Pictures Around the Block

Today I took advantage of the sunny (but very cold) day and took a few pictures around the neighborhood.

A valiant plant not letting anything, even Shelf Fungus, get in its way.

A water droplet clinging onto our Japanese Maple.

Halloween Is Coming Early

Yesterday I was browsing through a craft store and gravitated toward the books.  Because books rock.  But one book that I found does not rock.  It's terrifying.  It's traumatizing.  It's mind raping.  It's Halloween on a book cover.

Moments later, Rosie could no longer suppress her hunger, and ate the children.

Really, who thought the cover, or anything about this book would be a good idea?  If a house had one of these laying around I would experience the same fear as if the house had guns laying on the table being cleaned and a blood stains on the table cloth.  With a serrated knife stuck into the table.

Rosie O'Donnell, you scare me.

The Christmas Aftermath

Christmas came and went, leaving behind debris of half eaten food and brightly colored wrapping paper.  Myself and my girlfriend took part in two Christmas celebrations.  I drove out to her house and spent the morning with her family going though my stocking, scratching lottery tickets (I won nine dollars) and cleaning up their house.  After, Amanda and I drove back into town to open presents with my family.

And now, for the stuff I got!

A Geoffrey Beene Sateen dress shirt, vibrant red and wonderfully smooth.  I love it.
A Van Heusen chocolate brown dress shirt with thin black pinstripes.  Ditto the above love.
Two pairs of super hero socks by Sock it to Me.

Four Days Till Christmas

Amanda is sleeping on the couch, curled up in a green blanket while I sip on some Yogi Fasting Tea.  The Christmas tree is close enough that I can reach out and touch its soft green needles and warm, pretty white lights.  Life is good. Despite the usual ups and downs of emotions and life, I know that life is good.

In five days my sister Emily along with her husband will be down here visiting, and we will be opening up whatever presents appear under the tree.