"Digital circuits are made from analog parts."

If you guessed that the above quote was from my fortune cookie, then you are absolutely correct.

And so began the weekend.

Krista, Kristen, and I ate dinner at China Inn in Superior Friday, where Kristen gave me all of my birthday presents a month early. But they were pretty sweet, so how can I complain? Among my robotronic gifts was this awesome pocket mirror:



and this sexy wallet:



Later that night we watched some "scary" movies...and I use the term scary quite loosely. We rented The Omen (the new one), Silent Hill (worst movie ever), and The Legend of Lucy Keys (shut off after 10 lame minutes).

Kristen also gave me my very early Christmas present. It's a vintage travel poster of Japan in a black frame. Check it out, and be jealous.

Next morning upon waking, I asked Krista what the time was.
Krista: It's 9:00. Do you know where your kids are?
Me: Dried up in the cavern that is my womb.

We also had this running joke that originates from Krista's niece, Kayla, who told her grandpa "You can poop at McDonald's." So whenever anyone needed to make a trip to the bathroom, they said, "I need to go to McDonald's." I was getting out of the shower when Kristen started banging on the bathroom door.
Kristen: April?
Me: Yeah?
Kristen: Hurry up. I need to go to McDonald's!!
Me: You have a 3-minute wait. Please drive up to the next window.

Saturday afternoon was spent shopping. Of course. At Barnes & Noble I bought myself the book New Moon, which is the sequel to Twilight, by Stephenie Meyer. SO GOOD. The woman at the counter got really excited when she saw my purchase. She grabbed the book and goes, "Oh, my gosh! I love this book! Did you read the first one!" And yes, there were exclamation points after each sentence. I could hear them. I also purchased season one of Veronica Mars. (Of course, once I got home, I saw that it had finally shown up through the library. Oh, well.)

We had lunch at Perkins, where we split an appetizer sampler. When the waiter came to clear our plates he asked if wanted separate checks or all together. We said separate, then Kristen and Krista both touch the sampler plate and said at the same time, "You can put this on my bill."
Waiter: Well, I can split it up three ways if you want.
Me: Hey, leave me out of this!

Around 6 or so, we met up with Kristen's friends to get our Halloween party started. So there was Kristen, Krista, Kate, Kelly.....and April. *sigh* We headed to Duluth so we could go on the haunted ship tour there. Normally there's a huge line and you have to wait like 30 minutes just to get on. We waited 10 minutes, and that should have been our first clue about what awaited us. It was so lame. Apparently all the "actors" thought that talking spooky meant using a British accent.
Lame actor with British accent: Got any blooooood? *wielding a fake dagger*
Me: No.
Kristen: We're type O, you wouldn't like us.
Lame actor: *pretending to poke me in the neck with dagger*
Me: Uh, don't touch me.

After we got out of the ship, I remembered the signs that had said "Do not touch any of the actors. If you do so, you will be immediately escorted off the ship." I folded my arms in annoyance and said, "I wish I'd touched an actor so I could have been escorted off the ship." It was so horribly lame.

Anyway, we went out to Kristen's house for tacos (delish), chips & dip, cupcakes, and Scene It. Krista and I partnered up, Kate and Kelly were partners, and Kristen and her dad were partners...until her dad left 5 minutes later. haha Krista and I kicked butt, of course. :) So modest. And then we went back into town to go to a couple of bars. One of Kristen's friends was there and was almost fall-down drunk. She kept yelling about how her boyfriend would f*** her. Yikes. There were some hot guys at that first bar. Then we went to some other place where there was a back room with a ping pong table. And let me tell you, I cannot play ping pong. No hand-eye coordination at all. So after like the fifth time of running to go pick up the ball, I gave up. Krista and Kristen were much better at it. We left not long after that, leaving Kate and Kelly to be approached by hot boys, I'm sure. Me = old.

On Sunday we did a little more shopping. I bought Jersey some much needed bigger clothes and then I got Halloween candy for my grandparents to hand out. Krista and I headed on the long highway. Well, long for her, since she had another 4 1/2 hours to drive after dropping me off.

And tonight, I'm taking Jersey out trick-or-treating. She's a little fairy tonight. We're teaching her to say bippity-boppity-boo, but it sounds more like ba-ba-boo. haha Everyone have an excellent Halloween!!