Happy Halloween...

October 31st...considered one of the best days in my calendar year. It's not just a day where ghouls and goblins, princes and princesses walk the streets begging for candy but it's a chance to decorate your house with spooky spiderwebs and blood stained curtains and to watch movies like Halloween and Night of the Demons. It's also a chance to carve pumpkins and roast the seeds...delicious. It's also not just one day to celebrate either, the entire month of October is great for fall pumpkins and leaves and everything red, orange and yellow.

Halloween is my second favourite holiday next to Christmas...okay, I know, Halloween isn't even a holiday but who pays attention to details?! This year I have been a slacker - work has been busy and we cancelled our party so the festive spirit didn't run through my veins as it usually would. Don't get me wrong - I wore my best spider shirt and black wig to work today and I bought a halloween music CD in early October. I also put up my pumpkin photos at work and talked about costumes and decorating with everyone I could...some people just aren't that into it.

I already have costume ideas for next year and the party will be on...last year we decorated the apartment to the nines...scary you ask? I think so. Wait until we have a house.

"Don't ever laugh when a hearse goes by for someday you are going to die..."

Cheers to Halloween!

Friday Fun...

Five Surgeons from big cities are discussing who makes the best patients to operate on. The first surgeon, from New York, says, "I like to see accountants on my operating table because when you open them up, everything inside is numbered."

The second, from Chicago, responds, "Yeah, but you should try electricians! Everything inside them is color coded."

The third surgeon, from Dallas, says, "No, I really think librarians are the best, everything inside them is in alphabetical order."

The fourth surgeon, from Los Angeles chimes in: "You know, I like mechanics...those guys always understand when you have a few parts left over."

But the fifth surgeon, from Washington, DC, shut them all up when he observed: "You're all wrong. Politicians are the easiest to operate on. There's no guts, no heart, no balls, no brains and no spine, and the head and the ass are interchangeable."

Everyone likes a good politician joke. Thanks Mom B!

Friday Fun...

Another toy has been re-called...what is the world coming to?

Stuffed...

Another holiday has come and gone and we have given our thanks many, many times. And we have eaten turkey for many, many days from sandwiches at lunch to homemade soup at dinner...delicious!

This past weekend Dave and I hosted our first holiday and prepared our first turkey dinner. We took care of the turkey, gravy, stuffing and mashed potatoes while we had our guests all bring the side dishes and B-Rock bring the beer. Yes, he isn't considered a guest and yes, he got off easy ;) Dave's parents came down on the Friday and are here until the end of this weekend so they came over Saturday with C&D, C's mom and my parents and grandparents as well. It was a great visit with lot's of good conversation, baseball watching, pinball playing and relaxation.

Sunday we had some friends over for more pinball, cards and Wii...a great night that went into the early morn' and everyone feeling pretty tired the day after. That didn't stop the boys from heading to Burlington Monday afternoon to take a bus trip to Buffalo for the Monday Nighter. Sure, the bus overbooked and the 5 of them didn't get on, and yes the tour guide gave them their tickets and left them in the mall parking lot and drove off, and yes they didn't get to tailgate or have a BBQ but I am pretty sure it all worked out in the end considering they got a full refund, the tickets to the game and hired a limo to take them in style. Not to mention that Dave's team came out victorious with seconds left on the clock.

Sufficiently stuffed until Christmas...good times.

Friday Fun...

What five letter word, no matter how you pronounce it, is always pronounced wrong?

Friday Fun...

An elderly Ukrainian man lay dying in his bed. While uffering the agonies of impending death, he suddenly melled the aroma of his favorite Ukrainian perogies ith fried onions wafting up the stairs.

Ahhhhhhh! He gathered his remaining strength, and lifted himself from the bed. Gripping the
railing with both hands, he crawled downstairs. Downstairs, he leaned against the door frame, gazing into the kitchen, where if not for death's agony, he would have thought himself already in heaven, for there, spread out upon waxed paper on the kitchen table were hundreds of his favorite perogies. Was it heaven? Or was it one final act of love from his wife of sixty years, seeing to it that he left this world a happy man?

He threw himself towards the table, landing on his knees in a crumpled posture. His parched lips parted, the wondrous taste of the perogies was already in his mouth. With a trembling hand he reached for the perogies at the edge of the table, when suddenly he was smacked with a wooden spoon by his wife.

"Piss off." she said. "They're for the funeral."