{"id":29,"date":"2008-11-03T17:59:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-03T22:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yellowgin.familyofgoldsteins.com\/?p=29"},"modified":"2008-11-03T17:59:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-03T22:59:00","slug":"recap-up-to-halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yellowgin.familyofgoldsteins.com\/?p=29","title":{"rendered":"Recap (Up To Halloween)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family:trebuchet ms;\">Wow &#8211; almost a week without a post and even after I promised to do better.  Tsk tsk.  Well, it&#8217;s because I&#8217;ve been busy and working!  :O  Let me tell you all about it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday night:<br \/>Some of the Kung Fu people met up before class for a little impromptu sparring.  It was really fun.  It was cool to spar the black belts that I don&#8217;t get to see in class usually.  I only got 2 boo boos.  \ud83d\ude41  I kicked Tommy&#8217;s elbow &#8211; totally my fault.  It hurt very much.  Then Bryan kicked me in the eye!  It only left a small mark.  It was more of a shock than anything else.  I had run before we left for the school so after running, sparring, and then regular class I thought I was going to die!  Thanks to kicking Tommy my foot kept me up half the night tingling.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday:<br \/>Thanks to being up half the night nursing my foot, I was dead asleep when SubFinder called me to come sub for the afternoon.  I managed to wake myself up and get ready and to the school for my first subbing experience.  I couldn&#8217;t have picked a better one.  I only had to preside over a learning lab.  It was a peace of cake.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday night:<br \/>It was finally time to go to the haunted house.  We met everyone at Tommy&#8217;s house and then on to the haunted house.  It was in this strip mall&#8230;not so scary&#8230;that was until we got closer to the entrance.  A zombie priest met me in the parking lot to &#8220;throw up&#8221; next to my feet&#8230;more disturbing than scary.  But then a clown chased me with a chainsaw.  I forget that its all pretend when they chase me especially when I&#8217;m running and screaming no!  This automatically made my stomach start hurting, and I knew that I had made a grave error.  Bryan didn&#8217;t want to go in the first place, but now that we where there I felt compelled to go in.  I tried, really I did.  I made it to the entrance and quickly saw that this wasn&#8217;t going to happen so I turned around and started for the car.  A girl clown who had watched me standing outside for about 30 minutes still felt compelled to get one last scare in even though I had never gone inside.  She ran up behind me in the parking lot and scared me to tears.  I don&#8217;t think I have ever screamed like that.<\/p>\n<p>I think the whole this was a little overkill.  I mean what you subject yourself to by entering is one thing, but they should really tone it down in the parking lot.  There were a lot of patrons of other stores merely trying to shop.  I saw the priest chasing some girl through the parking lot.  If she was as scared as I was, there is a good chance she forgot where she was.  She could have ran in front of a car or something.  Totally dangerous.  I&#8217;m a big chicken.  I&#8217;m pretty positive Bryan was relieved that I chickened out.  We went home.  Crisis averted.<\/p>\n<p>Friday:<br \/>Halloween!  I spent the day working at a school down south subbing for a special education teacher&#8217;s assistant.  It was very different.  I was scared to take the position at first, but it was all I could get.  Plus, I need both the money and experience.  It turned out not to be bad at all.  There was another teacher there.  I actually enjoyed myself, and I managed to grab the same class for Monday.<\/p>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t expecting to be working this week so I was very unprepared for the actual arrival of Halloween.  We didn&#8217;t have costumes nor had I carved the pumpkin we bought weeks ago.  I immediately started carving it when I walked through the door so it would be out before the trick or treaters arrived.  We chose to dress up as well ourselves (our Kung Fu uniforms).  I also made some <a href=\"http:\/\/bakingbites.com\/2008\/10\/vampire-cookies\/\">vampire cookies<\/a> before the kids starting coming in full force.  The kids were all super cute.  We handed out flier for the Kung Fu school &#8211; a genius idea on my part.  It was fun just hanging out on the front porch and greeting the children.  We still have tons of candy if you are interested.<br \/><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:trebuchet ms;\">Video of Bella eating pumpkin (she loves the stuff):<\/span><br \/><object width=\"320\" height=\"266\" class=\"BLOG_video_class\" id=\"BLOG_video-5f01a5f7d2133d45\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/img\/videoplayer.swf?videoUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fvp.video.google.com%2Fvideodownload%3Fversion%3D0%26secureurl%3DqAAAAPEbdexZYqODP9Nt5kZfcH2y8sFRHlvQE8yUIK862vh_DUVo2TY31huV7rzH9giObho4YOhE0p_3krtJIqP0XOQHl_kU9JJsJOu8g0LRMfH8_wNdQfK_WkFng57xt87aODxBgOwmRbdjYchYt2UJPeh3WCAy9Fj_e8qv0dxqUfcOcP14GbLj7ajJ8YjvnSitfWZQCq1snD4yfnotBn5BwsWoPfMRQ9KFU-3FbRe2Nth9%26sigh%3DheiV4q1Tgd437pcTHKYsQqIRxTo%26begin%3D0%26len%3D86400000%26docid%3D0&amp;nogvlm=1&amp;thumbnailUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fvideo.google.com%2FThumbnailServer2%3Fapp%3Dblogger%26contentid%3D5f01a5f7d2133d45%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw320%26sigh%3D-bXNfbLKuz-GTEFC1LpqVScmCPw&amp;messagesUrl=video.google.com%2FFlashUiStrings.xlb%3Fframe%3Dflashstrings%26hl%3Den\"><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#FFFFFF\"><embed width=\"320\" height=\"266\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/img\/videoplayer.swf?videoUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fvp.video.google.com%2Fvideodownload%3Fversion%3D0%26secureurl%3DqAAAAPEbdexZYqODP9Nt5kZfcH2y8sFRHlvQE8yUIK862vh_DUVo2TY31huV7rzH9giObho4YOhE0p_3krtJIqP0XOQHl_kU9JJsJOu8g0LRMfH8_wNdQfK_WkFng57xt87aODxBgOwmRbdjYchYt2UJPeh3WCAy9Fj_e8qv0dxqUfcOcP14GbLj7ajJ8YjvnSitfWZQCq1snD4yfnotBn5BwsWoPfMRQ9KFU-3FbRe2Nth9%26sigh%3DheiV4q1Tgd437pcTHKYsQqIRxTo%26begin%3D0%26len%3D86400000%26docid%3D0&amp;nogvlm=1&amp;thumbnailUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fvideo.google.com%2FThumbnailServer2%3Fapp%3Dblogger%26contentid%3D5f01a5f7d2133d45%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw320%26sigh%3D-bXNfbLKuz-GTEFC1LpqVScmCPw&amp;messagesUrl=video.google.com%2FFlashUiStrings.xlb%3Fframe%3Dflashstrings%26hl%3Den\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:trebuchet ms;\">Pictures of Halloween:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?pid=30334869&amp;l=1b6f7&amp;id=163200356\">about to start carving<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?pid=30334870&amp;l=a0aa5&amp;id=163200356\">digging out the inside<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?pid=30334871&amp;l=7ab1b&amp;id=163200356\">it&#8217;s pretty much finished<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?pid=30334872&amp;l=6ce0c&amp;id=163200356\">on the porch<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?pid=30334873&amp;l=82666&amp;id=163200356\">bryan in costume<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?pid=30334874&amp;l=7c386&amp;id=163200356\">lit up!<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?pid=30334875&amp;l=16103&amp;id=163200356\">cookies (halfway)<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?pid=30334876&amp;l=b8782&amp;id=163200356\">vampire cookies<\/a><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow &#8211; almost a week without a post and even after I promised to do better. Tsk tsk. Well, it&#8217;s because I&#8217;ve been busy and working! :O Let me tell you all about it&#8230; Wednesday night:Some of the Kung Fu people met up before class for a little impromptu sparring. It was really fun. 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