Well, that last post did not come out like I thought it did. Blank was not what I was shooting for. Try, try, try again.

As I meant to say in my last post about the Pumpkin Season, it has too warm for me to get excited about Halloween. Usually by this time of the month I have at least one or two tasteless ideas about what I should be for the 31st. Perhaps this is because there has been a dearth of celebrity tragedy in the last few months, but maybe without that autumnal feel in the air it's just hard to rev up the sardonic wit. It's too nice to be dark.

If I don't think of anything, I will probably end up being a pirate. That's a fun one, and it involves a wig of long flowing hair, something I consider a plus, as it is the only time of the year I can get away with a full head of hair. Still, I've been a pirate before, so there is some hesitation on doing the same thing again.

I do feel that some pumpkin carving is in order. My neighborhood goes crazy with this holiday. There are some very impressive stoop displays. I am not exactly sure why a Polish neighborhood loves this holiday so much, my current theory is that the huge Catholic presence here has something to do with it. Got to believe in good to have the evil, right?

But the real reason I want to carve a pumpkin is not actually Halloween related. I really just want to test out my birthday present, a dremel tool. And what a better testing ground than a pumpkin? Any bad cuts will just be added character to the scary face. I am pretty certain that Christy will not be too excited with me destroying a pumpkin with a power tool in the kitchen, but boys will be boys. She will get those super yummy pumpkin seeds out of the deal, and everybody loves those.

Any Halloween ideas out there, I ask you readers?