Thanksgiving Recap.

Thanksgiving was good, minus the fact that Lisa had to work.  She had to be in at 6:00 a.m. and worked until 6:30 p.m.  The hospital provided her with a free Thanksgiving meal.  She had to convince the cafeteria staff to give her potatoes AND stuffing, because they were told to only allow one or the other.  She ate it by herself.  :(

Collin and I went over to my mother's new place in Shawnee.  It was fun.  Nothing but Wii games and football, even though the football games were boring, its still football.  Mom had only been in this house less than a year, so it was her first holiday gathering.  It was good, but would have been better with Lisa there.

The evening was topped off with a musical performance by Collin of the song "Sing" by Travis.

But because the after-meal walk took longer than expected, the performance was rushed.  Collin was able to perform, but he was didn't not have time to assemble his Lego microphone that he brought from home.  Still, the performance was a hit.

Collin and I left to go pick up mommy and head home.  After Collin went to bed, Lisa and I stayed up and watched Braveheart on the Ion channel.  A perfect ending to a non-traditional Thanksgiving evening.

Hey Hey, How 'Bout a Book Review

Great book.  A friend of mine told me about the books a few weeks ago.  I knew about the television series but have never seen any of the episodes.  I was always intrigued though.  The actor playing Dexter, Michael C. Hall, played David on the best show on tv in recent history, Six Feet Under.  So when I heard that he was in a new show, I was interested.  But not having Showtime curbed me from watching it.  Yes, during the actor's strike it was on CBS for a little while, but I missed it then too.

The story follows Dexter Morgan, a blood-splatter specialist for the Miami Police Department.  He is also a serial killer who only kills those who deserve it. He also does not possess the ability to feel normal human everyday feelings.  So he has to fake it.  It's actually quite fascinating to read his thoughts as he encounters other characters in the book.  His descriptions of his responses and whatnot.  

I finished the first book in four days, which really says something because I am a slow reading.  I ordered the second book the day that I finished the first.  It should be here in a day or so. 

But now I'll have to rent the first season of the television series. Apparently it follows the first book pretty well with slightly alternate endings.  Then the tv series goes off in a different direction from the novels.  So that could mean that there are two different worlds of Dexter going on that I can't wait to find out more about.

If your looking for a book to read, let me be your Dark Passenger and recommend this one.  

A Good Week of Sickness

I have been sick for a whole week now.  Thursday to Thursday.  It started as a slight sore throat and then slowly moved upstairs to my head.  If I stand up for too long I have to lie down for a while, and I don't like lying around when there is stuff that needs to be done.  I think I'm getting better though.  So that's good.

Sickness or not, Lisa and I got out to see a movie yesterday afternoon.  Guy Ritchie's new film RocknRolla.  

We love both Lock Stock and Snatch, and this one looked as if it fit into the same category.  It had everything we loved about Ritchie's films.  Great dialogue.  Over the top characters.  Viloence.  Vivid cinematography.  And it was fun.  We left the theatre telling ourselves that we'll need to see this one a second time.  And I just learned that Guy Ritchie is working on an adaptation of Sherlock Holmes, starring Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law.

Fun Fun Fun.  

Poster Boy for a Good Lunch

Last night we went to Collin's school's website to look up information about a lunch bill.  This is what we found on the lunch's main page.    

Thank goodness we didn't send beer and frozen peas that day.

Halloween Drive By.

Last night was Halloween. Collin the train engineer took two trips out and got lots of candy. Here are just a few photos.

It was a blast, and I think it is just as fun to walk around from house to house with your child as it was back when I was the one doing the trick or treating.

Now here's what I don't get.  I'd say about 90% of the people out last night were actually driving their kids around.  Not dropping them off at the end of the block and then picking them up after they hit each house.  They were literally pulling up to a decorated house, letting them out, and then they would get back in the car once they got their candy and drive to the next house.  If they weren't doing that, they were following their kids, in their car, from house to house.  Am I crazy for thinking this is odd?  Isn't half the fun of Halloween actually getting out and WALKING?  

Sheesh.

Maybe they are just overprotecting parents.  Maybe they are just lazy.  But something about seeing  this almost took the fun out of what we were doing.  I almost got into an altercation because I was "strangely" looking at one of these cars as they drove by.  Mainly in part because they were driving faster than a car should on a night where there are lots of little cars darting into the street.

"You gotta problem?'

"No, I'm doing just fine."

"Well, you were looking at me."

"Yes, yes I was."

Anyway, I figured that these people problem hit every single house in the entire metro area.  Being directed by there parents as to where to go to next.  They probably even hit up the homeless shelters.  Just another typical backseat Halloween for those kids. 

And yes, I'll say it, the majority of these parents were morbidly obese.  I'm surprised they didn't yell from the driver seat as their kids reached the doorsteps, "MORE CANDY!!!!  FEED ME!!!!"

Very Scary.

Hope everyone had a happy and safe Halloween.