Holiday nuts and Minions Peeps

Another weekend just flew by. In addition to going to the Halloween party on Saturday night, I ended up sleeping a lot all weekend. The stupid blood pressure medication I'm on is making me feel pretty crummy. My legs hurt and I just feel yucky. Now, I'm on a new one that the pharmacist said would have the potential side effect of making me dizzy for a couple of weeks. A COUPLE OF WEEKS! HOLY CRAP! I'm not sure it's worth the misery but I'm full of hope.

Life goes on even though I'm making an attempt at saving myself from a massive heart attack, or stroke, or whatever else high blood pressure causes. These kinds of health conditions never have awesome side effects like the ability to fly, or telling funnier jokes. It's always the lame stuff.

Anthony and I did have dinner and grocery shopping on yesterday's agenda. We also went to Petsmart to get Lucky dog food. I shot photos, see them below.

It was back to work today. A number of my co-workers were in their usual grumpy Monday mood. It was enough to give me high blood pressure. Hey, maybe that's where I got it from...

A piece of fruit on the ground
in the Petsmart parking lot.
Anthony didn't see it, stepped
on it, and hurt his ankle.

The hurt ankle.
Fortunately, it wasn't a
major injury.

Dinner at Pizza Studio
on Grant Road.
Here's my ham, bacon,
and mushroom pie.

Anthony shakes pepper flakes
on his pizza.

November 1 and Walmart Market
is already showing their
holiday nuts.

Top shelf of the soda aisle
features a recliner,
TV, and stand.
Makes more sense to
display this here than
above the lettuce or bananas
in the produce department.

Here come the holiday Oreos.
Peppermint.
Cookie goodness and
fresh breath for the win.

The Winter Oreos are in stock.
Perfect to have penguins
frolicking on the package
in the snow when it was
84 today in Tucson.

Cheese Wow.
Named after rapper Bow Wow's
cheesy cousin.

Ritz Fudge Covered crackers
appear every holiday season.
It's November 1 but since
these are on the shelf it's
officially the holiday season.

Wrapping paper and Christmas gifts
already on display at Walmart Market

November 1 and the Christmas candy
already shoved the Halloween candy
to the curb / clearance bins.

The Minions have invaded
Peeps territory.
Gotta love merchandising
oversaturation.

Halloween 2015

Halloween seems to become a bigger and bigger holiday every year (if you can call it an actual holiday). It's definitely an event at the very least.

Each year, Anthony and I try to come up with costumes that match and/or compliment each other. I think I burn what imagination I have at work every day so I'm nearly useless at coming up with a costume idea that he doesn't hate, that is in our budget, and is actually doable somehow.

After some wild and odd ideas, we ended up as Minions this year. He found these onesie type of suits that were cute and silly, and in a moment of trying to make my sense of humor happy, he went shopping and purchased them. We were bloody ebola doctors last year so this was totally on the opposite end of the costume spectrum.

We attended the usual party we go to each year that is put on by one of my co-workers. She has a fantastic event and everyone who attends in costume definitely shows off their creative side.

I am not happy with my camera choice after looking at the photos I shot. It struggled a bit with the rather dark and funky lighting conditions, and the flash was a bit strong when I used that. It's more likely it's the guy (me) operating the camera. But, I'm not trying to win a photography award. I just want to be happy with the pictures. So, here they are in all of their funky glory.

An amusing side story: The party was in a building downtown that used to house a city courtroom. It turns out that Anthony's one and only time in court was for a minor in possession of alcohol charge when he was in his teens. And, the courtroom he had to appear in was the same place the party was held (it hasn't been in use in years). It must have been a weird flashback for him to be there.

Anthony is a Minion

I look like a Minion
with a stick up it's ass

Party decorations
in "The Gallows"
section of the location
where the event was

Anthony shoots photos
of the decorations.
He has eyes in the back
of his back.

Rest in pieces

Alien taking care of alien
(live person in the alien with
the black cloak)

Anthony taking pictures
(he's in the middle of
this photo)

Poltergeist

Following Anthony down
a hallway

Courtroom where Anthony
faced the judge (in real life)

DJ, dance floor
and bar

Here's Jackson (who used
to be one of my co-workers)
and the lovely woman
he brought to the party



He... is... Spiderman

Alex as Wolverine

The food

Wolverine meets the alien

Here's Terri, who makes her
best attempt at avoiding
the alien

Terri attempts to chat
with a skeleton that
had a human inside

Here's an epic costume trio:
Rock, paper, scissors

Tina as Wonder Woman
doing a wonder shrug

Carrie and Zach

Heatmiser and Coldmiser
(if you've seen the movie
"A Year Without Santa Claus"
you'll get the costumes)

Party hostess Erin (as Medusa),
Erica, unknown dude,
Lindsay

Similar photo as above
minus the flash

Serving up drinks so refreshing
that it's spooky

Anthony and Alex
drink out of tiny little cups

Group shot of a
group shot

Bottoms up!

Here's Lee showing off
her neon fan

Alex, Leslie, Anthony.
Time for a shot!

Bottoms up!

Alex is a cut-up

Jason and Stephanie
as Power Rangers

Liz recreating the Kim Kardashian
champagne photo

Ina as a human
gumball machine

Hey Anthony, there's a
photo with orange eyes
right behind you

Aaron and Summer

Anthony dances while
Vinca photo bombs

Here's Heather as Dorothy
in the middle of a
Minion sandwich.
Like a tornado in Kansas,
another Halloween
blew right through.