Halloween Is Great

Oh man, Halloween is the greatest!! And even though I was a little bummed out at not getting to wear a different costume this year as I had last year, I still had a giant blast. And I'll tell you all about it, but first things first, I need to update on the dinner party I had.

So Kate ended up coming home from work pretty late on Saturday night/Sunday morning, like close to two am, I think. After Melissa and Brian L. dropped me back off at Kate's, and when I realized that Brian D. (yeah, that's a lot easier when trying to distinguish the two Brians) wasn't going to be able to hang out that night after returning from Rochester, I got into my pj's and went to sleep, but not until having eaten an entire pint of mouthgasm-producing soy ice cream. Mmmmm. I needed that like I needed a hole in the head, but it was nice to have a sweet ending to a sweet day. So then I went to sleep, and I woke up just as Kate was arriving home at the landing... she hadn't even knocked on the apartment door yet. So I got up and let her in as she'd given me her only set of keys earlier in the day, and we hung out a little bit more until about 3am, when we both went to sleep. The plan for the next day (Sunday) was to sleep in (I had strict instructions NOT to wake Kate up if I got up earlier than she did), get a few errands done at the store, go to Brian D.'s place to cook for a dinner party, then dress up and go out to a bar.

In the morning, I woke up around 9am, I tried to go back to sleep, but couldn't, so I got up and futzed around the apartment for awhile. The night before I'd bought this gross vegan sausage thing that for some reason I couldn't help but purchase, so I started to fry that up in the pan, and the entire apartment filled with the aroma of frying crap. I mean, I kind of liked the smell, but it was pretty strong... I was actually secretly hoping that the odor of fake meat and oil would waft under the door and into Kate's room, enter her nostrils and wake her up. Then, she'd be so jarred by the unpleasant smell, that she'd be forced to vacate the room to see what was happening in the rest of the apartment, thus directing her right to me to hang out. But alas, that did not happen, and she ended up sleeping until 12:30pm.

We hung out for a little bit, then got ready, then picked Dave up and headed to brunch at some gross restaurant. I'd already eaten almost the entire tube-o-notsausage, so I wasn't hungry, but the two of them got the biggest array of grease-and-shit I'd ever seen come to two relatively skinny people at a restaurant. It was gross, but I minded my own business over my coffee and orange juice.

So after breakfast, we went to Wegs to pick up stuff for the dinner party... excellent. Then we headed back to Kate's to grab our costumes, and went right over to Brian D.'s to start cooking. Once there, everyone pitched in, and about an hour later, we had an awesome spread of rice, beans, tortilla shells, a giant salad, garlic bread, salsa, sour cream and cheese. The whole thing came out great, and the only non-vegan items were the tortilla fixins', so that was cool. Melissa and Brian L. came over, and the six of us chowed down over football and good conversation. It was so nice to have everyone together-- I'd wanted my high school crowd to mix with my college crowd for awhile, and this was a good first step.

After dinner, Melissa and Brian L. had to leave to accept company at their house, so Me and Brian D. and Kate cleaned up the mess in the kitchen and then got ready to go out to the bar for Halloween.

Actually... I think I need to split up these posts. So, stay tuned for our Halloween celebration!