Wednesday, 25. November 2009, 00:08:11
All of us in our little family have now received H1N1 vaccinations. Risa received hers in the doctor's office last week, while Ray and I went to the public health unit today. We braced for a long line up since that was in the news in weeks past. The clinic did not take appointments. However, we were pleasantly surprised to discover the process took less than half an hour for the both of us. That included a 10 minute waiting period afterward to make sure we didn't have a serious reaction (was supposed to be a 15 minute wait but I truncated it). We were given a number at the door, and staff were calling out numbers approximately every 20-30 seconds. We barely had time to sign the paperwork. For a drop in service that was pretty darn efficient.
Sunday, 1. November 2009, 03:36:34
As with previous years, Risa seems to always know exactly what she wants to be for Halloween. This year it's a "purple 3-eyed monster". Luckily she gave us a month's notice so we had time to figure out how to execute her concept. Not that we were able to make her look like an obvious 3-eyed monster, but at least we created a conversation starter. Some people felt compelled to give her 2 servings of candy so it did the trick! We ended up with enough candy to make her complain about carrying her bag! Risa wears a cut out milk carton on her head, to which is attached 3 googly eyes on straws. Long purple gloves and an old purple t-shirt top off the outfit. Raymond sports the luchadores Mexican wrestlers' mask that actually got a few screams from kids as he answered the door.
It was a beautiful evening, not too cold, full moon. I was quite impressed by the number of houses that went all out with decorations, and one house had someone lying still as a statue on their front steps in full mask, waiting to reach out and grab unsuspecting trick or treaters, while a 2nd person in very menacing costume dared kids to go up to the top step to get candy. Some kids had caught up with us at this house and Risa cowered with them at the bottom, refusing to go up until one brave person went up by himself. After that, Risa went up by herself and then the pack moved on. Now that was a scary Halloween.
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