Happy Halloween and Merry Bloody Christmas!

Over the last couple of months quite a bit has happened. We'vehad Halloween, celebrated the birthdays of two of my friends, and celebrated my own birthday.
Halloween was cool. My friend and I took a group of kids out trick or treating. We actually made it to quite a few houses and the kids had lots of candy. We even ventured as far as the Fire Hall. They were giving out tatoos, stickers, badges, and candy. The picture to the left is a picture of the four kids in their Haloween costumes. This was last years picture because I forgot my camera this year. Batman this year was a power ranger, the lizard was some hooded creature with glowing red eyes, the princess was a different princess, and the girl in purple was a witch (kind of looked like Nanny McPhee).
My birthday was fun. My friends came over and we had cake (a hedgehog cake that my brother baked), some finger foods, and drinks. We chatted about this and that, watched parts of the hockey game (the Leafs actually won), and then played Friends Scene It? which I had just opened as a birthday gift.
More recently, I have found out that my car was apparently hit by another car while it was parked in a parking lot. I had arranged for an oil change to be done and that is when the guy doing my oil change noticed the dent (quite a large one I might add) on the front passenger side. The side was crushed enough that the passenger door would not opem. So I took it to a collision place to get checked out, called my insurance company and made a police report. None of which were particularly fun. There is over $1600 damage done to my car. Of course I have to pay the $500 deductible (which I think is a load of crap since I did nothing wrong). I'm just waiting now for the parts to come in so my car can be fixed. Before long I'm going to end up with a brand new car!
We decorated our house for Christmas this past weekend. I was in charge of lights. Man, those little bulbs are fiddly! It's quite irritating when one bulb doesn't work and you have to figure out which one and then replace it. Oh well, the house is a least starting to look like Christmas is coming. I get to go see a Christmas concert tomorrow at one of the schools. The princess in pink from the Halloween picture is singing in it, so I'll be going to watch her. It should be cute!