Wordless Wednesday: Del Ray Halloween Parade 2011 Edition

Kelli (best friend), a friend of ours and I attended Del Ray's annual Halloween Parade on Sunday.  The parade starts a little more than 1/3 of a mile from our house and although the parade has a small town feel, an estimated 8k people and dogs participated.  Very fun!
Oh, that "Just Hatched" entry above?  The entry, complete with a zonked out "baby chick" won one of the categories. c

Halloween

Although my earliest memories of Halloween are somewhat trumautic---unsuccessfully trying to ward off my dad from my candy and then the tragic separation of the candy*, I still love the holiday.  I love the whimsy of Halloween, the legends, the history, the costumes.  I kind of see it as I see the internet.  Sure, like the internet, there's a seedy side to both, but that doesn't mean that both can't be great.





*My candy and I were reunited each year but the "good chocolate" was always gone .  This might be why I like candy over chocolate. For the most part, my dad left the candy alone.     

NaBloPoMo

The First Day of NaBloPoMo* starts tomorrow.

Are you participating??



NaBloPoMo=National Blog Posting Month.  Blog each day in November.  The posts don't need to be long or involved, but it's fun.

Yes, this is similar to NaNoWriMo(National Novel Writing Month).

Some Kids REALLY Love Disneyland!

Andy Rooney out of Context

Simply, 1 minute and a half of Andy Rooney being Andy Rooney.  Enjoy.

"Call if you're out there Robuck."

What I Saw Today...

That's an engineer rappelling on the Washington Monument.  Cool eh?  Photo courtesy of NPR.

Dolly and Queen?

Confession: I've seen pretty much every Dolly Parton and Queen Latifah movie ever so the two of them in a movie together?  I'm there opening weekend.