ickle me, pickle me, tickle me, too

one of my favorite poems by shel silverstein that my sister can recite by memory... (i love you, gigi.)

Source: youtube.com via kitti on Pinterest

say it ain't so... tomorrow'll still be halloween, won't it?

i know public schools are still closed tomorrow due to frankenstorm/sandy, which stinks b/c it was going to be literacy day at 196 & all the kids were going to dress-up as their favorite book characters, but i digress... see, i hear little birdies saying that the mayor may postpone halloween to a later date now, too.

i already baked 45+ cookies n' cream cupcakes in festive orange baking cups w/ black bats & gosh by golly, these are getting eaten by children in celebration of halloween & that's that.

below is the "naked" version of the cupcakes.  i'm s'posed to go to tho's w/ stacey tomorrow & frost them to look like mummies.  we'll see what happens.  it may wind-up just being frosted, sugared & slapped w/ a halloween-inspired ring on top of it.  we'll see.



cookies n' cream cupcakes -- pre-decoratin'

[update, a little later in the evening: according to my friend preston ronald's post on facebook, mayor bloomberg announced that halloween is still on, though the parade's been postponed.]

worse news than sandy

so, just a couple hours after purchasing tickets to take my nephew wolf, carl gives me word that green day has postponed all concert dates till february, 2013.  our tickets were for january 16th at the barclay's center.  yep, that's my luck.  (& somebody please tell ticketmaster b/c i got my tix way after the news broke.)

any old ways, till they return & i'm able to score tix again, these few'll have to do for now:

troublemaker


let yourself go


oh love




aw, heck... here's the entire album of UNO!  thank you again, youtube, for all you have to offer us:

forest hills meets the frankenstorm

well, according to all news (& non-news) sources, we're pretty f'ed w/ the impending storm -- knee-high floods, uprooted trees, a hanging crane & one crumbled down building.  everything's closed along queens boulevard as far as i can see, except for feng's garden, which happens to serve some of the best chinese food in the neighborhood.  so i've got that going for me, which is nice.

based on OPFBP (other people's facebook pages), electricity is goin' out all over long island, new york city & jersey.  not too comforting a thought, though it is amusing that everyone's updating their statuses about it -- they still have "words for friends" to comfort them for as long as their battery'll allow.

curious to see what'll happen when sandy makes her direct hit on forest hills.  thankfully, so far, just the cable's been on the fritz here & there. i'm hoping that'll be it & things'll be back to normal by halloween.

if i don't post anytime soon, i've either lost electricity or am in the middle of procrastinating.  either way you slice it, here's to us all staying safe & dry.

happy (almost) birthday, joe

 

since i knew he was coming, i baked my father-in-law a cake.  cookies n' cream, to be exact.

 

joe's actual birthday is on halloween, which i think is so super-cool, but we celebrated at our apartment yesterday.

my favorite time of year

tonight was PS 196Q's annual halloween party.  it was bittersweet knowing this was our last one since claire's in 5th grade & moving on to middle school next year.

 

claire was a greek goddess this year.  no one imparticular.  could be athena.  could be... well, one of the others whose name slips my mind at this time.

 

i had a good time -- despite manning the school spirit sales table in the lobby & missing out on the festivities.  i heard it was fun downstairs in the cafeteria, even w/ the first hour of it being hot-as-heck w/out A/C.  i just love that our families didn't let that stop them from partying away.

 

& no, i'm not toxic waste... i'm a cupcake.

 

happy (almost) halloween.



My Greek Goddess & Patchy the Scarecrow

it's beginning to look a lot like cupcakes

Source: amazon.com via kitti on Pinterest

i'm already set w/ my trusty cupcake courier & hopefully by halloween next week my friend stacey'll have hers, too.  (tho's already set.  so are my sisters.)

any old ways, the first cupcake of the school season is going to be halloween-themed.  i'm gonna whip-up a batch this weekend for my father-in-law's birthday -- it's actually on halloween, but we're celebrating sunday -- so i'll see what transpires in the kitchen.  mummies... eyeballs... not sure which way to go, yet.

he's no chopped liver, my computer was on the fritz

 

Dear Milton,

 

This birthday message is coming to you a day late b/c of a facakta malware virus that hit my computer yesterday.  It's nothing personal & all's fine now, hence the following:

 

I can't believe you're a teenager.  It's just sick -- in a good way, of course.  I'm so proud of you for so many reasons.  You're creative, funny, caring &, I guess the best word for it is adventurous, too.

 

I wish you nothing but the best'est this year.  Whether it's family, school, camp... whatever, wherever... I hope you make the most of it.

 

I love you.

 

 

15 years later & he's still as cool to me as ever

Dear Wolf,

 

Here's to an incredible year filled w/ fun, friends & family. May nothing bother you too much & if so, don't let it stress you -- as your grandfather taught me, "it is what it is."  (Of course, I'm here for you, too, if ever you need me.)

 

Any old ways, I love you & so proud to call you "nephew."

 

-- Aunt Kitti.

 

(& why yes, nothing to do w/ anything, but I am using capital letters mixed in w/ the lowercase.  I figure it's time for a change.)

 

 

let us rejoice

getting in the mood for my nephew milton's bar mitzvah this weekend w/ a little help from dick dale:

waiting & hoping has paid-off for this foo fan

i've been checking youtube on a more than regular basis for foo fighters entire set at the global citizen festival & bingo-bango, thanks to user foofightersczk, i've got it right here for our viewing pleasure:



nice.