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home cooking tonight

Cooking a meal of vegan brats, sauerkraut, and potatoes with Monster tonight. Yum.

Yesterday, Sandy and I hung with Pam at the new house. I folded unidentifiable (to me) baby items and organized some of the stuff in the new nursery in the house that she and Seth have declared is their Final Move. Met their son Jex Raven who was five months old Saturday. He's a big happy baby who is very vocal.

Later Monster and I met Chaz at Little Azio for some eats before Chaz headed home to see his wife who was due back in a few minutes and Monster and I went to EyeDrum for the last night of the Switch show. I am so happy I got to see that. The show was dedicate to light and it was also a performance night with no less than five theremins being played simultaneously during the night.

After work last night, I went to JoyCam's house to deliver the remote for the Sony Television and pick up Monster's new hot glue gun that he'd lost during the giant puppet making. Sat for a few minutes in the kitchen chatting with Joy, who was making pizza dough for pesto snacks, and nibbled on fontina cheese. The Sony TV is in a new home at Joel's house because his TV died so it's in a good home now. Joy will get the remote to Joel, who has been at their house a lot lately.

After the JoyCam house, I took a CD of Halloween photos to C, who had a beautiful altar de muertos set up on her back deck. A friend who is in Mexico now had sent her many wonderful sugar skulls, skull cookies, and pan de los muertos that she'd used to set up her altar with along with photos of departed friends and marigolds. Just lovely. I had thought setting up a similar alter for my father and Monster's father, who both passed on this year along with both of my grandmothers, but never did it. Now I really wish I had. It's kinda a kill-joy for me when Monster is not so much in to festival and holidays like I am. I need to move and think much more independently at home in order to ensure my happiness in the future. To his credit, Monster was great for the Halloween Parade and an excellent puppet builder.

FunLisa and Brant have been hanging around with each other since this year's parade. Monster and I might join them tonight for billiards and darts. Seems like the best way to spend this Friday night, since he's let me know that we will not begin clearing out the living room to paint tonight. Not yet but soon.

What was that noise last night?

Last night I woke up to a loud roaring noise that sounded like a jet 20 feet from the room. I have no idea what it was. The sound was slow in passing. The clock said 3:30 a.m.

Halloween

was fun.


I actually had real live trick or treaters. Most even in costume. It was great.

I took the leftover candy to work to remove the temptation from home. Otherwise I know I'd be having twizzlers and jolly ranchers for breakfast.

Next year, I must get to know the neighbors and make the house better lit and more attractive.

The Parade was great, Now what?

FYI. -

The L5P Halloween parade was much fun, as always. Pumpkin Head puppet was a huge hit, thanks to my engineer who designed a simple mechanism for opening and closing the mouth so I could chomp at people.

We called it an early night this year. Seems like everyone was home by 11PM or earlier this year. Monster and I left early to have tamales at the Cantina. I decided I needed something in my stomach immediately after being served a surprisingly potent margaritta at EAYC. Tastey but strong.

Now what are we going to do this weekend? It seems like all the good private parties were last weekend.

Making Puppets, Hating my car

Most of this week will be spent building and finishing the giant Halloween Puppet for the Little Five Points parade. It is slow going and we started late so I'm sure we will be finishing and assembling our demon on Saturday morning before the parade in that afternoon.

My car made an awful racket when I started it yesterday morning. Upon inspection, all of the vital fluids - oil, power steering, etc. - were empty. Went to the corner shop and got oil and other fluids and got out late to work.

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Homey

Yesterday was spent at the East Atlanta Strut, hanging out with Sandy, Chaz, Audrey and Nick. Long hot fun day walking around taking in the art and local flavors of the neighborhood.

Today was spent making up for some lost time and trying to put the house a little more in order. It drives me nuts that most of the time when I see friends and family, and they ask me how the house is coming along, I can't tell them any progress has been made indoors and that we are still essentially living out of boxes to a large part. Today we purchased more shelves at IKEA that we have now decided aren't what we need at all and will return to IKEA on Monday or Tuesday. We did, however, get some of the junk out of the living room and I finally put down the rug and moved my old cedar chest to a more long-term position. Got a start on painting the fireplace too but all of the walls still need sanding and painting and the bathroom remodel still seems a long way off.

Halloween fun begins again!

JoyCam hand delivered our invitation to this year's Halloween Parade Kick-Off party.

It came on a night when I was stuck at work late and worn from dealing with my psycho co-worker all day.

It is the coolest invitation yet - as Monster said, "thanks for the head."



From the outside:

The Prize Inside is rolled up in the center:

Sink repaired

Monster saved the sink - he bought a drain snake this afternoon and, while I was at work, he managed to unclog the kitchen pipes and have the sink cleaned by the time I got home.

In celebration of a working kitchen again, we had beans and rice for dinner with fresh little slices of green onion and tomatos with just a tiny drizzle of balsamic vinegar.

pretty good weekend

Went to the DragonCon parade on Saturday morning.

Went to Drive-Invasion Saturday afternoon through the rest of the evening.

Spent Sunday recovering from heat and dehydration of Drive-Invasion.

Monday, did a lot more yard work and tidying up around the house, followed by inviting a few friends over to hang out on the patio and have burgers and snacks and drinks.

Monster managed to clog both the garbage disposal and the kitchen sink with shredded cabbage while making coleslaw.

He has since been trying different methods to unclog the pipes today.

Know a good plumber?

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The lines at the gas stations in town on my way home from work were enormous, stretching out into the street and tying up traffic. I guess some people get to listen to the news at work. After I got home, someone told there was a news bit about possible gas rationing that's sent everyone into a panic.