I've Got Your Holidays Right Here

Tuesday, November 1st, 2011 - Las Dias de los Muertos, cerveza por favor!


I've come to realize that the main holidays I like tend to be the evil ones like Halloween or Day of the Dead, where you have a valid excuse to drink liquor like it's going out of style and scare the everloving crap out of little kids without seeming like a mean, crotchety, old sourpuss.  But I ask you this.  When else can you chase an eight year old crybaby in a pink tutu off your lawn, while swathed in black robes, wielding a scythe and hissing, "I am coming for your soul, girl child!" and not have an angry mob with burning torches on your doorstep, demanding you "step outside"?  Huh?

Not that I did that of course.  Not lately anyway.

In a public service announcement may I suggest to you that people don't like on Halloween when you have no candy and offer them pickled onions instead.

So I carved me a couple of pumpkins for Halloween, as I was having some people who are related to me round for dinner and I thought evil, glowing demon-faces would make great table decor.  Am I the only one who finds pumpkin lanterns soothing?  No?  Yes?  I love them.  And okay, maybe it's a LITTLE sad that I spent my Saturday night sitting on my floor carving pumpkins, watching "X-Factor" and drinking wine all on my own, but you know what?  Go ahead and sue me.  I had a stinking good time. 

I did carve a second pumpkin but he went hideously, horribly wrong in an atrocity of Kardashian proportions and ended up looking more mentally challenged than actually scary so sorry...no photos of him.  I want you people to sleep tonight.

Also, people keep suggesting (okay, two people, shut up) I should think about participating in Na No Wri Mo, however, I've successfully avoided it for years now and don't see any sign of me changing this year.  I mean why would you want to write a novel in a month?  What kind of novel would that even BE?  Surely novels deserve quality?  Editing?  Rewrites and reworkings and scene changes and character development and...I don't know...a modicum of SENSE?  Can you do that in a month? I don't know.  I have problems doing that in a two minute blog entry.  Can you imagine 50,000 words of the nonsense in this blog?  Because if I did Na No Wri Mo, guess what?  That's what you'd get.

Good luck though, if you're attempting it.  Me, I'll just continue spewing out sporadic nonsense like someone with Tourette's.

In other news, I require some good smells. Someone recommend me some.