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My theme from Kim of http://www.lostinplace.org is to write about my favorite Halloween of all time. I’m a big fan of Halloween and have a bunch of good memories from the holiday. It’s pretty amazing considering when I was in 5th grade I chopped my pinky off Halloween night while carving a Jack-o-Lantern. You would think any holiday in which you inadvertently sever a body part wouldn’t be considered one of your favorites. Truth be told it wasn’t that bad because the neighborhood kids felt sympathy for my severed digit and donated 1/2 their candy to me. Do the math 10 kids x 1/2 bag of candy each = nearly worth the surgery / recovery. Strangely enough it continues to be a near-second to Christmas in my book. But in the end I’d have to say my favorite Halloween was the first Halloween in our very-first home. It was a good year for us, we had plenty of disposable income (read: no kids) and decided to go to Sam’s Club and buy a bunch of full-size candy bars to give out. The looks the kids would give us when we pulled out the full-sized candy bars and plopped em in their buckets was priceless. Later as the night progressed some of the smarter kids tried to swing-by and “double-dip” the big candy. They were poorly disappointed when we strategically gave them a single roll of smarties each. What a great night - we were legends. Years later we had kids lament the fact that we didn’t have big candy anymore. I feel sorry for whomever lives there now, I’m sure they still field the complaints.

WOW! Amber and I had the absolute pleasure of seeing “Across the Universe” this weekend. If you don’t know what it is, it’s no real surprise as it’s been a limited release w/ an apparent small marketing budget. But in short it’s a Musical (No No.. don’t stop there, keep reading) that is set to Beatles music. On it’s surface it has a huge potential to SUCK, but actually turns out to be the best and most-enjoyable movie we’ve seen in recent memory. The Music was amazing, the story compelling (if somewhat predictable) and the visuals a faithful tribute to The Beatles. Excellent cameos from Bono and Eddie Izzard top off a excellent enjoyable movie. Go see it - thank me later.

 So the charming “Kim” of http://www.lostinplace.org/ and I have decided that we are slacker bloggers and don’t really push the edge. Well we are going to make an effort to change that in the weeks ahead by challenging each other with weekly blog themes. The first two themes we gave each other certainly did push the edge, but not intentionally so. We both assumed them to be safe, but turned out that neither one of us were really comfortable w/ our assigned themes. So in the true spirit of pushing the edge and writing even about the difficult times, we both wimped out and asked each other for new themes. So this week I will be writing about “The Best Halloween Ever”. Ah well – maybe later I’ll get up the guts to write about the original theme.