Halloween

As you can see, Wax's costume as a member of Kiss didn't exactly fit.



We were gonna have a three-person Halloween party yesterday. However, anglepoiselamp got a cold, lovebashed who has to travel from further away anyway got a terrible headache, and shiroi_chi napped all day and was unable to drag herself out of bed. So after an unfortunately necessary shopping trip to town (cat stuff, red wool and embroidery materials, a stuffed sheep I totally NEEDED which I named Vega, a Lilla My pillowcase, a lot of candy, peanut butter, and two beautiful turquoise Teema cereal bowls that match our plates)...

I napped for a few hours, and then watched tv and took slightly more than three hours to crochet the heart and sew it onto this hat:


(which took two days of tv-watching to make, including the last Slasha Party, where we watched all the extras from I ♥ Huckabees followed by Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005), The Addams Family, the Dave Chappelle rap video from Robin Hood: Men in Tights, and the "I am NOT a merry man!" Robin Hood Q episode of Star Trek: TNG).

Also for Halloween see the Crazy disguised as a skein of wool:

rip

My parents live on the corner of two busy streets and my mom let my little sister's dog outside off a leash, against my sister's policy and directions. Mom liked that the dog would often come when called and could understand commands like 'don't leave the yard' (my dog doesn't, and wouldn't). She thought it was smart enough.

This time my sister's dog wasn't smart enough. She ran into the street and got hit by a car and now she's dead. She was only about five years old. My sister's obviously really upset. It's not a personal loss for me - I only met the dog once - but I always freak out when dogs die on tv, for example. I can't even comprehend the horror.