Weekend Wrap-Up

The recent weather change sucks! I am not a fan of the cold, never have been. Maybe it was growing up in North Dakota that made me so bitter towards winter or maybe I just plain old don't like it. Either way I just cannot understand the people that actually look forward to the snow and cold. The occasional 50 degree's here and there is fine, but this 3-6 months of constant cold is almost intolerable. One of these days I will live in a state where the temperature just doesn't drop below 60 and then I'm sure I will have moved onto another gripe to blog about!

Sundays cold did not get us down. We had such a good time snuggled up inside carving pumpkins. Yes, more pumpkins! This time Lily helped. She was a little (and when I say little I mean REALLY) perturbed when I wouldn't let her play with the sharp, pumpkin carving tools but was thrilled when I handed her a big, red sharpie to color up her very own, Lily sized pumpkin!



Despite the streaks and blotches of red sharpie everywhere, it turned out beautifully! She worked diligently on her perfect little pumpkin until she felt it was show worthy and piled it on the other smaller pumpkins we have in our miniature pumpkin patch.

The pirate ship I cockily attempted did not turn out so well but will still do for the approximately 9 kids that will no doubtingly show up. Some of them small and dressed all cutesy or scary in their well thought out homemade or store bought costumes, holding out their decorated bags to collect all the sugar filled candies they will receive, screaming "TRICK OR TREAT", and the rest (pretty much high school kids now) will show up in their regular clothes dawning a grocery sack or pillow case. No "hello" nor "trick or treat", just a mumbled thanks (if you're lucky) as they walk onto their next stop.

Oh yeah! The pumpkin seeds came out fabulously this time! Not one was burnt and they taste pretty good If I do say so myself. :o)

Other than a lazy, pumpkin filled Sunday, our weekend went pretty good.
Saturday night was fun. We had my sister and her man over for drinks and games. 'Asshole' is always fun but we also busted out 'Loaded Questions'. You just never know what kind of weird answers you'll get when playing that game. I must say it's one of the funnest I've played. It's especially fun when you're around new friends...you get to find out exactly what an odd-ball they are!!

Also on Saturday night/Sunday morning...

IHOP is always fun at 2:00am and full of the finest people you'll meet. Where else can you go at all hours of the night and find sobers, drunks, cracked out and dressed up people. The one's dressed up I'd say was just all in good fun to celebrate the Holiday but this time of year is not the only time you'll find these fun, fashionable characters. As far as I'm concerned though....more power to you! I love different, I thirst for different and thrive on different. I love to surround myself with people who are bold, outgoing, loud, opinionated and maybe their cheese has slipped off their cracker just a little bit. I appreciate all the interesting people out there and maybe, just maybe, someone out there finds me interesting too.