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By the way, remember my rant yesterday? You know, the website thing, $200, blah blah blah … well, for the record …

For the record I ranted about it some more. And then I decided at 5:36 to come back and delete my ranting. It wasn’t meant in a “whiney” tone, but I didn’t want it to be accidentally perceived that way either. Because, like Sabby pointed out, I manage to get misunderstood at times. (But as far as Wife #3, that was thanks to the ex actually telling her I wanted him back and that I was up to something, when that was far from the case!) Thanks for tuning in to “As Christine’s World Turns…” *grin*

I have to confess that I laughed sooooo hard when I read this over at Julie’s site: “I reach in the frozen food door to grab some Eggo Waffles, and this FREAK OF NATURE on one of those motorized carts buzzes by and screams out, “Leggo My Eggo!!! I look around like what the hell and she’s just trucking along like nothing! Only in freaking WalMart. No where else on this entire planet do you see these misfits!” OH MY GOODNESS! Too hysterical. Man, I was cracking up. That’s classic, it really is. Too damn funny.

So a guy wore a flashing pumpkin pin and a gal wore orange and black striped socks and a Snoopy Halloween T-Shirt to work yesterday and Two employees fired for Halloween clothes. Yes, fired. And if you ask me, when “Monday’s e-mail clarified the policy: “Anyone wearing costumes, or modifying their appearance whether by makeup or change to their outward appearance to show defiance will have their employment terminated.” I don’t consider a pin or a t-shirt and socks “defiance”. Yes, full costumes can be distracting at work. But a PIN??? Come on. I normally wear my Halloween necklace every year, but I forgot about it yesterday. I can’t imagine being fired over it! (Article found thanks to Candi)

Did you have trick-or-treaters? I took Jason out in my parent’s subdivision, just the blocks right around there house, and there were TONS of kids out. He ended up with a nice big bag full of candy. Not everyone was passing out – but not everyone has in years past, so I wasn’t surprised. Seemed like a normal Halloween, and I am glad. I was really disappointed to see that the mall had cancelled their celebrations. We have never gone, but I know people that go every year. I think it’s really important to keep things as “normal” as possible when it comes to children. It’s not easy, and I understand the concerns that people have – but I am glad Jason had a nice normal trick-or-treating night. At the age of 9, we might not have too many of those left!

I thought about it first thing this morning (and have been thinking about it all week, but Robyn’s post reminded me about it again… today would have been my Grandpa’s 89th birthday. Appropriately, All Saints Day. We always joked that he was a saint, had to be born on that day. So I am sending birthday wishes to Heaven this year, and I know he is smiling down on me. I miss him, but the memories always bring me smiles.

I was looking for Davy’s Crappy Writing an in the process I found lots of other font sites: typeboy, Abstract Fonts (yeah! Sorted by font style! Boo! Pop Up Ads!), Font Jungle (Don’t need to install Japanese characters to see the fonts!), and joeBob graff-X fonts, part of Typoasis’s Designers Group – which also has fonts by David Rakowski, maker of Davy’s Crappy Writing, which looks surprisingly almost identical to my own handwriting! I also found this long list of font sites, not sure how many links still work, it looks like an old page and I found a few of the links were broken. On the other hand, The Free Site has a section dedicated to links to Free Fonts, and they keep their pages up to date normally! Happy Hunting!