happy halloween!

i attempted a new yoga class this weekend, but i ended up straining a muscle in my back. the instructor kept pulling my left side more to the left, and i have slight scoliosis, so this just kept making it worse. i never had an instructor do this before, so what was i supposed to say in the middle of class? ow? well, that night, i had a huge knot in my back and the next morning i couldn't bend over without extreme pain shooting up my left side. after lots of heat and massage, todd and i embarked upon our journey to the other realm, aka bernal heights, for the annual pumpkin carving contest and soiree. our albino pumpkin was a good 15 lbs. or so, so todd carried it all the way there, and even after we gutted, carved, and decorated it, he carried it back. tres chivalrous. especially since it turned out sort of "girly."

this year's pumpkin became cinderella's carriage (alphie wants his mice back though), and it perhaps bested last year's george w., complete with hidden earpiece. see below.