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I don’t have time right now to put all the photos up, but here is a sneak peek of the newlyweds: Carrie and Ryan.

Tim has to work late tonight unexpectedly. So here I am at home kind of wondering what to do with myself. I guess, I am doing the same things I would have done if Tim had been home….no that isn’t true. My plan for the afternoon was to go to my last TKD for a month, bake squash, walk the dog and watch Hero’s, and maybe carve a pumpkin. What I did though — was came home chatted briefly with Hilary and then took a nap — only to be woken up by the phone ringing. I was dreaming something was ringing … it was Tim telling me that the install he did last weekend went wrong and he had to stay and try to fix it. Poor darling. I know that sick gut feeling when you’ve made a big error.

So, I overslept TKD, Tim wasn’t coming home, we werne’t gonna pick up vegetables from Laima and so I decided to carve the pumpkins myself, bake the rest of the cookies and eat three, and roast pumpkin seeds. I also made myself an egg sandwich and watched Deal or No Deal (a show I hate to admit I like) and chat with Jen. We have had an amazingly similiar day.

I decided not to take Pluto for a walk even though it’s gorgeous outside because it is the day before Halloween and I didn’t want to mess with hooligans by myself. I was also holding out hope that Tim would be back soon to walk with him. But it looks like that isn’t gonna happen.

This weekend was really good. On Friday we loaded the car and I drove to Menomonie! Yeah, I drove. I found out — I like driving long distances because it’s the perfect busy work for being in the car. Listening to music and driving — I can’t read in a car or do any kind of hobby work because I get motion sick. Usually I just sit there and try to think of things to talk about. This time I got to listen to music and just enjoy the ride. Tim really enjoyed reading, and napping.

The visit with my Mom, Frank, Josh and Shane was good. We had some taco dip, diet coke and chatted about hobbies. Mom showed me what she was working on, Frank showed us the lean-to he built, Josh talked about video games and Shane even came out to visit. It was nice. Mom got a new hair cut and it looked awesome.

Then we headed out to visit my friend Jessie. We had a delicious chicken casserole and chicken nuggets, salad, bread, wine and cake and had a good old fashioned visit. I saw puppies and was amazed how much smaller her house was. Seriously, the last time I was there was when I was a kid. I finally got to experience how much smaller a place can be to a grownup. Since I had never went to back to any place I lived in my childhood (except my Dad’s — but he got a huge addition put on), I had kinda of thought that whole “it seemed so much bigger” was a myth. Not so! Oh my, the star sky that Jessie has is something to jealous over. Stupid light pollution.

Saturday morning we checked out the free breakfast at the Super 8 and decided it sucked. So we walked over to Perkins and had a wonderful breakfast before driving to Minneapolis to check into our hotel and then go off to visit Karen and Dave and their new baby Sam. She was adorable! We had pie, coffee and caught up.

[Pumpkin seeds are out of the oven and delicious!]

After the visit we headed back to the hotel so I could change and get ready for Carrie’s costume themed wedding. She got married in her backyard with a wonderful carved pumpkin display, and most guests in costume. She looked radiant as a 1920’s bride, and then we went inside for vegan food and more catching up. I hadn’t seen some of these people since High School! I also found out that apparently there WAS a 10 year reunion — I just wasn’t invited. I took lots of pictures, so I’ll let that do the story telling when I upload them. I can imagine that Carrie would probably like to see them so I’ll make an effort to do that tomorrow.

After the wedding we went back to the hotel to change again, and then met up with Adele at a place called CC…I think? Yeah, CC. We drank, visited, Molly came and we visited with her. It was a good visit. Adele said she’ll be around this neck of the woods in December — I hope she finds time to stop by and hang out.

I was glad of the time change because it meant we weren’t rushed to leave the hotel the next day. We paid for the breakfast, ate to our heart’s delight and then Tim drove us out of Minnesota before I took the wheel to drive us to Tomah. We stopped because we needed gas, and then Tim was mean and was making me drive manual (still new folks!) in a busy traveling center…I got mad, he took the wheel and we proceeded to get into a wonderful conversation about the meaning of life that was interupted by Bekah (Tim’s sister) calling to chat. We got home, Tim resumed the chat and also talked to Mark, and his Mom! It was a weekend to catch up with family I guess.

Sunday afternoon we raked the back yard until it got dark, Tim went to get Pluto, I wasn’t feeling too hot and napped. Then later we ordered pizza and played Marvel before going to bed.

Today we went to work, I came home — Tim so far has not, and I think that brings us up to now.

Last night I got gussied up and headed out to the High Noon Saloon with my Cow Girl friend Laima. We had a great time hanging out, watching the Gothsicles and Endif — and visiting.

Anyway — I’ve added a new album in Halloween Photos in August-October, that you can check out.

But these are my favorites:

To cheer up my sweetie, empty the photos in my camera and to test out the USB cable. Check it out: August-October. (I’ll update again after this weekend). Here’s a sneak peek for you though.

Disclaimer – My friends you are all great – please don’t take offense, it really has nothing to do with you.

However, I am feeling like I would like to meet someone who was more like me. Someone who is wearing the same kind of shoes I am (maybe a different size so we don’t have to compete). If this person did exist, s/he would be busy feeling the same way. The problem is we both have a great network of interesting, smart, clever, caring friends and family – and yet everyone once in awhile….maybe this is just an element of being human? Yet, once in awhile, I feel like a teenager, in that no one “gets me.” It’s baloney of course, because Tim gets me – but sometimes I don’t always get him. Or at least don’t feel like I do. Besides, that isn’t what I mean. I mean, he’s my husband and if I was on that deserted island I wouldn’t dream of having anyone else there but him – but he isn’t me right now, and I want to meet someone like me who I can talk to.

I can’t even explain myself here. Sorry – maybe I’ll look back on this in 50 years and still feel the same. The antidote to this, it seems to me, is to become a recluse or to not be around the same people I already am and be with other friends who I don’t see all the time to get that variety back. After all, all of your friends are not like the other – and each have that vein of gold that fulfills some need/desire/interest in you. Be it, an interest in science fiction, philosophy, personality, music tastes, ideas, etc.

I am looking forward to this weekend to being with people I haven’t been with in a long time…some of them years. Well, okay the wedding of Carrie A … the last time I saw here was about 4 years ago. There are going to be some high school friends there – people that were friends with me when I had just moved to Menomonie. That’s a strange period in my life. It was right after my Mom went crazy, got out of rehab and then reestablished herself in a new town. Of course I had to go along and reestablish myself too considering I was only 16 and had no where else to go. I hated my Dad at the time and would never have dreamed of living with him. For the first two months I didn’t talk to anyone – and I relished dressing however the hell I wanted too. That was when I really started to get to know myself and figure out the person I wanted to be.

That two months was the end of 10th grade – by 11th grade I had more friends than I knew what to do with. It was thrilling and amazing to me that people wanted to talk to me, thought I was interesting, funny, clever….anyway. I am digressing ….

Hm perhaps what I am trying to put together here is that I need to get out of Dodge and rediscover that the person I want to meet who is just like me — is me.

It has been raining all day today. The leaves really came down with this rain — this is the fall kind of weather people love. Right? Well, I did manage to leave the house today to pick up our vegetables and to do a little shopping at Ben Franklin to get Beaded Xmas trees supplies, then I found a store right next to it call Craft Market. It’s this store that rents out spaces inside (like a craft show)! It’s so cool…while I was browsing I was told that they had food in the back in celebration of their one year anniversary (I had no idea). So I went and grabbed Tim who was in the coffee house next door and brought him back to enjoy anniversary cake, hotdogs and a free pumpkin! How cool is that? I also bought a bar of soap and took information on how Laima/Hilary and I can open our own Tceku booth — in case they are interested….

Tim is working now and has been for the last hour. I made a pot of tea, and have been putzing around cleaning up. I am about to start cooking — because it feels like the kind of day that should have a house full of warm cooking smells and incense. I am going to make some cranberry corn biscuits and a “root vegetable casserole.” I was going to make Carla’s cranberry scones — but the DH deemed my oranges to far south and sentenced them to the mulch pit. I think later on, when the stuff if cooking, I will vacuum and then start working on my craft project again.

I did get that USB cable — and have yet to try it out. I was thinking of trying to upload photos tomorrow when Tim is at work again (these times are rare). Yeah I think I’ll do that.

As for today — I had emailed a few people who are in town to see if they wanted to sit around and craft/watch TV movies today but everyone is busy with weddings. That is my fate next weekend….and I am glad, because today is a much better day to sit inside and be cozy. If was wasn’t limited to in town folks, off the top of my head people I would want to craft with are: Jessie, Sarah, Lori, Zoey, Carla, Eric, Kate, Myrna, Hilary, Laima, (pre-fueding Kersten) and Jen. What a great group that would be!!

Other than today — I have been busy. Last night we met Oliver for a drink/dinner and ended up going to about 5 different resturants before we settled on State St. Grill at the top of State. It was okay…the food was … there and so was the beer — but more importantly it wasn’t packed and we got service right away. Then I went home and watched Battlestar Gallactica. My stupid VCR was suppposed to tape it — but for the second time in a row now it doesn’t seem to be working right. Last night it only taped 10 minutes! If I didn’t have a strange feeling about things…I would have double checked and I would missed Battlestar — WHICH by the way I thought started at 8:00….and last night it was on at 9:00 — did they change their format again? What the heck is going on?

Oh but was that episode ever good …. I think it was without a doubt — hands down, the best effing episode of Battlestar EVER! Just thinking about it is making me a little awed. I wish I could be a part of such creative energy — I really envy those that are fortunate enough to be writers/producers and … to just get something like that into existence. I felt the same way about Lord of the Rings trilogy, and sometimes about the brillance of George RR Martin’s Game of Thrones series.

Hm, i think Tim is back…is that possible? He was supposed to be gone longer. He just got a game called Battlefield 2142 and has been hogging the computer since then. Staying up late like he was a teenager. Sheesh.

Our current movies are: The Hills Have Eyes, Breakfast on Pluto and Deadwood. Of course I love TV movies — and since it’s Saturday I am sure there HAS to be something on that I haven’t seen. I know that Scooby Doo 2 is on ABCfamily tonight…heh. If someone doesn’t watch these crappy movies then who will? I can’t believe I have somehow turned into such a film buff. I remember once I had a roommate – Bert — who I thought at the time watched WAY too much TV. His goal was to watch all the movies at 4 Star Video heaven…and I swear, he probably got pretty close to do accomplishing that goal before he moved back. I thought he was crazy then….now look.

Nope no Tim…it must be the drug neighbors making some sales and keeping bread on the table. Well, I suppose I should stop rapping at ya, and go make some food. I am not hungry, but like I said earlier…the thought of warm cooking smells in the house smell …. irrestible.

I don’t feel like I have much to say other than I am not hungry. I was really hungry earlier, then I had a bowl of coco puffs and now…after TKD and while has passed…nothing. I said tonight was going to be “breakfast for dinner.” But instead I am tired and want to just go to bed. Last night I went to bed at 9:00 because I had a headache. It’s just that time of the month and if you are female then you know how much that just sucks.

Yeah, you heard me, it sucks. It’s not magical, wonderful, empowering or any of that crap. If you try to convince me otherwise you are deluded yourself.

Today I paid bills, wrote some letters/cards, made two phone calls, went to TKD, and watched a movie kindof, shopped for and ordered beads, tried on my new blond wig, showered and took a nap. I wish I had the gump to do a whole lot more like clean an organize the guest room, work on beaded Christmas trees for the craft work, creatively write for the 28th writing assignment, respond to oodles of emails that no one sent me, watch a movie, sew some fabulous clothes, make a gourmet dinner and have the appetite to eat it, repaint my nails, do my hair in a fabulous style, meet with someone famous and talk about housework, finish playing Kingdom Hearts, and play a game of scrabble AND cribbage.

Pictures might be awhile in coming…I just realized today that when Andrew was here we took the USB cable out of it’s normal location to test his PSP (i.e. see if his problem was a cable problem or not…it was). SOOOOOooooo….

1. Look again, very carefully for a third time to see if the cable is around the computer.

— Not find it and buy another.

2. I think Andrew has it. I remember giving him something the day he left because I thought it was HIS that was in the computer…not ours. But in reality, I don’t think he ever actually unpacked his new USB cord before he left. Nutz.

And to think, I was all ready to upload them today too.

Thanks to Sarah for this image, taken this weekend at Kettle Moraine North. Can you believe Tim *hates* these sunglasses?

What a cold morning huh? Yesterday the DH and I stayed home and cleaned the house, made squash and houlski for dinner, sandwich and soup for lunch, and candy for dessert/snack. I got a lot done around the house, and was really nice to putter.

I even took time to be creative and worked on making some stationary, updated my address book, and thought about working some more on Pluto’s costume but really did more stationary while watching a movie: In Her Shoes …. I haven’t finished watching it, but I liked most of what I saw. When did I become such a lover of dramas? Man. Then I went over to help Hilary clean her brand new, slighty used house — but new to her, house! The layout is great, and the wallspace is wonderful for all the artwork that I know she’ll put up. Plus the basement is going to be a perfect studio for cranking out MORE artwork and she’ll be able to leave all her supplies out and not have to worry about moving things now that she has all that space. Yes, she has been reserved on being excited about the new house so I am taking it upon myself to be excited for her.

WOO! COngratulations Hilary. I can’t wait to get my license so I can go over to visit you more often. I need someone to spend time with me learning manual though. Laima is a great teacher…you got some more hours?

I got my first ever compliment on my nails today. I mean, sure I have gotten compliments on the nail color but never the actual nails…it went like this:

“Nice nails,” said a professional, well put together woman.
“Uh,” I pause and look at them, thinking she must mean the color.
“Are they fake?” she asks.
“It’s taupe,” I answer belatedly to a question she didn’t ask. Then I realize she just thought my nails were fake!! “No, they are mine.”
“They are nice,” she says “I wish I could get mine to look like that.”
“Oh,” I respond “When I want them to get long I put nail polish on them.”

HA! That’s never happened before.