I have a group of MOMS Club kids and moms coming over for a Halloween party in an hour. I'm not even close to ready.

Tomorrow is a bigger Halloween party for the kids in Owen & Liv's classes.

Then Trick or Treating on Sunday.

Cute, GC!

Have fun in Vancouver, ita!

Those who are having cruddy workdays, I hope they go better soon.

Feel a little bit otherworldly from lack of sleep but otherwise doing okay. I think my father was shocked to see me up at this hour. Hopefully I can make it stick.

I have to walk to the middle school construction site again to see if I can talk to the foreman. I get all paranoid about stuff like this. My dad suggested talking to them to see if we can get some of the extra soil for the raised beds. I so don't want to do it. It was hard enough to force myself to do it once. He wasn't there and I left a note. He didn't answer. Now I gotta force myself again. The only reason I'm forcing myself is because buying this much potting soil would bankrupt me.

Oh yeah, Have fun, ita!!!

Oh noes! America's biggest export (celebrities!) is in trouble!

More details on Charlie Sheen's wild night:

Charlie Sheen Found Nude In Restaurant, Screaming N-Word: Report

This is before the hotel incident.

When Charlie failed to return to the table, his assistant went into the bathroom looking for him.

"When the assistant opened the door, there was Charlie standing there naked with cocaine all over his face!" the source said. "He was delusional and just completely lost. Totally out of it."

What a maroon.

Matilda will dress up as Wonder Woman at 2:15 PST and parade around her school. On Sunday we go trick or treating.

I went back to the Lush site as well and wrote this:

I was in your Lush location at Macy's on State Street in Chicago intending to restock on a number of things since I love the fall/winter scents. However, in browsing around, one of the first things I saw was the "Flosty Gritter" bubble bar.

I had to read over the product name and description several times to assure myself I wasn't imagining things. How, how could you name a product that in this day and age? It is appalling, and far beneath a company like Lush. I unloaded my basket and left the store.

Your "About us" page on the website lists your commitment to a range of issues. I notice race issues are not among them - until yesterday, I wouldn't have thought they needed to be. But apparently one of the oldest and most common racist tropes did not raise an alarm anywhere along the product development and marketing chain? It is truly shameful.

My biggest regret is not saying something to the store personnel at the time. At this point, I'm not sure I'll be back.

Not terribly articulate, but I feel better.

There's a lady blocking the power outlet. And she's not even using it. I have five million things I could be charging. What is she thinking? Kids today.

I think that's very articulate, brenda, as well as immediate, in terms of a customer walking out of the store. Well done, all of you who wrote.

I totally made friends in the airport over a power outlet. The search for power is a bonding activity.

(Seriously. I met this guy, turns out to be this fairly successful and well known jazz pianist, although he didn't admit to that at the time. We only chatted, and then I watched his luggage for him (yes, I know, you're not supposed to) while he ran for napkins because he spilled his frozen yogurt. Then on the plane he gave me a note saying he'd experienced this awful trauma, that he was getting ready to give up on his faith in humanity, but I was the first person with a smile and a caring personality that he'd run into on his journey. I was all, uhhh, all I did was let you run a cable to a power outlet that I happened to be sitting next to. Afterwards, I was looking for him, but didn't see him. And then he turned up at the same rental car counter as me. So he told me the whole story then, and gave me his cd. Turns out he was traveling from Santa Barbara to Columbus because his brother was killed in a robbery. Just awful. So anyway, yeah, we bonded. I need to write him now that I'm home and he's probably through the funeral and everything. Randomness.)

It is possible to get NY style bagels in Chicago.

I'll be in tech for Halloween. The director and I are conspiring to finish early on Sunday so that she can go trick-or-treating with her kids and I can go see a show downtown.