Trick or Treat...Now Gimme Some Candy

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This is my favorite day of the year...what can be more fun for a theatre diva than dressing up and scaring people? Oh yeah, dressing up her child so HE can scare people.

To be honest, the boy has never dressed up as something scary...he's had ideas, but they either push the "good taste" boundary or the "can't walk around getting candy if you're encased in a wooden coffin" reality. Physics are often a factor - when he was 6 he wanted to take his head off and carry it under his arm. I might have hurt his feelings when I laughed.

Usually, he ends up being something kitschy. Megaman (3 years in a row because the costume, if I do say so myself, was bloody brilliant) John Lennon (he got so much extra candy for that one) a Samurai warrior (rented, so I felt like it was cheating).....

So, what to be this year? In true procrastination-that-is-my-life-style, the costume was left to the last minute. Possibilities were discussed and thrown out as either being too lazy ("I'll go as my friend, Kyle"), too expensive ("let's buy a bunch of video games and glue them all over me" ~ kid thinks he's sneaky), too obscure ("I know! I'll be a Salvador Dali painting!"), or just too impossible, ("What if we put a big box over me and I'll go as a 'This End Up' monster").

So what to be? Time was rapidly dwindling so I issued the ultimatum on Tuesday. "You have to decide tonight because I'm not staying up all night making your costume just because you waited too long." We sat on the couch together, staring off into the space we hoped brilliant ideas came from, and then it hit us at the same time. It probably hit us at the same time because the direction we were hoping brilliant ideas came from was pre-empted by the movie shelf.

Edward Scissorhands.

So, I stayed up all night anyway, but it's looking really good. I wish we'd thought of this 2 weeks ago, but for being a last-minute costume idea it's not TOO bad. I'll post a picture (would that count as one of my daily blogs?) if it looks acceptable.

Happy Halloween, everyone!! Eat lots of candy and scare lots of little children!!!

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Blog A Day

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Over on that "other" site I've started a challenge to myself. I'm simply going to cut and paste the two blogs together because I'm THAT lazy. Whatevs.

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I'm going to try an experiment...a blog a day for a month.

I enjoy John's blog, but what I really enjoy is that there's something there almost every day. So I'm going to try it.

Trouble is, I have no stamina - I often start projects with visions of greatness (i.e. completion) and then drop them, forgotten in a corner like a pair of holey socks. I currently have somewhere around 27 half-completed projects lying around my house...the chair rail for the stairs, painting Xander's desk, the rocks in my garden, the shelves for Xander's dolls - er, 'scuse me...anime collectible figures..... Hell, I've lived in this place for 3 years and I still haven't fully unpacked all the boxes yet.

But I'm going to try this.

We'll see how long it lasts......

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Blog 1 - And Away We Go!!

I'll be honest - I almost forgot about doing this "blog-a-day" thing. For the last 24 hours I could have been thinking up something interesting or witty to say...I could have researched something topical for my 3 readers to discuss...I could have gone through my old journals to find something to rip off.... But that's the whole point of this. I'm notoriously deficient in planning and execution, so this really is merely an experiment for me to find out just how deficient I am. The answer was almost frighteningly embarrassing.

Grasshopper and Buttercup (it sounds like all my friends live in a Smurf village) have both embraced this idea and will be writing (competing? yeah!) their own blogs-a-days. I love them or that. It's excruciating for me to show proof of how undisciplined I am, but knowing that they'll be going through the same struggle makes this seem easier.

How do writers do it? How can they be creative knowing there's a deadline for them to get a point across? The pressure of crafting the right letters to form the right words to create the right sentences which will evoke the right feelings in an anonymous reader - I'm truly impressed by people who can do that. I envy writers.

So, that's it...boring Blog 1. And it was surprisingly difficult. I'm no writer (obviously) so these few paragraphs about nothing at all took me an hour to write.

This is going to be a long month.

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An Explanation of Sorts...(for those of you who will notice)

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I write most of my blogs on my MySpace (yeah, I've got a MySpace...wanna make somethin' out of it, punk?) because that's the only place where most of my friends can agree to gather. Online, at least.

I'm not saying I'm proud of it...I'm not saying I even like it - but it IS really neat to log on and find a comment from a long-lost crackhead friend. I'm not saying ALL of my friends are crackheads...but it IS really neat to say "crackhead".

But now I have a dilemma...some of my friends are there and some of my friends are here. Some are both here AND there. Is this bibloguality?

Therefore, here's my plan...I'm just going to copy my blogs from one and paste on the other. It's cheap, I know...but I'm thrilled to find old friends here and I love my new friends at MySpace, so that's what I'm doing.

So, there.

Did I just use "love" and "MySpace" in the same sentence?

I need a life. Or some crack.

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Yeah...ok

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Space for rent.

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