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Halsted Boystown Halloween Parade
November 16, 2012
in Chicago Life, Halloween

A pope walks into a bar…

Photos from the Halsted Boys Town Halloween Parade in Chicago, Illinois....

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Pumpkin
November 3, 2012
in Halloween

Sometimes at 10pm I get a sudden urge to stab something with a giant knife.

And sometimes I wake up in the morning to find that my pumpkin has made a friend...

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Pumpkin Farm
October 29, 2012
in Halloween, Road Trip, Roadside Attractions, United States, Wisconsin

Bear Den Zoo Pumpkin Farm: Of pyramids, pumpkins, and Parmesan.

"We have to take Valry on adventures or else she's going to leave again." Heather   Since I came home from traveling around the world, Heather has decided that we need to take adventures,to keep me excited, so I won't leave again to travel. Of course, I already...

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Music Box Massacre
October 29, 2010
in Chicago Life, Halloween, movies

Snack bars need pickles, shrimp rolls, & cigarettes.

It's that time of year again: pumpkins get carved, costumes get flaunted, ghost stories get told, candy gets handed out, and I lock myself in a movie theater for twenty-four hours subjecting myself to the horrors of the horror film. For the third year in a...

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Jackalope Halloween Costume
November 9, 2009
in Halloween, holiday, movies

Damn virgins don’t know when to throw their toilet paper.

Halloween. Last weekend. Well, two weekends now. Friday Rocky Horror. Midnight. So many virgins. They threw their toilet paper at the wrong time. Watching costumes out the window and making up what they were. Bobby Flay met Emeril. A headless cow. Saturday Boys Town Halloween parade. I was a jackalope. Heather was a...

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Stay sane inside insanity. (Rocky Horror Picture Show at Music Box Theatre)
November 6, 2008
in Halloween, movies

Stay sane inside insanity. (Rocky Horror Picture Show at Music Box Theatre)

So I guess I'm technically not a virgin because I did it once in theatre camp. But I don't know if that time really counted. But Saturday night Chelsa and I totally did it together. I, of course, am talking about watching Rocky Horror Picture Show...

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Happy Halloween! The Boystown Halloween Parade in Chicago.
November 5, 2008
in Halloween

Happy Halloween! (At the Boystown Halloween Parade)

Happy Halloween! Chelsa: Are you spending the night with Ron? Me: Ummm...

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What happens when you buy a Halloween costume the night before... I ended up with a toddler sized Sesame Street Abby Cadabby costume...
October 31, 2008
in Halloween, holiday

What happens when you buy a Halloween costume the night before…

Nothing really seemed to be going on for Halloween so I wasn't really planning on anything. but then Joe from work told me that I should come along to the Boystown Halloween parade so I might do that tomorrow. I decided that if I go...

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Halloween pumpkin carving.
November 8, 2007
in Halloween, holiday, job

Better late than never.

1. I carved my pumpkin tonight! Yeahyeah, I know...

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Bengtson's Pumpkin Farm in Homer Glen, Illinois.
October 22, 2007
in girls just want to have fun, Halloween, holiday

Park It: Bengtson’s Pumpkin Farm, Bromann Park, and more…

A weekend at Bengtson's Pumpkin Farm, Statesville Haunted Prison, Bromann Playlot Park (named after me, obviously), and a BBQ...

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Hi, I’m Val. I spent most of my 20s in a standstill, unable to pick which path in life I wanted to take. I wanted the nomadic life of a traveler but also wanted the husband, the condo, and the teal couch. Unable to decide which life I wanted more, I did nothing. I lived my life in limbo. When I turned 30 I’d had enough of putting my life on hold and decided to start “choosing my figs.” So, I quit my job and bought a one-way ticket to Europe. After 3 years on the road I’m back in Chicago, exploring the city, learning guitar, decorating my apartment in too much teal, cuddling my cats, and planning my next adventures.

            

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