Distracted By Something Shiny

I was going to make a post about the grumpy day I had yesterday. I was actually going to make it last night but I was writing and editing my Halloween story until midnight. Now, in light of the storm damage, I thought I'd just be grateful instead. So, since I promised you all Halloween pics, let’s do that now.

( Here, let me talk about scaring little kids. )

I was going to post the actual pictures but my sister did that over at her journal this year, so I will just link to those. She does all the work anyways, so if you are impressed, drop her a comment!

Here are the pictures I posted last year, with a lot of night time shots.



Here are the pictures from this year, at my sister’s journal, with some really good close-ups.



And this is the Grim Reaper, the big new addition to the graveyard this year.

Next year we have to do some serious work on supporting the tombstones because the weather has just killed them this year. Anyways, enjoy the creepy and have an awesome Halloween! And stay dry and warm, if you can!

First, happy belated birthday to waywardson_lvr!! And happy early birthday to marigoldg!! Hope they are/were good ones!!

So now I will tell you a story about a Good Samaritan.

To start, let me explain how nobody calls us after 9pm because they all know my sister gets up for work at 5 in the morning. The family knows this and I make sure all my friends know it too. If the phone does ring after 9, my sister stumbles out of bed, half asleep and disoriented - (she sleeps soundly so she is always confused as hell when she wakes up in the middle of the night) - and in a full on panic that some terrible emergency is taking place. Why else would the phone be ringing in the middle of the night - never mind that sometimes it is only 9:30pm. My mom will call at 9:10 and say, “I know it is past the cut off time, but it’s only a little past the time, right?” - all the while my sister is stumbling down the hallway, thinking it must be 1am and asking me who has died, because why else would the phone be ringing? No, it is just my mom and she wants to know who that guy is on channel 6 right now.

( I know you are wondering what my sister's sleeping habits have to do with a Good Samaritan. )

I find it highly encouraging that someone out there would go to so much trouble to help a stranger who had lost her wallet. I also find it a little sad that if our phone rings at 9:30 at night, we automatically think something terrible has happened - it makes me feel old and lame, you guys.

Now, if you want to be both uplifted and sad at the same time, you should go check out 40 Of The Most Powerful Photographs Ever Taken. I saw it over on dugindeep's LJ and I was literally sobbing by the time I got through looking at all of these moving pieces of our history. Don't say I didn't warn you though.

1. Happy belated Birthday to lathan_lover! Happy actual Birthday to afra_schatz! Happy early Birthday to elfscribe5! I hope all your days were/are AWESOME!!

( Three pretty pictures under the cut for your birthdays. )

2. I wanted to say Thank You to denig37 and ranua for the V-gifts that they apparently sent me back at Christmas. (stupid LJ doesn't send notifications for v-gifts). I love cookies and anything wearing a ridiculous Santa hat. It's true. Also, Thanks to anyothergirl415 for the beautiful glass heart V-gift I got today. Lovely.

3. And a bazillion hundred THANK YOUS to denig37 for the "That's My Man High-Five" The Todd icon she made me!!!! I am still smiling like an idiot over it. (Go check it out, peoples. I put it up on my last post. That's my man! High-Five!)

4. I finished my Valentine's Day fic. The week got away from me, I was so busy doing RL things that were not really fun but definitely necessary, so I never got my Firefly fic up. But I will definitely be posting my Dean/Cas Valentine's Day AU, probably Wednesday, since I have therapy tomorrow.

5. It is bad luck to end on an even number, so let me inform you that I am eating Sweetheart Valentine's Day candy that I got from my grandma. Yes, I still apparently get Valentine's Day candy from my grandma. It's yummy. The one I just ate said, "Step Up." What the hell kind of love message is that?

That is all.

So, when we lived in an apartment, we never did anything for Halloween (except watch scary movies). Now that we live in a house, we go all out. The first year we started with a few tombstones and the giant spider. Every year we try to add a few more tombstones and some larger item. This year we added the bat. It is way bigger than an actual bat but still looks very realistic. It actually creeps me out quite a bit. When we got it home, we realized that it lights up and screeches as well. The neighbor kids are prone to daring each other to sneak up and touch something in the yard and then run away - I hope the bat "wakes up" on them and makes them crap their pants!

Anyways, I thought I would share some pictures.

Yep, this is my house.


( More creepy crawlies under the cut. )

Yeah, we really enjoy Halloween around here. I don't know what scary movies we will select for this year, but we tend to turn on something we have seen a thousand times while we pass out candy. I feel like watching some H2O this year maybe.

Ya'll are lucky I am even here right now - my Plants VS Zombies game came in the mail yesterday. I played for at least three hours. I have at last come up for air. So, since I am back in the world of the living momentarily, I thought I should continue on with the story of my Awesome Vacation.

Firstly, The BFF would like me to tell you all her favorite story from our Roadtrip - (yep, I say Roadtrip with a capital letter) - in which we went through Quebec and no one spoke English. We were walking into a Harvey's - (basically their version of Burger King only better) - and this man runs up to open the door for us - (because Canadians are nice, even the French ones). Then, because it is polite to thank people, and because Merci is one word we do know in French, The BFF responded with a "Merci." The man then proceeds to try to have a full-on conversation with her in French. She just smiled and nodded. Also, ordering from the 16yr old behind the counter, who didn't speak English, was an experience. It involved hand gestures.

And now the rest of my story...( and at the end, I married George Weasley. )

Was that long enough? Did I miss anything else, liptonrm?

Oh, you want pictures?

I know, you all want baby pictures and wedding pictures, but...I have only been doing this LJ thing for a year. I'm still not comfortable putting up pictures of myself on the internet. And I certainly won't put up pictures of other people, because it's weird to be all putting them on my secret journal that is so secret I won't let them read it.

But how about a picture of the view from gorgeous downtown Stowe, Vermont instead?


( Our Room With A View... )

And that concludes my epic series. I hope you enjoyed. I now have Zombies to kill.


ETA: Just thought I should give proper credit to The BFF for the amazing pictures. She's quite handy with the camera.

That’s right, I said A Hot Pink Princess Tiara Piñata. Thirty-three isn’t too old for one of those, is it?

So, my sister went shopping for party supplies for The Nephew’s birthday a few weeks ago and came back to report that they had a purple castle piñata at the store. Me and The BFF made noises of delight and then we all laughed. After a few minutes of sitting and staring blankly at whatever was on the TV - (our favorite show - Without a Criminal Bones: SVU) - in utter silence, The BFF says, "Dammit, now I want a piñata." My sister replies, "I’ll see what I can do."

I think nothing more of it.

Only to awaken on my birthday to find a hot pink princess tiara piñata hanging from the light fixture in the kitchen.

You want to know something? I had never done a piñata before. Not just for my own birthday, but not even at anyone’s else party either. At thirty-three, I found that a sad fact. WHICH HAS NOW BEEN RECTIFIED!!! I totally put a crack in it myself, but it was The BFF who sent it flying and exploding everywhere while my sister frantically grabbed for candy. Then disappointed that she hadn’t gotten a turn, my sister proceeded to beat on the damn thing even after it was dead.

I have to say, beating things with sticks is a great stress reliever. Ya’ll should try it at some point in your life, if you never have or don’t regularly beat things with sticks.

Also, I think you guys all rule, so let me say thanks one more time...( for my birthday messages and LJ gifts and also there are a few recs for things what I got for my birthday behind this cut. )

Did I forget anyone? I hope not. Let me reiterate - YOU ARE ALL MADE OF AWESOMESAUCE AND IT IS DELICIOUS! Things happened over the weekend, I shall report later. But right now I have to go eat chicken and I believe we are starting "Life on Mars" tonight.

Here, have this picture of my sister’s cat just after he got caught trying to eat The BFF’s birthday flowers, and this picture of the other cat playing with the wrapping paper tissue and the broken and busted hot pink princess tiara piñata.

( BROTHERS!! )

But if I did - how about "It's his birthday!"

That works for me.

Also, yeah, I didn't post pictures of Misha on his birthday, but that's because I made a pic-post of Misha like the week before. How many pictures of Misha with a monkey do you people need?

And, I still don't know why the icons I make always come out fuzzy and/or pixelated. I miss my old photo program. But look - I finally made an icon of Chad. Yes, it says exactly what you think it says.

My icon is a prime example of what to expect in the rest of my post. Pictures of Chad coupled with my ridiculous commentary, as told from Chad's POV.

You have been forewarned.

Now, let us take a look at the many years of Chad Michael Murray -



(  - that I bet he wishes we didn't know about. )

Did you enjoy that? I know I sure did.

Cigarette?



Okay, Dodger wants one more.



Now go away. It's my birthday. Time for alcohol, strippers and hookers!

Things that have been brought to my attention as of late -

liptonrm, here is an interview with Joseph Gordon-Levitt on Fallon, if you're interested.

He's such a geek, I love him

oselle, I know you like to watch Bollywood movies. This seems like you need to be drunk to watch it, though.

It's kind of Slash-tastic - Three Idiots

baylorsr, Look, it's the cats in the morning!

Feed Me, Seymour!

Also, Peoples, this is what happens when you try to Eat The Babies!

Come Here, Kitty!

And lastly, for those of you who attended FanGirl Central's Jensen Ackles Weekend (<--oh, what would you have me call it, you know it was our Jensen Ackles Weekend!) - and were all like, "I can't believe we can't get our hands on some Eric Brady."

I give you, Eric Brady Returns - look at the hair!

And then the ones that person posted from their old VCR tapes - these aren't all the episodes he did, but, here, Jensen Ackles in Days Of Our Lives #1

Also, click on my you accidently did porn tag and get the one where Eric Brady did porn.

And, under the cut, you'll find some Days group promo shots. I'll leave it up to you to decide - a) sequel to The Outsiders or b) cover for a gay porno. Now the question remains, which of these guys was sleeping with Jensen before he met his true love, Jared? (What? Did you forget for a minute whose LJ you were reading?)

( I'm sorry, Jensen, forgive me for posting these )

Carry On.