Helloooo!  I hope everyone had a wonderful Hallowe’en!  I did.  It was about as good as it could possibly be and still involve trick-or-treaters, heh.  The weather most of the weekend was craptacular, cold and rainy.  Friday night was the perfect night for comfort food, as after a bunch of errands after work we went home and I made shepherd’s pie and we watched TV and went to bed at a reasonable hour.  We so crazy!  Saturday I got up early and did a bunch of errands and made a cheesecake with chocolate crust from scratch.  In the evening it was kind of misting but I still wanted to walk over to T&R’s so I took Pixie and headed out, letting Dice take the cheesecake and wine over.  I got lost going through Grant Park (I never go through the park , I always go around it!) so it took me a while, but it was worth it by the time I got there because I was happy to have shaken up the blood flow and such.  We had a great little Commune Dinner, and gave out candy to the neighborhood kids.  Well, I didn’t, but the other Communers did.  Dice and I had to get up early for the final F1 race of the season so we took off around 9:30 with the rest of the Commune following suit.

Sunday morning we got up early and went to the aforementioned final F1 race, which wasn’t very exciting considering the championship had already been clinched during the last race.  There were a couple tense laps near the end, though.  In the afternoon we went to Midway with the Canadians, M&K and all of our dogs.  It was bright and sunny and warm, and we sat on the patio and had drinks and snacks and a general good time.  Our friends the Car Geeks showed up as we were leaving so we stayed to chat with them for a while.  Once the sun went down, though (which it did early since we switched the clocks) the temperature dropped and we took off because Pixie was shivering.  Then we went home and watched TV and went to bed again at a reasonable hour.   ‘Cause that’s how we roll.

It’s a short week here at TEOTH because of some travel and such.  I will update y’all on that tomorrow.  In the meantime I’m trying to stay home and not eat bad foods or drink alcohol, considering I did much too much of that last week (although I had a good reason).  But seriously, we shouldn’t be eating out every single night, that’s excessive and much too expensive.  So I’m trying to rein it in, once more, again.  Sigh.