All Hallow's Eve

On Halloween, I spent most of the day cleaning my house. After Andy got off of work, we donned our costumes one last time to take his nieces out trick-or-treating.

My knight in shining armor!

It was fucking cold. I wore pants and boots under my costume and still after about 5 minutes of being outside my entire body was numb. We walked them up and down essentially 2.5 blocks before his older niece all of a sudden had a serious attitude.

She'd been whining the whole time we were out - her costume was too long, her bag was heavy & she didn't want to carry it, etc. but I guess about then she reached her breaking point. She refused to go to any other houses, and stomped along about a half block ahead of us. We went back to their house intending to drop her off & take her sister out some more but she decided she was done too.

Wimps. Like I told Andy, "Not to be one of those 'I walked uphill both ways to school' types, but I remember WAY colder Halloweens than this that I was out in until Mom made me go home!" Seriously. So we got home fairly early and I was hoping to watch a scary movie or something but Andy was asleep within a half hour or so.

Wimp.

Halloween, Part 1 – the Parties

Saturday was both my boss's and Andy's boss's Halloween party day.

We went to mine first - it's a family-friendly one. There's beer, don't get me wrong, but there's also a lot of children. Their party was awesome because his wife goes ALL out. Every part of their house is done up in Halloween. She puts fake moustaches on photos on the wall, hangs pictures of their kids in Halloween costumes from years past (what a great idea to get photos done then!), and they have every little detail fall or Halloween themed.

After a couple of hours, we mosied down to Andy's boss's party. It's a good ol' fashioned drinkin' party. He and his girlfriend had also done a lot of decorating, and turned the garage into the "haunted house", which was both amusing and festive. It's more of a ridiculousness sort of event than the other. It involved a jack-o-lantern lit by a kerosene-soaked roll of toilet paper and a costume that consisted of tighty whities and a chicken mask....if that gives you an idea!

Fire in the hole!

And so it Begins.

Halloween, that is.

Today was the office potluck. I ate so much buffalo chicken dip. Uggg, I don't even want to think about it now. I made triple-layer pumpkin spice pie, which has become my favorite easy fall dessert. Andy brought some cakes shaped like a blob and a dead rat. Besides that, there were some spooky treats and some not, but I ate a ton of all of it! I'm a tad worried I won't be able to get my costume on tomorrow!!!

Early stages of the goodie table

If anybody reads this, you should tell me all about your costumes this year!

I love Halloween!!!!! Happy Halloween weekend everyone!

Halloween is Nigh!

We might not get to finish putting up all of our Halloween decorations, since it seems we've lost track of the past month or so, and Andy will be getting some dental work early next week, which would be about the end of the time it makes sense to put more stuff up... We shall see.

Anyhow, the last decoration Andy bought was a strand of Christmas-esque lights. Instead of rainbow colors, though, they are all black. When he bought that he also brought this home to me:

"French Fried Gummy Fingers"....complete with 'ketchup' aka 'candied blood', which was a sour gel to put on them. I only ate 2, it was an instant sugar overload. I gave the rest to the dinner guests I had that night. They made me happy, though.

Day Twenty One.

This is probably my third-longest relationship! Three full weeks' worth of commitment, holy sh*t!

That said, I technically forgot to take a picture for this, but I was taking a couple pictures of Halloween decorations just for the heck of it, so I'll use one of them:

That would be the dining room. We have a few more decorations we need to put up and then I'll take pictures of everything. It's pretty great thus far, though!

I am excited for Halloween!!!!

27 Days ‘Til Halloween

Halloween decor: round 1 (only this picture sucks)

Also on Sunday, to add to my list of domestic accomplishments, we had Andy's nieces over and started decorating for Halloween. It was really pretty fun, and the house looks awesome so far. We need some more outdoor stuff, but it'll happen :) We still have a few things to hang here & there, but so far so good! That sort of confirmation that fall is here & Halloween is coming up made me feel happier than I've felt in a while.