Happy Hopped-up Halloween
Wow, what a day today was. There was drama, haircuts, cleaning, traveling, assembling, masquerading, trick-or-treating and lots of exhausting.
The day started out with my neighbor returning my dog. Why did my neighbor have my dog? Because my dog decided to dig a hole under our fence and invite himself into our neighbor's yard. So in the midst of a cold fog, I was out shoveling dirt, reinforcing fences and making barricades to keep my dog out of my neighbor's yard.
Did it work? Nope. By the end of the night he had managed to get past my barricade and dig another hole.
After that I took my son with me to get my haircut. Then we hit up Office Max to get a printer cartridge refilled. If you have an inkjet printer and would rather save money than spend money on the cartridges, go to Office Max. For $10 they will refill your black ink cartridge ($15 for color) and it only takes a few minutes. Not to mention that it saves you from spending $60 on a new one. Sweet.
When we got home we had to get to work cleaning out our truck. That is because today we went to Morgan Hill and picked up a new bunk bed set my wife found on Craigslist for Alaynah and Adriannah, who broke her bed a few weeks. The new one we got is a "T" style bunk that sits on top of a desk at one end and a bookcase and dresser at the other. It is a beast of a bed, but strong enough for out two daughters. I know this because it literally took me a total of six hours to put it together. 
Of course in the middle of that assembly marathon, I had to get the kids ready to hit the streets in full costume. I took them this year because Sandi had to drive to Hayward to pick up Alaynah from a Halloween party she was at. So at about 7:00 or so I left the house with Lucy Ricardo, Captain Hook, a leopard and Buzz Lightyear in search of huge sacks of goodness and sweets. And boy did we find it.
It was a great night with a great take. The kids got loaded up on candy, we got our exercise, I got a break from building the bed... it was a great hour. And it was a great day, if not way more exhausting than I would have liked. Still, it was totally worth it.
I hope your Halloween was as cool as ours.
