Today I...

Today I...

... had laughs with Ashley M. I kidnapped her and made her come to the fabric store and Good Will with me.

[Pic from the DMB concert we went to last month]

... decided I am going to finish the book that I have been "in the middle of" for months and start a book I really want to read: Geek Love by Katherine Dunn.

[Geek Love]

... made and ate delicious vegetarian Mexican food (avocados, salsa, tomatoes, lettuce, vegetarian refried beans, sour cream, colby and pepperjack cheese... on a hard open tortilla shell).

... went to the local Good Will and bought blue candle holders, a jewelry box I will give away at Christmastime, and other items I cannot share because they will be gifts for others who may read my blog.

[Aren't they fantastic?]

... wore my mom's old Coach bag from the 80s.

[Can't you picture my mother wearing this in the late 80s?]

... went to the fabric store and bought yellow, cream, sunflower, and green felt for my ear-of-corn Halloween costume. 

I love making warm and non-slutty costumes.  In college, so many girls wore these ridiculously slutty costumes. I never hopped on that band wagon. I enjoy being warm on Halloween (Illinois has chilly Halloween weather) and I refuse to spend $60 on a costume I will wear once.  I also don't understand who decided that it is okay to dress like a slut, as long as you are slutty Darth Vader... or a slutty firewoman... or a slutty anything? It is NOT okay.  Don't get me wrong... I am not conservative by any means, but it doesn't make sense if you don't normally dress like a slut.. why is Halloween the one day that it is okay? And would you be okay walking past your father in that outfit? Gaaawwd I sound like my mother... yikes.  I just figure if I would be embarrassed if anyone in my family saw me in an outfit... I probably shouldn't be wearing it. 

My recent and past Halloween costumes:

2004: homemade Pocahontas

2005: semi- homemade Tooth Fairy

2006: Vampire (lame)

 

2007: homemade bumble bee - Jay was a bee keeper

 

2008: homemade Cleopatra

2009: homemade Lobster - Jay was a chef

 

2010: ear of corn - Jay will be a farmer

I. LOVE. HALLOWEEN.

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My Fall & Winter To Do List!!!

• Bake cupcakes from scratch
• Go to Pops for Champagne (A champagne bar in Chicago)
• Take pictures at a park in my home town
• Apple picking
• Pumpkin picking and subsequent carving
• Sew my own Halloween costume
• See a Drive-in movie
• Knit a scarf
• Learn to crochet
• Make spiced cider
• Grow out my hair
• Spend less money
• Eat lots of food on Thanksgiving
• Shop at a thrift store
• See a musical or play
• Have a Christmas party with my girls
• Snowboarding
• Learn to ski
• Get straight A's
• Buy my friends' Christmas presents at a resale shop
• Bake a pie from scratch
• Celebrate New Years in style
• Go sledding
• Cuddle with Jay... or maybe my cat... under a blanket 
• Visit my friends in Oregon