My roommates made some cookies while watching Rear Window and I came home to catch the tail end of it. Brynn, who also didn’t want to do her homework, decided to see if she could make the same faces as the ghosts. Love her.
Naturally there was some dressing up.
And of course we carved some pumpkins!
We (mostly Annie) even made the pumpkin seeds into, well, cooked pumpkin seeds. And they were delicious.
Now for Thanksgiving!
I am well aware of the fact that I should be asleep now since I have stake conference first thing in the morning, but I just got home and am 100% awake and ridiculously excited about Halloween. So here is a teaser of the ghoulish activities I’ve been up to.
Annie carved the Harry Potter pumpkin, I carved the happy vampire.
May your day be filled with candy!
Last week while we were in our family finance class Sabrina had the brilliant idea to write a story using the classic write a few sentences, fold it over and pass it to the next person method. I think it turned out fabulous (or terrifying?), so I’m posting it on here to help you get into the Halloween spirit! I included the breaks where we folded the paper for your added enjoyment.
There once was a young man named Fernando. He was naturally curious and loved to explore. One brisk, fall evening he decided to explore the old //
mansion that had been abandoned 40 years before. All of the townsfolk told stories about hauntings that occurred there, but he thought of himself as quite a smart guy and didn’t buy into that. He opened the creaky door when he //
smelled the raw fish. His curiosity was piqued. He stormed into the house and blundered about until he found the kitchen. There he found a sushi-making //
zombie, which offered him some food. However, he thought this may be a trick to get to his brains. Or an actor. He couldn’t //
bear the thought of being the next Tom Cruise, so he dove into the dumbwaiter and sank down into the basement. It was completely dark and he heard//
a dripping sound in the southwest corner. It kind of freaked him out. But because he was curious, he tiptoed over to it and found a dark green //
pile of snot and parrot feathers. “How odd!” thought Fernando. He poked the pile with his foot and to his surprise the goop grabbed him and started climbing//
onto his shirt, kind of like Flubber but in an evil way. He tried to get it off, but it ate him. Or did it?
--> Also, this is completely unrelated to the story, but it made me really happy on my way home from work today.
This happens to me every year. Halloween just sneaks up on me, leaving me with absolutely no ideas for a fabulous costume. Last year I had my mom mail me a couple of old ones from home, but what to do this year?
Here’s a costume Becky picked out for me compliments of her Pottery Barn Kids app at the last football game.
Any other ideas?
For me, fall means pumpkin chocolate chip cookies.
Actually, I have been known to eat them year round. As anyone who went to Washington Seminar with me should know, since I made some for dinner group and then proceeded to feed the entire building.
But I especially crave them once it gets close to Halloween and Thanksgiving and the changing of leaves. For more on the reason why I am so obsessed, check out Annie’s blog entry from earlier this summer. Let’s just say that ever since London I have been especially appreciative of pumpkin goodness.
Today I made my first batch of the season. If you want some come and listen to this month’s SPJ speaker, Josh Awtry, who is the assistant managing editor of the Salt Lake Tribune and will speaking on the future of journalism and new media. Thursday at 11 a.m. in the Brimhall Atrium on campus (sorry friends not in Utah!). Nice people will be there.
Or I might let you cheat if you stop by my apartment. One batch = 59 glorious cookies. But you better come soon because they will go quick!
Last semester for my photojournalism class we had to do an audio slideshow, so I did mine on the Provo Farmer’s Market because I am naturally attracted to such things. The one here has nothing on the one in Portland, but it’s still fun. Anyways, since the school didn’t have the right plug-in to turn the slideshow into a file I could use it was stuck in the computer lab until last night. For the longest time the only way I could show it to anyone was to drag them into the Brimhall building, but now it has been liberated from the third computer on the right and is here on my blog for all to see. I know you’re excited.
And thanks again to the lovely Katie Andrus, who let me interview her for this. It was in October so she probably forgot it ever happened. But she’s cool so you should check out her blog.
Here’s the video. It’s only a minute thirty, so you totally have time to watch it.
