We won an award!
Well jeez...I haven't been talkative at all.
So first off I got a new car. I wasn't sure about doing it and I didn't want to be the kind of person who just gets rid of a car once it doesn't look good enough anymore. But I went to the sale at my bank and looked around and saw my Saturn. Its an Aura 08, silver with gray interior. Has so many great things in it and its four doors so now I don't feel bad about driving our friends around. And I'm trying very very hard at not smoking inside. So far we have been good. And it has an auxiliary hook-up for my iPod, so now Black Beauty sounds so pretty playing in my new car. And we found a great spot to put the TomTom.
Gabe is having a hard time finding a job. But we got some good news from Kelly last night. Just have to wait and see about it.
Work has been busy and crazy and frustrating. And now because I don't smile every time this one guy comes by I'm a bitch or a mean person. I'm sorry, I'm not a happy person. Everyone learns this about me. Yes I can sit there and joke around every now and then but not on cue. I see it as being real to people not mean. Life is not happy go lucky. There are so many things to be real about in the world. Yes I'm alive and working and have a great man who loves me and a roof over my head but there are also other issues in the world that get me down. I shouldn't feel guilty about being myself.
Other fun events: the Eastern Haunters Convention!!
Gabe and I went last weekend and it was so much fun. We had a blast. First on Friday we were able to go on a bus tour with other attendees to Eastern State Penitentiary then the Mutter Museum then the Fright Factory. Eastern State was everything I expected and more. They gave us a great tour of parts of the prison that they can show the public. Then we had a great lunch in the blocked off row of cells near Al Capone's cell. (His cell is now my background on my phone hehe) Then Gabe and I got into trouble for wondering around where we weren't suppose to be because I needed the bathroom but didn't want to bother the other people who were eating by squeezing between them and the cell doors. Then they took us through their haunt and let us talk to the volunteer actors they had and how make-up was done and how they built it. Then at the Mutter I got to walk around for a good hour to see everything. Gabe of course took the time to point out the important things since he's been there before. Then we headed to the Fright Factory in South Philly. They had a nice BBQ for us provided by this one guy from Jersey. We actually ate in their attraction near the asylum. Then we got pictures with this one character they have and a quick run through their attractions. Then with the lights on, we got to walk through again and see how they do everything. So many great things and ideas running through our heads of course.
Then Saturday and Sunday was the convention and we got to hear so many different experts in the field of haunting and Halloween decorating. And luckily for the whole IRS rebate thing, we were able to purchase one kit for cutting foam, a pound of flesh, and memberships to Castle Blood. We met so many awesome people and definitely look forward to Halloween this year and the next convention. Our friends are in for a great treat this year.
So we won an award. A Halloween oscar basically. Gabe had entered our pictures for this DVD that this guy puts out of people's haunts and parties and costumes and such. We were put on the DVD and then people who buy them get to vote on certain categories. And apparently our party won for Best Haunt Party of 2007. Its part of the HauntX Awards. If you just go to this link you can see the list of winners for their awards.
This is Gabe with his new baby. I think he's going to try and carry it with him to all our friends' houses till they all see it.
Also in events, last weekend was also Gregg's b-day, so Saturday night we went to his place to have dinner and cake with the Neff family, Matt, Gregg and ourselves. And I finally got to meet the new baby, Lillyanna. She is such a cutie but seems to be temperamental. And apparently Gregg had a racing theme so he got the new Mario Go-Kart for the Wii, and a few extra wheel controllers to go with it. And also some race cars to play with on his old rubber track that he put up in the living room. And we also celebrated Alex's b-day since him and Sarah are going to see her sister in Phoenix on his b-day for a week.
Then just last night we went to see Iron Man with Gregg and Kelly. Always a good time hanging out with those two. Kelly and I just get along so great since we are the same age and seem to have so many things in common, including Gregg and Gabe. I actually enjoyed it, it seemed to not hit on certain issues that I thought it would. It was so not go USA, beat those terrorists. It was more fuck you, USA, you are the reason those terrorists are able to hurt us and other innocents. But then again as Gregg and Gabe explained to me, the comic was written many many years ago, long before all this Middle East bullshit. But I was just afraid that they saw a comic that was "beat those terrorists" and made it more propaganda to support this debacle of a war.
So that's all. Minus my crafting and doing swaps and getting more neat things, nothing else is new. Glad to write it all done finally.
"You can grab one side and I'll take the other." "I'm sure two girls under 5'4" carrying that giant thing out the door is going to be discreet enough." - Kelly and I plotting to steal this giant Hulk statue from the Regal for Gregg's house
PS: I'm welcoming a short break for this coming week from crafting, I've been doing so much since January.
So first off I got a new car. I wasn't sure about doing it and I didn't want to be the kind of person who just gets rid of a car once it doesn't look good enough anymore. But I went to the sale at my bank and looked around and saw my Saturn. Its an Aura 08, silver with gray interior. Has so many great things in it and its four doors so now I don't feel bad about driving our friends around. And I'm trying very very hard at not smoking inside. So far we have been good. And it has an auxiliary hook-up for my iPod, so now Black Beauty sounds so pretty playing in my new car. And we found a great spot to put the TomTom.
Gabe is having a hard time finding a job. But we got some good news from Kelly last night. Just have to wait and see about it.
Work has been busy and crazy and frustrating. And now because I don't smile every time this one guy comes by I'm a bitch or a mean person. I'm sorry, I'm not a happy person. Everyone learns this about me. Yes I can sit there and joke around every now and then but not on cue. I see it as being real to people not mean. Life is not happy go lucky. There are so many things to be real about in the world. Yes I'm alive and working and have a great man who loves me and a roof over my head but there are also other issues in the world that get me down. I shouldn't feel guilty about being myself.
Other fun events: the Eastern Haunters Convention!!
Gabe and I went last weekend and it was so much fun. We had a blast. First on Friday we were able to go on a bus tour with other attendees to Eastern State Penitentiary then the Mutter Museum then the Fright Factory. Eastern State was everything I expected and more. They gave us a great tour of parts of the prison that they can show the public. Then we had a great lunch in the blocked off row of cells near Al Capone's cell. (His cell is now my background on my phone hehe) Then Gabe and I got into trouble for wondering around where we weren't suppose to be because I needed the bathroom but didn't want to bother the other people who were eating by squeezing between them and the cell doors. Then they took us through their haunt and let us talk to the volunteer actors they had and how make-up was done and how they built it. Then at the Mutter I got to walk around for a good hour to see everything. Gabe of course took the time to point out the important things since he's been there before. Then we headed to the Fright Factory in South Philly. They had a nice BBQ for us provided by this one guy from Jersey. We actually ate in their attraction near the asylum. Then we got pictures with this one character they have and a quick run through their attractions. Then with the lights on, we got to walk through again and see how they do everything. So many great things and ideas running through our heads of course.
Then Saturday and Sunday was the convention and we got to hear so many different experts in the field of haunting and Halloween decorating. And luckily for the whole IRS rebate thing, we were able to purchase one kit for cutting foam, a pound of flesh, and memberships to Castle Blood. We met so many awesome people and definitely look forward to Halloween this year and the next convention. Our friends are in for a great treat this year.
So we won an award. A Halloween oscar basically. Gabe had entered our pictures for this DVD that this guy puts out of people's haunts and parties and costumes and such. We were put on the DVD and then people who buy them get to vote on certain categories. And apparently our party won for Best Haunt Party of 2007. Its part of the HauntX Awards. If you just go to this link you can see the list of winners for their awards.
This is Gabe with his new baby. I think he's going to try and carry it with him to all our friends' houses till they all see it.
Also in events, last weekend was also Gregg's b-day, so Saturday night we went to his place to have dinner and cake with the Neff family, Matt, Gregg and ourselves. And I finally got to meet the new baby, Lillyanna. She is such a cutie but seems to be temperamental. And apparently Gregg had a racing theme so he got the new Mario Go-Kart for the Wii, and a few extra wheel controllers to go with it. And also some race cars to play with on his old rubber track that he put up in the living room. And we also celebrated Alex's b-day since him and Sarah are going to see her sister in Phoenix on his b-day for a week.
Then just last night we went to see Iron Man with Gregg and Kelly. Always a good time hanging out with those two. Kelly and I just get along so great since we are the same age and seem to have so many things in common, including Gregg and Gabe. I actually enjoyed it, it seemed to not hit on certain issues that I thought it would. It was so not go USA, beat those terrorists. It was more fuck you, USA, you are the reason those terrorists are able to hurt us and other innocents. But then again as Gregg and Gabe explained to me, the comic was written many many years ago, long before all this Middle East bullshit. But I was just afraid that they saw a comic that was "beat those terrorists" and made it more propaganda to support this debacle of a war.
So that's all. Minus my crafting and doing swaps and getting more neat things, nothing else is new. Glad to write it all done finally.
"You can grab one side and I'll take the other." "I'm sure two girls under 5'4" carrying that giant thing out the door is going to be discreet enough." - Kelly and I plotting to steal this giant Hulk statue from the Regal for Gregg's house
PS: I'm welcoming a short break for this coming week from crafting, I've been doing so much since January.