Day 54 - October 31, 2008 - Halloween

Happy Halloween from all of us!


Jon and I had Sean, Mandy, and Drew over for Halloween Festivities tonight.
We decorated our gourds and pumpkins from Eckert's with these crazy push in eyes and such that my mom sent me earlier this month. My mom always knows how to make our holidays awesome with packages full of goodies. She's been sending me stuff since I went to college.
I love you MOM!

Day 53 - October 30, 2008

I was so excited when these little beauties appeared in my mailbox this morning.
Yeah, so they didn't exactly "appear" per se but they did come unexpectedly quick.
Yarn Pirate BLF Superwash Sock. (Buy it here!)
They grey one is Smoke and the green Cassiopeia (and its an over dye! so it was cheaper!)

420 yards of pure gooey delicousness each. HMM!
and the best thing about Yarn Pirate??? She has the absolutely most adorable little boy in the whole world. Read her blog. Its worth it almost just for the pictures of her little H. Not to mention the copious yarn pr0n.

Day 52 - October 29, 2008

Here's the birthday boy!
It's Sean's real birthday today. The party we had on Saturday was preemptive.
I feel bad for forgetting his birthday until we were actually at the Upstream. I made a mental note to call him this morning but obviously I'm pretty forgetful.
Well, Happy Birthday anyway Sean. I hope you had a great day!

Day 51 - October 28, 2008

My first real day at Benson was pretty good. No major problems as of yet.
I'll be doing the after school Homework Help program and therefore spending a lot of time with young kids. They are pretty entertaining/fun. I already know some of the regulars.
I think we'll have a great time.

Day 50 - October 27, 2008

Day 50

7.3% done with the year.
And what am I doing?
Forgetting to take a picture all day and then desperately taking crap pictures before we go to bed.
I am a bad person.
On a lighter note, I'm addicted to this game. Seriously..like playing 3 hours at a time...

Day 49 - October 26, 2008

This guy is a freaking genius!

Day 48 - October 25, 2008

We had a Halloween birthday party tonight for Sean. Shannon made these cute looking cupcakes. Aren't these guys great. If I was going to have a spider in my house, I would want him to look at least this friendly.
I dressed up as a moose for the party. Well really, I put on moose ears that I found at Target with a brown sweater. Yeah I know. I'm not very creative in the costume department. Jon's was really funny. We bought one of those little kid costumes that you just slip over their heads. It was Elmo...and it just happened to also fit on Jon's head. Classic.

Day 47 - October 24, 2008

par avion
Royal Mail

Yes, I ordered something from the UK
A laptop bag for our trip to Europe. It seems like I've been buying a lot of bags lately, right!?

This one I bought of of Etsy where everything is homemade. This is a Minus bag. Great service....I would totally buy from him again. Everything is made to order wonderful!

Day 46 - October 23, 2008

Benson.
My new home. I went to visit today and to spend some time with Jason to learn the ropes.
I think I'm really going to like it here.

Day 45 - October 22, 2008

Whole Foods again.
Yes, I know. Jon and I spend far too much time/money there.
But its so great.
Here's a weeks (give or take a few days) worth of groceries.
Baguette, edamame, tofu, cabbage, potatoes, french fries, cucumber, cheese, pasta, onion, juice, broth, and many more things I can't quite remember or figure out.

Day 44 - October 21, 2008

Our backpacks for Europe came today. Aren't they nice. Kelty Redwing. Kelty is a good company. My dad uses them almost exclusively for all of his BoyScouty things.
The straps even zip in so we can send them through our checked luggage. The only problem I can foresee with them now is that they are exactly the same. Same color and everything. We need to get patches or something so that we can tell them apart and so that we can pick them out when we get to the luggage carousels in the airports.

Day 43 - October 20, 2008

I hate driving.

Day 42 - October 19, 2008

Being in St. Louis, of course I had to stop at Knitorious best yarn store ever. And of course I had to spend money...lots of money...on wonderful yarns.

I made it out of there with 5 skeins...so I don't think I did too bad, right? :)

This beauty is Ella Rae Lace Merino in the burgundy/magenta colorway. Wonderful stuff. Its going to be the Japanese Vines scarf.

I also sprung for some Colinette Jitterbug (colorway unknown..its black/grey with bits of color) and some Cascade Heritage in 5602..its a nice light grey/blue.

The Jitterbug is destined to be a triange garter shawl or kerchief while the Heritage doesn't have a destiny yet...but it will soon I suppose.

All in all it was a wonderful trip...next time hopefully we can stop by Loopy too.

Day 41 - October 18, 2008

We went to Eckert's Orchard today with Jon's family. We had a great time.
We picked Fuji apples, pumpkins, and I got this wonderful indian corn.
Apparently there was a great pumpkin weigh off between Mike and Andrew. They both picked huge pumpkins in the field and they were under the impression that we would only be buying one and it would be the winner of the weigh off. Mike's pumpkin won of course. But we ended up buying both anyway. Eckert's was really cute....a nice place. I would love to go there again next year. Maybe Jon can arrange that for us. :)

Day 40 - October 17, 2008

Jon and I drove to St. Louis today and guess who was waiting for us on his parent's front porch.
MR. PUMPKIN!
yeah! isn't he cute!

Day 39 - October 16, 2008

Pizza! from Yia Yia's in Lincoln. They don't have a website but let me tell you its worth it to go to Lincoln for this pizza. This slice was called the Atlantic; chicken, broccoli, bacon, and potatoes (!) yeah I know!!!!!
I was there all day today for the NLA/NEMA conference.
The conference was wonderful.....
I feel energized. For my career, for the future of the library, for everything!

Day 38 - October 15, 2008

Usually, we really try not to set books on the floor. But it just happened to be a holiday earlier this week (yeah I know, Columbus Day is really not a great holiday, but hey we get it off because I work for the city).
Whenever Millard is closed for more than a day the book drop over flows and then this happens. We don't have enough shelf space or carts to sort the books for shelving. So they all end up on the floor.

Day 37 - October 14, 2008

Another concert tonight. Broken Social Scene this time.
This concert was awesome (and we got another set list!)
Jon says "It was off the hook!"
I agree.

Day 36 - October 13, 2008

We went to see Deerhoof tonight but the real highlight of the night was the first opener AU. These guys really know how to put on a show.
The Deerhoof part of the concert was also pretty good. That lead singer was crazy.

Day 35 - October 12, 2008

I was an hour late for my class today. So Jon bought me these beautiful flowers. Pink organic roses. From Whole Foods of course.
I was an hour late today because I had completely forgotten about class. I mean there was really no excuse whatsoever. But Jon knew just how to cheer me up. Yeah JON!