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Woo-Hoo!

Happy Halloween! Love this time of year, and while I now longer can partake in the merriment of knocking on strangers doors for a reward of free candy, I can still walk the streets with my kids or wait at our door for the creatures of the night to come to me!

Sadly, when I leave the confines of my home I end up finding a house I personally want to cover in toilet paper.

2 years ago I was taking my two girls around and having the time of my life meeting the neighbours, seeing great costumes, and getting a good lay of the land. We got to one house where a guy was working on his truck. My daughters and I walked right by him, we smiled at each other and proceeded to his door for yet another treat. We knocked and waited. Waited some more, as the guy continued to work in the driveway. Finally, a guy answered the door only to tell us, ‘No treats!’

‘No treats’!?!

Instead of banging on the door that was just shut on our faces, I turned my attention to the idiot who watched us walk to his door, heard us knock on said door, and knowingly allowed us to waste precious trick or treating time.

We walked to his truck, knowing that I would have to watch what I say because my kids were with me, but I was disappointed to see this moron escaped to the safety of his garage.

We went along to the other houses who were gladly celebrating All Hallows Eve, and that guy’s neighbours across the street casually mentioned that they saw what happened earlier.

They didn’t like him as much as I did!

Which would’ve come in handy if I had decided to come back later and egg his house?

If you don’t like Halloween, or decide not to celebrate, at the very least don’t suck the fun out of it for everybody else.

I have eggs!

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Well, here’s one costume I’ll never wear again!

Found this really cool Roman Warrior costume and for a tall guy like me, it fit!

I’ve worn many costumes over the years, including a Mr. Incredible suit that gave me a continuous wedgie the entire night, a zombie ensemble that was two sizes too small, and a Robin outfit with a mask that covered half my eyes.

I couldn’t lose with this one! Not this year.

I looked bigger, felt bigger, and straight up felt cool!

I strolled into work this morning to all the ooh’s and ah’s only to have our news guy look at me and say….

Great Ottawa Senators costume!’

What the!@#$!$#@!

What hurts more is that the previous night his Sens beat my Leafs 3-2!

Dressed as the enemy? Not on my watch!

For sale, one Ottawa Senators Fan Costume!

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OK, I have watched a lot of videos in my lifetime. Not just music videos, but those that are shown on Youtube all the time.

They show pranks, natural events, funny, scary, and sometimes just downright stupid!

However, there is one video that to this day gives me chills, and since it’s Halloween I’ll share it with you.

There will be no ‘faces’ popping up, or loud noises (I hate those), just turn out the lights and watch and think of this the next time you talk a midnight stroll through the forest!!!!

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXNg93HFRgE&feature=related

 Happy Halloween!

Wow, what a long weekend!

Is it wrong to feel so much joy while a dead bird is roasting in the oven? Love Thanksgiving because thanks to my lifelong failures in the kitchen, I have been regulated to watching sports on the couch and stuffing my face, with some clean up duty afterwards.

Seems like a sweet deal to me!

It was during this time of hardship I was watching the first game for the NEW Winnipeg Jets (please wear the retro jerseys once in awhile huh?). Great opening, emotional too with the Kenny Chesney ‘Who You’d Be Today’ accompanied video tribute to Rick Pypien who passed away this past summer.

The Jets are back, and to be honest they should have never left because some hardcore hockey fans live in Winter-peg! Sadly none were around during the second intermission while Hockey Night in Canada’s Ron MacLean was interviewing Jets legend Dale Hawerchuk on live television.

If they were, the loser behind Dale would have NEVER gotten away with putting two fingers behind Dale’s head. What, he thought this was funny?

It’s sad enough that folks think it’s funny to smile and wave at the camera for their friends to get a laugh while the rest of the country thinks they’re a moron, but this blatant disrespect to one of the greatest stars to ever lace up their skates was proof that sometimes cousins marry. You wouldn’t see somebody do that to Guy Lafleur in Montreal, or Darryl Sittler in Toronto would you?

Thankfully, my respect for Ron MacLean grew on this day as he politely stopped Dale mid-sentence to remind this ‘fan’ who Dale was and what he represented so show a little respect!

GREAT move from Ron and I hope that loser ended up sitting in a plate of nachos once the third period got underway.

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A little commotion at my local grocery store this week!

At the very back of the store, a ruckus could be heard clearly from the front.

It turns out a very irate customer was being escorted out and made sure she wasn’t going to go quietly.

So what went down?

This idiot was not happy with something and figured raising her voice while berating and embarassing the young girl behind the counter was the way to go. There was nothing the girl could do to retaliate because she’s been told to never talk back to a customer.

So this ‘lady’ had free reign to bully her, that was until somebody had enough.

A customer in the same lineup proceeded to throw down the gauntlet and see how she would do with a partner who talked back.

Not too well I’m afraid!

The loudmouth was told to leave with every insult being matched tit for tat by the next person in line. Adding fuel to the fire was that by now, EVERYBODY in the store was watching and now laughing at her.

It boggles my mind how some people feel they can demean somebody like that. Got a problem? Explain your situation like a grown up!

Trust me, nobody in the working world is being told to not help a customer who’s polite!

Plus, you never know who’s in the lineup behind you!

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Seriously? THIS is someone’s house?!?!