Happy Halloween

Well, its that time of the year again.(insert maniacal laugh here) Somebody asked me once why I take the whole day off for Halloween. Why not? Its the best day of the year. I think, beyond the part about possibly scaring a few people, I think I like the challenge of coming up with new ideas every year. Sometimes that works out good, other times it doesn't.

This year for some reason I didn't really think much about it. Usually I am thinking about it at least 6 months in advance. This year though, i've had other thoughts floating around in my head, and not all of them god ones. I didn't really start thinking about it until about a month ago. But I came up with an interesting I dea I guess. I'll post some pics of the fial look once I get it all finished.

Shaggy

A few words

Today was a slow day. Every time I looked at the clock thinking it should be break time it was still over an hour away. Good news is that it ended early.

I still have not gotten the last bits and pieces i need for my halloween costume. I'm thinking well dressed demon this year. I've done dead things off and on for a long time, but I don't ever remember doing any kind of demon/devil thing. There have been only two years that I did not dress up for halloween. The first was the year that Vincent Price died. And the second was a year I really couldn't think of anything cool to do. So when people asked me what I was going to be I simply said I was going as "human."

I managed to make a couple of payments on bills today. And I spent some time with my best friend and the kids today. That was cool. Actually I think of all five of them as the best friends I have ever had. Some people have no understanding how a 7 year old could be one of my best friends, but I have no need to explain the thoughts I have so let them continue to not understand. Means nothing to me.

One of the gals at work was complaining about how bad she looked today. This is actually a daily thing. When asked if I agreed with that thought I just said "yes" just to get on to the next stupid thing to leave her lips. Which thankfully was nothing for a while. Somebody told her I was the wrong person to ask a question too, which started a whole discussion between three other people about how I usually say what I mean and I don't care what anybody thinks. I have been told I am quite honest with my thoughts, even if things I say get people all mad and complaining. I just feel so bad about that. Can anyone else see this tear running down my face? haha.

I think I filled up three pages in the little notebook I carry just after getting to hell, I mean work, this morning. Trying to come up with a good "happy" peoem, but it didn't work. I got half a dozen really short things that made absolutely no sense at all.

Shaggy

In need of inspiration

This has been such a boring weekend. I went out saturday morning to check out some horror movies that were supposed to be on sale and all I found was Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow. Then I had to ask to make sure it was on sale, because nothing was marked anywhere. Picked it up for $7.88.

I did manage to doodle a cartoon with, but its pretty tiny. And didn't exactly turn out the way I had hoped it would. I think my muse went on vacation and forgot to let me know. I haven't had any real inspiration for a while now.

The other day at work one of the guys and I were talkig about books. We talked about how we each thought of writing a book someday and how it would go. I know if I ever got around to starting one it wouldn't start with either "Once upon a time....." or "It was a dark and stormy night..." those have used way too much. I had a couple good ideas, I thought, on how I would start writing something, but when I got up to grab a pen to get it out so I could see it in print, I lost the thought.

I also wanted to write something for a friend. Something that wouldn't sound so dark and moody, that she might actually think sounded good. She writes poems and songs all the time. I don't even remember what it was like to be her age, that was too long ago. So, my inspiration seems to have temporarily left my person. And the other day I was so tired I think I actually went to a point beyond boredom. Where there is even more of nothing.

Shaggy

Early morning run

Went out just a little bit after I crawled out of bed this morning and bought the Batman begins movie on DVD. Came with a bonus disc of a two part cartoon from the newer Batman cartoon. I'd seen the cartoon on tv, and wasn't really impressed by it much, but a bonus is a bonus. And the movie was Cool. I just finished watching this afternoon.

I finished a drawing I was working on for a friend. Going to give her a copy of it the next time I see her. Hope she likes this one, or she might beat me up. Guess I won't know until she sees it.

Not much else to say at the moment. Just bored like normal. I did get to chat with my german pen pal today. I haven't got to talk to her in a while, so that was cool.

Shaggy

Used book stores

Last week I stopped at the used book store and found a couple old books from the Executioner series. A couple that I had not read, and was shocked to find them. Most of the ones they have now are the newer books. I like the old ones better when they were still written by one person and didn't jump around so much with the story. I'd like to get the first 35 books of the series. I have over half of them right now. I picked up those and a fantasy story called There will be dragons, but it will be a while before I start reading that one. I have three other books ahead of that one I want to read.

I stopped there to check out the horror section, since I have not been there in about 6 months. They didn't have anything that sounded good. At least nothing I had not already read. So, I decided to scan through the action section and was surprised to find the old books I got. I haven't gotten any of the original books of the series since last year sometime.

Shaggy

No more anonymous.......

Okay, enough with the spammer shit. Oh, how I wish I could put a curse or something on all spammers that as soon as their "comments" hit my blog page they start to die a slow and painful death. But I guess that won't be happening any time soon.

I did go in and change the settings on this so there should be no more anonymous postings. And I added the word verification to the comments page. If it works.

Shaggy

Went out tonight

It was a kind of busy day for me. Which started after sleeping for about 12 hours. I crawled into bed at about 7:30 friday night and woke up about 7:00 a.m. this morning. Then I went out and bought a couple things I needed, including something to seal the windshield on the truck. I didn't have a leak until last week.

By the time I finished everything I wanted to get done this morning it was time for lunch and the Michigan/Michigan state game was on. I usually don't watch college football, but it was the only thing on. And I slept through some of it.

Tonight I had to go over to my best friend's apartment and annoy her with my presence. No, actually she told me the other day I had to go over to see her daughter all dressed up for homecoming. I may be a sick old man, but i'm not ashamed that that little girl is really pretty. Could almost say gorgeous, if I was feeling generous. So, I snapped some cool pics of her, plus a couple other pics and then relaxed and hung out for about 3 hours.

We watched that movie Robots. Its pretty good at times and I actually laughed a few times. Not many movies make me laugh. Even the ones that are supposed to be so funny. Had a slice of pizza that I probably shouldn't have eaten. And downed it with a can of coke. Now my gut is being a nuisance. Just hope it lets me get comfortable enough to sleep tonight.

Shaggy