Jilli-- WOW.

DJ -- YOWZA.

Emmett made a fine and fierce pirate and is now on the couch watching HIMYM, having passed through the candy-frenzy stage, the we're-back-home-already,-it-can't-be-over! stage, and the counting-and-gloating stage. Matilda was bug-eyed with wonder the entire time. Costumes seen in the neighborhood: many, many Dorothys, two skunks, two giraffes, three pumpkins, a Frankentoddler, lots of Disney princesses, lots of tiny Spider-Men, an armada of pirates, a pool table, a garbage can, Elvis, a half-dozen black cats, three V for Vendettas, one Pooh, and one Wednesday Addams.

We watched It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown! before going out, and now I really want us all to dress up as the Peanuts gang one year. One of us in a white robe with cranky witch mask and pointy hat, one in a ghost sheet with a coonskin cap on top, one in a sheet trailing a cloud of dust, and one in a sheet with too many eyeholes and a paper bag full of rocks.

Some generic, uninspired "gothic bride" (Jilli you woulda either laughed or had a fit... maybe both) won the "scary" catagory.

Oooh, and I bet it was one of those dreadful costumes that come in a plastic bag.

Our trick-or-treaters included a few babygoths (as in, 8 or 9 years old babygoths), very proudly wearing black swoopy dresses and black eyeshadow. I gave them extra candy.

ooh, and I bet it was one of those dreadful costumes that come in a plastic bag.

Undoubtedly purchased from one of those stores that opens up in an unused part of a strip mall in time for Halloween and sells the same 12 costumes and 10 dollar fog machines nationwide.

Grrr, I had even lit and smoldered part of the overshirt of my costume (because the only thing that is cooler than a zombie is a zombie that has been lit on fire).

Am I the only one who finds these Salvation Army commercials hilarious? Hey lady! Why don't you put down the bell and give us a hand over here?

commercials? commercials? O! those things the "mute" button (live tv) and "skip 60 sec" (for recorded tv) was made for ;-)

Juliana, Jilli, love the ensembles.

Hallowe'en sort of passed us by out here, but tomorrow we're having a Hallowe'en party at school. Since I'm up to my neck in report-writing, I haven't really taken this on board - I'm thinking vampire, but pirate is always a tempting option, just for cutlass-brandishing possibilities. Hmm...

Anyway, I'm not here. No, I'm not. Don't look at me! I'm writing reports! So that I can go across town to pick up a couple of things from my tailor (I have a tailor! Took me long enough, but I got around to it in the end - ah, Thailand!) and then hit Siam Paragon, or perhaps Emporium, to see if they have any spooky paraphanalia left. And thence, insh'allah, to the British Club, where the Bangkok Community Theatre are having their monthly club night. Bellydancing - I'll be gutted if I miss it.

We closed yesterday! We own a home! Going on our final walk through was so much fun. We took the kids to the park right behind the house and Liv took a tire swing to the head but she's none the worse for wear.

Mom's staying with us at the hotel and helping with the kids. Things have been going very well.

I'm horribly un-caught-up.

Congratulations Sparky & Sparky DH and Cashmere! (hooray for escrow accounts indeed Sparky!)

It's 7 am, and we woke to the dulcet tunes of "I. Want. Candy!" coming from Iris' (er, spidergirl's) room. Not the song.

Heh. She is a force to be reckoned with.

Congrats, Cashmere. I hope your transition is smooth.

I am so tired. I seem to not get to sleep until 1 am or later, and yet I woke up at 7. Feh.

Thanks for all the congratulations, and yay for you, too, Cashmere!

If I couldn't wake to coffee I might want to wake to candy.

I work today and then sit at the house tomorrow collecting estimates from people to refinish my floors, etc. I wonder if I'll have heat there, since the forcast is for a temp in the 50s.