Halloween & The Aftermath

11/1/07

Last night my husband & I took 2 power-rangers & 1 ninja trick-or-treating. The tiniest of which had muscles built into the costume & the mask too large so that only his nostrils showed through the eye-holes. At first they timidly, slowly ventured forth, making sure to wait for each-other & obtain reassuring glances from us parents as they drew ever nearer the porch-lit doorways. Later they reveled in the fun of receiving candy, racing about. One house was apparently well known in the neighborhood for providing hot coffee to the grownups & even shouted out – “free coffee parents!” which was quite tempting if it hadn’t been for their non-lit, precarious steps up to their station. One particularly well decorated home intimidated our youngest a bit. After knowing of the previous season’s mishap when our teens took the boys trick-or-treating & a scared Crash screamed & ran into the house of total strangers hiding under a bed (or was it in a closet?) I suggested he hold his daddy’s hand. And that he did!

Apparently, despite our not having decorations or porch-lights on & an only 2/3 finished walkway to our porch, trick-or-treaters attempted knocks at our door anyway. Leave it to the African-Gray (Loca) to yell “Come in” at them. This left my niece & her fiancé having to go to the door or shout, “No, don’t come in!” These poor trick-or-treaters were so determined they even plagued the house next door which has been vacant for about a year or so! Now that’s determination!!

Today we sent Gumby (now known as Stretch) to school with invitations for girls & boys to his birthday party tomorrow at the local bowling alley. My husband was able to make great invitations with some characters that my son is particularly fond of. So, this time of year not only holds the sweets of Halloween but cake & ice-cream as well. The dentist needs to put: Provided for by (our name) on his new car or motorcycle which I’m sure we are purchasing for him, once we get him paid off that is.

My husband has today off because of having to work a day this weekend when nobody is on their computers at the office. This is always an awkward situation for us. If I talk much to him he feels I’m interrupting his day. I’m a gabber if y’all haven’t noticed & well, it’s just awkward. I feel if I’m not working my petutie off he may be passing some sort of judgment on me, yet, I’m not willing to over-work myself & risk another flare up of my chronic illnesses either. So, yeah, just gotta hang in there. God only knows what we’ll do when he’s retired. The man has adult ADD & just doesn’t know how to relax. Last night he was telling me how he felt he could use a computer program to draw out schematics for each section of an inflatable & then sew them together to create his own inflatable decorations. While this is an incredible idea & a very time-consuming & expensive effort it would be pretty cool to be able to do. However, my husband bless his heart, could receive a trophy for starting more projects he doesn’t finish before starting new projects. He is brilliant except for adequately managing time & money. He fully knows how to relax & also how to fully apply himself 110% to a project, as long as it stays interesting for him. Since he, like my oldest son, is very smart, he gets easily bored as well as easily annoyed with people who don’t understand things as well.

My oldest son, Z, was so amazed by the osteopathic treatment he received for his ankle injury ( a severe sprain & torn ligament) that he said it would make him want to be a doctor if it weren’t for the fact that he gets too annoyed having to deal with people. This coming from a guy who’s going into the nuclear power program for the Navy, ha ha, let’s all pray he doesn’t have access to any “red buttons”!!! “What? You made a mistake on my paycheck?”-poof!! Just kidding, he’s pretty good at keeping his cool for the most part.

Wow, how were those last 3 paragraphs for getting off subject? You’d think it wasn’t me writing this stuff it I didn’t stray from topic & wander aimlessly about my thoughts though right? Dear Readers, I wish you a cavity-free post-Halloween season, fun memories & ways to work around your significant other in harmony. I also wish any with lofty or elaborate ideas to fully pursue them, without such individuals I might need to find a way to cave-paint all this down for prosperity. Be Blessed, whomever your higher power be.