I ate and drank SO MUCH last night, I could barely move!! 
lol
My husband, mother and I dressed up against their wills. 
I ordered these costumes on amazon.com a few weeks ago; I thought they were awesome!! LOL My cousin took pics of us in our finished basement that we decorated for the party. My mother is only 4’11″ and the costumes were “One size fits most adults”, so her costume was WAY too big lol. We should have altered it, but I thought it was cute as is.
Po (mom), Laa laa (me), and Dipsy (Dustin):
Teletubbies tending bar:
Hubby dodging the camera lol:
Me in our bedroom with our cat, Jack aka the spooky Halloween kitty:
This Teletubbie drank too much! 
Time for Tubbie bye bye! LOL
I had 4 shots of vodka and 1 beer. Dipsy was tipsy and Laa laa was in La La land hahaha. After changing back into regular clothes, I started putting the food out. We went to Bed, Bath & Beyond earlier in the day to pick up a fondue pot, but I was overconfident and didn’t think I needed to read the directions. I thought you just added cheese or chocolate in and it melts it. I was wrong! 
The cheese separated and actually burned at the bottom. 
So, fondue: take 2. This time I looked up a recipe online and tried to do it the right way, but I was pretty drunk and hungry by then, so I didn’t fuss with it too much. This time I added in white wine. Despite the cheese fondue not turning out right, everything was still awesome:
- Cheese fondue pot made Gruyère and domestic swiss cheese
- Shrimp
- Chicken tenders cooked in olive oil
- Veggie plate: broccoli, cauliflower, bell peppers, sugar snap peas, and
baby carrots blanched for a few minutes - Deviled eggs
- Crustinis made with 2 types of bread
- Fruit bowl: Granny Smith and Gala apples, Bartlett pear
- Soup: Lentil, butternut squash, sweet potato, onion, garlic, (low sodium)
chicken broth and vegetable broth
The cheese kept separating, so we didn’t get to eat much of it, but we had plenty of things to nibble on. I made another pot of that lentil and butternut squash that I made last week, but this time I didn’t puree it because it looked so festive and Autumn-like. It was also much thicker this time, it could have doubled as a vegetarian chili, but I absolutely love it. Mmm!
Much, much, MUCH later on we had lots of treats:
- Spider cake: golden cake filled with whipped cream
- Apple dipped in caramel, chocolate and pecans
- Miniature canolis
- Hot apple cider
I totally forgot that I had bought this set of mugs back in September! At least we got to use them one more time before Halloween was over. I guess we’ll have to wait until next year to fill them up again. We picked the spider cake up in the bakery earlier in the day. I planned to bake something, but time wasn’t on my side. As soon as I saw it, I HAD to buy it because it was so adorable, but it was kind of disappointing.
The inside was mostly whipped creme and very little cake. A little dry and boring, so I didn’t eat much of it, but it made the table look cute lol. 
It’s Saturday night now. I think we slept for 12 hours last night; we were sooo tired and FULL!! Ugh lol. I’m sure I gained 10 lbs from that, but it was fun and I’d do it all over again. We didn’t get any trick-or-treaters. We only have 2 or 3 neighbors within sight and I don’t think any of them have small children. It’s kind of hard to trick or treat in a rural area. When I was little my neighbor’s mom used to take us to more populated areas to trick or treat; otherwise we would have been walking for miles and miles for a piece of candy LOL.
I was already feeling bloated and puffy all week and last night just made it 100 x worse lol! We made a bowl of Halloween candy, just in case we got trick-or-treaters, but we didn’t and I couldn’t keep my hands out of the bowl. I had about 12 pieces of Milky Ways, Snickers, and Reese’s Peanut Butter cups on top of everything in the pictures above. Sugar OVERLOAD!! You would think I’d wake up and feel too yucky to eat today, but I actually had pizza for breakfast. Well, it was like 7:00PM. lol Ah well, it’s a holiday weekend (for us anyway)! 
lol
I bought a set of “Perfect Pushups” last month, so my husband and I were sitting around, watching TV, being hungover, etc., then I’m like, “Hey, let’s try the Perfect Pushup thingies.” My husband is really good at them, but it’s going to take me some time to get used to them. I don’t think I’ve tried to do any sort of pushup in over 20 years and it wasn’t any easier back then. I did about 3 or 4 of them (the girlie knee-style way), just to try them out. My arms were actually sore from that little bit. I can’t wait to do them again. I know they’re “cheating”, but whatever works, right?
I haven’t even gone downstairs to the bar yet, I’m sure it’s a wreck still lol. I’m not counting calories until Monday, but I’ll still have updates before then. 
I think I’ll go play Wii now or maybe I’ll clean downstairs. 
Naa, Wii it is! lol
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