It’s been a while! Sorta busy but things went haywire for a bit, including our home computer going kaput and having to take it to an actual PC Doctor to get it fixed. Here are a few tips. 1) Get a frikkin EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE. It’ll save yourselves a LOT of heartache. Or at the very least it will save you some $$. We finally went out and purchased a small one, the Maxtor One-Touch 4 Mini. We got the smallest one, 160 GB, which is more space than we’ll probably ever need. Had we been backing up all along we wouldn’t have had to go to the PC Doc. So that’s my first advice.

2) Now that I’m at two, I can’t remember the second tip. But that first one, it’s uber-important so it counts as two.

Next. Halloween is coming up. Remember my jack ‘o’ lantern from last year? Well, take a look at this year’s:

Yes We Carve

The stencil is courtesy of www.yeswecarve.com, and I also posted my pic on their site, too. Take a look. Maybe not as exciting and intricate as some of the other pumpkins on that site, but a feel-good project nonetheless.

The husband complained that the Obama logo looks too much like a logo for a bank. “It’s not scary enough,” he says. So earlier today I did another pumpkin, just for him. It’s not scary, either, but at least it’s more traditional.

Giggling Gus the Pumpkin

I’ll post a nighttime photo later on. Much better, eh. Let me just say, get thee a pumpkin stencil! Makes it sooo much easier. Plus, the Metropolitan Market pumpkins are about 200x better than the QFC ones. And, this one was less expensive, too. One of the easiest jack ‘o’ lanterns I’ve done to date. Not that I’ve done all that many, but here’s to years to come.