Broken computer, saving money, loosing a job and Halloween 2011

Eric knocked over the tower to my computer a few weeks back and broke the hard drive completely, so I lost everything (this is why there aren't many pictures). I'm pretty impressed with my thrifty-ness in the repair of the computer. I talked a friend of mine (who happens to work in computers specializing in hardware) into fixing it for me and was able to pay him in Magners (that Ross got for free because of a labeling error over in Ireland). I needed to buy the new hard drive so I talked Office Depot into a price-match from $96 to an advertised $59 sale at Best Buy so that I could use my $20 reward (from turning in empty ink cartridges all year). So, basically I paid about forty bucks in all. Not bad huh?
I recently got laid off from Monstertixx so the need for extreme thrift is more of a necessity now than ever before. I'll be hired back when baseball season starts, or if the NBA decide to quit being greedy and come to an agreement or if people actually decide they would enjoy seeing the crappy Dolphins play, basically when/if ticket sales become more in-demand.

Halloween.
The weather tried its best to ruin it, it had been raining and raining and a tropical storm came through over that weekend, but it managed to stop raining long enough to trick or treat.
The Friday night before Halloween was the Boo Bash, an annual event hosted by the city for the kids. Every year this has been fun, but this year they didn't give any candy at all so the kids were pretty disappointed. They had bounce houses but you had to be 5 in order to get in them so that didn't work out so well for Eric. The following pictures are of Lily's costume:


She and I dressed like Jesse from Toy Story and Eric was Batman. I made mine & Lily's but I wasn't about to attempt a homemade Batman. We borrowed his from a friend.
We were supposed to go to a pumpkin carving party and then Trunk or Treat at the Y on Sunday, but Lily decided to stay up all night Saturday night pretending to be sick so we cancelled those fun events and carved our pumpkins at home.
Monday, actual Halloween, we went trick or treating in the rich people's neighborhood. In our neighborhood people don't answer the doors! It is pathetic. This other neighborhood, they throw parties in their yards and really go all out, so that is why we go there.
This last picture is from us playing at the field. It is our family workout that we like to do every now and then. We go to the baseball field at the neighboring school/church and run sprints and do drills and things while the kids just run around.