Don't eat the corn

My favorite part about Halloween is the annual trip to the corn maze... and dressing up, the parties, candy corn, haunted houses... OK, I love it all. :)

Saturday night a friend and I took a trip out to the haunted corn maze. We were supposed to have a few other people join us, but apparently they didn't think it was as cool as I did, so they bailed. And since I had my heart set on accomplishing my mission, we braved the hour line and numerous preteens to have an exceptional evening. I have a couple friends that scare out there every year, and every year I try to tell who's who, and every year I fail. I guess it's better not to know. There were even a couple time where I was startled to the point of "fright", so I deemed the evening a success.

Elaine (that's my friend) was a corn maze virgin, and not a huge Halloween fan (gasp!), so I made it my mission to make her a convert. Being the die hard that I am, I never bring a flashlight to the maze. Elaine brought her headlamp. :) We only used it once and that was to take a terrible picture and blind ourselves in the process. The picture will not be posted to this blog.

We ended the evening with a tasty beverage and a game of pool at The Green. It was a good night. :)

Till next year, dear corn maze...

slr

Movin on up.. and OUT!

So the time is quickly approaching where I must relocate to a new abode. *Sigh* I was finding it quite frustrating looking for a rental in my price range that accepted pets, and not just any pet, but a 70lb dog. So I resorted to an ad on Craigslist to see if anyone had any leads. What came out of it was a roommate!! Now, I've become very content living by myself, but I realized that if I was going to find an affordable, pet friendly casa, I was going to need a roommie.

We met up at the dog park so she could meet Bandit (whose nickname, btw, is now Damnit after a friend couldn't remember his name and exclaimed "Damnit! I can't remember. I was sold immediately). She didn't bring her dog since he's 11 years old and not so fond of swarms of energetic K-9s. We got all the roommate questions out of the way then decided to meet up for drinks last Friday to just hangout. Through these encounters and becoming Facebook friends, we realized that we share the exact same birthdate. Like day, month, and year. Weird. I think it was meant to be. :)

So we're on the hunt and have found a couple really cute places. I'm confident we're going to find one that suits us and our wallets.

Continuation on my previous post:

I found an old doorframe in my back yard yesterday (SO excited!). It's got 5 or six horizontal windows (like the door in the second picture). I started looking up crafty things to do with it. This is what I found:

I really can't wait to start a project with this door and the windows I picked up. :) The creative juices are flowing...

slr

Long time no blog

OK, so I know I've been MIA for quite some time, but life has been way crazy and I just haven't been inspired to blog. Well, the inspiration hit me this weekend, so I thought I'd update everyone on the goings on...

So after being away from home and the office for almost a month (work trips, Caribbean, etc), I dove into officiating junior high and high school volleyball. It's been monopolizing my time lately, and I've been neglecting the dog and house, but when it's over (which is in a week or two) I should have a nice pay off which will definitely help with the moving expenses quickly approaching... It's been a lot of fun and I will definitely be doing it in the future. :) It is way hard, though, to go from being on the court to calling the shots... All I want to do is jump in and show the girls how it's done. It's torture to stand there and quietly watch terrible volleyball... torture.

In the time that I do have, though, I've been creatively inspired. This summer I finally painted my dresser that I've had for 3 years, and an antique table I picked up. They both turned out so awesome, that I've been on a DIY kick for the past couple months. When my friend Gracie recently posted about collecting old window frames inspired by the scene in "High Fidelity" where you see Lisa Bonet's apartment with a wall of old windows hanging from the ceiling, I fell in love with the idea just like she did. I'm not one to copycat, but I'm definitely a believer in "shamelessly stealing" which I suppose is the same thing. But good ideas are meant to be shared, so that how I justify it. So I stopped at the local antique mall and found 2 small frames for relatively cheap. :) I've got the itch now... I'm on my way to DIY bliss. :) I especially like the following examples:

In other news, I made a trip to Seattle last weekend before a work trip to Denver this past week. When I can, I try to combine personal trips with work trips. :) Anyway, I stayed with my best friend and we met up with some old friends and had a great time. It was, however, like a trip back to high school. I so wasn't ready for that...

In Denver, I made the best of a painful situation. I was being held hostage in a hotel conference room for 10 hours a day going crazy from the lack of vitamin D exposure. So I asked a Denver native what I should do while I was there and she told me 2 things: Breweries and Casa Bonita. The first one was easy. Lodo (Lower Downtown) was only a few blocks away, so I dragged a few coworkers along with me for some good beer, food and pool. Convincing them to join me at the weirdest Mexican restaurant ever was another story. But thankfully I had a few people that were willing to not act like adults for a couple hours... It was definitely a highlight of the trip.

And now I'm back home for a couple months, thank God. I'm thankful that I'm not scheduled to go away again any time soon. That's not to say I don't have plenty going on. :) You know me, I like to have plans.

And now I leave you with a few of my favorite pictures from the cruise:

 

Until next time... and I promise it won't be 2 months between posts. :)

S