After dragging my ass for several days, I finally got around to my Halloween prep list. I tried on my dress, made sure it still fit, went to the Halloween superstore and got some custom fitted fangs and some vampire makeup. I was thinking about straightening my hair but I think I’ll go with giant curly hair instead. Oooh, and I carved a pumpkin for the first time in I don’t even know how long. Definitely since high school, so that’s 10+ years. And I can tell you, my friends, that Pumpkin Master’s Pumpkin Carving Kit is not worth the purchase. There are some awesome looking patterns (none of which were small enough for the modest pumpkin my mom bought for me at the market last week) but the equipment for the actual carving is dinky and inneffective. So in the end my grandiose pumpkin carving fantasies were reduced to a hand drawn face that is pretty lame and sore muscles in my forearms from sawing through a pumpkin with a tiny, 3 inch long saw. But hey, I did it myself, and I’m proud of that.