Halloween Treats

Should one serve a 2000 Cabernet Sauvignon with Baby Ruth Candy Bars??? Should one even think about such a thing? Hell yes...seems to me it's a perfect match! Give it a whirl...perhaps a new Halloween tradition in the making. May I say...it's simply beautiful tonight. Snow on Halloween...soft quiet snow...the quiet is SO QUIET it seems loud...ya know what I mean? I've got a fire going in the woodstove, a handful of the kids candy and I'm thinking about opening up that bottle of vino...sigh...if I can only stay awake that long...yawn...of course the candy is the main inspiration...I could probably eat candy while I sleep...in fact...I think I have. Goodnight all...(as if..."all"...smirk)

I remember when I loved to "Fall Back" The time change was an extra hour of dancing and drinking at a club somewhere...now...it just means...well nothing really...damn...I think I just depressed myself...8(

Obsessed

I am a consumer of shampoos...an addict really. I love to buy shampoo. I can't seem to stop. I guess I'm looking for that miracle cure...that one perfect combination of chemicals that will magicaly transform me into someone I am not...a big haired sorority girl, a thick maned saucy wench, a shiney tressed perfume girl at the cosmetics counter at a mall...so far...no luck at all. I have thin mousy hair that tends to hang limply. In fact my locks have sort of a sad sack thing going on. My hair energy level is zero. My bounce is flat. Anyway...my husband motioned at me the other day. He asked me why, as I took out a couple of new bottles of shampoo from the shopping bag, I felt the need to buy more hair washing material? I was startled by the question. "Because we were almost out" I told him surprised that he had noticed. Sadly he shook his head and motioned for me to follow him up the stairs to the bathroom. He gently took my hand and said "Honey, look in the shower and tell me if you really needed to buy more shampoo." I opened the door and counted about 12 half full (or half empty) bottles of shampoo gleaming from every available inch of space. "Well" I muttered "I don't take a shower very often I usually take a bath and besides this one is going to make me hair gleam like a Fall day, and this one is infused with essence of something that will make my hair grow thicker!" He just stared at me and said "You need help!" and walked off. I had to admit as I tried to find empty space to store the new poos maybe I did have just a tad too many. The towels were sitting in a neat pile beside the bathroom cupboard and the cupboard itself was holding 2 washclothes a hand towel and about 16 bottles of hair hopes, the bathtub was ringed by containers with names like Herbal Essence, Biolage, Suave, various baby shampoos, Chamomile infused, Lavendar scented, and too many other to name. I'm going to have to face up to it. Maybe there is a 12 step program I can join...if anybody knows of one...please let me know. I don't know how long I can hold off buying new goodies...HELP! I'm having a bad hair day!!!

it's just been one of those days...

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I've been thinking about this black and white picture I saw...a picture of a girl in a tank of water with a "gentleman" outside...peering in...I'll put it up but it doesn't look very good on this blue background....I can't get it out of my mind! I keep thinking "Tank Girl". I looked up the definition of tank and Webster's Pocket dictionary says a tank is a receptical for artificial liquids...go figure

Stayed home today to blow my nose full time and watched Accidental Tourist. I love that show!

Okay it's official...I'm sick...sniffle sniffle.....read Electric Frog while I blow my nose! How about sending your luv ed one a rotting Pumpkin Hallowe'en Card from Electric Frog...8)

Today I watched Monk...what a riot! I love that show! Here I was talking about NOT watching TV and today I sat my arse on the couch and watched like 3 episodes in a row. I also had to go back to work and check on my sick patients/residents...not big improvements but not worse thank goodness. I woke up with a scratchy lil cough this am and thought Oh no...now I'm gonna get it....but I feel better this afternoon.

Oh My Lord...I hate October Flu Season!!!!!!!!! Agh!!! Everyone is getting sick already and it is TOO early. I walked into work Friday (in case you don't know I am a registered nurse who consults with an Assisted Living Facility and I also work in ambulatory surgery) anyway...I walked into ALF and whammo....2 pretty serious resp illnesses and tonoc I checked in and I can see another 1 or 2 creeping up! No fair for those people! I am afraid it's going to be a long shitty Winter full of illness...enough of that...at least the weather here is gorgous....and last noc I actually watched tv and saw a most interesting documentary about transexuals...or maybe it was transgender...anyway....this poor man...who was a woman....but now...a man....was dying of cervical cancer.....I swear....if that isn't a helluva note....I mean...think of all the crap he went through and then...Wa Lah...she is a man....and happy with his identity......then to be told....Sorry.......you have cancer! SHIT Did anybody else see this show on HBO? Check out Southern Comfort....... I don't watch much tv except for documentaries( I love them) and of course...ER(so I can say...yah...right!)...and that's about it. I guess I'm just out of the loop....ahhhh well.

I was looking at the plethoria of crap beside my bed...and wondering ...just what does everyone else have handy for stumbling over at midnight? I have: The Handyman magazine April 2002; Better Home and Gardens April 2002; Rosie april 2002; 2 Writers Digests one an October 2001 and the other December 2002; By The Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder; Falling Bodies by Andrew Mark; Dark Rivers of The Heart by Dean Koontz; A Pride Of Healers by Richard Hirschhorn; Dog of Flanders and other stories by Louise De La Ramee; a cruel alarm clock; Brown Boots and of course...a pen! How about You????

Really all I'm thinking about now is...Pinot Gris...or.....cold beer...hmmmm.....which would be better??? There is a little spot on the map...if even that...here in Nebraska where the best and coldest beer in the world makes its home...not where I live of course...but those glasses are cold and frosty and there is a "slush" if you will, of beer in the center of each glass! sigh... Actually I will be having a hot green tea...I'm on call ....but a girl can dream can't she??? I played volleyball with the "bitch posse" tonoc...we won one...lost one...We only had 4 players! Damn~! Course so did the other team...but....hey...who's counting! grin Tourney play starts next week... and then we will be done....I will miss my wednesday night BPVB very much! Won't play again til Spring....Ahhhh Wellllll....there is always the Fall shopping trip to look forward too.....us old bags get together and go christmas shopping in November every year...it has evolved into a weekend getaway......SO MUCH FUN(if one can survive it)....I can't wait.....What is it about your girl friends that can mean so much.....make everything okay~! Actually...who wants to analyze it...I just hope everyone else has a "bitch posse" and gets to have as much fun! am now officially out of gas... bed beckons... yawn......

Well I'm back....you didn't know I was gone did ya. We were in Texas for a wedding...Dallas in fact....I'd never been there before.....the drive was awful....about 12 hours...maybe more...I lose track....We got caught up in Oklahoma City and took what turns out to be a "highway to hell" in Dallas...(check out this link on road rage)....so coming back to good ol Nebraska took like....only 10 hours....grin....piece of cake! The wedding was great....the reception wonderful....saw family.....but the whole deal just made me realize......I'M GETTING OLDER!!! ugh I know I know....better than the alternative! Gotta go do the laundry now......about 34 loads is all....

Well it's 5am and I'm still awake...sort of hanging on by a thin little thread...grin....my youngest got up around 230 with the quivering shivers and a 102 fever....we've been watching cartoons and waiting for the throwing up to start...so far...nothing.....I feel like shit on toast not to mention how my little man must feel... I have to go to work at 6......I can't call in sick cuz.....I asked on Monday for the day off.....and was told no.....think they would believe me if I called in??? HA!!!! My hubby will have to hold down the fort.....ugh....must .....find.....diet Mountain Dew......the "coffee" of the gods........................maybe it'll perk me up....then again....maybe monkeys might fly outta my ass

Okay...so you get the idea...I was a fire bug...god I loved fire...still do...but now...I've got other fish to fry. There is a mouse in my house! AHGHHHH! I actually screamed and had a broom in my hand...I feel so...I don't know...Sunday schoolish...silly assed lame. I can dig into the grossest wound with pus running in rivulets...I can clean up an impacted rectum...I can draw blood, start IV's...yet a goddamned mouse can make me scream!!! Good Grief! I heard this munching today...munch munch crunch...I am as sharp as a tac! I knew it was a mouse...so what if I've got a 15 pound cat who has eaten 3...yes 3 hamsters...so what if I have a puppy who has hunted down every last crumb in the house....I still had a stinking mouse in the house! I narrowed it down to the pantry...odd right???...I called and called for my "mouser" ...she never showed up. I knew where to find her though........up in my sons room....snuggled in his beanbag chair....too lazy to get up and catch this mouse!!! I hauled her ass out.....stuffed her into the pantry.......and waited......she just cried and tried to bash the door down. I ended up biffing the little mouse with the broom...shooting it across the room to my waiting stove....just like a hocky player! Eventually we got it with a mouse trap...but....I can only think my house is as dirty as a crap factory....UGH.......Well I'm tired.....and have to work tomorrow......................yuck...............nighty night, Sheryl