From my family to you and yours: Happy Post Halloween Day

Waking up from my candy coma I'm ready for the slide on in to Thanksgiving followed by the hop, skip and jump to Hanukkah/Christmas. Yessiree, it's a busy time of year. Lori has already started planning for her big shopping outings!

This will be my first Holiday season shopping with a child in tow, so we'll see how it goes. I have a feeling it will cut down on all "oooo, this is cute for ME" purchases, being that I don't have a lot of perusing time before baby gets a little... done with shopping.

On with the day...

Happy Halloween: News 10 Sacramento

This has nothing to do with San Diego but as I am currently exiled in the great land known as "Sac Town" (don't worry rabid fans it's not for much longer) I think this is good way to get into the Halloween Spirit. Watch the newsie that takes off running "later biatches! Save yourselves!" I agree with You Tube commenters (via Best Week Ever): “Now we know how the news people will react during the coming zombie apocalypse. Not well, it seems…”

Sure it's going to be tough but San Diego will pull through

With an economic BOOM no doubt:

Initial estimates of insured losses in the county fall in a range of $1 billion to $2 billion as many homeowners return to properties to find only slabs, fireplaces and charred remains of their possessions. The fires will disrupt the county economy in the near term, but their thorough destruction points to a local building boom over the next year as burned-out residents rebuild homes with payments from insurers -- a process the region knows well after wildfires
there in 2003 ago consumed 2,600 homes and the local economy rebounded in the
following year.

I say go out and boom the economy tonight. Plenty of opportunity to contribute, it's Halloween after all. (Later you can go home and boom something else but that's between you and the guy dressed up as Amy Winehouse you picked up at some bar, no judgment)

Fat Girl, Skinny City: Goth Girls do it Better

Fat Girl, Skinny City: Goth Girls do it Better.

Costume, check. Plans, check. Safe and sober driver, check. We're all ready to go for that Wednesday night they call Halloween. I ended up going with Little Red Riding Hood (no joke) as i was able to find a proper short red dress outfit thing that I didn't feel too over exposed in, yes I know that's the point of Halloween and all, but I still get a little nervous about showing all the bits and pieces before at least the first bottle of Sangria.

I've decided that Halloween is like a typical Friday night for a Goth Girl. Bare with me on this one. The more I notice the kind of costumes and outfits available to girls, the more I realize that they are just what Goth girls wear on say, a Friday night when they go out to dance around to heavy industrial music.

I've always admired Goth Girls myself, they tend to embrace their fleshy parts. They tend to show off that ample bust and wear the short skirts with the fishnet stockings, size be damned. Go out Goth spot and you'll see, size isn't the biggest issue, maybe Goth guys are too dark and deep to worry about the skinnny-ness of their women.

This is why I don't like the Emo/Hipster crowds (I'm being SOOOOOO stereotypical but I don't care, it's Halloween, I'm allowed to judge a book by it's slutty cover) because that just seems like a crowd where you can't be too thin, because depressed hip people just have to be thin.

Oh but for the Goth girls in their fishnets. I tell myself to live a little more Goth, especially on a Holiday that encourages it.

And besides, Goth has gone totally mainstream. Just the other day I was in a Halloween store and actually saw a "Goth Prince" decoration for the door. Hang up this uber cool Goth Prince with his sunglasses and bat wing necklace, nothing says "come to my house and ask for candy" then that.

*We'll be out in OB, I'll be the girl in the red with a Corona. Looking for the big bad wolf.*

This is Halloween, This is Halloween, Halloween, Halloween

Well, tomorrow is Halloween...

Aside from that whole costume thang, you also need to get the activity thang down as well. San Diego does not disappoint with Halloween shinanigans, so pick your poison (even with the wildfires many of the activities are still on) or stay in and freak out the kids knocking on your door (or eat an entire bag of candy with the lights out, being extra quiet because "you're not home").

The Haunted Hotel and Balboa Park Haunted Trail, ooooo, spooky, scary, is that a plastic knife or a real AHHH!!!

Or the Mira Mesa Monster Manor (yes that's a lot of M's, but it's still SCARRRRRY).

There's a Halloween Ball at The Prado Restaurant in Balboa Park. It's a tad expensive, but Femme Fatales will be out and about.

Or head to the bars, it's all important "get drunk in shoes you wouldn't normally be seen in public in night".

I just made a really bad Hollaback Girl reference for Gwen Stefani but I'm still gonna make fun of these guys

In 2004 Will Ferrell made this diddy of a movie and based it in San Diego. Apparently San Diego was a glutton for a San Diego movie starring a sometimes funny comedian with a penchant for films about guys who think they are super cool but aren't that cool but end up being a bit cooler toward the end of the movie. The point is, in that movie Will Ferrell told us to "Stay Classy."

Yeah, yeah, stay classy San Diego, stay classy.

And then every dude trying to make a cute joke about San Diego decided to tell San Diego to keep there classy-ness.

Including these guys.

Oh yes, and this Halloween stay safe (and classy) San Diego.