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Matthew had his first Halloween, and though he was oblivious to what it was we think he enjoyed it. He went as a monkey, which we think is very appropriate. We got him a cute little outfit and you can see it in the pictures below. We only went to a few houses to trick-or-treat, my mother’s and her neighbor’s and my mother-in-law’s. He only got a few candy bars and since we aren’t allowing him to have chocolate yet the parents got to eat the candy bars.

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There has been so much work to do for school I have been studying like crazy. I was working this weekend, or I was supposed to but yesterday I was sick, I was supposed to take a double shift but the whole night before it I was just throwing up and couldn't sleep. then the whole day I lay in bed and slept with the occasional stargate universe episode or some old big bang theory episode. I love the big bang theory, my kind of show definetly! also I am starting to like stargate universe, I prefer ...

I don't usually do seasonal reading, and I usually find it kind of cheesy to choose books to read based upon upcoming holidays, so I generally don't pick the books I am going to read based on the time of year, but I do love Halloween so I decided I would try to focus my reading around Halloween themes.

The most predominately Halloween related book I read was Let the Right One In a brilliant book and probably the best vampire story since Dracula. It is one of the best contemporary ...

her sleek
and her white teddy shimmering
even under the dim scrutiny of the naked bulb

as she vainly flees the madman
turning on lights in a darkened room,
only to find, not an exit,
but a body,
limbs askew
as if thrown there by a particularly
petulant child,
or an employee at a Halloween haunted house

enjoying the idea of the creative fear
he is about to engender in someone,
humming to himself ...

So here I am sitting in the Portland Oregon airport without (to my relief) the responsibility of not geting scratches on a new rental car and contemplating the 14 miles or so journey to our hotel where hopefully there are no more unexpected surprises awaiting.

As with Atlanta I am gazing out at the skyline of Oregon viewing the mountains and fir tress in the distance. The trees begin to take on the aspect of a horde of lawn gnomes from the Travelocity commercials and I chuckle at ...