Buy Nothing Day

I thought I would do my part in spreading the word… I don’t know about you, but the commercialism of Christmas and other holidays really puts me off. Most of the stores I’ve been in recently already have Christmas stuff out. Retailers seem to have simply replaced all the Halloween stuff with Christmas stuff. As… Continue reading Buy Nothing Day

Party Follow-up

The party was a success and we had a great time until the wee hours. Altogether about 30 people showed up, but fortunately not all at the same time. The costumes were fabulous! We had Mimi (from Drew Carey), an Enron exec (hard to describe this one), Disney’s Evil Queen from Snow White (my mom,… Continue reading Party Follow-up

Happy Halloween

There’s no way around it, Halloween is always crazy for us. It’s Mel’s favorite holiday of the year. As a pagan, she feels the same way about Halloween that most Christians feel about Christmas. We actually own more Halloween decorations than Yule or Christmas decorations. Typically, we have a group over to help us carve… Continue reading Happy Halloween

Go amuse yourselves…

With this cool photography website I stole from Deborah (who doesn’t have comments or I would have thanked her for pinching it from Metafilter).