It is born!

After almost an hour of painstaking labor...
...Careful planning...

...And painful sacrifice...

...It is time to unveil...

MY CREATION!!



!H A P P Y    H A L L O W E E N ! ! !ö

It's almost that day again...

...That magical day when we throw together a last minute costume and go door-to-door begging for whatever we can get, mostly candy. What? Adults don't get to go trick-or-treating? Who made up this rule? Obviously somebody who doesn't like free candy or the opportunity to be totally creative and act like a 4 year old once a year.
If you're like me and still a kid at heart, or have the mentality of a 6 year old like I also happen to have, then I have some simple rules for you to follow to help all of you "grown-ups" avoid the odd looks, the slammed doors or the ever annoying "Aren't you a little too old for this type of thing?" speech.

1. Try to have at least some form of Halloween costume on. Even if all you are wearing is a t-shirt with some catchy Halloween saying or print on it, it still shows that you are making some effort to celebrate the holiday and are not just out to mooch on little kids' candy.
   
2. Don't do this alone. How creepy does it look when a grown man is out on his own on Halloween, trick-or-treating around all those little kids? Yeah... So, for your own safety and well-being, don't trick-or-treat alone.
   
3. Don't travel in large groups of "grown-ups". Try to have at least 1 child per every 2 "grown-ups" in your group, not to exceed a total of 6 "grown-up" trick-or-treaters. When you have more than 6, people start to realize you are just using the kids as a flimsy pretext to get at the free candy. Two or three "grown-ups", depending on their age range, can sometimes get away with the trick-or-treating on their own, especially if they are young and cute enough.
   

I hope that these simple rules can help you achieve the ultimate Halloween payload this year and keep you out of jail and unregistered as a sex offender for at least another 4 to 6 months.

Happy Hunting!

The middle of the night...

Ok, here it is the middle of the night and I can't sleep. I think it's because I've been feeling off a bit the past couple of days. Now, all I want to do is sit here and write something.
I feel bad that I'm staying up while Ravyn is trying to sleep. He's not really a heavy sleeper, not like I am. You could light firecrackers in my nose and it wouldn't wake me up. Our old smoke alarm, that was a different story though... goddamn malfunctioning piece of crap sounded like a kitten being run through a blender and decided to go off randomly at 4 in the morning a few months ago, but again that is a different story. I really do hope that I don't wake him up with my typing, I'd feel horrible.
I decided against working on my cross stitch piece while I stayed up because I would need the light on and the computer room is right down the hall and the resulting light would probably wake Ravyn up. He really is this light of a sleeper sometimes. Speaking of my cross stitch project however, I think it's coming along really well. I'm currently working on Dragon Dreams Christmyth 2000 fairy that I am going to turn into an ornament for my youngest sister for Christmas this year (hopefully). I'm working on the back stitching now and am a little over half done with it. I should be finished tonight if I keep at it. I'll post up a pic when I'm done!
I'm all excited and nervous about this upcoming month. I will be starting a job as a servers' assistant at BRAVO! Cucina Italiana. It is a new restaurant opening up in the new ABQ Uptown November 21st, 2006. I am glad they are starting me off as a servers' assistant though, I think I would be overwhelmed as a full server during the opening of a new restaurant. I do not have a lot of experience serving, so I'd rather get my feet wet gradually than jump in face first, if you know what I mean. Wish me luck for this, it is going to be big. Bigger than the Balloon Fiesta even! Haha, I'm almost shaking now, I'm so nervous. Don't let Ravyn know though, he's not allowed to know I have human emotion. So, if you're in the Albuquerque area around the opening, you should stop in and wish me luck or say hi or kick me in the shin just to watch me fall and then point and laugh at me or something!
I don't have anything else to write about right now, but I may think of something later. Leave me a comment or something, I could use one right now.

Balloon Fiesta 2006

From Friday, October 6, 2006 until today Sunday, October 15, 2006, I have been working at the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta for Garduño's on the Green where the hospitality center was located and who operated most of the catering events at the Fiesta. It's been a long, hard week. I feel like I have been run over by a bus, then a large soccer-mom driven SUV, then an ice cream truck and then a fat woman named Florence chasing the ice cream truck. It had its good points though, I was able to see the balloons launch every morning and see the balloon glows at night since I was there morning and night several times with only Friday the 13th off.

Starting Thursday though, I became an addict. That's right, I have a problem. I became obsessed with collecting balloon pins. Most pilots and crew of balloons, especially special shapes and large companies, carry these pins around with them and give them out to sort of promote their balloons. You are also able to buy a lot of collector pins at souvenir booths through the park. Since I had started collecting at the very end of the Fiesta, I did not have time to collect many. Here's the collection I was able to get before the Fiesta ended today starting from left to right in the order I received them.