The Parade was great, Now what?

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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.

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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.

What I saw this morning

Chipmunk in a tree

I don't know what kind of tree it is - looks like mini apples - but the chipmunks love it.

making plans for next spring

Monster took Daniel's blower and cleared off the remains of the back patio of the house.
Got a Citronella candle and sat out on the bench that monster built during the magic hour watching the lights fade and the fireflies come out.

Feels like Autumn...

... But only because my belly is getting stuffed so much on a regular basis that you'd think it was the holiday season.

Today I went to visit Mother to see the house she's bought and we went out to eat afterwards. Not as bad as burrito night, but still laying around trying to digest a large meal. If I'd known she wanted to go out, I wouldn't have eaten lunch on the way to Smyrna to visit her. And, of course, she sent me home with two large plastic containers of homecooking too.

Now I'm back home blogging and checking email before tonight's daily thunderstorm knocks out the electricity here again. Does that on a daily basis now. Not that that's a real problem - it usually only lasts for a few hours - but it seriously limits my evening activities with no light, phone, or computer to play with.

Smells like solvents to me

But it's just Monster in the living room cleaning up a new old Danish table with teak oil.
That and talking back to the TV news. We went to Willy's for dinner and now I am horribly bloated from eating the whole burrito. urrrrrggghhh.....

Falling asleep as I write this but here I sit still at my computer. Went to see Charlie and the Chocolate Factory tonight. GREAT movie. It has so many of my favorite people involved in it: Tim Burton, Danny Elfman, Deep Roy, Johnny Depp. It seemed to be a very accurate interpretation of the Raold Dahl book but I really should purchase a new copy of it for myself and read it.

Add that to the list: Charlie and the Chocolate Factor, Stiff, Secret Life of Lobsters, The Princess Bride, Troll, The Cockroach Papers

Whenever I have a chance to buy and read them.