Happy Samhain!!!!!

I survived watching six children last night. There was some stress (jumping around dancing), but once they broke out the Ouija board, all was good. They worked on that for a good two hours. Once they put in Grease, we could hear them from across the house singing along. AJ and Shalyn mostly played an educational computer game. My youngest nephew was really good for me. He was eating like crazy. He’s four weeks old now. Awwww.

Tonight is trick or treating for the youngins. My brother and sister in law will be at work a little late tonight and since tomorrow is a school night, I am going to take the munchkins with my other brother and sister in law. My littlest nephew is going to be a pumpkin. Yes, I will try to get pictures.

So far the line up will be:
Brittany – Old Hag (I think I may break out the makeup for this.)
Shalyn – Diva (Please, don’t get me started on this one.)
AJ – Spider-man (What else would he be?)
Gabriel – Pumpkin (It’s probably the only outfit available for four week olds).

Wish me luck!

I have hit a wall. I am almost done cleaning one room that was still a mess from the last hurricane. I have hit a wall. I’m getting the beginnings of a migraine. I am watching all four munchkins until 8:30 tonight, so I really have to get rid of it soon.

Skittles finally got out of the box of sweaters about 15 minutes ago. She seems to have entered kitten mode for today. I bet if I had a shoe box, she’d try to fit into it.

My darling little kitty is being so cute. Due to the fact that it is still in the upper 80s right now, we’re keeping our sweaters and fleece jackets in a container in the closet. Well, her royal adorableness has discovered it and is having a kitten moment. As with most kittens, she loved to sleep in the sock drawer. She has dug her way under the sweaters and is sleeping with just her head peaking out. Too cute.

I’m not quite sure what I was thinking, but Saturday evening I will have six children over here. Two 10 year olds, one 9 year old, one 6 year old, one 4 year old, and a 3 week old. If I am not already insane, I will be on Sunday morning.

This morning’s Yahoo! headlines read like an April Fool’s Day post:
- Red Sox win first World Series since 1918
- Single asteroid may have killed off dinosaurs
- Redskins’ outcome may predict election

I have so much to do, but I can’t seem to get started. Yesterday I knitted up two and a half of the eight skeins I have for Josh’s blanket/throw. I know what I will start. Cleaning up. The trash guy is picking up the trash right now so I can start tossing out stuff we can’t donate. Yes, a plan!

Let’s just pray that we have a continued MA victory. /wink /wink

Because I am a dork… here’s the Reuter’s Story.

Red Sox Win First World Series Since 1918

ST. LOUIS (Reuters) – The Boston Red Sox won their first World Series title since 1918, and buried a curse, with a 3-0 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals Wednesday.

Johnny Damon homered and hit a triple while Trot Nixon added three doubles to put the finishing touches on a four-game sweep of the best-of-seven series and a historic comeback that will be as remembered as much as any of Boston’s World Series collapses.

Boston starter Derek Lowe pitched seven shutout innings and stifled St. Louis’s powerful batting lineup, giving up just three hits while striking out four and walking one.

The victory ends one of the sporting world’s most enduring curses in which a hex has supposedly hung over Fenway Park since Harry Frazee sold Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees in 1920, leaving Boston without a World Series champion for 86-years.

Holy Shit.. the Red Sox WON!!! Yes!!!

3-0!!

WolfpacksforTruth.org: The Real Story on George Bush’s “Wolves” Commercial – OK, this is silly, but cute. It’s kind of a rip on the swift boats.

Strangeness. Someone calls and asks for someone and when I tell them that there is no one here by that name, they say they will call back later. Stop reading the script and get a clue! There is typically a some common sense used in telemarketing, use it!

In other news, I miss my husband. We’ve both been super busy lately and don’t get to spend time together. Hopefully we’ll both be able to breathe soon and relax. Saturday night we went and picked up some yarn. Josh being my enabler “let me buy” eight skeins of a wool blend, as a start to knit him a blanket. I may finish before winter is over. I also picked up some 100% wool for myself. I am thinking of dying some of it, but I am also thinking of making the Irish Hiking Scarf in a natural wool color. I’m also thinking maybe I might pick up some Wool-Ease to do a test fun. Choices, so many choices.

Well, off to get a moment of peace before the kids get here.

I am on a mailing list for a particular distributor. They had a product that I love but have since discontinued making it due to lack of demand. /sigh I could take myself off of their mailing list, but I haven’t. They often send me samples and new products, free. I am hopeful that they will one day send me a new version of their old product I loved so much. Yesterday I received a Schick Quattro razor in the mail. Josh was planning to shave anyway, so I had him give it a try.

What did Josh think of it? He said it felt like a training razor. He shaved very quickly, but at the same time it seemed like it had training wheels so he didn’t cut himself. Was it close? When he uses his old Gillette razor it seems to cut closer. I think the Quattro would be good if you need a nice clean look, quickly and you don’t need it to last all day.

It is 81° in the house and I actually feel fine. I only have the ceiling fans going and it is fairly pleasant.

Seeing as my day began a little more abruptly than I had planned, I have had a slow time getting myself motivated to get things done. I am thinking of forcing myself to get started at 2PM, but fear I may just make myself mad. What to do, what to do!

I woke up to a phone call this morning. It was the roofing company. They hadn’t forgotten about us. Good. Apparently the sales guy that sold us our roof was let go. I suspect it was because he was hiring out some of his guys to do side work, but not through the roofing company. There seems to be a lot of this going around. The new guy seems really nice and friendly. He said the roofing material should be delivered Tuesday or Wednesday of next week and they should have it done by the weekend as long as we don’t get any storms rolling through. According to the forecast, more beautiful days ahead.

The thermometer is reading 80 right now and there is a beautiful breeze blowing. These are the days you see in the commercials. These days are few and far between. I am sitting on the front porch waiting for the plumber to come back. He had to run to the hardware store for a part. Thankfully there is a Lowes right down the road.

Why do we have a plumber at the house? Apparently our ever so not efficient “Money Box” hot water reclaimer kicked the bucket sometime during the night. It is the old box that connects to the hot water heater and air conditioner. It takes water and circulates it through the a/c to heat it up and then sends it back through the pipes to the hot water heater. Apparently they are nearly extint. So much so that I just about laughed myself to the garage floor when the guy here tried to explain what they were to the guy back at the shop.

As a courtesy, he was trying to get me a quote on replacing it. To replace it would cost atleast $600 for the unit, plus parts and labor. In other words, around $800+ for replacing something that isn’t very useful in the first place. I made the executive decision (since I am the only one here) that we will cut the lines going to the hot water heater, cap them off and remove the “money box” device. That should cost about $150 he said, but maybe a little more depending on the parts and time. That is much more acceptable than the $800. The plumber recommends that we cut the lines as well. They would have to first find someone with the box and have it shipped before they could even start. It’s supposed to be in the 80s for the next few days! I don’t think I could manage without the A/C when noon hits.

The plumber should be here soon, so I am going to post this and go. As a matter of fact, here he is!

Edit: Apparently we’ve got to have the power cut to the box, so for now Josh is going to cap off the connections so we can run the A/C. No A/C during the day, but hopefully we can run it tonight.

Yeah baby. The Sox won. Good gracious was this an eventful week. With that, I’m going to feed the cat and get some sleep. I have an early and busy day tomorrow.

Here I was thinking I was making a ton of progress sorting through my links. Then I discover the folder within a folder is not empty. Oh well. I now have about a quarter of my links sorted. That is a dent I can live with.

Awwww… A cat lost weight on the Catkins diet. I’ve actually read quite a bit about carbohydrates and pets. Skittles is on well maintained regimen. We try to only feed her dry foods as a small snack and wet food for actual meals.

When it comes to eating habits, I don’t think the low carb lifestyle is a bad thing. We do eat a lot of refined stuff that just tastes nasty. I don’t think people should go jumping into it without reading up on it. It shouldn’t be a diet, but rather a lifestyle change. I like having a variety of sugar free related foods available. My dad has been a diabetic since he was young and is loving every new “low-carb” product that comes out. He just discovered the joy of sugar-free Baskin Robbin’s fruit sorbet candies.

I still eat carbs, but not a lot of them. I don’t use sugar or eat things with outrageous amounts of sugar. I also don’t eat meat. I eat healthy foods, but I do splurge and have my ‘notty’* moments where I eat something too sweet for my own good. I get exercise, whether it is walking, riding a bike, or dealing with hurricane recovery. I lost a lot of weight in eight months and have maintained this weight for almost four more. I have no plans of gaining weight until I decide to finally have kids.

I don’t know where that rant came from. Sorry about that folks. As penance, I give you a silly little game, Popoint. Click the numbers in the correct order as fast as you can. My best time was 6.03 seconds. I found it the night before last around 1AM via a site on BlogExplosion, but at the moment I can’t recall which.

Time to go watch the game some more. I refuse to watch it in here. Last time I did that I was up until the wee hours. At least in the other room, I don’t want to fall asleep.

*I use the term notty for naughty. It’s a silly little thing I have done for years thanks to my friend Gary. Blame him.