Dustin told me like, weeks ago, in the midst of all of his being gone non-sense that we would carve pumpkins for halloween (alright he maybe didn’t tell me as much as I begged until he agreed). But last week when he got back from all of his trips he asked me if I wanted to come over Friday for a pumpkin carving EXTRAVAGANZA! (Alright, he totally didn’t use the word extravaganza, but didn’t I make it sound exciting?). Obvi I told him yes.
On Friday I got really excited after I was done with school stuff and before he picked me up. So I curled my hair and sent him text pictures like this (it’s the “’get excited, you’ face”). Because I was bored and maybe lame? Don’t judge/pretend like you’ve never done it!
So, Friday evening after Dustin was off work and things, he picked me up and we went to Safeway to pick out pumpkins. Clearly I was being very picky about the whole thing but finally found one that was a good size and a good color and a good shape and had a good handle (so important) and didn’t have gross stuff on it.
After we loaded up our pumpkins we went back to Dustin’s apartment where I found this waiting for us:
HALLOWEEN TABLE OF FUN (the great pumpkin charlie brown DVD, jack-o-lantern pizza, gummy worms and candy cornz in skull goblets, science project skull face, cookie decorating things, jelly beans, pumpkin carving things and games). He also had taken out a light bulb in his hall and replaced it with a red light and had scary music playing when we got there (obvi I had to turn the regular light on to take this picture with my iPhone, sorry for the blurryness, I forgot my camera). So cute, right? What a little planner I have!
Oh and did I mention there was also a SPOOKY black cat?? (Battle Cat):
After putting the pizza in the oven and Dustin putting my bear hat on, we had mini photo shoot (because we’re good at it)…
Scary halloween bear faces now:
And then we got to work carving pumpkins.
This is what mine turned out like (so not scary):
And this was Dustin’s which was way more creative and scary and awesome (with him in the background, whoops ha):
side note: We also saved the seeds and Dustin roasted them and we ate them all weekend (fat kid status) and they were super delicious. The perfect Halloween weekend snack and paired well with ALL THE CANDY we ate – really, sooo much candy.
And in case you didn’t remember, our pumpkins looked really cool lit up (alright, his did, mine just looked goofy hah):
And also, last night for actual Halloween, Dustin put our pumpkins outside for everyone to see. He also bought glow sticks to put in them so they wouldn’t burn down his apartment complex in the night.
Bonus Quote: “rainman basically bankrupt the casinos and he was a ra-tard” guess that movie…!
Oh, and did I mention that we sipped on candy corn cocktails while we worked on our pumpkins and did our other Halloween activities?
Also all weekend we could not stop singing “Monster Mash” (honestly we probably sang it about a hundred times during the weekend, because we’re cool – at least we like each other, right? ha).
Dustin (in monster singer voice): The ghouls all came from their humble abodes, to get a jolt from my electrodes
Me (in girl du wop voice): They did the mash
Dustin: They did the monster mash
Me: The monster mash
After pumpkins and snacks, it was science experiment time:
We made zombie barf which was chunky and gross and too sugary for me and also it’s what Dustin is drinking in the above picture. And we also made jelly bugs. And it was pretty exciting (see picture of table, science experiments were made with the scary green scull thing).
After our science experiments we decided it was time to wind down from all of our activities and watch “it’s the great pumpkin charlie brown” which I just love so so much. I was SO excited to see this on the table of activities. Good job Dustin!
We watched, and ate pumpkin seeds and candy and drank our candy corn vodka and it was amazing.
The next day was Saturday. And Fall-time Saturdays are usually spent watching college football (or at least the Oregon Ducks and Washington Husky games). So we first went downstairs to the Baronoff for breakfast and then we headed up the street to Bleacher to watch the UO game.
I’m not going to lie. We went to the bar at noon. And we were the first people there. And by the time the game was over at like 3:30 we were both a little buzzed. Also I wore my bear hat. And it was rad (old men complimented me, duh).
Then afterwards, Dustin was like, “let’s keep day drinking” and I was like “AWESOME! I LOVE THAT IDEA!” Because I had decided on like Wednesday that I was going to take Saturday completely off from school work (the first completely off day in about a month) and it was the best. But in the midst of Dustin declaring that we were going to day drink we passed this time travel shop on our walk down Greenwood Ave. and Dustin insisted we go in (to be fair, we’ve wanted to go in a million times but they’re always closed). So we went in. And Dustin bought lots of things. Like this smoke gun (it’s a toy gun that blows smoke rings):
And then we went to the grocery store and then we played games on his patio area and shot smoke rings at each other. I was almost really good at the throw the ball in the cup game. But not quite. He beat me every time, even though I think I had more close shots ;)
isn’t my bear hat the best?
And then we came inside and he made us Philly Cheese steak Sandwiches because I forced him (okay, this time I didn’t force THAT much, because he likes them too).
And then we made and decorated BOOGER COOKIES (all his idea. so cute of him, right?) We did this on Saturday b/c we were too tired after all of our other activities on Friday. But it was so much funz:
And then it was Saturday night and so we watched the University of Washington Huskies win their FB game. And we watched the really really awesome close Stanford vs. USC game. And we also watched “the Haunted Mansion” movie with Eddie Murphy. So silly.
We thought about going out to sing Karaoke but I was too tired and lame. Day drinking really took it out of me. Ha!
The next morning I made us biscuits and gravy and bacon. And Dustin made us Bloody Mary Bar. Because I love Bloody Marys. And there is a Pirate themed bar right downstairs from his apartment (I know, right??) that has bloody mary bar on Saturday and Sunday, but we always miss it. So he brought it to me. And it was sweet. He wins. All weekend he won.
And then after that I went back to being a normal, boring person law student. I went home and did homework and worked on a motion that is being submitting to the court for the theft case I’ve been working on. But the weekend was super fun. I loved it so much.
On a side note though, my roommates and I didn’t get ANY trick or treaters last night. This is despite the fact that we live in a residential neighborhood. We even had our porch light on and pumpkins on our porch. I don’t get it? Oh well. More candy for me! Ha. Someone stop me!
Sorry this was such a long, picture heavy post. I hope you’re over it :)
Also, tell me about your weekend. Did you dress up and go out? Was it awesome?
