Sunday, October 30th, 2011

Wow last night was AMAZING.  One very, very good day.  Elizabeth and I met up with Erick Ude and Jen Schumacher and went to the BEST Halloween house party ever.  It's hard to explain how awesome it was... they had their own haunted house in their 4-car garage (complete with a chain saw maniac, complete darkness, odd things hanging from the little walkways like plastic bats and strings and stuff that feel weird), so we had to walk through that before we were allowed to enter the house.  The chainsaw guy scared Elizabeth pretty well. We didn't know the owners, kind of a friend of a friend thing, but they were very hospitable.  So they also had an amazing spread of goodies for their guests... guacamole, orange & black tortilla chips, homemade brownies, little smokies & bbq sauce, buffalo chicken dip, basically lots of little hors d'oeuvres.  Also very good jello shots.

After sampling all of the goodies, we went downstairs to find a karaoke machine (one of their friends is a real DJ).  Naturally Elizabeth is in heaven.  We all sing lots of songs, one of the girls at the party was an amazing rapper... I even sang some Tenacious D.  Meanwhile downstairs they also had a keg and lots of beer pong & flippy cup. I was 3-0 in beer pong :)  Oh, and the ISU/Texas Tech football game was playing in the background.  I was soooo happy seeing them have a blowout win, on the road, AGAINST A RANKED TEAM, in a place where Iowa State had never previously been victorious.  I could probably write a huge blog just about this game and how happy it made me, but I'll keep it short.  I believe Iowa State was a 17 point underdog going into the game... and it's funny seeing all of the "expert predictions" before the game.  Here is a better link about how the game actually turned out.  Hopefully the Clones can keep it going next week against Kansas when mom & dad come down for the game. 

To make my sports night even better, the stupid, evil Iowa Hawkeyes lost to a HORRIBLE Minnesota team 22-21.  This is almost as good as when we beat Iowa this year... I mean we beat, no... destroy a ranked team on the road, and the Hawks lose to probably the worst team in a AQ conference this year.  In the 4 weeks leading up to the Iowa game, Minnesota lost by 13 points to North Dakota State (they play in a lower football division even), they lost by a score of 58-0 to Michigan, 45-17 to Purdue, and 41-14 to Nebraska.  Hahaha... but they're good enough to beat the Hawks :)  You might think it's silly that I take so much pleasure in Iowa losing, but I really, really just don't like the Hawkeyes.  Understatement.  Anyways, I was also happy to see Nebraska beat Michigan State, and to see losses by Colorado and Texas A&M.  It would have been hard for me to script the college football weekend better.

Ok, back to the Halloween stuff.  Eric and Elizabeth had a funny two-person costume of Garth and Kat from SNL's Weekend Update.  Check them out:

 Here is a link to the original SNL skit.  I hope you can tell the difference between the two clips!

Finally, check out my costume: Blind Referee :) 

It was fun throwing penalty flags at people!