Avoiding the New Moon

I was thinking of letting go of my anti-Twilight stance and going to see New Moon, but then this article brought me back to my senses: Top 20 Unfortunate Lessons Girls Learn from Twilight

It is worth noting that I didn't even GET to the text of the article before re-making my Twilight avoidance vow - watching the RiffTrax video of clips from the film was enough to do it.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

Ghost pumpkin says, "Grrrrrr!"



I managed a slight variation on my normal pumpkin face. This is harder for me than you think - usually I expect it's going to look different, but they all end up looking like this. Mostly he's just less happy than the usual pumpkin. But it's a white one, and ghosts aren't exactly known for being happy.

Not for Kristin

Someone at Glitter pointed me to a spider mythbusting site, which in turn led me to this article on the myth of brown recluse spiders in California (which has a bit of useful identification info for black widows as well).

These spider johnnies are pretty defensive about the amount of misinformation that's out there. But it makes for interesting reading all the same, if you can handle that sort of thing. (Warning: the mythbusting site does have quite a few pictures.)

I figure now that I'm living with about a million spiders in my little cottage, brushing up on my spider facts would not be amiss.