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Journal Em Emalb's Journal: Club Em. Open til 3am, no cover for the ladies. 20

Journal by Em Emalb

Wow, what a weekend.

Jen and I spent a lot of hours working on decorations for Halloween. We got everything setup just before dark friday. It looked pretty awesome. The 7 1/2 foot tall Grim Reaper scared the bejesus out of the little ones.

But now it's time for a gripe:

We worked very hard on this stuff....for 17 kids. WTF? There's like 40 kids in my neighborhood. I didn't recognize the majority of the ones who did show up. Anyway. We have a lot of candy left over. Neither of us really eat a lot of candy, so it is going to probably just get thrown away. On to Saturday night. We had about 15 people over for a costume party. It was a blast. Ended up with a bunch of people in the living room shaking their tail feathers. Was fun. I went as a super hero. Think of the Tick without the antenae. Blue hair, silver face, shiny silver suit of muscles. Authentic looking? Yeah. The rental was $140. It was a blast. We catered the event based on the number of people who RSVP'd though. Sadly, only about 2/3 of the people who said they'd be there were. So we lost money on the food. And sometime during the night people found our stash of liquor. Ouch.

Yesterday I watched the Bears whip the snot outta the Chargers. Hey, that makes 2 wins in a row. And they play the Lions next week. Man, we might actually be 4-5 this time next week. Then I went back to sleep and laid around most of the day. Nice and hung over.

What did you get into this weekend?

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  • Reinstalled the computer of an uncle of mine and got piss-assed drunk... Regular weekend I would say, except I took today off... So I'm at home slacking.

    I should however clean the bathroom. That place is scarier than a 7 1/2 foot tall reaper ;-)

    • And you say you don't like celebrating Halloween! Sounds like you spent it pretty much the same when I (and 90% of the rest of the college student population) did.
      • Well, I didn't celabrate Halloween. Didn't dress up, didn't go out. This was just a regular weekend getting drunk and toying with computers.

        Besides, getting drunk is a regular weekend for any self-respecting student. I'm not a student though... Haven't been for the last 5 years.

        • Do you really need to be a student to get drunk every weekend? No wonder I'm still in school ;). I dressed up as a drunken college student.

          But seriously, Halloween in the U.S. is very strange. The sheer commercialism is offensive, but then again I take that sort of thing personally. I think it's a holiday aimed mostly at parents, to get them to buy candy and costumes. For everyone else it's just an excuse to drink. I'm actually surprised I made it home.

          Yet almost everyone is in costume, even at co
          • I don't need an excuse to get drunk. The reason I am against Halloween is that it didn't exist here even a mere 5 years ago and has been clearly introduced for commerical reasons. That is why I boycott it: it doesn't belong here and that's it. Hey, I don't mind Americans doing Halloween. I mind it when Europeans give up their cultural values due to pure commercialism.

            I hope the toying with computers came before the drinking. Otherwise there could be dire effects.

            With the drinking of course! I kn

            • I mind it when Europeans give up their cultural values due to pure commercialism.

              Hey, what do you think Americans have been doing for the past 50 years? I'm against Halloween for the same reasons you are.

              (I have absolutely nothing constructive going on mondays, so I figure why not kick back a few beers with lunch?). Don't you have today off too ;)

              Sometimes I wish I could put every commercial holiday here on /ignore...
              • Hey, what do you think Americans have been doing for the past 50 years?

                Well, as I understood it the holiday has been common practice in the US for very long. So it is part of your cultural background. Besides, nearly all holidays are commercialised these days (apart Thanksgiving, I have been told... but I don't like Thanksgiving anymore because of sentimental reasons)

                Don't you have today off too ;)

                Yup, quite obvious, eh? ;-)

                Sometimes I wish I could put every commercial holiday here on /ignore

  • No... that wasn't meant aas an insult.

    My wife spent over $300 on food and decorations for a Halloween party for my kids and their former neighbors. This may seem high, but I've got 4 boys, and the neighbors have 8 children all together. Only they never showed. My wife invited some other friends at the last minute, but still a lot of that is just going to waste. My wife is seriously pissed.

  • Or have Jen take it -- the coworkers always appreciate it.

    I spent a total of $1 for 5 pumpkins which I carved into kickass jack o'lanterns, but then Kiddo went to sleep at 5:30 and when she woke up, she wasn't in the mood to go out and look at them until after 11:30, long after they had burned out. So we made a deal with her and relit them Saturday night, too.
    • (Continued from previous post -- my laptop is doing some funk things that I'm not accustomed to.)

      As far as "treats" go, I still had a bundle of about 25 pencils with cool erasers on the ends that I bought last year. I decided to forego the candy route and buy something that would last for years and years, since I recognized the downward trend in trick-or-treating long ago.

      We ended up spending the evening in bed (as a family), watching Austin Powers 1 on my laptop. Watching movies on this thing kicks ass
  • I watched the Halloween parade in Greenwich Village. There were two seriously tasteless costumes.

    One, which I saw three different people wearing, was Roy, the tiger guy. Each iteration was a stuffed tiger with it's jaws attached to the neck, blood everywhere, and the standard frilly formal shirt and tight black pants. One guy was being led on a chain by a hot woman dressed in a skin-tight tiger suit, blood all over his neck.

    The other was a guy in clerical garb with a pediatric resuscitation training do
  • Club who?
    Baby seals? ;-p
  • ... see my journal [slashdot.org].

    -Ab
  • Did a little Geocaching, kept the kids busy while my wife stenciled trains in my son's bedroom, brought in most of the stuff on the patio for the winter, cleaned out the garage to make room for said patio stuff (threw a lot of stuff away and also put together a pile of stuff for a rummage sale), watched three chapters of Onegai Teacher, and topped it off by watching the Packers put a lickin' on the Vikings in Minnesota to stay a game ahead of that overacheiving team to the south that somehow has managed to
  • I went to Flame & Thunder [astradyne.co.uk]. Unlike last year, which was a complete washout, this year was much better. The only downside was that we'd planned to take the Camaro and one of the Capris up for RWYB on the Sunday, but a combination of illness and rain put paid to that idea...
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    • Don't you love it when third-stringers get called into action? Yes, occasionally one of them makes his folks real proud but most of them are just Christians being thrown into the lions.

      There are few situations in life where you know something horrible is about to happen. Any football game where the third-stringer has to take a snap before the fourth quarter is one of them. It was true yesterday for the Raiders with Rick Mirer, it'll be true today for the Broncos with Danny Kanell. (Although, to be honest,
  • As recommended by MT!
  • 12 hours on Friday: reg. 8, then home for a meeting and a nap, then back from 10pm-2am. Then worked 13 hours straight Monday. Blech.

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