Happy Halloween with riddles!

I seemed to have inherited my father's sense of humor and love of corny/cheesy jokes and riddles. Here's a few for today (pulled from various places on the web)



Why did the vampire go to the orthodontist?
To improve his bite...

What do you get when you cross a vampire and a snowman?
Frostbite...

Why do witches use brooms to fly on?
Because vacuum cleaners are too heavy...

How do witches keep their hair in place while flying?
With scare spray...

What do you get when you cross a werewolf and a vampire?
A fur coat that fangs around your neck...

Do zombies eat popcorn with their fingers?
No, they eat the fingers separately...

Why don't skeletons ever go out on the town?
Because they don't have any body to go out with...

What do ghosts add to their morning cereal?
Booberries...

What is a vampire's favorite sport?
Casketball...

What is a vampire's favorite holiday?
Fangsgiving...

What would a monster's psychiatrist be called?
Shrinkenstein...

What did one ghost say to the other ghost?
"Do you believe in people?"

What do you call someone who puts poison in a person's corn flakes?
A cereal killer...

Why do mummies have trouble keeping friends?
They're so wrapped up in themselves...

What kind of streets do zombies like the best?
Dead ends...

What does the papa ghost say to his family when driving?
Fasten your sheet belts...

What is a vampire's favorite mode of transportation?
A blood vessel...

What is a ghost's favorite mode of transportation?
A scareplane...

What type of dog do vampire's like the best?
Bloodhounds...

What is a ghoul's favorite flavor?
Lemon-slime...

What does a vampire never order at a restaurant?
A stake sandwich...

What is a skeleton's favorite musical instrument?
A trombone...

What do birds give out on Halloween night?
Tweets...

Why do vampires need mouthwash?
They have bat breath...

What's a vampire's favorite fast food?
A guy with very high blood pressure...

Why did the Vampire subscribe to the Wall Street Journal?
He heard it had great circulation...

Picture post!

Ok, yes. My last post was lame. So, to make up for it, here' a few pictures from

The NC State Fair!!

Here's some of the amazing flora & fauna (and goodness knows what other classication these things fall under) from our trip to this year's State Fair.

Flower competition (yes, I am now an old lady who loves to garden)



Me and the 'miles of mums' (more like meters, but miles sounds so much more fun) Paul said I looked strange, like I had 'baglady hair,' thanks hon, you're so romantic!


An entry for the garden competition for the theme "Swiss Family Robinson"


Fuzzy-wuzzy-wabbits



Giant pumpkins (although the winner this year is significantly smaller than last year)


Ducks! Oh how I love ducks! (when they're behind wire and crazy scared of me!)


Baby chickens and what? that isn't a chick! it's a baby duck! kinda hard to see, but I promise, that thing had a duck beak!

(I do feel sorry for the little fellers, I don't ever touch them)


Paul and the big shopping cart with an engine. (note the bit of Mt.Olive pickle in Paul's hands - a Fair tradition!)


Racing pigs [actually this race was goats] - at the Hogways Speedway!


Quick self portrait along the midway


Greg Fishel (head meteorologist) from WRAL doing the live 6pm weather (yes, I am a dork, haven't I already admitted this 3 times now?!)


FOOD AT THE FAIR!
Paul with his chocolate cheesecake (I think it was also deep fried) on a stick (quite tasty) also note the yellow sign behind him featuring a 'chicken boat' for consumption, NO idea what that is!


Me trying the "new" thing this year - fried coke, yes people, fried coca-cola. It was ok, just like tangy funnel cake.

(we both wore a sticker that was 'forcefully' attached to our shirts as we got a free hushpuppy, err or 3, from the House Autry folks)

Other interesting food signs...

"Jack's Buns!"


Of course, there IS a party in EVERY pita! Mmmmmmmmm

and finally, the BIG stand with all the C*R*A*Z*Y fried stuff...
WARNING, your arteries WILL clog after reading... you've been warned!

TGIF! timewasters for a rainy day

I've often thought of having 'theme' days on the blog (strange news Mondays, cute picture Wednesdays, how dorky is Julie Thursdays), but it's just too much for me to remember each week.

So today is 'how to best waste your time on the internet Friday'

Want to play games?



Halloween cat bowling (might be a slow loader)


Want to watch silly videoes?


Funny cats

Wendy's grill rap training video



Sadly, that's all I've got time to look up and post. Oh wait! How about some silly/corny Halloween cartoons?

Early morning *RUSH*

As previously stated, I am a dork. My dorkiness continues....

I got quite an adrenaline rush this morning as I called in a traffic report to the local news & radio. I figured someone else may have called it in, but since I hadn't seen it or heard it, why not? Well, no one had called in the traffic signal outage and consequent traffic delay and both were DELIGHTED to know a key intersection was jammed for the morning commute. I just heard it on the radio again and I feel a strange sense of pride.

Cutest. Picture. Ever.

Apparently the San Diego Wild Animal Park has a lion cub that lost its brother and thus had no playmate. Fortunately, he's found a surrogate to rumble with!



Paul has business out in San Diego in the near future, so I really really really really hope I can tag along one weekend to see the city and one of my "things to do before I die," visit the San Diego Zoo. :)

See more pictures of the cub ad his playmate here

A post, a placeholder for laziness

My blog mirrors my life.

For example, I haven’t updated in well, more than a week. Why? I’ve been lazy. Lazy with home, work and life in general. I think I’m going to blame it on the weather.

However, despite my laziness, we’ve done a few ‘cool’ things in the past 2 weeks that I’ve been meaning to share. I don’t have time now (well I do, but I just don’t feel like uploading and posting all the grand fun we’ve been having), but I do promise a new post, a more interesting post, in the near future. (the dog costumes were freaking me out too… I had to get something new posted!)

And the #1 reason we need to get a dog....

Halloween!

[cue Star Wars music....]






Check out Target's selection

They are missing Chewie! And R2D2 and the Bounty Hunter and Storm Troopers and... ok, so i guess they couldn't do everyone, but seriously, what FUN costumes!

Pumpkin. Spice. Overload!

I think I've got a problem.

I'm currently drinking a LARGE pumpkin spice coffee from Bruegger's with pumpkin spice creamer and eating a pumpkin harvest-spice muffin.

Yes people, it is an addiction. It will only last another 30-45 days. Then it will be hot chocolate with peppermint. Mmmmm!

Slow October weekend

It is time for a pictorial narrative of my weekend. It has been a slow one. Once again Paul is away (let's see, the last time he was actually home for a full weekend was... hmm, can't remember, July maybe?), and I had to find something to occupy my time, so here's my weekend in pictures:

Last tomatoes of the season (although there are a few blooms still going, not sure we’ll see tomatoes at this point)


Last flowers - ok, so maybe not, they are still kicking like crazy out there (the first hard freeze will be the end of them and we're no where near that!)


Baking! Yes. I baked and I think I'll continue baking. It's just something one does to take up the time when you don't know what else to do (see recent episode of GA).


Pumpkin harvest muffins in process... with granny smith apples, raisins, and a lot of autumn-y spices (cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon, allspice, & a little ground ginger).


Mmm! Hot muffins... one dozen down, dozens more to go...



I did take a break from the baking to work on decorating the house for fall. I felt a little 'arts & crafty' and decided to make a wreath and other little interesting things. It's pretty chilly this weekend so besides the gloom outside, it's starting to feel a lot like fall.

The coffee table and its little fall things


The mantle


Detail of the glass jar


Wicker ball-thingies and maple leaves


If the sun was shining I would have taken a picture outside so you could see the new storm door Paul installed. I also put my fall wreath (made in September 2004 just after we moved in) on the front door and I ended up buying the suburban staple - the mini seasonal flag. Gosh. Never thought I would fall into buying one of those, but I saw it at Kohl's (60% off + another 15% off at checkout) and wanted something to welcome our visitors (which we'll have some come Thanksgiving!).

I'm feeling the need to bake again. As much as anything, for the heat of the oven. brrr! It is getting chilly in here and I don't have a clue how to turn on the fireplace and don't even want to think about turning on the heat. Maybe more pictures to come... seriously considering making chocolate chip-chocolate chunk-pecan cookies. Mmmmm. Yes, I think I shall. Pictures to come? We'll see.

"Firefighters battling hazardous materials fire in suburban Raleigh town"

Wow. Such crazy news for a pretty normal Friday morning. Around 10pm last night, after explosions and fire at a hazardous waste plant released noxious gases and flames 150 feet high over the town, 17,000 evacuted from the town of Apex.


Photo that was on this morning's N&O front page.

The small, yet growing, town of Apex just outside of Raleigh found itself in all the major news media headlines this morning: CNN, MSNBC, ABC News, and even the BBC are all covering the developing story in their headlines.

From WRAL.com
"Apex and Wake County officials declared a state of emergency early Friday and evacuated about 17,000 people -- more than half of the town -- within hours.

The evacuation area is bordered by U.S. Highway 1, N.C. Highway 55 and U.S. Highway 64. N.C. 55 has been closed to traffic.

(evacuation area:)


The prognosis is optimistic as far as clearing the air," Mayor Keith Weatherly said. "The rain is potentially dissipating the particulates in the air."

Hazmat crews were set to begin inspecting the EQ plant at about 10 a.m. Friday, Weatherly said. Firefighters stayed away from the blaze overnight because the combination of darkness and the chemical cloud made it too dangerous.

"This is the worst possible hazardous materials incident you could have," Town Manager Bruce Radford said.

Radford said the fire appeared to be dying down Friday morning. He attributed that to the rain and the fact that most of the combustible material in the plant had been consumed."

Thankfully our house and my office are plenty far away from the affected area and with the winds coming out of the north, it should stay that way. Not exactly what I expected to wake up to this morning...