'Twas the day before Halloween...

And someone is getting bronchitis. I'll give you three guesses. *sigh* I woke up this morning with a wheezy barking cough and my right lung hurts. Currently I'm checking the status of my medicaid case to see if I can go to the doctor. If not I need to call my doctor and see if she'll see me and if there are meds on the $4 prescription list at Walmart. Ah, well my case is still pending. So much for that idea. I am however going to the doc on Saturday and I'll just have to pay cash. P.S. - I love my Doc. Her staff is super!

K- enough whining. Time to get on to the really good stuff. So 2Peas challenge today is what is one skill I've wanted but I don't have. I can only pick one? LOL I guess I would have to say that I really wish I was more of a people person, or at least had the ability to talk to people and make friends. Unless I know you, I probably won't talk to you...in person. On the internet, it's a whole 'nother story. But I've learned that people think I'm stuck up or "holier than thou" because I haven't spoken to them in whatever situation. What they don't realize is that I'm just worried about what uncomprehensible form of a sentence will come out of my mouth. Or spit. I'm always worried about spitting when I talk. So for both reasons, I just don't open my mouth. I need to work on that.

So I wanted to start a new feature on my blog. Okay, two new features that are basically the same. My movie review and my book review. I wanted to do these mainly out of boredom. So here are the first ones:

Movie: The Happening

I watched this yesterday. I thought it was really weird. I "got" the premise of it. But it really just fizzled out. I mean, the plants? Only in the North East part of the country? Ummm.... okay. I just wasn't feeling this one.

Book: sTori Telling by Tori Spelling

I literally just finished this one this morning. I really liked this. I was one of the throngs of millions that never thought of Tori as more than a spoiled little rich girl. I had started watching her TV show on Oxygen, and kept thinking she seemed more like "me" than some Hollywood starlet. And her book didn't change that opinion. It seems she spent her entire life looking for acceptance and rarely getting it. And she can laugh at herself. That's one of my favorite traits in a person. Honestly, if she were my neighbor, we'd probably be friends.

My next book is Twilight. I have it in my hot little hands and I'm going to start reading it tonight. Stay tuned.

Last night, we had scouts. We made Christmas cards to send to Troops overseas. Here are their creations. I have little budding artists in midst.

I used those little stamps I bought the other day and I have to admit, I actually enjoy stamping. I've never really done it, but I think I'm gonna invest in some different colors of ink pads and get into that groove. {I think my wallet just groaned} I really enjoyed what I was doing with the stamps I had. Perhaps this will break the block I've had.

And finally, we did cookies and candies to take to the teachers today. I was going to do goodie bags for about 70 students, but I have not been feeling right this week. So my daughter and my bf's daughter both baked cookies and did candies. I think everything turned out cute:

and these are my new favorite treats. Garlic Pumpkin seeds. I roasted them yesterday. I just love to suck the flavor off of them.

Yeah Me!

I won! I won! I won! LOL

I was cruising around 2Peas yesterday and found a thread about a little contest to leave peanut praise for others work. So I entered the contest and I won! How freaking cool is that? I'm super excited to get my box of HALLOWEEN goodies! {tee-hee} I feel for my mailperson though. I fear they think I'm a stalker, lol.

So 2Peas challenge today was to share a Halloween memory from my childhood. And I've sat here and thought and thought about those nights from not so long ago. I can't think of a funny story or a witty event at all. All I can remember is going to my stepdad's parents house because they lived in a neighborhood, as opposed to our house in the country. We'd all meet up, aunts, uncles, cousins...and we hit the streets. I guess one funny thing is that when I say aunts and uncles, notice there were no "step" involved. My mom's husbands brother was married to my mom's sister. Chew on that for a moment and ponder why I have a hard time remembering my childhood. Yeah.

Anyway, I have better memories of my kids' Halloweens, such as my daughter peeing on a neighbors Halloween display because he had a toilet in the yard. Or losing my son while trick or treating when he was almost two, 'cause I thought dad had him, dad thought I had him...you know the drill. My most recent is my son freaking out at the schools haunted house, and him screaming so loud one of the teachers running it tore down one of the walls to get to us, lol. I almost peed my pants!

I have a somewhat busy day today. I have to make candies and cookies for the classes tomorrow. We only have a half day tomorrow and no school on Halloween. (OK - technically Nevada Day, but do you think we care? ) And I have scouts tonight. I need to finish getting ready for that.

My final thought for today is that I cannot stand these new commercials for Burger King and their 'shroom and swiss burger. Those two guys are creeping me out. Seriously. I shudder when the damn commerical comes on. My boyfriend thinks the burger looks good, but I couldn't even bring myself to order one for fear those icky people would come out to serenade me. I think that would be my final straw. I'd be on the 11 o'clock news for murdering them with a plastic spork or something.

Carving Pumpkins

I spent the evening carving pumpkins. I only did two because my hand is killing me! Anyway, I did a skull and crossbones and a spider web. Here are some really bad pictures, lol:

My camera is dying and just not very good so I'm afraid I'm not going to get very good pictures of these bad boys, lol. I'll try the boyfriends camera tomorrow night.

Anyway, I had another long boring day. The pressure of not having a job is weighing heavy. I am having a hard time focusing on doing anything. My poor house looks like a dump and I can't bring myself to care. How bad is that? I think that I am going to have to make myself a schedule. I need some kind of structure in my life. I used to be able to do this staying home gig. But I had a child or two underfoot when I did it. Now it's just me and my shadow. Maybe that's part of the problem. I dunno....

So, our Girl Scout troop is going to do Christmas cards to send to overseas US Troops. I'm really excited about that. There's something I can do tomorrow. I need to go through my scraproom and get stuff together to take to the meeting. Yeah! I have a plan!. LOL

All righty, I'm going to go blog surf before I go to bed. Have a good evening!

OMGoodness! I'm sooooo tired today. I went to a friends Halloween party last night and then out for drinks with my other friend I went out with earlier in the week. Take a look at the devil lashes I had on. My eyes have never been more irratated, lol. I'll have more pics once my friend with the camera emails them to me. I took this with my camera once I got home at 1am. I had a good time, even if i did have two jack and cokes spilled in my lap. And today I am suffering through the day, getting the laundry caught up and getting ready to do my homework. Yeah me! Anyway, I just really wanted to share the "devil" lashes. I thought the were great, even if the aggravated me the whole night, lol. K- back to the grind. I'll post more later.