When Jimmy and I talked about this some weeks back, I told him that I had no problem with the kids spending Halloween with their mom's extended family - they always seem to have big parties, etc, and we don't like to deprive the kids of participating in all that - I'd like to keep the kids on the Friday before Halloween. I was envisioning a small ( Read more... )

The NyQuil and DayQuil are helping, but I'm still coughing. I got the kids ready for school this morning all by myself, (yay!), then knocked the mirror out of the driver's side dealie backing out of the garage. I think I also sheared off one of the garage door sensors. (Boo ( Read more... )

Last night I shopped with Ma for costume stuff. I ended up with a long black wig, black nail polish (for $.47!), false eyelashes with sparkles, fake black nails with glitter, black eyeliner pencil (I know I already have one, but I can't find it), and a spiffy witch's hat with rainbow irridescent moons and stars on it. Harry Potter, here I come! ( Read more... )

I've been thinking about what I want to be for Halloween. After watching Fight Club again recently, I started thinking about being Marla Singer. Of course, I'd be an order-of-magnitude-larger Marla, (who doesn't smoke), but that's okay by me. I'm gonna keep an eye out in the thrift shops to see if I can find me a real cheap bridesmaid's dress to ( Read more... )