Fun stuff for Halloween!

Happy Halloween! Or, for later - Hally Happoween Occifer! LOL Hope everyone is well. It's been a busy week at work - another football game, another group of kids coming in for Minor in Possession. MIP's are what make our days interesting on a regular basis. Not many of them know what they're doing, half look or act like they're stoned and pretty much all of them are dumb. Just plain dumb. "HUH?" is a staple out of their mouths.

So for all the work I did in my yard, here's the funny thing - next year - my lawn is going to kick ASS. It's still really green - others that had theirs hydroseeded are turning yellow. I had good tomatoes, peppers and while the cukes never came out too well, I think they were too close to the 'maters and now I know. The strawberries have jumped all over the place so I think I'll have a ton of those, too. Yippee! I made it through.

More stuff going on with my friend Kim. It could be more extensive because her mother took DES when she was pregnant, but her uncle is one of the people that pretty much wrote the book on cervical cancer, so she's in good hands even if they are a few states away. He's already told her to dump her doctor and he's getting her an appointment with a specialized gyn-onc person next week. Thank God for Uncle Tom. She was upset and frustrated the other night and I offered up my face for her to punch if it'd make her feel better. :) She declined, but I told her the offer stands. lol I'm such a "do something" person that it kills me that there's nothing that I can do. Nothing. Arrgh. I do research online when I'm not doing anything else. Like being sucked into Bejeweled on facebook.

A friend texted me with the beginnings of a recipe last night. It started off with candy corn and vodka, then Cointreau and lemon juice were added and somewhere in there was an egg white. I'm still waiting for the rest of it, and when I get it I'll post it. In the meantime, I found all sorts of other fun ones for Halloween for the thirsties!

This one sounds particularly tasty:

Apple Pie **BEWARE - it'll hit ya, before ya know it!!

1 gallon apple juice
1 gallon cider
1 liter Everclear
1 cup sugar
5 cinnamon sticks

simmer all but the alcohol for 1-2 hours (btw makes the kitchen smell so yummy and fallish!)

let liquid cool - then add Everclear.

Corpse Reviver
1 shot gin
1 shot Cointreau
1 shot Lillet Blanc
1 shot fresh lemon juice
Dash of absinthe or substitute (roughly ¼ teaspoon)
Shake well with ice and strain in to a cocktail glass. Garnish with a maraschino cherry.

Wicked Witch
1.5 oz. Whiskey
0.25 oz. Maraschino Liqueur
0.25 oz. Pineapple Juice
1 tsp. Lemon Juice

Silver Bullet
Peppermint Schnapps
Chocolate Syrup

Brain Hemorrhage
Peach Schnapps
Bailey's
Grenadine

Alien Autopsy
Mountain Dew
Bailey's
Grenadine

Click here for more recipes. Another thing that I found that looked really cool was for ice - get rubber gloves, fill them with water and freeze. Use that for ice cubes!

Enjoy, stay safe. :)

K