Busy, Busy, Busy, but Nothing Done

To say that I have been busy lately is an understatement. That wonderful man that I married took me to see Wicked. If you haven't been go. If you haven't read the book, for goodness sakes read the book. I really enjoyed every second of it (both of them). I never thought that I would ever feel sorry for the Wicked Witch of the West. She was the major subject of many childhood nightmares. Who would have thought that she was really just an Animal Rights activist. The Wicked Witch of the East, well not so much. She kind of deserved the whole falling house thing.

It is also preseason for hockey. My other passion. My youngest son and I have been to 2 preseason games so far. I think that we have run out of free tickets for right now. This is okay though. House work needs to be done. These props are not going to finish themselves. Besides he has college to worry with. But oh, is it so wonderful to hear the swishing of blades on the ice, the smacking of the opponents faces against the plexiglass, the blood on the ice, and the crowd going wild. Funny how you can get away with yelling at the top of your lungs that the other team sucks at a hockey game. It is almost kind of expected in fact other people join in. Try that at any other sports game and you get thrown out.

I have been wanting to do a test run of all the props in the back yard this past week to what all needs to be tweeked but the weather hasn't been agreeable. Doesn't look go for next week either. I am really excited about the new light plan that I have for this year. Hopefully it will bring that added spookiness that I need. Not that there will be a lot of TOTs this year. Austin Peay is having Homecoming that night, the Predators have a game that night also. Not to mention more and more TOTs are going to the mall to trick or treat. Oh well, for us die hard old school people, see you as the crank ghosts float.

Not Enough Time In The Day

I feel awful. Down right horrible. There are so many things that I have neglected and posting to this is one of them. You would think that being a "Stay at home mom" would give me the time to do all of the things that seems to make it to my daily list of things to do. As you can see from when I did my last post this is sooooooooo not the case. Now all of the things that no one else can seem to get around to becomes such HIGH PRIORITY that Mom has to do it.

At least this week hasn't been the normal bust. I went to Alabama for 3 days to take my mother to a doctor's appointment. She has such an amazing brain sometimes. As I have stated before I have had MAJOR blockage in the idea department lately. (Not helped by the lack of available Halloween merchandise in our area.) Mom helped me come up with some ideas of things to use to either complete or start more projects. But of course, I was without my trusty notebook. Somehow I had managed to leave it here. Thankfully most of the ideas are about some of the projects in Martha Stewart's Halloween Special Issue, so I am sort of saved there.

The boys and I are still trying to come up with a name for out yard this year. Because the turnout was so terrible last year I decided that this year we were going to make signs pointing the way. Hopefully with that and the new neighbors we will have a better turnout. I think that next week I will actually start pulling out all of the boxes and start putting things together for sort of a dry run. Seeing ShellHawks post reminded me that I have some items that might need a little sprucing up. I also want to start trying to figure out better lighting for the yard. This year we are going to put the display up a week before Halloween this time. We had tried to in the past but we had a few kids in the neighborhood that thought it would be fun to steal the tombstones. For the most part they are no longer living in the neighborhood now. So we are going to give it another try.

Then to top it all off I just remembered what today was. Thank you to all those who gave some much to help so many just a few short years ago. Of course there are not words to say for the loss of so many lives.