Saturday, October 25, 2008

Spooooky!

We had our annual family Halloween dinner last night. Our spooky foods this year included:
Wormy skeleton brains and zombie eyeballs to keep an eye on our hooligan guests.

Witch Fingers (delicious right down to the crispy fingernails).

Spider Soup eaten out of Pumpkin Soup Bowls (quite the delicacy among ghouls these days).

Iris of Troll. You can only get these specially extracted from the eyeballs of trolls in Northern Iceland. There is no expense too great for our spooky fun. Thanks Camille and Mike. And you are probably wondering what we did with these eyeball guts? We did this:

We drank those irises, of course. That is an iris stuck in the incredibly fat straw Camille and Mike brought for our eyeball drinking pleasure
.Dan got so choked up over those irises or maybe he was just choking.


Speaking of Dan, this picture makes me think of him. No, it's not because I think he's a stinking bowl of pumpkin guts. Really it's because of last night when I was carving out my pumpkin soup bowl and I had to walk away for a minute. When I returned I couldn't believe how many guts that little pumpkin had. I worked away until it was almost clean but I had to leave again. When I got back there where even more guts in my bowl. Every time I left the room Dan kept dumping hte pumpkin guts from his pumpkin into my bowl. It was pretty funny. He better watch out. I won't be on such good behavior when he's part of the family and retaliatory pumpkin guts will be the least of his worries.

A few more spooky shots:

Whose head was this? No one really knows but since we are no respecter of persons, we made our little grinning skeleton friend feel right at home.


I found a spider in my soup! Ahhhhh!


How does he do with his eyeballs?

There were lots of spooky things going on last night. But we were all terrified by this:
This apparition took us all by surprise and we fled in terror.


Whew. It's just Camille.


And Mike.

Brooke requested the ugly ones since she and Tyler had to miss the festivities this year. We put Brooke on speakerphone so she didn't feel left out. There are for you Brooke (well, some of these aren't ugly, just funny):
That's it for our super creepy fun.

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Tricks of the Trade

I thought this information may be helpful to some. I found myself not knowing all of these little tricks, so enjoy some tech tips:

Tech Tips for the Basic Computer User
by David Pogue, New York Times