October 31st

Tonight is Halloween, it is also the day before the National Novel Writing Month competition starts here on the pacific coast.

I couldn't possibly tell you when the last time I posted was, but I know it was still October and not too long before my birthday. Many things have happened that I have tried to post about but never got around to and with an hour to go before my NaNoing commences (insert stress here) I decided to distract myself for an hour and try to recap what happened to me in the last half of the month.

First of all my birthday was the twentieth. Lots of fun, however I got too many calls from relatives out of state/country who really just wanted to talk when I was actually trying to concentrate on something. I was still polite but I just don't like calling people or receiving phone calls.

On the friday following g my birthday my dad took me to see Shakira in concert at the Oracle Arena in Oakland. For starters we drove and drove and drove with me giving google maps directions, my dad veers off the path I got from google and as I tried to connect the dots between the map and where we were we got lost and kept going and going and going then we continuously missed our exit and kept passing he Arena and having to turn back around. I take full responsibility for that. Anyways we eventually got back on track once my dad stopped doing what I said and we got in, only 30 minutes before the show was set to start. Skipping over the getting-in part (which went pretty smoothly) we find our seats which my dad and I had jump over rows of seats to get to and spent an hour and a half waiting in our seats for the show to start. Shakira was quite late. I wouldn't have minded as much if my dad had gotten food while we waited or if that really obnoxiously flamboyant guy had been so...well, obnoxious! Ok the food wasn't gotten because we thought the show would start any minute and neither of us wanted to miss it. As far as the obnoxious guy goes, arch he annoyed the fuck outta me. I don't mind flamboyant guys much, in fact I quite adore them but this one was more like an embarrassingly drunk uncle (that's a story for another time) who wouldn't shut up. Anyways once the show started it was pretty amazing and lived up to my expectations, I don't know if I would jump on the next concert of hers near me but I do think that the money and time was well spent.

After Friday I had a birthday party with family. Keeping this short, I feel like I didn't even have to be there. From what I've experienced, birthday parties are just family reunions with more cake and less alcohol. I did get good loot though, money to buy a shit-load if books with. I also have $100 worth of barnes & noble gift cards!

Skipping ahead, last week was spirit week. We had the usual culprits, PJ day, Formal day, & Crazy Hair day. The two exciting ones were costume day and Backwards day AKA Transvestite day. I did have a costume and such (my main character from my NaNoWriMo novel) but I did not dress as a transvestite. Sadly my friend who shall remain nameless (she knows who she is) failed to bring me a skirt to wear and fell back on the back up on being backwards by dressing as a teacher! However the cross-dressing I lacked went straight I to another friend who got dressed up as a very good looking transvestite - no that's not right,he made a good looking woman! I feel I also owe the friend ho dressed him up. She made him do this again for costume day the next day, however he wasn't as much of a sweet transvestite at this point.

I got out of school to watch the elementary school do their Halloween parade through town and I passed out anti-drug lollipops.

Last Friday night our school did the halloween carnival, not much happened except I unofficially married my friend Wiggles at the marriage both she worked on.

Yesterday I helped make really good apple cider with all of my friends who are referred to as the captainship. So when not grinding apple bits into mush for cider we went into the hills and explored and played pretend for a few seconds before running back down the hills like adorable mythical children. Then we formed a cuddle puddle. I brought home apple cider.

Today however was interesting. I got picked up by half the captainship, we went to the beach and found a door which we claimed led to Narnia. We drew in the sand and talked and shopped for costume gear. Then we returned to the house/pirate ship of the Cap'n. We eat in the Cap'n quarter's, listened to music and spoke of many unrelated things. We watched Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along-Blog. More people I knew came as it ended and then we watched Commentary: The Musical! Which was hilarious! Even more people showed up and we watched Shaun of the Dead. We ate yummy snack foods and pizza and crack muffins. For the record, as far as I know there is no actual crack in these muffins they just happen to be good in a really addictive way.

So that's been my October, I have had quite an awesome time, but now I'm hungry and NaNoWriMo starts in about 30 minutes, luckily there are bags of sweets waiting to be earned via word-count. Happy Halloween everybody and good luck to the NaNo-ers

No contact info this time. I'm tired, I'm hungry, I'm typing this on an iPod keyboard, and I can't be bothered to copy&paste from the blog entries of before. Did I mention I'm hungry?

Night folks!