1. I carved my pumpkin tonight! Yeahyeah, I know...Halloween was a week ago. But I carved my pumpkin damnit!

2. I have never claimed to have any artistic ability.

3. I have officially been at my job for a year. It doesn't feel like it. I think I need to start decorating my cube.

4. What's the most innapropriate thing you can think of to watch on TV while running on a treadmill?

5. Advice seriously given to me by my financial advisor:

- (in response to me inquiring whether we could get the pink part of the pie chart to be larger) "I regret to inform you that you probably don't want the pink part to be the biggest. You're much better off pretending that it already is, or using that old rhyme that first is the worst, second is the best."

- (in response to me wanting to retire in a year) "save every dollar you earn and win the lottery"

- (in response to me accusing him of stealing my money) I'll probably use it to fly to acapulco or something

- (in response to me telling him that he's a bad financial advisor) "No I'm a good one. Invest in cars!"

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Saturday

Bengtson's Pumpkin Farm

Saturday I hit up the pumpkin farm with the girls...Adam counts as one of the gils because he carries a purse.

There were tons of superneat things to do like pig races, hayrack rides, singing chickens and a petting zoo.

We went to a little haunted house...Adam and I managed to get completely lost in it and accidentally leaving through the wrong exit. Oops. Jenny didn't make it past the door.

We saw the absolutely most innapropriate witch statue thing ever.

Seriously, it kind of just held its broom pole with both hands and vibrated. And then from the back all you saw was the broom head with smoke coming out. Now that's creepy.

We saw lots of animals including a Zedonk and kangaroo. The kangaroo was sleeping so the kids around us just started throwing their carrots on top of it to try to wake it up.

Then we searched out the perfect pumpkins. Adam and Jenny looked around until they found the perfect one...but then found an even perfecter one. Nadia just wanted a baby one. I chose this one:

simply because I liked the curlycue funny stem. I go for character over perfection :)

**PUMPKIN FARM PICTURES***

Statesville Haunted Prison
After the farm I bid adiue to the girls and headed off to Statesville Haunted Prison. I didn't bother to invite Nad or Jen because I figured their answer would be no anyways.

Of course, I got there way before anyone else, so I staked a place in line. The plan was to be there a half hour before it opened and I was already pretty far along in line. Finally Joe and Alina showed up and then Emily and her crew.

After paying our $30 admission (yes, I said $30) we went in...and then Emily realized that she'd forgotten one of her friends was still coming. Luckily for only $10 more dude with megaphone let him bypass that first line. Yes, I said first line. After getting chased by really scary stilt man we headed off to yet another line...where we proceeded to wait. All in all we were in line for about three hours. Yes, I said three hours. A bunch of scary dudes came around being all scary like and a dude with a chainsaw was chasing people around. At first they were scarier, but after three hours you just kind of got used to them. We did however see chainsaw guy chase people to the point of one running into the rope fence and another guy falling, summersaulting and his friend then tripping over him. Hilarity. At least chainsaw man was nice and helped them to their feet.

At one point I totally almost made out with a zombie because he started wagging his tongue at me so I just started doing it back.

Finally we made our way to the front and then were carted off into a prison cell. Then we were brought into the prison. It was the scariest haunted house I have ever been to. But also totally cool. There were a bunch of people per room and some of the rooms were basically pitch black and sometimes you felt like you were in a car wash and had to squeeze between foamy rubber walls and sometimes you had to crouch down really small to squeeze through the rooms. And there were killer klowns from outer space.

Emily, Emily's friend who I can't remember the name of for the life of me, and I made a little chain of holding onto eachothers sweatshirts.

It was totally awesome though.

When we got out the line was about 5 million times longer and considering it took us three hours we figure those who were there will get in at about Christmas...

Sunday

Bromann Park
Sunday afternoon I met up with Alina at her apartment. We grabbed some sandwiches and headed over to Bromann Park.

So, I had no idea that this place even existed until about a year ago when I googled my last name, despite the fact that it's apparently been around since the 70s. I'd never been and Alina wasn't too far so we decided to go!

Basically I think it was named after a relative from "the other side" of the family. You can read some of the history here.

It's a really cute little park. Although I think they just redid it, so I am curious as to what it looked like before. There was a little swing set and a little play thingymabob and some picnic tables. Alina and I had some girl talk and ate our sandwiches. It was a funfun afternoon and I still can't beleive I have a park named after me Shush you, it was named after ME!!! :- )

**BROMANN PARK PICTURES**

BBQ with MattyK
Later MattyK had some people over to his house for bbq and top gear watching and rafting photo viewing. MK took like 4 pictures. I guess I baklanced it out with my 200+ :)

I had steak but made a sammich out of it. He didn't yell at me for turning the steak he worked so hard on making into a sammich but said it was a good idea. :)

I have not seen Top Gear in like three years because I am never invited over to watch it. It was funny because they redid the make a car work on both land and sea experiement and actually made it to France! It was funny. I said that already.

I had ice cream in my coffee but MK would not let me have it in my wine.

Then I made him play me Rhapsody in Blue and My Funny Valentine.

Then I left.

Then I went to bedzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

**PUMPKIN FARM PICTURES***

**BROMANN PARK PICTURES**

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MattyK complained that I am mean to him in my blog. To be fair, I am mean to him in real life too :) So, ladies and gentlemen, may I present some Matt-friendly facts from the night:

1. He actually invited me to get wine with him
2.His hair cut looked much better tonight than it did on Saturday.
3. He said something so funny that I laughed for like five minutes. Unfortunately it was after I had had a couple glasses of wine, so I don't remember what it was, hmmm, maybe that was the excuse for why it was so funny.
4. His Halloween costume of "financial planner" was convincing.
5. He doesn't wear a pocket protector.
6. He only ignored me to talk on the phone once the entire night.
7. His paying to be in the wine club gets me free wine.
8. Apparently we watch each other each night on the hidden cameras in each other's rooms, but it is boring because all we see is the other watching their computer.
9. He asked me to marry him.
10. I accused him of cheating on me, he replied that he was missing some vital steps if that were the case.

Hehe, see I can be nice, right? :)

Anyways, it was blind tasting night at WineStyles. When I got there Matt and Scott were almost done with the whites so I had to down some glasses to catch up. I actually guessed all of them right!

Matt got them all right too, but only after copying me.

Now, the funny thing about this tasting? Two glasses in each one were the same wine (number 1 and 3 of the white, and 2 and 3 of the reds, i think it was). It was their Halloween "trick." They tasted different though. I guessed correctly on the whites tonight mostly because the second one tasted so much like grapefruit that it made me nauseous.

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