I went to where the people were on a Saturday night...

Today is Halloween! I'm much more excited about it this year than I usually am. I grew up in a home where Halloween was not really celebrated. I wasn't allowed to Trick-or-Treat, but my brother and I were allowed to get dressed up and go to the church Harvest Festival and get giant hand fulls of candy out of a treasure chest. There was a bonfire and roasted marshmallows. One year my brother got hit in the face with a flaming marshmallow. In any case, it was really fun, and though we never had Halloween decorations or the whole door-to-door thing, I never really missed Halloween. As I got older I regarded Halloween decorations as tacky and never really got the hubbub. Like the past few years, I have to work this evening. This year though, my work is requiring us to dress up. I was a little annoyed at the forced gaiety at first, but now I'm feeling pretty into it. I'm dressing up as an elf. I got pointy ears at Party City, I'm making ghost and pumpkin shaped cookies to take into work, and earlier in the week I spent an evening watching the scary movies I wasn't allowed to watch when I was a kid. And now I'm sort of getting it. Halloween is fun. I'll be doggoned. One of my favorite shows is Ace of Cakes, the Food Network show that follows the folks at Charm City Cakes in Baltimore. Here's what they made to celebrate the holiday.

Cute Overload

I got a kitten. I've never really had a pet besides fish, so I don't really know what to do with her. I'm not really an animal person, but lately kittens have just really been getting to me. Their faces crack me up. Also, I think the idea behind being a single woman living alone with a cat is that the cat is there because the woman is lonely. And while I may get lonely at times, it is almost never ever because I live alone. I cherish my alone time, and it's a little weird to have another living being around all the time. But who could resist this face?



So, I'll learn to share my space. As long as she stops pouncing on my face at 3am.

Like Gavin Degraw, I don't wanna be anything other than what I been tryin' to be lately.

Today I ventured out to Wal-mart. As I was browsing through the Health and Beauty aisles, I was approached by a woman who asked if she could take a minute of my time. I probably grimaced as I politely said yes. The first thing she asked me was what I did for a living. After telling her I was a waitress, she explained that she was with the Mary Kay Leadership Program and would like to give me her card. Remember Mary Kay? The gaudy makeup, the pink cars, and every aunt and cousin and friend from church peddling that crap and trying to give you make overs. I'm sure they must have tried to update their image for the twenty-first century sometime in the last few years, but still, eww no. She continued that most people only think of the sales side of Mary Kay and don't really think of the leadership side. I am of the opinion that one shouldn't try to lead something that they've never even done themselves. In other words, I want absolutely nothing to do with what this lady's saying. However, I'm being polite and it can't hurt to take her card. But instead of handing me a card, she pulls out some paper and asks for my phone number so she can call me and talk all about Mary Kay leadership to me. At this point, I politely apologized and explained that I didn't want to give my phone number out. Her response? "Well, have fun being a waitress." And then she took her cart and huffed off. Out of the Wal-mart makeup aisle. All I could think was, "Wow. I just got passive aggressively dissed by the Mary Kay lady." So this is what it's come to.