Well, I went with my sister-in-law to take the kids trick or treating. We were out there just shy of two hours. I laughed so much watching them. Shalyn was Madeline and Brittany was Arwen. I got pictures but I am really tired. I planned to send out some emails, but I’m ready to hit the bed now. I was ready an hour ago, but we were just finishing the candy inspection/sort. Tons of candy bars and quite a few taffies. Taffy is good, in small doses. Well, I’m going to bed. Hope everyone had a good Halloween and a wonderful Samhain.

One year ago today Josh and I drove with our belongings in a Budget truck and began the drive of our new life. We arrived around this time at his parents. It was about halfway between our start and finish. A good break. We have had fun with our time off. We’ve been tested and we’ve made it. Yeah for us.

When you take your children trick or treating this year, don’t forget to Trick or Treat for UNICEF. Get a box, do it online, or do it through a coinstar machine at your local grocer. It’s simple and easy. Even if you decide not to do a box. It’s not really hard to dump the change in your pocket into the Coinstar machines. Why not give it a whirl. It’s for a good cause.

It never fails. When I can finally start on something, something throws a brick wall in front of me. Grrr.

I had been waiting for the domain registration transfer for a site I work on. It finally went through last night. It had been more than a week and I was getting worried. I emailed and everyone said it had gone through. Strange, I couldn’t see it when I logged in to manage my account. Hrm. Well, it was there last night. Too late to work on anything, but at least it went through I thought.

Now I go to work on things and I notice that my mp3s seem to be hanging. (I’m playing them across our network). Now I know they don’t have anything to do with each other but, every time the music hangs I seem to start having problems with the internet connection. See, completely unrelated. Except maybe in some cosmic way. There is that solar storm that hit yesterday. Well, the cable company says it’s an unexpected event and to expect loss of connectivity. Gee, thanks.

I have forgotten what the subject was going to be for this entry. Hr-mm.

My brother’s birthday is tomorrow. He’s going to be getting married soon. Yeah for him. I’m not sure if I will see him tomorrow, but I’ll try to call him.

I did good and only assisted the kids when asked. I think others felt the pain of what it is really like to deal with them. They may not be my kids, but they still stress me out!

Josh and I want to do something. Sea World was brought up, but I don’t really feel like dealing with fishies. I just want to sleep in all day and not care about anything. That would be nice.

These notes are basically my way of keeping myself up. I should probably just bite the bullet and go to sleep.

I’ve calmed down since my last post. Basically I have decided that I will only help when asked. Brittany has already asked me to wake her up earlier in the morning so we can “do something” with her hair. She asked, and I will help. Brittany I know will ask, the other two I am not so sure of.

I think the fact that I have a migraine developing hasn’t helped the situation either. It sucks and I’m trying to stop it before it gets too bad.

*Warning foul language ahead*
It has come to my attention that I am, mean. Apparently my making the kids do their homework, take a bath, brush their teeth, and having them eat their dinner before they can have dessert while I am watching them, is mean. I give the fuck up. Really, screw helping other people. Where has it gotten me in life? Fuck it all. Damn it, I’m tired of this shit.

Congrats to the Marlins. Josh came in all smiles. Too funny.

I had heard about Elliot Smith’s death earlier this morning, but when it finally hits the AP is when it seems to always sink in. Great talent gone. Kind of the same feeling when I heard about Jeff Buckley. Both really good at what they do.

Anyhow, back to work. Must get more accomplished before the repairman comes.

Massive productivity couple with not being sleepy has made it a good day. I got a lot of stuff done and am happy about that. But I’m tired now and really want to sleep.

Note to self. Pick up a copy of a Hindu Cowboys’ cd next time I’m out. “Boy George” is a good getcha going song, even Josh likes it.

I need to get one more test tube rack. I am using it as a pen/marker/pencil/etc holder and it works really nicely. If I had one more I could put my scissors and all in that one and no more tin box for me!