Posts categorized “Holiday”

Oh, yeah, here’s another punkin I carved this year, at Carrie’s company’s Halloween Party!

Robopunkin

It was for a punkin carving contest. Somehow it only came in 2nd! Wut-the-wut!?

Hello, everyone! Today is my favorite holiday of them all, Halloween!

This was my first Halloween in which I actually owned my own sewing machine, so I went for a much more ambitious sewing project than usual. After looking around the internets for a few minutes trying to find a good template or instructional video, I figured out how to sew the head of my costume. Here is my costume for Hween 2012!

Super Mario Mushroom coming out of a Question Block

Just by happenstance the cardboard box I chose to be the Question Block ended up being 16″ × 16″ and the original Super Mario sprite for the Question Block just happens to be 16 pixels × 16 pixels. So I just made a one-inch grid on the backs of a big piece of orange and a big piece of black paper, and cut out all the shapes for the question mark and shadows. Easy-peasy!

Continuing with the same Super Mario theme, here are my punkins for Hween 2012:

The Big Boo punkin is so shy when you’re looking at him!

But when you look away, Big Boo punkin is gonna getchoo!

I was not, of course, the only person to have a costume. On Saturday night Fools Play had its annual Halloween Show, and the whole cast was all costumed-up:

Lookit all dem Fools!

And, finally, here is Baman Piderman’s Halloween episode, “Ghost Night!” Enjoy!

Happy Hween E’rybody!

I’m back (again, more or less) to posting here more regularly. You probably already know this, but my website here is not the only place on the internets where I exist or post things. So I thought I’d make this handy list of all my online social existences with links to my profiles (and profile names in parentheses) so you can find and follow me a myriad of ways. Whenever there’s a new post on thisischris.com it usually ends up being posted to a handful of these places as well, or sometimes it’ll even appear in one of these places before it ends up here:

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As you may have gathered from my posts in the past couple of months, 2012 has been kind of a shitty year for me what with loved ones dying and all. But it hasn’t been all bad, of course. Just last weekend (the one before the 4th of July) I had a staycation (I can’t believe I actually typed that horrendous word) that had some wonderful moments in it. And the 4th of July was also very nice, surrounded by my family of friends (and a couple of actual family members). We, of course, went to bed very early on the 4th, as is our tradition.

I’ve got a handful of things planned for thisischris.com for these next couple of weeks. Mostly reviews including at least one Movie Review and at least one Vidreoview, and possibly a quick book review or two! And maybe some music news! Who knows? Are you to be knowing? I am not to be knowing.

So keep in touch. Look me up.

A Three-Day Weekend!

Much of Saturday needed to be spent doing yardwork, seeing as how the yard was getting a li’l bit outta control:

Before (Left) & After (Right)

It’s coming along much better now, though! Soon it will actually be a nice place in which to hang out.

My front yard, however, I think is just a lost cause. It’s so, so, so gross. Just take a look at this:

GROSS!

GROSS! Ugh.

Anyway, there were also a couple of barbecues to attend. One on Saturday afternoon, which I had to leave early to go down to Fools Play and perform a very fun show that was attended also by the Yellow Fool, in which we all got to play a bunch of our recurring characters. I always enjoy Character Nights at Fools Play.

Carrie and a couple friends, meanwhile, left the barbecue and headed down to Wingman Brewers, which is a young local brewery that just opened a tiny taproom in Tacoma near the Dome. They were having a really cool “Made In Tacoma” event where they invited some other local businesses down and had a little fair of a sort: Madrona Coffee (Wingman has a beer with this coffee in it), 21 Cellars winery, Barrel No.51 BBQ Truck, and Backcountry Creamery cheeses. Much fun was had.

The next barbecue involved the setting up of a net for the playing of the Two-Sticks, the best possible net game ever:

Two-Sticks Net Ready to Go! (No, that's not my backyard)

Monday was my real day off; no plans at all (except for a couple of quick chores and a trip to Trader Joe’s). So it was supposed to be my day to do all sorts of creative stuff: blog, write, compose chiptunes, etc. And it all fizzled. I was completely uninspired, and everything I started just seemed like dreck to me. Bleah. So instead of getting anything important done I went to a Red Box and rented Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, which is really excellent.

I think I’m going to start a new series on this website where I quickly review movies that I see at home (DVD, OnDemand, Streaming, etc.). It won’t be its own section like my Movie Reviews; it’ll just be it’s own Category like my Great Ideas on the Internets Category. I just can’t figure out what to call it; I want it to be some horrible pun that somehow combines the idea of reviewing movies I’ve only seen on video/DVD/Streaming in my own home. Something awful like “Vidreoviews.” Hold on… there, I just did a Google Search for Vidreoviews and it didn’t come up with anything! IT’S MINE NOW, SUCKAS! BAM!

Ahem. Anyhoo, watch for my M:I-GP Vidreoview later this week.

This is Memorial Day weekend, so I know a lot of you are going to go to some expansive area of grass, be it a backyard or a park, and do some barbecuing. Well, you know what else is fun to do in expansive areas of grass like that?

Play the best-ever-possible Memorial Day Weekend game: The infamous badminton variant known as “Two-Sticks.”

Because Two Sticks are Better Than One

Two-Sticks is a game that several of my friends and family and I invented many, many, many years ago. It involves teams of two, and each person playing starts with TWO badminton racquets, hence the name of the game.

I highly suggest you all play as many rounds of Two-Sticks this weekend as you possibly can. I wrote all the rules out in an article a while back, which I link to now:

The Rules of Two-Sticks

So go, all of you, and play yourself some Two-Sticks. Let me know how that turns out for you, okay?

Yesterday I finally took down the exterior Chrissymiss lights, the last vestiges of the holidays. It was a bit sad to see them colorful lights go back into the garage.

Fortunately, the sky had its own colorful lights yesterday to make up for it:

Now that’s a sunset.

Today is the final day of Hanukkah, and the Christmas decorations are coming down* (though not the external lights; those get to stay up for another couple of weeks), officially marking the end of the holiday season.

This year the last holiday song I heard late Chrissymass night was The Little Drummer Boy/Peace on Earth by Jack Black & Jason Segel. I think that’s appropriate somehow.

I will blog again in 2012.

*The decorations coming down have nothing to do with the end of Hanukkah; correlation does not necessarily mean causation.