It's October!

HOME LIFE:
Sooooo, I'm a little late, but I ADORE October! It's almost Halloween time! This weekend, DH mowed the front yard and we got our cemetary up and our little grim reaper thingy that runs back and forth on a line between one of the trees in our front yard and the lamppost. We got the lights around the door up. I have more to go outside, but haven't yet put them out. We usually wait until Halloween night to put everything else out as they're not weather proof. Here's how it looks so far. Ok, so I can't hold still when taking a pic, so the lights are blurred on the first pic, but you can see the purple lights around the stonework and the white lights at the top of the door. They're skeleton lights!



Here is the cemetary in front of the front porch. The gravestone with the hands moves and talks and the eyes flash. It's hilarious. It says, "Help! Help! Get me out of here! I'm not dead yet!"



Then here is my little grim reaper. He moves back and forth on the line and moans and groans.



I have a 5 foot tall skeleton pirate that sings too, but on Halloween night, we hook him up to a microphone that is attached to a radio and he sits on our front porch and screams and his eyes light up. Then I have another pirate skeleton that moves up and down on wires with a blue light shining on him and there's the scary "WOOooooOOOOOooo" sounds that come out. We've been talking about what to add this year. Every year we add a decoration to our repertoire. I really would like a cemetary entrance, but I don't want the cutesy blowup kind. I want scary! I'd also like a fog machine! Another thing I'd like is to create a tunnel for our driveway to get the kids to walk through on the way to get the candy. Last year we had lots of teens who said our house was the best in the neighborhood. I'm hoping they tell their friends and come back this year, because it was a blast!

SCHOOL LIFE:
A new part of my blog. My classes are going well. I have A's in all three! It's midterm time now. I took one midterm last week (200/200...YAY!) and I have one this week. The other class doesn't have one. Wish me luck!

MILITARY LIFE:
DH is back in his shop and it seems he likes it. I definitely like the fact that he actually gets home on time, unlike when he was in the shirt position. I can't believe he'll be hitting 20 years soon! I desperately hope they don't try to send him to Korea to get him to retire. They're famous for that. We haven't heard anything yet. Part of the economy thing that scares me is if we have to PCS, we're going to have to try to sell our house in a time where there's a credit crisis and I doubt houses will sell much at all if that's still the case. Boy, I hope this stuff gets fixed soon!

WORK LIFE:
The show ended so it's busy. That's all I can really say about it. Just busy. Can't describe it, just busy! Not as many orders as the Spring show, but considering we paid for our fall show at the spring show, this show was just sales for me. It'll still be busy for a few weeks though! Not only was the show busy, but it stirred up retail sales as well for those who didn't have an LNS or ONS at the show. They came directly to the site to order. Lots to get through!

STITCHING LIFE:
Well this is just a big fat zero for me lately. :( When my back was hurting, it was impossible to stitch. Then I felt really blah for a few days after. I almost though I was going to come down with the flu, but whatever it was went away after a couple of days. Thank goodness too, the show was ending soon! Of course with that ending and the customer orders coming in, I'm elbow deep in fabric for 8+ hours a day. Last Friday I worked from about 8am until midnight (with breaks for meals and another break to watch a David Blaine show with my kids) and you can guess why I wouldn't feel like touching any fabby all week! I can't bring myself to pick up anything to work on because I'm just tired of touching it all! It'll go away soon though!

That's about it for now, though, so I'm gonna get outta here!
/salute