How was your Saturday? Neat! Here’s how I spent the wondrous day.

1. Lego

Until thirteen months ago, my interest in Lego equaled my interest in Kevin Costner movies – I found them to be mostly adequate but hardly noteworthy. That all changed when I opened my first Lego Advent calendar last December. Lego is pure, stupid fun. My respect for the product has grown, and if Kevin Costner is reading this, perhaps making a Costner Advent Calendar would change my opinion of you too.

Lego makes blind-bagged Minifigures. Each figure costs about $3 and you never know what you’ll end up with – could be a roman gladiator, a gangsters, or…(sigh)…a graduate. Who looks at the package and says, “Oooh! I hope I get the graduate!!!” Assholes. Assholes say that.

My girlfriend and I walked by the Lego Minifigures at Target on Saturday and we agreed, almost in unison, “We should get some. Why not?” And so we each got one.

Here’s mine.

At first, you look at this and say, “Lame! It’s just a girl wearing khaki.”

Oh, did I mention she came with a Lego Banana that is half her height? Because she does indeed come with a titanic banana.

Oh, and did I mention she came with a Lego Monkey?

Go ahead and weep with joy. I did. Words can’t explain this, so I won’t even try.

My girlfriend got the Boxer, which is very cool. The boxer has two faces, one happy, one sad and featuring a black eye. And he has boxing gloves! (But sadly, no monkey.)

So far, this Saturday was amazing.

2. Pumpkins and Gourds

Having already made a Haunted Egg (click here for the instructional video), it was time to carve a pumpkin for Halloween. My girlfriend wanted to try something new, something that would require plastic vampire fangs. So, she ordered a gross of vampire fangs. This is what a gross of vampire fangs looks like:

How much would you pay for 144 plastic vampire fangs? $49,000, right?

How about $2.39? That’s not a typo. For less than the price of renting the Kate Hudson movie Bride Wars, you could own 144 plastic vampire fangs. You tell me which is the better bargain.

We stole the idea of using the teeth and pushpins from Martha Stewart, but made our own modifications. Instead of limiting ourselves to pumpkins, we carved some gourds, which already look like evil fish. And we did this while watching Jaws. Saturdays rule.

First, here’s my shark-inspired ghostly gourd. Notice the fin on his back? That’s where the evil lurks.

And then I carved a little pumpkin because the pumpkin demanded it.

Here’s the rest of our line-up.

I’m also in the process of making a glow-in-the-dark pumpkin, but she’s not ready for the spotlight yet. Stay tuned. We’ll take some creepy, darker photos of our gourd beasts on Halloween.

I consider this to be a successful Saturday. Wouldn’t you?