I checked my mail with fear and trepidation this morning, "No more death, no more!" and there wasn't any, thank goodness. But I was reminded of the antidote to death, which is birth.

Welcome to the world Madeleine Sarah Timm Anderson! And congrats Scott and Annette!

On Hallowe'en, we didn't dress up at my office, we never do, but I was desperate for the opportunity to use this line:

"I'm a psychopath. You can't tell from the outside."

I wanted to say it so badly that I told Fran and Katie on Sunday night, just so that I could have said it. I wasn't the same, though. I have never wanted to say a line so badly, but it needed to be set up and nobody was cooperating!

Then, on Hallowe'en night, I was going to rehearsal in a huge building that had trick-or-treaters swarming over it like locusts. I was in the elevator and a man came in and looked at me in my jeans and leather jacket and said:

"What are you dressed as?"
(O thankyouthankyouthankyou!) "I'm a psychopath. You can't tell from the outside!"

I practically kissed him, and ran into my rehearsal crowing "I got to say it, I got to say it!" I was so happy.

On Sunday night I was upstairs watching The Simpsons with Fran and Katie, and Katie was all in whiteface and black lipstick.

"Why are you dressed up?"
"For the Hallowe'en party at church, I was a tourguide through the Haunted House. I'm a dead cheerleader."
"You had a Haunted House at church?"
"Yep, it was me and twenty-one screaming children!"

Apparently the Haunted House was so Haunted that it frightened all of the children into fits, requiring much therapy in years to come to repair the damage. Molly, for one, had hysterics.

I do think it's funny that some churches think that Hallowe'en is of the devil or whatever and refuse to celebrate it, but the Presbyterians not only celebrate it on the church grounds, but apparently use it as some sort of survival of the fittest!

What was your best Hallowe'en costume?

And we're still talking about death, Rocky Horror, being happy, romance, getting well-know phrases wrong, attending our high school reunions, and being from a small town.

Today's horoscope:
New social opportunities arise. Expand your horizons of friendship, groups, networking, neighbors, or other kinds of people contact.

One year ago today:
When I came upstairs, Bonnie took one look at me and immediately ran to her pallet and went to bed!

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