Decided against the Crazy Cat Lady costume as soon as I spotted the Sugar Skull mask! Even found sugar skull treat bags! Looking forward to James and Nicole's Annual Halloween Chili Supper with everyone!
Loved a recent picture of Emma (Tina's Niece) and she will be a "Halloweenie" This year.
Chris found one of the blow up Stay Puf Marshmallow Guy costumes (...think Ghostbusters...)
Bagging candy for the kids...and Tina and Kimber...Spring bulbs for Nicole...and a bottle of Guinness (each) for the guys.
So happy. Tomorrow (with Pizza and good beer) James will be over to finish out my kitchen tile. Soon it will match the bathroom.
Tah Dah!
Thanks to Hurst & Hurst (Hannah and James) I now have
And no more ghastly white tile for me again. EVER.
Love the Oak grain and it adds so much to the warm feel of home!
Finishing out the living room (a family picture corner..more greenery...dimmer switches) soon...and then going to devote next year to making my bedroom exactly how I have always envisioned...and then it will be done.
Finished another project (early) for the year...wrote the very last pages of my fiction novel The Plan...finally. The rough draft is complete. Next year is all about editing and hope to have a bit to circulate with query letters by January 2019.
Cinderella Day here. Scrub, Dust, Launder, Tidy, Wash...and cleaning the fridge...bleah. Getting a new seal Monday, so it seemed the opportune time. Besides I have all these Spring bulbs...so I am going to wrap quite a few in newspaper to stow in the crisper and force in Spring. Early color. (...and pollen allergies...lol)
Coffee with Loretta and Judy this week...and discussing our Mall Rat for November. Since I now have the wheelchair...may be trying Greenwood again.
If so...Applebees has one of these with my name on it!
Finally reached the front of the queue and have now read the newest Ernest Hemingway Biography by Mary V. Dearborn.
Technically, a well researched and annotated piece of work. But it read like an expose'. There is a fine line between telling the story of a great (but troubled) man's life and the oooh and ahhh of tabloid crap. Fairly disappointing. As well as writing about his great body of work...she also seem to delight rooting around in his four failed marriages and going into great detail about his physical and mental decline by the end.
There was more than one moment of
"Why am I STILL reading this???"
If you enjoy Hemingway's writing...this is definitely a book to be avoided.
I did enjoy a nice bit of cinema this week with
A Summer Release that I have kind of actively avoided not knowing that Kevin Spacey was a major character in it.
A pleasant surprise.
If you haven't seen it yet...try it. You'll like it!
And in today's political news...
That's Right...It's Mueller Time!!!!!!
Gives me hope.
The first indictment and arrest could come as early as Monday.
Miz Cleo sez maybe Paul Manafort...but we will see.
All I want for Christmas is The Donald to Resign, Be Impeached or led off in handcuffs...
Is THAT too much to ask?
Donald didn't make this week's facepalm, though. And lord knows he tried.
No...this week's FACEPALM
goes to Americans Everywhere...that is right...all of us...
Because less than 3 full weeks after the worst mass shooting EVER on American Soil...
We are back to business as usual. It is out of the news. Congress is backing off any new gun regulations...bump stocks have become a punch line...and
WE DIDN'T CHANGE A DAMNED THING.
And we won't.
Because 'MERICA.
(shaking my head)
So don't act all surprised the next time it happens....again.
Tina watching Stay Puf Muscle Man Poses!
I may never get pizza delivery here again.
More anon...
It is days like today that I realize (again) how truly blessed I am, and what wonderful kids I have.
