October 27. I wrote a blog post about overrated hymns, and as I was doing so, I was sitting in our living room. I asked my roommate Scott what hymns he thought were overrated. He felt bad saying so, but he got sick of singing "I Am a Child of God" at FHE-type settings. I think Scott was watching the World Series when my home teachers, Zach and Scott, came over. I told them the list I had made of overrated hymns, and Zach said he only disagreed with "Come Thou Fount." He said it's not in the hymnbook because Catholics forbade it, but I don't believe that. I showed my home teacher Scott the pictures on Facebook of my nephews in their improvised Halloween costumes; he was impressed with the "Santa." I think I told Zach that I was going to watch The Nightmare Before Christmas and Frankenweenie that week, and he seemed interested in watching them.
October 28. I went to my FHE, and our "dad," Eric, said we were going to have a pumpkin-carving contest, but we needed to go to a store to get pumpkins. I said that I had a pumpkin that I wanted to carve, which meant they would only need to buy one pumpkin. We drove to Smith's, and as we were walking in, I saw a lady at the RedBox, on the phone asking if Oz the Great and Powerful was good. (I wanted to tell her it wasn't.) I went and picked out a carving kit, but the only one I found had some extra things with it. As we were walking out, Eric was loudly playing Stevie Wonder's "Superstition." I was a little embarrassed. One of the group remembered that I had previously mentioned I had a Halloween playlist, so I went and got my laptop to play it on Eric's fancy sound system. There was a little problem at first with the volume. Of course, I started off with "Get Down Goblin." I wanted to do a Jack Skellington pumpkin, so I had my group members clean out the pumpkin for me to carve it. When "My Mechanical Friend" came on my playlist, my roommate Chad (who had come later, along with my other roommate, Jordan) asked, "Is this song about Frankenstein?" When Frankenweenie music was playing, they asked where it was from. As the incredibly annoying "Jack's Obsession" cover was playing, Eric said it seemed too laid back for Halloween. It was around then that the pumpkin contest ended, so Eric posted a picture on our ward Facebook page for people to vote for the better one.
October 29. We weren't having Groundwater class this day, but I went into the classroom to work on a massive project we had--probably our flow chart. One of my classmates liked my Nightmare Before Christmas shirt. I had invited a friend, Carrie, to watch Frankenweenie that night, but she couldn't come. I went down to tell Zach that I was going to start the movie. His roommate Joel was there with his fiancée, Andee, and Andee said her nephews had watched the movie. Zach told me to start the movie and he would come up soon. Scott started watching with me and said Sparky was ugly even when he was alive. He went to the store to get some snacks, and then Zach came up. There was some commentary by Scott, but I don't want to give away any spoilers. Afterward, Zach was trying to identify the different voice actors, and Scott seemed to know a lot about actors. (All this was happening when Scott was still a decent person.)
October 30. At some point in the day, I got some pumpkin ice cream in the Cougareat and was eating it while the radio system was playing "Jack's Lament" from Nightmare Revisited. In the evening, I was in the geology computer lab working on my Groundwater project when I came across a news story about a woman fat-shaming trick-or-treaters. Someone had put posters in the room about a Geology Club Halloween party where they were showing Jurassic Park at the Museum of Paleontology. For "BYU," they used a stylized blue Y, and I thought it was a poor design, because the Y blended in and it just looked like "B U." Then I went home, and Scott was watching the last of the World Series. I remember thinking that it didn't seem right for a MLB player to win a free car. After the game, I put in Mad Monster Party?. In the opening sequence, when a crow started cawing, Jordan said his catch phrase, "Oh my word!" Jordan and Scott went home teaching, and they got back during the scene when all the monsters were arriving. I told Scott that the previous year, my roommates had gone home teaching on the same day and came back during the same scene. He was making origami Christmas ornaments while watching. After the movie, he said it was the strangest movie ever created, and he said it didn't need the musical numbers.
October 31. I went to my Groundwater class, and Dr. Carling was back. He went over our project with us (I think we were working on a flow chart). My classmate Chelsea was dressed in a homemade costume as Darkwing Duck. I went down to the RB for my swimming class, and there was a girl walking down the hall on a knee scooter. A guy sitting on a bench said, "I know what you're dressed as, a gimp!" After swimming, I went to work, and they were talking about all the costumes they had seen on campus. I told them about the "gimp" comment I had heard. My coworker Caitlin was leaving, so the office manager, Annette, said we should have a lunch for her. I said I would bring fruit. Annette made a vampire-themed flyer for the party, even though it was just for us in the office. I think the computer lady, Eden, said she had pumpkin bread, but I didn't have any, since she wasn't my boss. I looked at Halloween Pandora stations and settled on one called "Hipster Halloween." That afternoon, I went to LoLo's to buy a pineapple and strawberries. I also bought a donut with sprinkles on it. Then I went over to Shopko, where I got some small Jack Skellington pajama pants (there were no mediums) and some candy corn Jelly Bellys. Then I went home (listening to the Nightmare Revisited CD) and had Count Chocula in my Jack Skellington mug. While I was doing so, our neighbor Rory came by to ask how our home teaching was going. I think we had a discussion about Christmas music and Thanksgiving music. I was worried about my cereal getting soggy. I can't remember whether I cleaned the kitchen before or after I ate dinner. That evening, I went to a multi-stake Halloween party, and I got lost and had to turn around in a FrontRunner parking lot. I was wearing a simple vampire costume--sharp teeth, a black shirt with red skulls, red shorts, and red shoes, with skull socks. There weren't many people there yet, and it was too noisy, so I didn't stay long. Someone stopped me and asked if I wanted my face painted, so they did. The guy said he was a professional who had been flown in from Vegas. I was a little uncomfortable with them working around my eyes. Then I went to a party hosted by some friends, Katria and Larissa. There were several people who came that I didn't know. One of them was dressed as Adam Lambert; another was wearing a child-size Ironman costume (he had to cut it up to get it on). There was a donut-bobbing game, but I didn't eat glazed donuts, so I ate the Halloween donuts from the Krispy Kreme box. There was a game where we had to guess foods without looking, and I did worse than I expected. Then they were discussing watching a Halloween show, and I left. When I got home, Scott was watching Wait Until Dark on TV. I asked him to take a picture of my face paint:
November 1. I got up early because I had some things I needed to do. I turned on my Thanksgiving playlist (which was smaller then) while I cut up the pineapple and strawberries for my work lunch. Then I needed to do some editing for my group project, but cutting fruit took longer than expected. I think I got it done, though. I was wearing my roast turkey socks and I think my yellow shoes. Then I took my bowl of fruit to work before going to class; I also threw in some leftover candy. After my Old English class, I had to meet with my group in the library. Then I went to my work lunch--I thought I would be late, but they were just starting. Caitlin had brought small apples. There was some discussion about auto-correct--Eden was laughing at some that she was reading on her phone, but she couldn't tell us because they weren't appropriate. I reminded them of the time our editor-in-chief meant to write an email that said, "How do you like our about-face?" and it came out "How do you like our snout face?" That afternoon, I drove home--but first, I stopped at a few places to find clearance Halloween/Thanksgiving candy. Allen's grocery store had lots, but it was expensive still. Then I went to Fresh Market, but I think it was all gone already. When I got to North Salt Lake, I stopped at Winegar's and got some candy corn M&Ms and Starburst candy corn. Then I went home, where my parents told me that Free Birds had bad reviews. That night, I went downstairs and watched a YouTube video of The Mouse on the Mayflower on the big TV.
November 2. My family all went out to Centerville to see Free Birds. It was better than we expected. After the movie, we went to lunch at Chuck-A-Rama, since the next day was Fast Sunday. In Centerville, we went to the Sprint store to look at a smartphone for me. They were out of stock of the free one I wanted. I had talked to David to see what he recommended, but those were too expensive. We talked about our opinions of the movie; my dad said he didn't like how our ancestor (Myles Standish) was portrayed as a villain. I ate brownies with fall sprinkles on them. Then I went back to our house and brought out Thanksgiving decorations while I listened to my regular playlist, to which I had added my Thanksgiving music. Then I drove back to Provo, and I went to Rite Aid and Macey's to look at their clearance fall candy. And then I went to Walgreen's as well for the same purpose, even though I was tired and wanted to get back to my apartment.
Related:
October 27
October 28
October 29
All Hallows' Eve Eve
A Pillowcase Full of Trick-or-Treat Memories
All Saints' Day
Day of the Dead
October 30-November 1, 2012
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