Posts Tagged ‘Halloween’

• I should be doing something more important

  Date: 2009.06.27 | Category: Life as we know it | Response: 0

  It’s a struggle to stay occupied on the weekends when the rest of the time zone is sleeping. I have a few things that I would like to do but I need the freedom to make as much noise as I want and I really need the warming glow of the sun above me. Sitting around is hard to do and it starts to wear on me physically after a while. What else can I do? The dogs are sleeping. Jessica is sleeping.

  Luckily, I have one last weekend in the dark and a few more days of work and I can resume my normal life. I’ve been watching TV but I think I’m going clean out the garage. Sounds boring doesn’t it? At least it’s a way to kill some time without making too much noise.

  We have both noticed that we spend too much time in front of the TV so we’ve made an effort to spend a little more time with our noses buried in books. I’m working on a new book by Henry Rollins and a book about Home Brewing. Henry has always been an inspiration and I always get a kick out of his books – its a shame he has been avoiding me. I don’t stalk him per se but I feel that he schedules his shows to avoid me. If I am in the desert he is in the states touring. If I in the states he is in the desert doing a USO show. If I am in Canada for the weekend he is in the Seattle area. Lately, I haven’t been able to win. He doesn’t have much coming up on the calendar for this year but I hope some more dates show up soon. I’m reading the home brewing book because I caught an article about making cider… strong cider. Our 2nd annual Halloween party is coming down the pipeline and I thought it would be a cool idea to make our own cider instead of making death grog like we did last year. Research got me on a bunny trail and soon after down the rabbit trail I went and I found that making cider and beer aren’t that far from each other. I only need a few more pieces of equipment to make beer so if I can squirrel away the money Jessica will hopefully give me the go ahead. It sounds fairly simple and it could actually be fun. We’ll see how it goes.

• Halloween

  Date: 2008.11.08 | Category: family, shenanigans | Response: 0

  So last weekend John and I had our first Halloween party. We had spent all week getting food and decorations ready. It actually turned out pretty cool. We had the new beer pong table, spooky treats, and witches brew. Leanne and Jeff were great and made 100 jello shots for the party. It was really fun ( what I could remember of it anyway) and it seemed that everyone else had a pretty good time too.

  Costumes were encouraged so I was really excited when everyone came dressed up. John and I decided to be zombies. We acquired our costumes from thrift stores and makeup from Wal-mart and they turned out really cool, if I do say so myself.

  Here are some pictures from the party and the rest you will find HERE.

  

  We eat Brains

  

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• Can’t sleep, too much time and talent, and zombies

  Date: 2008.11.03 | Category: I was too lazy to organize these | Response: 1

  Par for the course during the first week of mid-shift is an inability to sleep throughout the “night.” I only got four hours of sleep and I’m wide awake now. There is no going back to sleep and I will be exhausted by the time I go to bed tomorrow. Luckily, day two always turns out better and I’m able to get a solid six hours of sleep.

  This guy (video below) has far too much time and talent on his hands. Bravo!

  Jessica and I had our party and we dressed as zombies for Halloween. The makeup took quite a while but I think the effect was pretty darn good. Yes – we like brains!
  

  
  
  

• Halloween

  Date: 2008.10.31 | Category: Life as we know it | Response: 0

  

  It’s 11:46 and Jessica and I still have an hour left of prep tonight for our party tomorrow. We’ve got a bit of prep to do tomorrow but most of the hard work is done. It will take us a few hours to get into our costumes – it should be fun. More photos will follow – when the hangover goes away.

• More Punkins'

  Date: 2007.10.20 | Category: I was too lazy to organize these | Response: 0

  Today, Leanne, Jeff, Kayla and I took a trip to H&L produce to pick some pumpkins. The plan was to go to a pumpkin patch in Orting, however the 1.39 inches of rain made us not so excited about that idea. So we went to the same place John and I went to our pumpkins. They were all so big, but awesome. We ended up getting the big ones at H&L and the littler ones from Wal-Mart. We didn’t get a chance to carve them all this evening as we didn’t even start carving until about 8:30p.m. It was a lot of fun, as always. We carved away while playing “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” in the background. Kayla got to carve her big one into an alien. Jeff spent about 2 hours working on carving Scooby-Doo into his big pumpkin. Leanne and I took the 2 each we got from H&L and craved ‘em up. Leanne made hers into a phantom and a ghost, while mine are a spider, and a big ol’ free handed scary face. And of course there are pictures of our wonderful creations!

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

• An Early Halloween

  Date: 2007.10.14 | Category: I was too lazy to organize these | Response: 0

  Since I knew John was leaving for 3 whole weeks and he wouldn’t be here for Halloween, I got him to celebrate a little bit early with me. We didn’t have much time so we couldn’t go to a REAL pumpkin patch and get pumpkins, we had to go to a produce store instead. But, we picked some big ones anyway. Mine weighed in at 28.75lbs. and John’s was a 30 pounder. We took them to the apartment and John decided to draw a freestyle Charlie Chaplin and I went for the same ol’ pirate skull that I always go for and start before I realize that I’ve done it before.

  So we cut them up and emptied them out. Then we carved them into amazing jack o’ lanterns. I had a good time, however I do not think John was as impressed as I’d hoped he’d be. It was, after all, his first time. He actually did very well and I am pleased with our happy little punkins!

  And for your viewing pleasure, here they are!