Entries from October 2008

Monday, October 20th, 2008

Weekend Relaxers

This weekend flew by and made me wish that someone would pay me to be a full time wife and mother. There, I said it. Alas, we’ll have to be content with weekends. This Sunday, we took the boy out to breakfast and then for a little play while we picked out a present for [...]

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008

A Cat Named Simon

 

Once upon a time, in a state shaped like a mitten I worked as a barista in a little cafe called Javasphere to support myself while going to school. One day on a particularly busy day, a customer came up and said “Um, excuse me, but did you know that there’s a cat in here?” [...]

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008

The Horror

Does watching the Presidential debate count as horror?

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Sunday, October 5th, 2008

The Creeps

Northampton State Hospital, originally uploaded by Kirkbride.
With Halloween only weeks away, I’ve been putting up decorations on the house and planning some of the festivities to come. In keeping with the spooky atmosphere, I ask you, what could be spookier than an abandoned insane asylum?
Awhile back I’d seen a movie called Session 9 which was [...]

Friday, October 3rd, 2008

Shocktober - 1, October - 0

I love fall and especially Shocktober. It’s the perfect time of year. School is starting and you cannot deny that ingrained feeling of clean white notebooks and fresh possibilities (I know, I say it every year). Besides that, it’s that perfect time in the year when it’s cold enough to wear sweaters, but warm enough [...]