Yaya kicking laundry butt!

Ok, the little girl who looked in the front door and said "I like your house. It's pretty!" scored extra loot.

Well, I got myself out onto the cul-de-sac for the potluck and was social for a couple of hours, despite the heat and humidity. Came in, fed the dogs, gave Moosh his insulin and sequestered myself in the back with the dogs and took a shower while Lewis mans the candy bowl.

My kids have been out in the 'hood and back. Nice thing about having 12 & 13 yr.-olds is that they can go out on their own.

Don't Even Give them Your Zip Code Anymore

For when you buy something with a credit card at a store - some stores will ask for your zip code and then their software will figure out your address based on your zip code and name, and then sell the address to direct marketers.

I was out all day at the mall. Despite going into every store that ever was, I did not find the clothes I was looking for. Apparently they do not make pants which instantly make you 15 lbs thinner the second you put them on. What is up with THAT?

Tonight DH and I are going to see Ong Bak2, with dinner supplied by nipping into the Trader Joe's near the theater and buying a salad.

At our old house we would stuff a pair of CJ's pants and put them under the garage door. When kids would ask - we told them that the kid hadn't said "thank you". We didn't do it our last Halloween there and many of the kids asked where the body was.

Looks like CJ and I are just going to be hanging at home. No Trick or Treaters and he doesn't have plans to go out.

Now to figure out something for dinner. I wish it would just - poof - appear.

Over the past half hour or so, maybe 10-12 more kids came by. We are definitely going to have a lot of candy left.

My across-the-street neighbor just had friends show up, so they have a merry band of people on her porch with beer and candy. Good times.

I'm packing it in at 8:00 exactly, because we have a zombie crawl to go to.

I'm doing it. I'm eating a Snickers.

I'm not sure how my supermarket worked out where I live. I have a rewards card, but I never filled the form out. They've been mailing me coupons (and telling me on my bill a $10 coupon is on its way) anyway. Cross referencing with my debit card I suppose.

I have beefed up my Netflix Instant Watch queue and will curl up with this headache for the rest of the day.

I just gave out my last mini-sized bar. At one point I had Darth Vader and Obi-Wan trick or treating together.

Oz found the whole thing very exciting, and was waiting for people at the door: [link]

He also tried to get into the box of candy at one point.

We've had I'd guess about 70-75. I lost count. Still coming. Best costumes were a group of middle school girls from the neighborhood - some really creative and artistics ones - and twin African-American Doras with big pompadour wigs.