I love Halloween. Kids in random costumes. Me wearing p.j.'s and two pigtails to a party (and later to Walmart to look for a Oijee Board -- no joy there, because if the store doesn't sell naked cartoons of Supreme Court justices, it won't sell a game that lets you communicate with the demons). Lots of candy.

On Saturday I went on a Haunted Tour of Galveston. Ask me later how "made up" everything was. There were some pretty entertaining moments.

As for costumes: Cari dressed like a 70's hooker. Nick dressed as a gay (happy!) pirate. Sarah as a sweaty soccer player (since she came strait from her soccer game to the party). Jen in the beautiful costume that she spent a month working on (the Queen of Hearts). Gavin in a Hawaiian shirt and swim trunks because he probably didn't think about his costume until an hour before the party. Stephanie as Tigger (a store bought costume for children ages 4-6). Matt as himself -- with K.C. Chiefs warpaint. Debbie as a geocache. Jason as himself (or a cowboy... but since he always wears cowboy boots and would probably wear a hat too if it was professional, well..). Melanie as a cowgirl (she's from Michigan, so it really was a costume). Jo as Santa's Little Helper (a costume she made herself, originally it was a she-devil costume... we'll not talk about the humor in that).

Ah, Halloween.

This weekend, the weather was beautiful, I got a LOT of yard work done. Each of the last few weeks, I mow my lawn thinking "Ah, this is going to be the last time this fall." But, so far, not yet. Stupid Houston. Spent two hours talking to Karen (hi Karen!), making me want to go visit Atlanta (its been SO long since I've been back).

Oh, and my favorite. This morning on NPR, they were talking about the new Health Curriculum and Textbooks being adopted in Texas High Schools. This is particularly important because Texas orders SO MANY text books, that it becomes the standard book available to many smaller states. Anyway, the new textbooks will make no mention of contraception and advocate abstinence only (which I don't get - abstain your entire life? ah, the end of the species is nigh!) So, the interviewed some lady with one of the Texas "pro-life" groups and she said (quoting as close as possible) "Well, maybe text books that include contraception work for those folks in Washing D.C. - but this is TEXAS! Parents here know better. Texas is the buckle of the Bible Belt. And our parents know that its wrong to teach our kids about contraception and abstinence is the only way." OH, it made me want to scream!