lucy dress from Halloween 2008. This was sewn from a pattern that was actually intended as an Alice in Wonderland dress. So, why not be Alice? Unfortunately there was a problem as soon as I pulled it on – this thing was WAY too short for wearing at work. So I worked late into the night Thursday cutting up an old bedsheet to make myself a petticoat. I also made a small pinafore/apron to wear over the top. The Snook lent me his little white rabbit and made a tiny pocketwatch for him to wear. With a pair of white knee socks and an Alice band, I was ready. I changed just before lunchtime on Friday, and the reaction was great! In fact, at the end of the day, my boss announced they were giving a bottle of wine to the best costume… and I won! That was pretty awesome, especially considering just about all of it was homemade.
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