So I gave my sister very explicit instructions on what candy & how much to buy this year for Halloween. She never buys enough, but The BFF always comes through with backups, but since The BFF wasn't coming down this year, I was nervous. Sis did excellent on the type of candy tho! She didn't quite buy enough, had we had our usual turnout, but ( Read more... )

So, if you’ve been following this journal for a year or more, you probably know that Halloween is a big deal to me and my sister. We started buying things to go in the yard as soon as we moved in together - a sound activated creepy bat/ghost/witch/light up eyes in the front bushes, giant spider and cobwebs, light up zombie/skeletons coming out of ( Read more... )

We have a new addition to our family. Her name is Libby. I know she's not pretty, but she's ours and we love her.

( Proceed with caution! Don't say I didn't warn you! )

So, on Monday it was almost 70 degrees outside and sunny. It is slowly getting colder and according to the weather forecast, will be 40 degrees and snowing by Friday...Halloween. Dammit! I hope this is one of those times that the weather forecaster is completely totally off-base. I always hated it when it was that cold out on Halloween, because ( Read more... )

So every year we carve pumpkins here. I usually help with the cleaning and gutting and then my sister does all the carving. We buy patterns, but even so, her work is amazing! This year The BFF picked us up a book of Angry Bird patterns. I think they came out pretty good!

Here are our pumpkins from 2010 - 2014!

This year's Angry Birds!


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Thank you to everyone for your comments and love on my last post. It has been strange around here, without the old man bossing everyone around. Pippin has been sleeping with me though - I think he knows I am sad. And Kirk has been bringing me all of his favorite toys. Roo doesn't seem to even notice, which is not a surprise. Mostly it hits me ( Read more... )

So, The Boy at therapy had been telling me how he was going to a Halloween party and he had no ideas for a costume and I was like, “Why are you telling me this four days before the fact? Why didn’t you tell me three weeks ago? I could have done some serious magic on you, man.” He was all, “Don’t you have any suggestions now? ANY?!” We decided ( Read more... )

This post is more a place-holder for me than anything else. Because the new TV season is upon us! And I want to try out some new shows, but I have to wait until they are closer to their premiere dates before the Tivo will recognize new shows - (my regular shows are already programmed in, but I put them on the list anyways, so I have an idea of ( Read more... )

I think I manage to keep it pretty spoiler-free here, but I’ll go under a cut just in case you don’t want even the tiniest bit about the movie upfront.

( Red Dawn, at last, at last! )

I meant to make this post last week, but then Sandy hit and the World Series seemed less important suddenly. And then my Halloween fic came back from beta and then the election happened. So now…let’s talk a few things ( Read more... )