Wow. Sex trumps Halloween, comedy and Wallace and Grommit.
Film at 11.
We had a very busy but fun weekend. Saturday we got all the stuff together and started painting the (large semi-vaulted) living room ceiling. We barely got started, and hubby decides this is too much work, and goes to his other Home (Depot) and buys a sprayer. I was very happy, as I wouldn’t have to paint and could just be the helper. Amazingly fast!
But he forgot to get more paint! So half the ceiling is painted, and it’s getting late, so we clean up somewhat.
Then we go get dressed to go out to dinner. My birthday was on Wednesday, but this is the “official” birthday dinner. We go to Saltgrass Steakhouse, and surprise my son the waiter. We had to wait a while for one of his tables to free up, so we sat at the bar and watched the Texas/Oklahoma State game.
We had a wonderful meal, and then got free cheesecake! We tipped the waiter handsomely.
Sunday morning, I woke up at 6:00, but it turns out it was really 5:00 am. Oh well! We had coffee and then a little breakfast. Hubby was waiting for his Home to open to go buy more paint, so he changed the thermostat in his truck, and put new wiper blades on mine.
He goes to the store, and I cover more stuff with plastic. He finishes painting in no time! Ceilings of the living room, and all the hallways. I did laundry and dishes, and made a grocery list, looking up recipes on line, too. Enchiladas this week! Mmm.
So while he cleaned the paint sprayer, I picked up all the dropcloths and plastic. Then…
We went to the furniture store and bought two new beautiful burgundy recliners! I’ve never had a recliner before. So with our black leather couch, and burgundy chairs, next weekend we paint the walls a pale rose. It’s gonna be awesome!
Then…we went to the grocery store. I made gumbo - with chicken, sausage, crawfish and shrimp. It was great!
Then, I waited for my son to come over. He worked late, and got there about 10:30. He brought me an ice cream cake, and he and his friends ate some gumbo. He had really come over to get his winter stuff, sweaters and coats. He’s doing ok, I guess. (I gave him $20.)
So I’m glad to get to work finally, and get some rest. Whew!
I never retreat from sex.
The chili smells soooooo good! I’m hungry! Why can’t it be noon right now! I got some shredded jack cheese and some shredded cheddar. That should be good on chili. Oh, and a co-worker is making corn bread! She makes wondrous corn bread! YAY!
I think I’ll dress up after I get to work. It’s too complicated otherwise. I should take my lunch, and I should leave now. Yes. I should. I really want to.
Wait, there’ll be free chocolate at work. Bye!
Our weekend was fairly quiet; no real visitors to speak of, and no going anywhere except for the grocery store. It was nice. You’d think with all the nothing that got accomplished, I’d be all rested up and not sick. Wrong…Some weird bug has taken hold of me. I’d been sorta queasy all last week, but today I progressed from queasy to really nauseaus and kinda “urpy”.
Ah, I’ll be fine. I’ll drink some Sprite to settle my tummy and eat plain soda crackers. If I can keep that down, I’ll progress to some soup.
Good job on the OP eleanor. See? You were all worried and worked up for no reason.
Nutella is “bleah”! I don’t like it; never have. But, for those of you who do like it, carry on.
It is very typical Halloween weather here; it’s pouring down rain and it’s supposed to do that all day and night. Around here, there are two weather choices for Halloween: 1. Pouring down rain; or 2. Clear and very, very, very cold. There doesn’t seem to be an between. I guess I don’t have a reason to complain. My kids are too old to trick or treat, so I don’t have to be out in the mess. Lucky me. They also have candy duty.
I’ll check in later.
Another homebody type weekender here. We went to a friend’s birthday party on Saturday afternoon/evening, but yesterday, we spent money like slightly tipsy sailors that recently bought a house. Picked up a multi-ladder at Costco that flips around from being a stepladder to an extension ladder, and Sears sold us a lawnmower. The mower that we had borrowed from across the street lost all desire to run - it would start on one pull, but died in about two seconds. No biggie, as the neighbor knew it wasn’t exactly the best mower on the block.
With the help of a foot-long “ugly blade” in the sawzall, DH (Dear Husband) got good and medieval on some ugly trees in the back yard. I got medieval on a soon-to-collapse pergola/trellis that covered most of the back patio that’s also been home to a colony of carpenter bees. It succumbed quite well to a sound beating with a big framing hammer - the wood just split everywhere the hammer touched it, and only a few bees were at home.
We now have a heap of tree branches and battered redwood boards at the back corner of the yard, but the change in appearance is amazing. The yard looks at least double in size now. In a month or two, we plan to enlist another friend that has a pickup to load up the wood and drop it off at the “compostables” landfill. Yes, we could chop it all into 4-foot chunks, tie it up into neat little bundles and call the trash people for a free pickup, but that’s a lot of trouble to save $20 or so.
In the dark last night, I made a platform to hold an electric jack-o-lantern on the roof over the garage, and hung ghosts in the tree by the front door. Looks like that ladder was just the right thing to buy at just the right time.
Everybody here is dressed like information security analysts and programmers. All very clever costumes. 
Greetings from the beach, where it’s cold and gloomy and rainy, but quiet. We ran away Saturday afternoon and drove over. Had chicken and dumplings from a box Sat. night. Meh. Watched TV and rented a movie, Robots, it was moderately funny. The video store here didn’t have a lot of choices.
Yesterday we read and watched TV and generally lazed about. Went to dinner at 42nd Street Cafe . Wife had pan-fried oysters and I had jambalaya. Their jambalaya is pretty good, but mine’s better. I don’t try to burn peoples’ mouths off.
Today we have to go home early ‘cause we’re gonna participate in the downtown merchants’ Halloween thingie where the downtown businesses stay open and hand out candy to the kiddies who come downtown. It starts at 5:00 and supposedly goes until 6:30. We have a huge box of candy so I hope we’re covered. Some of those people are scarey. I don’t mean Halloween scarey, I mean scarey.
Ya done just fine Eleanor.
cough I don’t want to nag Lissla, but I haven’t heard from you. cough
Did I mention that I decided not to be a halloweenie meanie? I went to Sam’s Club yesterday to get some cheese for the chili today and I walked past this biiig display of candy. I bought a big bag of Hershey’s miniatures and a big bag of Hershey’s Caramel Kisses. I’ll turn my porch light on around 5:30ish and see if I get any lil’ candy beggars. Since I caved in on bein’ a meanie, I bought candy I like. I already dug all the special darks out of the miniatures cause, well, kids don’t eat dark chocolate so it would just be wasted on 'em. I am hiding them from somebody because somebody would scarf 'em all down if he saw 'em. They’re miiine! Allllll miiine! Course the first thing he’ll want to know is where all the special darks are. I think I’ll tell him they didn’t put any in the bag. Reckon he’ll fall for it?
gotpasswords (we need to nickname you. maybe gottie) I remember gettin’ all medieval on some vines that grew along the back of the fence in my first house. I didn’t think I’d ever get rid of 'em. I chopped, hacked and Round Uped (Rounded Uped?) for the better part of a year before the sucker died. It’s kinda fun to go all medieval in your yard, ain’t it?
Off to the elementary school Halloween parade! Love this time.
Then home for house to house begging for empty calories.
Yay!
I am going to Target at lunch for a big list o’ stuff I’d like to get purchased before I disappear into National Novel Writing Month at midnight. Hopefully, I will not also disappear into Target.
Wish me luck.
I can’t get out of Target for under $60. I consider the basic charge for shopping there now.
Good luck!
BrAAAHHHAAAAAAHHAAAbraaahaaaooooo
Were you scared? I hit submit too soon, but it worked out anyway.
Very quiet weekend here. Hubby worked Saturday and I was about as lazy as one can be and still be alive. I didn’t get dressed until 7:30…PM :eek: Then got undressed again at 10:00 pm. Reset the clocks and went back to sleep. I guess I needed it.
Of course, since I put off going to the grocery store, we’re out of everything. I have no choice but to go today. :rolleyes:
Today we are re-arranging our bookcases. Hubby has about a million CDs of pictures and software, most of which are so old, they probably won’t open on our current OS. But, will he throw even one away? I at least got him to put them away in a closet.
I have more space for books now, I should go shopping
Right now I need a bowl of Cheerios.
Later,
M
Ok, who tickled picunurse?
I was wondering if picunurse had gotten into the Halloween candy stash and overdone it!
I should do something, but I feel like crap. I always feel guilty if I don’t do something. It’s wrong…
I did check my voice mail at work. Does that count?
I came home an hour early today because I was falling asleep. I had a nightmare last night that Cartooniverse was stalking me and trying to strangle me with bedsheets. :eek:
No idea where any of that came from, I swear! I’ve met 'Toons - even had him to the house for dinner - and I found him to be a charming, funny, generally nice guy. I have no idea what in my subconscious turned him into such a baddie!
Anyway, the dream was so bizarre, I kept waking up, then I kept going back to the dream. I’m beat. I’m about to go outside and muck about in the yard for a while - maybe that’ll tire me enough to sleep soundly tonight.
Or not.
We shall see.
Ya done good, eleanor!!
I ended up eighty-three cents short of the minimum charge. But that was because I couldn’t find the Q-Tips and couldn’t be bothered to ask anybody.
But drae! They have those little red phones everywhere! And the fact that *I * can’t get out of there without spending the obligatory $60 is starting to squick me out. :eek:
Hmmm… FCM have you done an inventory of your sheets since 'toons was last there? First it’s just one chandelier they take, then it’s a partially used box of Q Tips. Maybe he’s planning on strangling you with your own percale sheets! Maybe that dream was really a premonition. Maybe I shouldn’t have eaten those two peanut butter chocolate brownies and that devil’s food cupcake with chocolate frosting.
And if I were calling Batman or the Kremlin for Q-Tips, I would have used them. 
I realized while I was there that it’s 70 degrees today instead of last week’s low 50’s, and it wouldn’t be a good idea to leave eggs and butter in the car, so I have to hit the regular grocery store on my way home tonight–I figure I’ll pick them up then.