Halloween/Birthday Queen

Hey there!

Another Halloween, another birthday come and gone.  I'll get to the Halloween part in just a minute, but first I want to address the birthday part.   I turned 36 yesterday, which means I'm offically old.  I've decided that this is true.

Don't even try to change my mind.

I will say though, in my old age I've come to the realization that there are birthdays and then there are Facebook birthdays.  The regular old birthday that one celebrates with their family and beloved friends are invaluable and must never ever ever be done away with.  However, the Facebook birthday?  That is something else entirely.  It's like one's own little social media version of It's A Wonderful Life, where you get to be reminded of everyone's lives you've been a part of, and everyone who's been a part of your life as well.  Yesterday, in a 24 hour period, I received well wishes from people who met me in the hospital on the day I was born, to my elementary school friends, to former high school bff's, work colleagues, mommy friends, neighbors.... you get the idea.  I felt very loved and grateful all day long.

I know.  I'm getting sappy in my old age.  I need to get a grip because really, it's just Facebook.  It's what people do.

Still.

Anyway, I'm posting tonight because I promised a couple of weeks ago to show you guys the final result of our Halloween House of Horrors and I'm trying to be better about following up on things.  Especially since I've failed you all on Fall Food Fridays.

And Teacher Talk Tuesdays.

And I never really got around to doing any kind of regular book-related post.

Is anybody even still out there?

Anyway, I hate to subject you all to another video with me narrating, but there was no other way around it.  I also hate to subject you to poor quality video, but again, there was no way around it.  The Flip doesn't come with any type of night vision recording device (that I know of), so I got all MacGyver on you guys and just lit the Flip with a flashlight- which amounted to very limited vision.  Basically, you're going to be looking at darkness and blurs for the next minute twenty.   Sorry.  But I've done what I could to give you guys an idea of why Mr. C proudly holds the honor of having the scariest house on the block, and it's all thanks to 9, mostly.
You'll see why here:

Halloween '10 from Tacy Cauthron on Vimeo.







Is that costume 9's wearing freaky or what? This one group of girls got so scared that they did a lap through our house and out our garage door, while all my family and friends watched and laughed.

Empathy is not really a strong trait around here.

Anyway, that's (almost) all I have for you tonight.

Just a quick aside- a couple of weeks ago a friend of mine posted on FB that she "loathes Halloween" and I seriously had to take a moment and talk myself down from defriending her.  I'm glad that I did, because in real life she is a wonderful and warm person.  It's just a tad hard for me to not take it personal when someone doesn't like Halloween.  With me, it's one of those things that are up there with politics and religion.  If you don't like Halloween and you happen to be my friend, well then, we'll just avoid the entire topic altogether like a big fat elephant in the room.

For those of you who do 'get' Halloween and love it as much as I do, I  want to say thanks for celebrating!  I hope your day was filled with all kinds of parties and spooky fun.

Have a good night!