peanut buttah jelly tiiiiime!

Made my day:
Yesterday, Halloween night, on Pearl Street after a delicious dinner at Pasta Jay's, we were driving home with six people in the car (ah, flashbacks to high school) and saw someone dressed as a giant banana. My sister, being amazing, rolled down the window as we passed and sang out "PEANUT BUTTER JELLY TIIIME!" and the banana-person, apparently thrilled someone finally understood their costume, started shaking their maracas and dancing. i laughed so goddamn hard. and i loved seeing the ecstatic look on their face.

Speaking of Halloween and my previously-declared Burning Firey Passionate Hatred of sarah palin, i dressed as her. My favorite parts were the devil horns and my beauty pagant sash, on which were palin's two qualifications for the vice presidency:
"Miss Alaska 1984"
and on the back:
"I can see Russia from my house!"























living in boulder, i got a lot of compliments. although i was horribly depressed at the fact that no one dresses up for school anymore. remember when you weren't Too Cool? those were the days. for this reason, i was FUCKING PSYCHED to head to work and see all my favorite little 4-year olds dressed up in their adorable costumes. my hopes and dreams were crushed when i walked in the door and saw everyone in effing normal clothes. seriously, i was fucking sad not to see my favorite little dude, Wyatt, dressed as a firefighter (he practically worships people with jobs)*. i saw maybe half a dozen other people out of the 30,000 at CU in costume. however, my faith in humanity was revived when we were walking down pearl and saw the person in the afore-mentioned banana-maraca costume, an old dude as Indiana Jones, a Hermione, and a couple other fun ones.


*after working full-time at the preschool for most of the summer, everyone was confused when i showed up at 2 PM one day because the fall semester started. when they asked me where i was all day and i told them i had been at school, i ended up staring at like nine very very confused faces. Lauren finally piped up: "THIS is your school."