(Not because of her koala costume. She hated it.)
Was it because she ate...
A. this pumpkin:
B. this pan of pumpkin seeds
C. this Halloween-themed dessert:
D. this jack-o-lantern shaped pizza:
It wasn't A., the pumpkin. It went on to become this:
She didn't technically eat B., the pan of pumpkin seeds, either, but she did quietly jump up on the table and eat some raw pumpkin seeds earlier in the week when Mom left the room for 30 seconds.
Nala consumed an entire chocolate bunny once, and around a dozen unbaked chocolate chip cookies on another occasion. She came through both with minimal side effects. Still, it's probably fortunate for her that she also did not eat C., the ghosts in the graveyard dessert. (The dirt contains chocolate pudding and crumbled oreos, and the Milano cookie tombstones have a layer of chocolate inside.) This went straight into the fridge when it was completed.
Unfortunately for the hungry humans, Nala ate D., their supper. There were actually 2 jack-o-lantern pizzas. Mom took the photo you see above of one of them, then shut the box and left the boxes stacked on the kitchen counter. She went upstairs to tell Grandma the pizza had arrived, then got sidetracked helping her try to change a lightbulb. (I know, I know, but in their defense, it was one of those long, fluorescent tube type ones in the ceiling. To say it did not go smoothly is a sad understatement.)
Even sadder, when Mom realized it was way too quiet downstairs and rushed down, she found Nala eating one of the pizzas off the kitchen floor - only about half of it remained, and it was face down with its cheese stuck to the linoleum. Nala had pulled the box off the counter and gotten the pizza out of the box somehow with minimal box damage. Mom found the second box similarly intact in the next room, empty but for the jalapeno peppers.
Needless to say, it was not the best Halloween night for Mom.
It wasn't the greatest night for us either. We wanted to play HI3, but the graphics were lagging. Not the issue we've had before where there's a big delay every time you try to bring up a menu, place a horse, click on something, etc., but where every movement we tried to make (rotating the camera, moving our avatar) was slow, jerky, and headache-inducing. It was doing it in a less-extreme fashion on Friday but really got bad last night. No idea what it was about, but it was still doing it somewhat even when we switched to "lowest quality" graphics, which, we discovered, is aptly named.
This morning, November 1, wasn't so great either.
=(
At least HI3 seems to be behaving itself better today, so hopefully we won't regret that we just stocked up on more mobia earlier in the week. Thanks to the issues, we did not find any more wilds in October to be tempted by, so the same 4 are still vying for permanent spots in the herd. We are fairly confident that Snappy and Wayfair (now Thriller) are staying put, but we still aren't sure about Zane or Shamrock... Lily says it's a sign neither should stay. The rest of us are not convinced.
Ugh, I'm sorry this post is kind of a downer so far. Let's end with something happier. Not sure how long this has been around, but we realized just this week that it is possible not only to see what your horse was like as a 4-year-old, but also what it was like at birth! This has a very practical purpose for all the HI3 breeders out there, I'm sure, but it's also really cute seeing what mature equines looked like as teeny newborn foals!
For example, here are our first 4 as foals:
Starfleet
Gryffindor
Cloudburst:
Windfall
I love how they aren't just cookie cutter, how they all still have their unique characteristics, only in awkward foal form. =)
Here's what our most draft-like horses looked like as foals:
Teatime
Blitzen
Clorox
Torridon was a dark grullo before he grayed out!
Zonko always had his jumbo-sized hooves.
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