The final week of October! Which means the end of the year is fast approaching. I really need to learn the art of not blinking, because every time I blink, time zooms on by. Saturday is Halloween – I better get busy finishing up Princess Nagger’s costume before then – at least the hardest part…
Gone are the years of ‘easy’ Halloween costumes. Well, at least for half of the kids, that is. Specifically Princess Nagger. Way back when she was a baby, I bought a cute fuzzy ladybug costume that served her well for three years in a row: Well, OK, that third year was a bit of a…
Still limping along without the basic luxury of internet, phone and cable, but once again utilizing the cold dark parking lot of the gas station down the road from where I live in order to borrow their working WiFi hotspot, with the few pictures from Halloween. It was a meager Halloween this year – there…
Then… Growing up, we lived in the perfect neighborhood to Trick-or-Treat in. An idyllic neighborhood full of young families and scads of kids, during a time when neighbors were actually neighborly. Us kids would get all excited about dressing up and going from house-to-house to see how much candy we could collect (and how much…
Halloween was quite the adventure this year. Since we live out in the boondocks on a long stretch of a fairly busy road, no one does trick’or’treat along our road – it’s not safe. We discovered a few years ago that everyone along our road simply drives to a ‘regular’ suburban-ish neighborhood and let the…
HALLOWEEN DICTIONARY Bobbing Apples: What happens when you leave your bra off while running. Boogieman: Guy who passes time at a stoplight picking his nose. Coffin: What you do when you get a piece of popcorn stuck in your throat.Frankenstein: Hot dog and a mug of beer. Full Moon: What your repairman reveals when he…
