Final Score?

5 of the big bags of candy from Costco - gone by 9:00 PM.
3 boxes of paperbacks, ditto - 8:15 PM.

Last trick or treaters? 9:45 ish or so. We gave them hot chocolate packets -

Temperature?

77 degrees at 10:00 PM. WTF. That has to be the warmest Halloween I can remember.

Quotes of the evening?

"Wow, a book! See you next year!" No particular variety of candy ever gets that response.
After handing a Star Trek novel to a ten-year-old (with Dad along) - "Look Dad!" "Oooh, a Star Trek book. We'll read that together."
And of course, the automatic "thank you! Wow! Thanks!" is always a hit.

And I get to purge the paperbacks and make room for new ones. How can you lose?

Need more coloring books. And could have given away more paperbacks, if I'd had them ready.

--

Four years ago today, folks.

I think I'm going to take my honey to the Local Place for dinner tonight. The budget, she is squealing loudly. But I think we can manage some haupia cake or something.

Linen, huh. Wonder how I can twist that into an Amazon gift certificate. (*winks* at yendi and shadesong.)

Final Score?

5 of the big bags of candy from Costco - gone by 9:00 PM.
3 boxes of paperbacks, ditto - 8:15 PM.

Last trick or treaters? 9:45 ish or so. We gave them hot chocolate packets -

Temperature?

77 degrees at 10:00 PM. WTF. That has to be the warmest Halloween I can remember.

Quotes of the evening?

"Wow, a book! See you next year!" No particular variety of candy ever gets that response.
After handing a Star Trek novel to a ten-year-old (with Dad along) - "Look Dad!" "Oooh, a Star Trek book. We'll read that together."
And of course, the automatic "thank you! Wow! Thanks!" is always a hit.

And I get to purge the paperbacks and make room for new ones. How can you lose?

Need more coloring books. And could have given away more paperbacks, if I'd had them ready.

--

Four years ago today, folks.

I think I'm going to take my honey to the Local Place for dinner tonight. The budget, she is squealing loudly. But I think we can manage some haupia cake or something.

Linen, huh. Wonder how I can twist that into an Amazon gift certificate. (*winks* at yendi and shadesong.)

Final Score?

5 of the big bags of candy from Costco - gone by 9:00 PM.
3 boxes of paperbacks, ditto - 8:15 PM.

Last trick or treaters? 9:45 ish or so. We gave them hot chocolate packets -

Temperature?

77 degrees at 10:00 PM. WTF. That has to be the warmest Halloween I can remember.

Quotes of the evening?

"Wow, a book! See you next year!" No particular variety of candy ever gets that response.
After handing a Star Trek novel to a ten-year-old (with Dad along) - "Look Dad!" "Oooh, a Star Trek book. We'll read that together."
And of course, the automatic "thank you! Wow! Thanks!" is always a hit.

And I get to purge the paperbacks and make room for new ones. How can you lose?

Need more coloring books. And could have given away more paperbacks, if I'd had them ready.

--

Four years ago today, folks.

I think I'm going to take my honey to the Local Place for dinner tonight. The budget, she is squealing loudly. But I think we can manage some haupia cake or something.

Linen, huh. Wonder how I can twist that into an Amazon gift certificate. (*winks* at yendi and shadesong.)

Two things that go great together -

The Volks doll people really ought to get this one.

Like dolls - and I mean, when I played with mine, they had fantastic adventures. I still have my Barbie dolls - I've been collecting them, ostensibly, since I was 12. Really, I never wanted to "give them up." (I even painted reproduction porcelain dolls for a time, when I had access to classes and a kiln.)

No wonder I love Sims2 as much as I do. Want proof? Go look at my_sims_reality - who is posting the beginnings of a new story, with pictures.

Dolls that move, have lives and - adventures. What a concept.

I might make a filter for this stuff. Frankly, it's a bit out there and I know it.

Two things that go great together -

The Volks doll people really ought to get this one.

Like dolls - and I mean, when I played with mine, they had fantastic adventures. I still have my Barbie dolls - I've been collecting them, ostensibly, since I was 12. Really, I never wanted to "give them up." (I even painted reproduction porcelain dolls for a time, when I had access to classes and a kiln.)

No wonder I love Sims2 as much as I do. Want proof? Go look at my_sims_reality - who is posting the beginnings of a new story, with pictures.

Dolls that move, have lives and - adventures. What a concept.

I might make a filter for this stuff. Frankly, it's a bit out there and I know it.

Two things that go great together -

The Volks doll people really ought to get this one.

Like dolls - and I mean, when I played with mine, they had fantastic adventures. I still have my Barbie dolls - I've been collecting them, ostensibly, since I was 12. Really, I never wanted to "give them up." (I even painted reproduction porcelain dolls for a time, when I had access to classes and a kiln.)

No wonder I love Sims2 as much as I do. Want proof? Go look at my_sims_reality - who is posting the beginnings of a new story, with pictures.

Dolls that move, have lives and - adventures. What a concept.

I might make a filter for this stuff. Frankly, it's a bit out there and I know it.