halloween

The ghost of halloweens past has come to visit. Let me show you what he found.

These are in no particular order. But it seems as though much of my life has been lived in costume. And I'm pretty okay with it. I have great plans for this halloween... ;)

This costume took HOURS and the help of two engineers. And about $30. And I loved it. ^

Costume contest winner! ^^^ Not sure why, but apparently I make a sexy greek goddess.

This one ^ bordered sacrilege.

This ^ and the following are from days at Focus on the Family.

One of the greats. ^ I got the whole family in on this one.

Terrifying. Yes. Terrifyingly awesome? Yes. ^

And also, terrifyingly expensive. Eek. ^

Never had so many awed looks from kids before, or people wanting theirpictures with me. I was a very celebrity elf. ^

Clearly a good friend of Austin Powers.^

Now to get to this weekend, figure out how to put my costume together and figure out to fro my hair, and I'm golden.

25

Holy Moly.

I don't think I've ever done so much before 9 a.m. on this job in my entire life before today. This "doing so much" has included running around my office, editing about 93798327423 stories (well, not that many. I wish there were that many) and fixing a million mistakes.

"Your mailbox is more than 80 percent full. Please delete unwanted messages." I have no time for such nonsense!

I had a melt-down yesterday. As in, it's deadline day and I don't get to work until 1 p.m. It was a near-disaster. But somehow... I survived.

I think I'm going to make the switch. I actually need a smart phone. I hate saying that and every inch of me cringes at the thought. But I'd rather a smart phone than forgetting appointments like I did yesterday. Not a good idea. It's also not a good idea to spend all kinds of money I don't have on a smart phone. But weighing my options... I'd almost rather spend the money than screw up my job.

It's election season. I'm so sick of political ads that I want to puke. Seriously. Good thing for a new Joshua Radin CD that allows me to escape the stupid radio advertisements that say people are trying to KILL US ALL!!!

Oh, and I'm going to see The Weepies this weekend. I'm beaming with joy. :D :D :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4sa2HoXpsE

I'm going to buy a shirt. I hope they're selling their vinyl of the latest CD.

I've been listening to records on my turn table like crazy. Bon Iver on Vinyl is a gift from God. Wow.

I'll be 25 in a few weeks. I don't really like that... It sounds old. As the weepies say... 'the world spins madly on...' I suppose it's true. And I don't really like that, either. They also say 'you can't go back now...' And I don't really like that, either.

I'm 25. I'm very Young Life. Very career. Very Grad School. Don't feel very grown up, even still. I don't even know what 'grown-up' means. My parents say they don't know what it is. And you guessed it- I don't really like that, either.

How does one celebrate their 25th? No idea. Not even sure if I want to. It's the last year my grandpa will "give" me money. I might go wild at Urban Outfitters. Which means I'll probably be able to buy one thing. Or maybe I'll buy 20 pumpkin spice lattes. Or 10 new releases at Best Buy. Or 5 records. So many options. And my grandpa's dead. I hate that. Hate it. Hate it.

I'm so lost in my thoughts these days.

This fall is such a season of loss. Loss of age. Major loss of time. Loss of my last grandparent. Loss of summer. Loss of money (thank you grad school). Just... loss.

oh, and this blog is being half-retarded.

WHY the hell is it that you only get negative feedback?

Why. why. why. why. why.

Yes, sir, I am indeed a mud-slinging journalist with the intent of ruining people's lives and printing fallacies just to piss people off.

Please send all negative comments my way and lambast me as much as you would like.

god. I hate this day so much it's making me sick. Maybe I'll go to my car and cry.

I will never get over this lyric. Thank you, Caedmon's Call.

"And You know the plans that You have for me

And You can't plan the end and not plan the means"

I wish I had the mental capacity to write this morning. Yet, I got 6 hours of sleep last night (down by a third of my usual), I was at the office at 6:30, wrote my FIFTH story for the week and have almost already fallen asleep again. This isn't good, because I'm going to a media luncheon today and I have class tonight.

Oh man. I need a weekend. Oops. Forgot. I'm taking a 2-day certification course/ networking event for a total of 14 hours this weekend. I think I'll go to bed at about 7:30 tonight.

also, I don't know what to be for halloween.

words cannot describe, and i cannot contain, how much i absolutely adore Modern Family