Halloween!

Ok, ok, ok it has been a very very long time since I last wrote a blog, 

 there is a good reason. No internet!  That's right I have been living with minimal internet for quite some time now so the first thing to go is the blog I 

 sorry to say. I have other things that I like to get in on the internet so blogging takes a back seat. Plus it takes some time to create a blog so I don't want to waste the precious few moments I have thinking of all my adoring fans, like Macho Max just to name one. 

Since I don't want this blog to get too long and wordy I am going to try and keep my thoughts to a minimum. Plus I probably can't remember half of what happened anyway.  I do know that I have finally found a sublet and am currently living in my own space. I do have a roommate, but I still have my own bed and room that I can call my own. 

 month of air mattress and futon surfing is officially over.  I should take a picture of my place but I don't think I can stand far enough in a corner for you to see the whole thing that is how small it is. I will tell you the place is in Greenpoint between Mateo and DKNY. Really I am about 4 blocks from Mateo and Coriander and 6 blocks from DKNY and BH; we make up a nice little triangle. 

Ando came up to visit me the weekend before Halloween, October 25th through the 27th. It was a short little visit, but it was good to see my man again. Who would have thought that I would miss human contact and as much as I am. We didn't do much while he was here, but we did manage to go to two pumpkin carving parties, or should I write partie's CB Radio? The first one was on Saturday night at Ice and Joel's place. 

Ando arrived in the morning we went to the Farmers' Market to buy a pumpkin for the festivities. We found a nice large pumpkin for carving and I also bought some apples, eggplant and lettuce for myself. We didn't do much else the rest of the day till we met up with CB Radio and Goose to get on the train and head to the lasagna/pumpkin carving fun. We lugged our pumpkin on the subway and in the pouring rain, and I mean pouring, we were soaking wet, for a night of good clean fun, with alcohol. 

Joel made three different lasagnas for all of us and I made a pumpkin roll, that didn't turn out to look very rolly, and the team of

 Goose and CB Radio made some worms and sand. We feasted on all of the food while watching some classic Halloween movies, Freddy 4, I think that's what one it was, and Garfield. Yep, we were eating lasagna so why not watch the Garfield Halloween special. Since we were watching the special we decided to take it one step further and carve a Garfield pumpkin. Sorry for the blurry picture, but I think you get the idea. 

After the long night of pumpkin carving, but not the one Ando and I bought and drug to Park Slope, and eating too much food the four Greenpointer's shared a car ride back to our hood. We didn't feel like waiting for all of our slow trains, plus the F was closed at the station that is closest to Ice and Hagood's; we would have had to walk quite a ways to get the G train home. And I really didn't want to carry that pumpkin all that ways again. 

Sunday DKNY, BH, Mateo, Coriander, Ando and I all went to brunch at this Spanish Tapas restaurant in Williamsburg. An alcoholic beverage was included in the price of your brunch too. After brunch Ando came with me to get the keys to my sublet and pay my first months rent. He can attest to how small my place is, but it is in a nice area and isn't with some crazy person, I like the other girl I am living with, and it has a sink in the bathroom; all pluses in my book. Ok, so after getting my keys, it was some more sitting around. Ando and I were going to go into the city, but realized we didn't have enough time since we had pumpkin carving number two later that night.

This carving was with Ando's brothers and their live-in girlfriends, sorry, but I can say that now that Ando and I are getting married. We lugged the pumpkin that we bought at the Farmers' Market yet again, but this time we actually carved it. 

and Coriander made us some pizza and BH mulled a little cider with rum for all of us. Of course I mad another pumpkin roll and this one turned out even worse than the first. I shouldn't have tried to do it my own way; lesson learned that there is a reason directions are on those recipes. I bet Ando didn't realize he was coming up to NYC to go to so many pumpkin carvings, but at least they were with me.....awwww.

Ando left early Monday morning to head back to Cincinnati and work. I'm not sure what else happened the rest of the week because I'm sure it wasn't much. I 

 know that I knitted a hat for my Halloween costume and went shopping to find a jean skirt. I love when you can incorporate something you will wear in everyday life into a Halloween costume. 

I am now at Halloween which was of course Friday. We had a nice Halloween work party in the afternoon that included some karaoke. Everyone knows just how much I love to sing so I was hogging that mic the whole time. I think most of my co-workers think I am strange and hate me now. Ok, so this is all a lie, I didn't sing one note of karaoke. I can't sing to save my life and I know it so why embarrass myself in front of my new co-workers. Maybe someday I will find enough courage to sing, but that is highly unlikely. 

That night I went to a party with Goose, CB Radio, Ice and Joel way uptown. And by way uptown I mean Washington Heights, which is past Harlem. It took us about an hour to an hour and a half to get there. It was a party with someone Goose knows from school, so most of us didn't really know anyone, but we had alcohol so it was all good. And there was roof access to take advantage of.  We left the killer party, which had the game light as a feather stiff as a board, around 3am and 

 a cab to Union Square. It would have taken us twice as long 

get home since the A train was no longer running express like it was on the way out. Once we were at Union Square we just hopped on the L home. I think I was home by around 4am, not bad considering. 

On Saturday I moved into my plush, tiny, new pad. DKNY and BH helped me move my two suitcases and three small bags of stuff.  That night I went to another Halloween party, as the same thing, I didn't mention my costume before did I, I was Wenda, the female Waldo. It is the costume that just keeps giving and giving and giving. All I had to buy was some yarn to knit my hat; BH and DKNY had the shirt and tights. Party number 2 was with BH and DKNY's friends in Greenpoint, only two blocks from my place. It was a happening little party, but I left before apple bobbing began. Needless to say I wasn't out quite as late as the night before, which is fine. 

Sunday was the New York City Marathon. It turned out that the marathon went right by DKNY and BH's place on Manhattan Ave. The three of us ate some breakfast at a restaurant along the route and then stood and watched some of the race from the street. It is amazing how many people run the photographs don't really do it justice. 

It was a packed weekend, maybe a bit more exciting than the one that Ando came up for, and I think that is all I have for now. Oh, wait I did watch election results on Tuesday night with others over some cold beers. I tried to stay awake for Obama's speech, but I couldn't make it. I knew I had to walk home from DKNY and BH's place still and then go to work early in the morning so I left around 11:45 for home. 

I now have wireless internet at my place, while writing this blog, so maybe you will get more updates from now on. My internet time isn't quite as precious anymore. I will have plenty of time to 

 the world wide web and not much else. 

I am finished surfing from place to place; no baby surfing along with me.