The Married Life: Real Men Don't Cry (Much)

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This week Blair and I were watching The Biggest Loser and they were showing the contestants call home. What can I say? Grown men reduced to tears the minute they hear the sound of their children's voices gets to me. I'm sitting on the couch, wiping away the tears, when Blair glances over at me.

"Please tell me you're not crying over this," he said.

"You have no heart," I said, followed by several loud sniffs. "Anyone who can watch this and not shed a tear is a cold, cold person."

The Island of Misfit Toys"Now, that's not true," said Blair. "You know I tear up every time I watch the Island of Misfit Toys." 

It's true. He does. Kind of makes me laugh.

Cheers,

Dena

AnaZar Fashion Boutique

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Do you ever have those days where you just know you were in the right place at the right time? I "discovered" my favorite new store IN THE WORLD today. AnaZar Boutique in the Oak Ridge Shopping Center. Love, love, LOVE this store!

I found the store after meeting a friend for lunch. I'm in desperate need of jeans and though I was unfamiliar with the store and actually on my way into Greensboro to shop I thought, "I should check them out."

For the record, I'm easily intimidated in boutiques. I'm fashion challenged and have no idea what goes with what. I so often feel like the sales people in these places are looking at my ho-hum wardrobe and thinking to themselves, "She dared leave the house in that and thinks she's going to shop in MY store? Mm-hmm." 

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Pictures from Halloweens Past

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My web designer Melody Watson kindly reminded me that my old blog photos aren't lost but rather just need to be pulled in from the place where they're resting. (She said it more eloquently in techie-speak, but this is my "For Dummies" understanding of how it works.) Anyway, she went through some files and pulled some Harris Halloween pics out for all to enjoy!

 

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Announcing The 2009 Harris Halloween Theme

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It's early September so you know what that means... time to start planning for Halloween! We have decided not to be deterred by the ever dwindling flow of trick-or-treaters and continue our tradition of kicking ass with our Halloween decorations. 

In years past we've built elaborate sets for Hogwarts School of Magic, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Great Pumpkin Patch, Frankenstein, and Blair outdid himself with last year's Legend of Sleepy Hollow/Headless Horseman set. (Sorry, no pictures are available. When I moved my blog I lost all the photos.) 

Usually we have an idea of what set we'll be building as early as June, but we hadn't yet come up with anything when we went out to dinner Saturday night. We tossed a few ideas around including doing the River Styx, which I was excited about. I could just picture a kind of barge on rollers that kids would have to climb aboard to be taken to the candy, with us giving them chocolate gold coins to pay the Ferryman. 

Then Blair pointed out that given the preponderance of kids (and their parents) from last year who weren't even familiar with The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, how many were going to know about the mythology of Hades and the Gods and have a clue what we were talking about? (For the record, I find this really depressing.)

So we sat and thought and ate Chinese noodles and finally it hit us... MUMMIES! Given our big trip to Egypt earlier this year, it's the perfect fit. 

Blair is  now hard at work contemplating how to build a set for THE CURSE OF THE MUMMY. We're thinking of building a tomb / sarcophagus and filling it with candy. When kids take a handful of candy they activate the Mummy's curse and Blair, dressed as an ancient Mummy, will burst out and scare the crap out of them.

Halloween. Mark your calendars. And stop by and see us. =)