Hey, ex-A, Joe Blanton not only pitches beautifully in the win, he gets the first home run by a pitcher in the World Series since 1974 -- when A's pitcher Ken Holtzman hit one. Sweeeet!

I don't often talk about baseball in here, because it's like talking about my heart and it feels weird. I'm a SF Giants fan, and that's an under-statement. Anyway, some of you know that Jimmy Rollins (and Dontrelle Willis and Willie Stargell) went to my high school, and I date a Philly guy. So I am thrilled beyond all thrilled with this World Series.

good political news of the day --- my little neighborhood had a no on 8 party and raised over 3000.00 . talk talk talk of the need to protect civil rights

matt says you are pretty awesome, msbelle. I am wondering how long this will work.

Yeah, Blanton's shot was a lovely thing for a guy who basically didn't hit until a couple of months ago.

Man. Hell of a game. They really broke out in this one -- last night's ending was kind of hilariously weird, but they shouldn't have been there in the bottom of the 9th to begin with. Tonight was a completely different way to win, and in 30mumble years of following this team, they've sometimes had one, but they've very rarely been able to do both.

Thanks for the wishes, guys! We are finally alone in what is apparently this business hotel's version of the honeymoon suite (a king with a hot tub in the room) and Mr bon is grading while I am catching up on the internet.

I swear if pulls this tomorrow night he will be vacuuming. And the drying dishes is going to become almost daily, little does he know.

THE BON BOBS!!!!!

I'm probably gonna get a Google phone. Shocking, I know! Yay for employee discounts.

Also, speaking of Twilight, the ladies in my family are all reading it now and I just had to warn my mom that there is some pregnancy badness in the series. Now I need to find out which book it is in and e-mail my extremely pregnant sister who is bored and on bed rest that she SHOULDN'T READ THAT ONE YET.

Is the pregnancy badness in Breaking Dawn? Anyone know?

Heh.

ION, we had Trick-or-Treating today. We had no idea how much candy to buy, being in a new neighborhood and thought that living right next to an elementary school there would be a ton of kids. Apparently, not so much. Best guess we had maybe 3-4 dozen kids in the 3 hours of Trick-or-Treating.

Which means we bought way more than we needed. Normally, not a problem, except I'm currently participating in the annual weight-off contest at work (down 5 pounds so far. Woo!) and have absolutely no will-power when there's sweets in the house (hopefully my nicking from the candy bowl today won't put those 5 pounds right back on.) Plus, we recently discovered Mattias has a severe egg allergy (I'm really, really hoping scary trips to the ER aren't going to be annual occurance.) and as he's still nursing, that means the GF can't eat a good portion of the candy either. The dept admin at work keeps a candy drawer for the dept. I have a feeling I'm going to be making a very large donation to the drawer this week.

We had an assortment of super-heroes, random scary things, fairies and princesses as well as the handful of teenagers in no costumes blatantly pandering for candy (feh). The costumes that stood out, though, was a pair of sisters. The oldest was probably 8 and was dressed as a big, fancy layer cake and her younger sister was dressed as a cupcake. It was inventive and adorable.

Though the cutest was probably a tie between the 18-month year old boy dressed as a devil, or the similar-aged girl dressed as a monkey wearing a tiara.

We didn't take Mattias out because it was too cold (the wind ripped the screen door out of our hands when we opened it more than once) and he's still too young for most of the candy anyway. He did really like looking at the pumpkins we carved, though, once we lit them up. We did a "generic Jack-O-Lantern" for the larger one and the a "baby-face" on the smaller one he picked out. The GF is planning on getting him in his costume to take pictures of him with the pumpkins on Halloween itself for the calendar of him we're going to get made up for the grandparents for Christmas.