The perfect one...

Halloween and Christmas have always been my favourite times of year.  Christmas last year almost fell by the wayside, and it looked as though Halloween was going to be the victim this year. However, I did break down and buy some Halloween treats, just not as much as I always did in the past. I was thinking of not dressing up, not decorating, not even carving a pumpkin, for the first time in almost thirty years. I have two big trunks full of costume stuff and decorations, including at least a dozen bats, spiders of various sizes, cobwebs, skulls and other whatnot, which I hadn't had the slightest inclination to delve into. On my late afternoon Saturday walk, I decided to pop over to the grocery store just to see what kind of pumpkins they had, and there, sitting at the very top of the pile was perhaps the most perfect pumpkin I have seen. It was only $2.77, so I ended up getting it.

That is one damn fine pumpkin...

Pumpkin carving music:  Mozart's Requiem. Although I didn't finish it within the duration of that CD, the next one in the player was StaticX which seemed to be more motivational for some reason. 

That was five, six hours ago. It is now 4AM. I am not tired. I should be, but I'm not. I think that folding three loads of laundry right before bedtime was the wrong thing to do. Or it could be because I was folding laundry and the temperature in the house is pretty much close to 12 degrees Celsius (54F).  Or maybe it is because I'm hungry. Or all of the above.  Good night, good morning.