Funvember

So Halloween came and went. It was a pretty good one. The warmest Halloween I have ever witnessed. Usually it is super cold and there is usually snow on the ground. It was pretty great! Warm weather means the kiddo and his brother were able to go out extra long. I think we went for 2 to 3 hours. We started in Airdrie, then came to Calgary so that the Grand, an great Grand parents could check out the costumes. I think we were the last group of Trick or Treaters on the Street. Some of the houses where letting them grab as much candy as they wanted. By the end of the night, they both had 11lbs of candy each!!
The funny thing is, neither kid has a big sugar tooth. I think one year we ended up throwing the remaining candy out because it was almost a year old.
I am not sure if Candy goes bad.... but why take the risk :P

I didn't catch any of my childhood Halloween cartoon shows, Garfield's Halloween Special, and It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown. Both have a nostalgic place in my heart. Garfield made me feel as a child very alone when they were both stuck on the island with no way off. Plus add the elements of ghost pirates, you got yourself a childhood trauma waiting to happen.
Also, the Great Pumpkin with Charlie Brown was always suereal to watch. The scenes with Snoppy as a downed WWI fighter pilot navigating his way alone in the war torn french country side was very disturbing. Also I would get super enraged with Linus, having wasted his Halloween sitting in a GD pumpkin patch waiting for the Great Pumpkin. Athough now I think that if I were waiting alone in the dark in a pumpkin patch on Halloween night, I would probably pee my pants :)
And who the hell gives out Rocks to little kids?! They should be stoned to death with those rocks!
The good news is because of the modern age of the internet and media sharing, I was able to find all the episodes on YouTube.
I will link them here enjoy! I need to ask Agent Double EE how to link with the video embedded in the blog itself.
Garfield Pt1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh9jjjbTt_8
Pt2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-WggLrCASs
Pt3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRj1NpEllQk

Charlie Brown Pt1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecN9mLpM2mM
Pt2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSbIrR3cjMQ
Pt3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgFdCsFXoWA

PBJ time

I went to work, even though I wasn't feeling 100%, and I did mange to survive. I am still at work surprise surprise, but as soon as I get home I think I need to lay down.


Sad thing is, I think the flu thing I had ran me down so much, that I might be catching my cold again that I had 2 weeks ago. WTF!!!


Guess I will get lots of sleep, drink lots of fluids and load up on Vitamin C. Hopefully that will be enough.

Saw this online, its somebody's house with a screen in the windows showing super rad halloween stuff.....
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1884965

road trip

As some of you may or may not know, I have a 10 year old son whom I get every other weekend. I never no what to do with him, and getting him away from the computer or TV is like pulling teeth, so today my strategy was to not tell him where we were going, but make him come with me.

So we drove to the Sentry Box, which is a geek's utopia of card games, miniature battle games, role playing games, and they even have an awesome board game selection and anime selection. They also have events and tournements there, today in the upper section, they had at least 30 people playing various games.

It's basically a store where a geek could spend 2 hours in without spending a dime and just gawk at everything in there.



If I wasn't so cheap I'd have probably spent at least 200-300 dollars for sure :P
http://www.sentrybox.com/

I think he had a pretty good time, even though we didn't buy anything, it was cool looking at everything with him.

After that, we drove to a different Canadian Tire and found a fog machine. I bought two jugs of fog fluid, and tried it out at home. It works ok, but I think I need to buy a timer for it. Otherwise you have to sit there and press the on button every once and awhile :(

I should buy another one though, then I could have two going and really make a foggy Halloween night :)

I don't know what we are going to do tomorrow. Maybe take him to the bar and teach him how to drink. I think your liver is fully developed at 10 right?? hehehe

After we got back and were done playing with the fog machine, we watched a really crummy horror movie called "Buried Alive". It wasn't released in theaters and it wasn't even lame in a good way. My kiddo was scared, so he wanted me to put something not as scary on after, so we watched a nightmare before Christmas, which for some reason creeped me out a lot this time.


It was way creepier than the stupid lame horror movie he was scared of.

Maybe tomorrow we can go shopping for a cell phone. I was told surprisingly enough that Marlborough mall has a lot of good cell phone kiosks to check phones out at.

Oh yea, here is an awesome blog, if I were cool, this would be my blog for sure.
http://blameitonthevoices.blogspot.com/