I prefer to think of myself as a book terrorist...

If you know Michele, you probably get her update. If you get her update or follow her facebook status, you will know that I have been accused of engaging in Halloween mischief in leaving random books around her house. If you know either of us, you will easily believe this is something I would do. And yes, it is true. However, I am not a fan of her new term, the "book fairy". I would like to think of myself as a book terrorist, or even a book freedom fighter. It was a fun joke, but I can't lie to Michele very well (as she pointed out) so I merely had to be asked by her to be caught. In any event, the prank was supposed to be much better, but I misheard when they were going to church, and so instead of finding an empty house at 10 am Sunday morning, imagine my chagrin at finding Alan and little fatty awake and alert. It wasn't a total loss, however, because Alan likes mischief also and so we were able to give Michele a few moments of confusion for my trouble. For those of you who don't get Michele's update, this is what she had to say about her suspicions:

The Book Fairy
Yesterday the most interesting thing happened. I had my quarterly stewardship interview with the Bishop and when I got home, I noticed there were random books on the bookshelves that weren't there previously. These books were as auspicious as a Ted Kennedy biography and some crazy African American books (black lit, if you don't want to be pc about it), and upstairs new books (one of them a spiritual diet manual... a hint?) of a similar caliber. Immediately, I demanded to know how these books appeared. Alan wouldn't budge, but his twinkling eyes revealed that he knows more than he is letting on, though he claims he isn't responsible. I often state that with my interest in true crime and mystery novels, I could have been a detective... so Alan challenged me to solve the case of the Book Fairy. Unfortunately, my only witness has a limited vocabulary. I can't wait till Squirmy can talk and tell on his dad! But here is what I have so far. Jason and Malu... with Alan's help. Jason is the obvious choice because he has motive (the constant desire for pure mischief), means (I'm actually not sure about this, but judging from the titles, these must have been books that Border's decided to give away because they couldn't sell them at 90 % off), and opportunity (Alan took Jason and Malu home one evening from an outing and there could have been a book hand off, very easily). If it WASN'T Jason and Malu... I have a few other options, but I will be seeing Jason this evening, and he is a horrible liar, so it will be quite easy to tell if he is the Book Fairy.

Anywho, Halloween was a good time this year. Malu and I accompanied Alan to his work party at Adobe, which ended up being a really long haunted house type affair where there were really nifty sections that depicted things like Harry Potter and Narnia. It was cool. The line to get in was long, but while in line I got to touch two seperate boas and hold a big tarantula and a huge emperor scorpion, plus I got two eat two large things of cotton candy, so I can't complain. We also went to the Mesa Vista Halloween party, and it was good times. We took 70 Frankenstein cupcakes that Malu got from work, and made a huge mess, but it was fun nonetheless.
And finally, I convinced Rage, Michele and company to watch "The Vagrant", a quirky comedy horror from the late 80's that was GREAT. They all hated it, but oh well, I got a kick out of it.
Malu and I dressed up as a Vampire and his victim, a maid. I thought it was pretty good for a total of 30 bucks for both of us. Too bad my teeth are too little for my fangs to stick to:(.