choopie, blood, and pumpkins

okay...

so, as i've said before, i really try not to make this blog about me. it is, after all, the PERHAPA-blog and so i try to keep it about the book, weird and creepy things, and comics, movies, that kinda stuff. sure, my perspective comes through with what i write--it's impossible to be THAT objective. plus, i think that would be a pretty boring read. like a robot wrote it.
ANYWAY...
tuesday was my birthday.
someone asked me what i was doing for my birthday and i said, "ignoring it."
unfortunately, there were other people NOT ignoring it.
i got birthday calls and emails (mostly 'cause myspace thinks it's a good idea to let all your 'friends' know it's your birthday...%#$@in' myspace!), nice presents from my brother, sister-in-law, niece, and nephew, my dad, and my partners 'n pals, mike and craig!
highest on that list, though, was my girlfriend, sharon.
(and part of her present is why i'm even mentioning this here...)
she wanted to take me out for sushi 'cause it's my favorite, but our favorite sushi restaurant is closed on tuesdays, so we went for lobster. i bought her a lobster on her birthday. then we came home and she gave me a couple of nice shirts and some chocolate. and then she snuck out to her car and brought in a clear plastic cake box, about 14" x 20", and in it was the coolest cake i have ever seen in my life! it was so awesome i hadda take a picture--



those who know me will find it hard to believe that anything could leave me speechless, but this did it.
i was stunned.
it was beautiful and thoughtful and so well done! (sharon claims that much of it was the help of her best friend, colleen, but she tends to be very humble at times like this...)
oh, and after i took some pictures--it was delicious! and the red icing around the edges started to melt a little in the warmth of the house and looked just like blood oozing out from the sides--choopie woulda loved it!
thank you, sharon--it was wonderful!
a wonderful cake and a wonderful birthday!

so while we're in personal mode--and after i wrote about the dark green/black pumpkin i had last year--sharon and my nephew, tyler, and i went out last saturday and picked up a few pumpkins of our own. orange this time, of course. we dug them out, though tyler had to go home before we all got our faces carved. he and i kept talking about what cool things we could put in them rather than candles. he's 10--this is what we think of. he called me later to say that, while he still thinks that we should blow them up (with the m-80's i have left over from fourth of july), it would be cool to throw a couple smoke bombs in there and see the smoke pouring from the eyes and mouth.
so here's my pumpkin for this year.
the last few shots are for tyler.
(and yes, i will post the m-80 pics at the end of the month...)











that's all for now.
i'll be back here on wednesday with, hopefully, another scary story.
smell ya later!
todd