best costume tonight:

Organ grinder monkey complete with crank mom and dad were dressed as poor victorainish ragamuffins . Little monkey had begging cup to collect candy and bring it back to the "organ" which was the wagon.

Wow, that's a hell of a goal-line stand the Saints just put on.

FUCK YEAH! That game was awesome! Our friends hooked up a projection situation in their courtyard so we could see each and every interception and fumble clear as day. I would have certainly preferred the Saints not contributing to that particular stat, but it all worked out.

Noah had a job of handing out candy which he loves more than asking for it

That is adorabibble.

We had Halloween on two fronts. Isaac went with his friends, Franny went with hers. I'm sure the kids loved it, but it was a bit frantic for the 'rents.

I am officially a high strung ditz, btw. egad.

I think my favorite part of the day was being dressed up like a witch the whole time.

We ran out of candy at 8, which means we had 150 t n Ts. The best costume was a grown-up guy dressed as the full Mike Meyers from Halloween, with a mask and plaid shirt. When I opened the door, he said nothing, but scarily pointed down at...the stroller he was pushing which had a VERY smiley almost-toddler dressed as yellow ducky.

That sounds great, Scrappy.

One of the things I bought at Super King today was dried kiwi. I just tried one and it's clear it was dried on a screen that was previously used to dry some kind of seafood. I hate seafood. I feel like barfing. There's a 1/4 lb. of dried fruit going to waste. Gross gross gross gross

wow Scrappy, I don't think my kids would have been OK with me wearing a hockey mask like that. When Franny was 3 or so she was helping me give out candy and she refused to give any to the kids wearing the Scream masks because they scared her.

We got no trick or treaters, not even the neighbor kids from next door.

I didn't expect a lot of kids, but none? I am sad.

But I made an excellent batch of chili, with bitter chocolate and cinnamon added (and a whole lotta spice) and it was really good. Then we watched Walking Dead, which was fun.

Then Dan went to bed, and I watched Predators, because I was curious to see what Adrian Brody was like as an action hero (read: I wanted to see him ripped). Nice arms, dude!

Went to hear Ann Wright (only day she was in town). So did not get home until 8:00 P.M. Only one set of tricker treaters. Which was just as well, because it let me rest and fight off a migraine. Have candy to give away.

Person on another board I do said they'd put a bowl of candy out with a sign saying not to ring the doorbell (because their infant was asleep). Someone took all the candy, then took the bowl and threw it into the street, breaking it.

My fellow human beings really bum me out.