It’s Halloween!  It’s Halloween!  It’s Halloween!!!!!

I love today.

I do not love that today is freezing.  This costume is not designed for freezing.

Um.  This is not actually a hotel.

Ha!  Lily-livered.

Hey there.

Huh.  Apparently I have a meeting today.  Imagine that.

How did we not manage to get to the pumpkin patch this year?  So busy.  So lame.

I can’t wait til we’re moved and settled and have space and a lovely porch for jack o lanterns and all the space.

Did I mention the lovely lovely space?  And the closets?  The closets are like little pockets of heaven.

I wish I could dress like this all the time.  It’s a shame the dresses are so expensive.

Stupid non cooperative hair.  Pseudo Victory Rolls for Jentober.  The real thing won’t hold.  le sigh.

because

I keep expecting to see snow when I look out the window.

Wow, George Lucas sold everything to Disney.  If Obama doesn’t get reelected, those billions should last his family at least two generations.

Wimpy Kid author!  Miss W will be stoked!

My boss looks awesome.  Great Supergirl costume!

I think they call that karma.

boys and girls

Well that’s a bit dramatic.

Is it?  IS IT???

duh duh duuuuuuuuuuuhm

Apparently no one thinks I’m wearing a costume.  Awesome.

probably not me

Oooh retirement party snacks!  Oh wait.  Damn.

Captain Tightpants, indeed.

I have zero work motivation today.  Zero.  Maybe I’ll do better tomorrow.

What the hell?  No snacks.  Just cake.  le sigh.

This would be my theme song if we actually got trick or treaters.

It’s so COLD!

We’re going to be late.  Of course.

So cold, so rainy.

I love Halloween.  I love trick or treating with the cousins.

Now I’m just late posting.

I need some tea.

burning in the fireplace

Fireplace!  I’m going to have a fireplace!

I’ve always loved James Bond.

I could fall asleep right now.

I really like this blue nail polish.

There was a customer who used to come to the lab.  He had two daughters who were pretty young.  (They’re probably teenagers now)  Anyway, one of them used to paint her nails all the time and she called it paint nollish.  It was cute.

One of these days I’ll get some cowgirl boots.

One of these days I’ll master the Victory rolls.

One of these days I’ll have amassed an entire rockabilly wardrobe.

One of these days.

I have to vote yes on Young the Giant, Red.

All the luck in the world to my bunny.  You’re brilliant, and Antenna will win.

Dear God, what have you been feeding this dog???  The stench!!!!

I wish I could take tomorrow off and sleep all day.

I love this tea.

I was going to watch Sleepy Hollow.  But then I realized I only own it on VHS and I no longer own a VCR.

Will this fit in any VCR???

Another of my favorite days is coming up next week.  VOTE!   I suppose next week’s Random will be the post election post mortem post.  Or something.

I keep forgetting about button holes.

And.  wow.  November.  Already.

Time to start planning the Infamous Townsend Christmas Card!

Happy Halloween!!!!!!!

Uh oh.  I forgot the mixer.  Dammit!

6 days to Halloween!

Sonuvabitch!  I forgot the other container of whipping cream too!

I should never have gotten out of bed this morning.

Wow.  I’ve managed three whole sentences today.

Have you read any good books lately?  I need suggestions.  Self Help titles need not apply.

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

No, my Google is not broken.

149 hours to Halloween!

I can’t find the font that I’m looking for.

Ooooh.  Denied!

Halloween store!  Halloween store!  Halloween store!!!

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!  Sugar skulls!!!

I really hate holding yard sales.

Miss W decided to have a spontaneous political discussion with the woman working at Barnes & Noble.  The woman told me that Miss W is absolutely precious and good for us, because most kids her age don’t have a clue about that stuff.  It was both weird and awesome.

I don’t like it when fall feels like spring.

I have so many Louie photos to edit!  What an awesome night.

8928 minutes to Halloween!

I wasn’t even going to buy anything.  I couldn’t resist.  At least it was reasonably priced.  Had it cost any more I would have abstained.

The cake was a hit!  Yay!

I like that 10 wears Chucks.

untied.

I have a hard time keeping up with that Tumblr stuffs.  Too much stuffs.  Too little minutes.

I love that my new dress has pocketses.  I hate that I got something RED on my new dress in the chaos of an event day.

I forgot to zombie today!

I’m really in the mood for a Diet Coke.  It’s been ages.  It’s a shame I don’t have any.

I should just save this til tomorrow and live blog the yard sale.  I wonder if we’ll get anyone interesting.

I don’t have any good links today.  I’ve barely been on the interwebs.

What?  What???

I want to know my midterm grade.

Oh crap.  I’m running out of time.  Must get some crap done this weekend.

Oooh!   That is a really cool witch hat.

We should just move now.

Like I have time to move now.

skullie skullie skullies!

Maybe I’ll watch Sleepy Hollow this weekend.  I haven’t seen it in ages.

For a minute I forgot I don’t have to work tomorrow.

Miss W’s favorite thing about Louie was that he set a record.  That really impressed her.

I don’t really care about baseball.

529804 seconds to Halloween!

I had to loan the Trek dress out this year.  I couldn’t say no.  My pal’s baby boy is wearing a Captain Kirk onesie.  It’s too perfect.

What do they call them?  Sausage curls.  Sausage rolls.

I’m so late.  And that’s totally ok with me.

I don’t care about glacial erosion this evening, thank you.

OK.  I’m beat.  I have to hawk glasswares in the morning.

Think I can run away to the pumpkin patch?

What is that supposed to mean?

People make my head numb.

14 days to Halloween!

Uh oh.  I should stay off the interwebs.

I didn’t watch this debate either.  I probably would have tuned in for a minute but my computer was broken and the super extra awesome Mister was fixing it for me.  Cos he kicks ass.

Argh.  I hate the way that woman speaks to me.

Do I hafta?

I think we should just move now.

I think.  Yeah.

I think I might be cranky.  I think

I think

Aimless.  Shiftless.  Lostish.

super senior

329 hours to Halloween!

My kingdom for a hair band!

I need a mental health day.  Or 12.

Just a squintch.

Oh how neat!

There’s no reason to panic yet, right?

Yes, the three Fates, indeed!

Now my head just hurts.  It’s a side effect of panic, I think.

When is the thunderstormyness supposed to be here?

Well, if you don’t plug it back into the wall properly, it won’t charge.  It’s not that complicated.

I’m just not that hungry.

Loooooove this, and you should too.  Thank you, Ms. Fallacy.

Well, that was a waste of a good panic.

Wow, that made me really tired.

Who am I kidding?  I’m always tired these days.

19605 minutes to Halloween!

History and Cinema.  I think it will be an interesting course.  I think.

I’m doing a lot of thinking today.

Mostly I’m scattered.  This isn’t flowing well.  There’s no heft.

Weft.

Deft.

Cleft.

Left.

Right?

Dozed right off in the parking lot.  Waiting.

Sometimes I am reminded that I live in a pretty great community.  This made my day.

This dog lives in my hometown.  Apparently he is a therapy dog at one of the local hospitals.  Being the great big sci/fi geek that I am, if I saw that dog walk into my hospital room, I would quietly panic, look for possible weapons, and be absolutely convinced that some kind of sinister giganomous alien dog race had come to take over the Earth.  Aside from that, holy hell, what a big dog!

Oh yes.  Yes yes yes.

No!  Christmas is not allowed before Halloween!  No Christmas before Halloween!  Shush!

That is a wildly inappropriate donut.

Damn.  Now I want a donut.

Argh!  I want the pictures!

1168220 seconds to Halloween!

That sounds like a challenge to me.

Well, really, when you stop and think about it, Dwight is kind of a weird name.

These are some cute boots.

Really?  Who mistakes a blind man’s cane for a samurai sword???

Do not negotiate with the terrorist!

Tacos?  Don’t mind if I do!

Jane’s Addiction’s Coming Down the Mountain just suddenly popped into my head.

I don’t even get the binder thing.   But what I’m extrapolating is that it’s a stupid thing to fixate on.  But I don’t know what these people are talking about.

Man these birds are loud!

Will we be hearing cries of “Go back to Canadia!” directed at Nathan Fillion?

Matlock???  Yeah, I never liked that show.

Maybe hot tea would be better.

Why yes, I would love to put together a new Canon 5D Mark II package!  Why no, I would not like to put that on a credit card, so that it ends up costing me 3 to 4 times as much as paying cash!  Thus endeth today’s lesson in not spending money you don’t have.  See how easy that was?

This is also why I don’t have a 5D Mark II.

That bread is pretty moldy.

No!  Stop dimming lights!  I don’t want to lose power!

After parody Bowie, which was funny, I need genuine Bowie.

People will be wondering, I suppose.

gone gone gone

I should be in isolation this week.

There is a procedure for these things for a reason.

The daily volume of email is astonishing.

I just can’t bring myself to care about 14th Century Burma today.

Of course now I’m thinking of this song.

Hmmm.  Very strange.

It is always fascinating to me that such a small body of people can so thoroughly exert so much power over so many, while the many stand by and allow it to continue.  What is it in the human psyche that compels us to obey?  How is it that more governments are not overthrown on a regular basis?  Look at the disaster that our country has become, while we sit here calling each other names and screaming profanities.  And the same faces rotate through, “We’re from the government, and we’re here to help.”

In other news, I think I need this for my kitchen window.

That was.  I don’t know.  A very strange odor.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaand meeting.

And then there is suddenly a shocking lack of email.  So odd.

I’m feeling very disenchanted with school.  And work.

I’m just so very tired.

I never show up in those things.

I think I need a new head shot for work, on account of that last one was atrocious.

Again, I’d have to go with “You’re overthinking it.”  Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

Bananas on the other hand …

Gloomtastic.  I love it.  I do not want to be here today.

Shit.  I completely forgot to stop.

Amanda Palmer’s The Bed Song is very sad.  She was working on a video for it, but it isn’t ready yet.  So you get this.

I just keep hitting skip on the ipod today.  Look me in the eye and tell me …

The students did not get my Pretty in Pink reference.  I told them they had to watch it by Monday.  Man, I loved Duckie Dale.  I am a much different woman today.

I have been told twice this week that Indie Pop is never the answer.  But sometimes it’s exactly what I want.  I’m assuming you love me anyway.

My costume is not going to be warm enough to trick or treat in.  Might have to don the Star Trek uniform again for that one.

Sleep.  Please.  Need sleep.

teddible teddible teddible

Fuzzy dental floss.

Uh oh

Yeah, this promo photo is gonna suck too.  Why do I try?

The important part of this, for me, is the bit at the top.  I just did a very happy little dance in my chair.

I think that might be more information than I really care to know about you, thank you very much.

My head hurts.

Are you meeting me here?  Are you meeting me at the Tick?  Which is my Jeep, in case you’ve forgotten.

Remember that time … but no, you wouldn’t, would you?

Oh, little space heater.  I love you so.

Well, that is quite a few fewer credits than I thought.  Nice!

Those shoes with the toes?  Just no.

I think I need to reinstall Instawhatsit.  My tilt shifty tool isn’t working.

Dammit!  My tea tastes like coffee.

I feel like I should be doing something else.   Girl Friday just wasn’t really my CAREER GOAL.  I don’t know.  Go buy something from my Etsy, help me move in another direction, yeah?  Or at least get that 40mm I’m saving my pennies for.

Also there is the AR15 … and the cowgirl boots … yeah.  You know.  It’s not like I’m going to throw crap on a credit card.

Helpful Etsy link to your right, by the bye.

go on go on and

Neko is my fall music.

pulled pork yes please

Yes.  That was exactly in order.  Thank you.  I enjoyed that very much.

The clouds were incredible today.  I wished I had Ripper with me all day to shoot them.  Alas.

Huh.  I can’t picture those two ever having been a couple at all.  Crazy.

You’re right.  I am on the losing side of modern history.  I might as well give up and go sign up for my Obama phone.

What?

The only thing I’ve ever done on this list is pick up things with my toes.  Which I still do.  All the time.  I have freakishly long and dextrous toes.

Ack!

The house is too quiet.  Where’s Tennison?

My fan base is on hiatus.

What’s this??  A Random Wednesday off from work?!?

Chicken wrangling.  Maybe I should go to work …

Yes, those are several very good words there.

I hate it when I dream about work.  It’s so unfair.

A bolt of burlap.

Outside all day?  Not really what I was expecting.  Where’s my scarf?  Where’s my umbrella?

Whee.

Yeah, here’s another one that needs to die already: “That moment when …”  Variant: “That awkward moment when …”

I have no memory of eating that last apple slice.

The nightmares must go.  Go away, nightmares.  Poor thing.

I have no idea what to do for dinner.  My whole day is off.  Not used to being home on a Wednesday.

Course I wasn’t actually home all day …

Duck baby booties!  So cute!

It’s the babies.  They suck you in.

I want to be the home parent.  I don’t want to be the work parent.  I’m over the whole working mom thing.  I was never really into it in the first place.

I feel like making pumpkin bread.  Can’t have that for dinner.

Oooooh!  The owls are here!  The owls are here!

Damn.  $1.84.  Had I known Americans For Prosperity were there this morning, I might have driven the hour to get the Bush era gas rate.

Ok, probably not, but damn.

Damn, I forgot to grab a protein bar.

Oh it’s debate night.  Am I the only one who thinks that these are pretty much a waste of time?

And let Gary Johnson in already!!!

Alas, it looks like Gary is NOT going to be on the Michigan ballot.  Fantastic.   You know what that means don’t you?  It means I’ll have to vote Romney. I am not happy about this.

Amazon thanks you.

Man, I love the Compound in the fall.  So beautiful.  I am so lucky to live here.

I love this sweater.  I need twelvety seven more sweaters knitted with this yarn.  I wonder what this is.

Don’t chase the goat.

I still love Charlie and Lola.  I do.  Their little British voices just kill me.

I ask Red for the Doctor and what does she tell me?  He’s on tv.  What’s up with that?

I keep liking things on instawhatsit and it keeps not recording them.  So I give up.

Dexter and Homeland are back.  I’m less excited about Dexter every year, I think.

I think you put entirely too much thought into that.

I don’t mind making it if I’m standing there.  But I’m not going out of my way.  I don’t even partake of it.  And that’s all I have to say about that.

I’m going to need to order more tea already.  Sheesh.  It’s the colder weather.  I drink twice as much. My dentist says it looks like I smoke hash.  Thanks, Scott.

But.  But.  But …

I need a snack.

What??  We could have been going on Thursdays??  I wish we had known that.  Wait.  We could, in theory, go 5 days a week now.  Nice.

I think we need to get a couple of bows.  I’m gonna go all Geena Davis out here.  Olympics & shit.

I don’t like group projects.  My inclination is to just do the whole thing so that it’s done RIGHT.  Or, you know, my version of right.  Which is the ultimate version of right.  Am I right?  Of course I am.

So yeah, completely addicted to Dr. Who.  Why didn’t I check it out before???

I do miss the 9th Doctor though.  He was fantastic.

See what I did there?

Hot dogs eh?

Ack!  The pressure!

Crap.  The 14th is coming up fast.  I need to get these stupid reports done.  Bah.

Rainy rainy raininess

Oh my.  It’s awfully late!  See what happens when I take the day off?

Are you even reading theses texts?

The history class I wanted is not being offered next semester.  I’m super bummed about that.  I’ve been trying to get into it for several semesters now and it’s always full.

It’s too cold for ice cream!

I just remembered the peanut butter pumpkins …