Sometimes You Just Need a Break

Or, why, for the first year ever, we didn’t do anything for Halloween.

Basically, we were tired. That’s pretty much it! We’d gone out in San Francisco Friday night for a friend’s (non-Halloween themed) birthday party, and we’re also going out tonight to a concert. (I know, another concert, right? This is the 4th concert we’ve been to in 3 months, but this will be the best one, because we’re seeing my favorite artist for the 3rd time, Ingrid Michaelson!). And both days this weekend the hubs had to work about 6 hours, so we just relaxed Saturday night and watched movies, and I handed out candy to about 20 kids who came by on Sunday night.

It was really nice to have a low key weekend, actually. Especially considering we haven’t had one in months. I had time to go grocery shopping, make an awesome dinner of crab cakes and cheddar bay biscuits, do some cleaning and had time for some last minute Halloween decorating. I even found a way to reuse some of our LED lanterns from our wedding, by turning them into jack o’lanterns with cardboard!

I guess I'll be saving my naughty nurse costume for another year. I put very little effort into shopping for it anyway, and had no time this year to actually make a costume, so I wasn't too bummed about not getting to dress up. I haven't had a creative costume idea since two years ago when I sewed this Captain Morgan costume.

The only notable thing from our weekend? At our friend’s party Friday night we got to try the culinary wonder that is ‘chicken fried bacon.’ And it was glorious. I really wish the picture I took had turned out, but I didn’t want to carry my purse in a sports bar all night, so only had my crappy cell phone camera. But basically it was bacon, battered and fried like chicken fried steak. Amazing, artery clogging, bacony goodness!

We also hit up the photobooth there, because I wanted to prove to the hubs how cool it was that I saved us $1000 by not renting one of these at our wedding, and just going the DIY route. Afterwards he completely agreed that our set up, with lots of space, a monitor to see your poses, and the fact that it was really inexpensive, was way more awesome than the old fashioned booth. I still love our pics from that night though!

Oh, and that night I also discovered that I have somehow retained my skee-ball skills from 20 years ago when I used to play it at Chuck E Cheese. I was undefeated all night, and people were begging me to be on their team! :)

Have you ever NOT done anything for Halloween?