Stalker Monkey!!!

Yesterday, I was in Port Jefferson with my friend Gwen, and our moms took us to Starbucks to hang out while our little brothers had an acting class together. So we were just talking, munching, and drinking soda,  and laughing our heads off almost every time the other said something. It was extremely fun. Now, this arrangement has been going on for a while, because the acting class has been going on for two months, every Tuesday. So every time, I tag along to hang out. Now, way  back at the first class, I brought along this little guy to show to Gwen:

So we were fooling around with it, tossing it in the air and stuff, and we got freaked out because EVERY TIME it landed, it landed on its butt, sitting there, facing us. So it was officially named 'The Stalker Monkey', and now it's our private joke and weird little game. Now, we usually go to this playground before Starbucks, and there are these two beautiful trees that are being strangled to death by English mistletoe. It's really horrible, and both being lovers and protectors of trees, we decided to put an end to it. So right before we left, I took my dad's Swiss army knife, which has one long blade, one short blade, a bottle opener, a pair of tweezers, a toothpick, a cork popper, a hole-puncher, an assortment of weird-shaped little sharp things, and a miniature saw, PERFECT for sawing off vines of English mistletoe. So we sawed away at the  playground while we chatted, and by the time we were ready to head to Starbucks, we had freed one of the trees. Victory was nigh, so we took a shortcut through the mall and went to Starbucks for a treat.  ****   We sat down at the little bar stools in a cozy nook inside the window with two bottles of  Izze, a cheese, fruit, and nut snack pack, and a blueberry scone. It was pretty nice, but there was some college-age geek tucked away in the corner watching Transformers on a laptop, so we didn't have total privacy, but it was good. He was wearing headphones though so I'm pretty sure he didn't hear anything. So anyway, the swiss army knife was in my pocket, and I took it and the monkey out to eat my scone. Then, once we had opened our soda, I put my bottle cap on the monkey like a little hat. It covered his eyes, though, and we both agreed that he looked like a gangster. It was very funny, and to complete the picture of junior delinquentism, I opened the  big knife and propped it up against him. It was totally hilarious, and Gwen and I took a bunch of pictures of stuff we saw/did at Starbucks, in the mall, and in the shop windows on the way back. So this is a post that YOU should be thankful for- thankful that you're not being stalked by a rabid, knife-wielding monkey!!........

.......................Welllllll............................................Just be careful. Because maybe you are!!

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I kill you!!!!!

More Halloween!!

Well. This Halloween was AWESOME, but not as awesome as usual because we didn't go to Evelyn's neighborhood first like we usually do. And the people there get really crabby for some reason when you show up at nine o'clock at night. Don't ask me why, but they do, so even though we got a bus-load, we didn't get as much candy as we usually do. But trick-or-treating was a blast! Here's how it went:


- We put the finishing touches on our costumes


- We carved the jack-o-lanterns


- Our friends Amie, Evelyn, and Sadie showed up at two after Evelyn's school let out, and we put on costumes and set out to trick-or-treat in our neighborhood after pictures (courtesy of Rachel)


- At about five and staggering under our burdens of candy, we went back to the house for a homemade pizza dinner, again courtesy of Rachel



- Rachel left for her friend Angie's house to go trick-or-treating there at about six



- After dinner, we did the rest of our neighborhood, which lasted until about eight thirty



- Ben wanted to stay with Dad at the house, so we left him and the rest of us drove to Evelyn's house, where we finished our candy roundup in her unfourtunately crabby neighborhood



- We went back to Evelyn's house for candy trading at about nine and then headed home for the end of a successful and very fun day.


Just to refresh your memories.....I was a zombie, Emma, a peacock, Ben, a samurai, Evelyn, Luna Lovegood, Sadie, Princess Lollipop from Candyland, Rachel, Buffy the vampire slayer (lucky nobody was a vampire this year!), Mom, a medieval princess, and Amie, the Queen of Hearts. So I hope everyone else had a good one too, and happy Halloween!