Sickly Week

Candid Shot of Michael Home sick this week.

Okay so this week has been kinda rough. Michael has been home since last Thursday which gets on my nerves ha ha. I'm used to my usual routine and having him in my face 24/7 makes me ill!! (just don't tell him!)
The doctor took blood, chest x-rays... the whole works! The diagnosis is Bronchitis and a nasty Stomach virus. They gave him 2 shots in the butt and sent him home for rest and some time off work. He goes back to work on Halloween how fitting for him ha ha.

When ever I'm not feeling well I tend to clean and bake. I think it comes from the fact that the cold weather(and bad colds and flu) always comes around the holidays and I always remember the smells of cookies and pies being made. So, I had a bunch of apples left over from the bobbing for apples and decided to make an apple pie.

Of course it came out delicious! Mike ate like half of it in one sitting!
It came out so well I'm being told I HAVE to make a few for Thanksgiving.
Maybe I will share my recipe with ya some day!

Well I don't have anything else to blog about so I'm done.
HAVE A SAFE AND HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!
BOO!

Halloween Party

Well, yesterday we had our Halloween party! Everything went as planned and everyone had a great time!
It was a bit frantic at the beginning trying to get everyone's make-up and costumes ready before the Weenee Roast at Uncle Ted's started at 7pm.

So, with only being a few minutes late we all piled into our cars and headed to Ted's house.
Almost the whole family was there. And almost all of us in full costumes. Ted already had the fire big and bright. It wasn't cold at all but it was super hot next to the fire!

We roasted Hot dogs and marshmallows. Aunt Marcia made home made Chili which was awesome! Sam made some Chess Cake(my favorite!). I wish we would have more of these throughout the year!!


Okay, now this picture freaked us out! I was trying to take a picture of Sam and Kim in front of the fire and something weird happened! You can see Sam closest to the cam. And then behind her you can see Kim's body and the light from her cigarette, but what happened to Kim's head?? It's just a dark spot at her neck where her head is supposed to be!! Spooky!

After we ate and had a few laughs we headed back to our house for the party!!

Michael looking not too happy! Mike has been sick all week! Which is so sad since Halloween is his favorite time of the year! But he did manage to have a great time. Him and some friends jammed for quite awhile but he over did it by playing the drums for too long and his foot is pretty swollen and hurting today!

The following posts will be of the food and the costumes of some of the guests. I didn't take as many pictures as I thought I would take. I was just too busy playing hostess and having fun. I also took some videos of the Bobbing for Apples. But it being so dark down here they didn't turn out so well and doubt I will post them.
All in all it was a great time! Everyone had fun and left either with a full stomach or completely drunk!
Can't wait for the next get together!!

Halloween Party- food

This is my kitchen table. I tried to come up with some cool ghoulish ideas for some snack foods for the party and they didn't turn out too bad. Gotta love the coffin shaped box I made for putting my tortilla chips in!

Salted bones and Jar of Boogers. This was simply some big pretzel sticks and a small jar of Cheese Wiz that was tinted with green food coloring to make it look like boogers.

You can barely see it but this was my Skull and Blood Dip. It was Cream cheese that was formed into the shape of a skull and then just had some salsa poured around it. It looked awesome before it was devoured! lol

Bloodshot Eyes. These are just normal Deviled Eggs made with food coloring. After I boiled the eggs I cracked the shells and put red food coloring on it so the outside would have the bloodshot effect. The put some green food coloring in the yolk part to create the iris. Lastly I took a small bit of the yolk mixture and added all the food coloring colors to make a black color for the pupil of the eye. They looked nasty but were delicious!

Okay so this is my Ghoul-ade. It's hard to see black punch, in a black punch bowl and in the dark no less. But this was the biggest hit of the party. All it contained is grape Kool-aid, Orange Kool-aid, Gingerale, Vodka and some ice made in gloves to look like floating dead hands.
When you mix all the liquids it turns into this murky looking swamp water lol. But everyone loved it! I had to make it twice! lol


And lastly(but I forgot to take pictures of) is my cookies! I made these cookies that taste like brownies! I cut them into Halloween shapes and decorated them. They turned out better then I thought they would!
I didn't have much left-overs so I'm guessing everything was good. Now I have a year to come up with some new ideas for next years food.

Halloween Party- costumes..

Yes this is me ha ha. You can't really see my outfit but it was like a witches dress with red flared arms and big red slit at the back. Michael did my makeup to make me look dead and beat up. My hair was teased to the roof and was colored blue! lol

Michael and Uncle Steve. Michael went as the Grim Reaper, he does have make-up on under the mask since he knew he wouldn't be wearing it most the night. We made Steve up to be a Nazi-Zombie. Steve won the prize for best Male Costume.

Brittany was of course a Vampire. Brittany is Mike's cousins Girlfriend. Her outfit was HOT and she looked really good in it! She had cool bite marks and everything. She took home the prize for best Female costume.

We did Aunt Kim (Steve's wife and my drinking buddy) up as a Zombie Nurse. She found a cheap nurses type dress at Goodwill and then we put blood and Zombie make-up all over her. I thought she looked awesome!

Nanny Went as a Floozy. She looked adorable! She didn't want to go the scary route and put all that gunky make-up and blood on. So she said she wanted to go as a "whore" I almost dropped dead laughing when she came out with that!



Aunt Sammy looked pretty awesome in Steve's old Army outfit. Everyone kept saying she looked like her late father and it almost shocked everyone! lol




Ashley went as Hannah Montana. We put all those Hannah Montana hair extension clip things in her hair. Put some glitter all over her. She put on her favorite Hannah top and covered it with Hannah stickers and Buttons. She looked oh so cute!!


Uncle Ted wore this crazy wolf's mask and nearly scared the crap out of me! lol

Ted's wife Marcia went as this crazy futuristic go-go dancer. She looked cute and had a blast till Ted got too tired hanging with us youngin's and made her leave lol



Mike's cousin Jason was some type of Hell Beast(as he put it)
He had taken off most of his outfit at this point.

This is Mikey B, Brittany's cousin, Mike's co-worker and a great friend. He came in late since he had to work but I thought his outfit was pretty rockin!


This is my friend Jessica she came dressed as the cutest woodland fairy! Which was a great choice for her since she is so short! She is isn't even 5 foot tall!


I didn't get any other pictures of Costumes since I got too involved in the whole party thing but everyone looked amazing!

Happy Birthday Ashley!

Happy 25th Birthday Ashley!!

Those might know who Ashley is but Ashley is Michael's cousin. Ashley was born with Down Syndrome and also had a rare condition called Moyamoya and had to have brain surgery as a little kid. She has been through a lot in her life but always has a smile and one of the happiest people you would meet.
Ashley turned 25 this week and for her birthday a few of her friends from Kentucky are spending the weekend to celebrate it. Ashley is absolutely in love with Hannah Montana, Billy Ray Cyrus, everything Disney, anything Country and horror movies. For her birthday she got to see Billy Ray in concert a few weeks back and got a ton of Hannah stuff plus Heroes seasons 1 and 2.
She had an awesome birthday and it's not over for her, she will have a whole weekend of shopping and eating out and stuff with her friends plus our Halloween party on Saturday.
Another great year for her!

Pre Halloween Goodness...

Light-up Spider-Web with a skeleton "caught in it". This hangs above my couch. What you cant see is all the cobweb strung all over it and everywhere.

Zombie grabber and cell wall-scape. This is at the bottom of the stairs and he reaches out to grab ya on your way down into our 'Hell'

Tunnel of Terror Door wrap. This is the door to the music/jam room. It's the start of the decorations there. More to come as I unpack them and buy them.

Skull candy dish. My singing/talking candy dish. One of my favorite things we have ha ha.
He sings "I ain't got no body" instead of nobody hehe

Coffintable. This was my best idea this year.
I have one of those coffee tables with the 3 glass panels, so I turned it into a 'coffin'. Just stuffed some clothes into a body and placed a head, I made for a haunted house a few years back, on it. Added some cobwebs, skulls, red lights, some blood and some cardboard sides to enclose the table into a 'coffin'. Everyone loves it! Ziggy had to jump on it to take the picture.

So far thats all the images I've got. I will update more by Friday since the party is on Saturday. I've done quite a bit more and have more to do. Can't wait for the party!! :D

On a sad note Batty still has not come home. Hope is slowly going away that he will come home. But I will always hope and be yelling out his name every day waiting for him! Ziggy has barely left my side since Batty disappeared. I think she misses him as much as I do.
Okay I guess it's bed time for me!
Till next time.

Batty come home please :(

Batty-Jo our oldest cat has disappeared!! :( On Wednesday night I let him out after his usual night feeding and no one has seen him since! Batty is like the best cat in the world, he never hurts or is mean to anyone! So, I'm hoping he is just living the high life with some loving family until he can find his way back home! Ziggy has been so quiet and almost depressed since Batty went missing. I just hope he comes home soon cause I miss him so much! :(

Well lookie there...

Before

Hopefully you remember some posts ago I mentioned about wishing Mike would get rid of that awful beard of his. Well looks like I finally got my wish! Mike is up for a promotion at his work. This new position would mean he would have to keep his facial hair to a minimum! YAY!!
He shaved it down before knowing if he got the job or not just to show them he is serious about wanting the job. He says he is 90% sure he is getting the job and so do the other people who work around him. We will find out for sure sometime this week, keep your fingers crossed!
The "Before" picture was taken a couple of weeks ago and he is gonna kill me for posting it ha ha. But come on can you imagine kissing that poof of hair everyday!?!?!

After
Now, doesn't that look so much better? It makes him look so much younger!! Sorry the picture isn't that great but he was being grumpy and wouldn't let me make the lights brighter. I will get some good pictures this weekend when we go to Knoxville to go Halloween shopping!! Hope to find some awesome deals to make this place scary as can be!
Now, about the job:
He would be off the machines and be doing QC or Quality Control. Meaning instead of him making the products he would be inspecting the products and making sure they are up to standards/code.
The new position would be so good for him! It would mean more money, more hours and a better job in the company. It would definitely make him feel that all his hard work, all the extra weekends he has worked and losing his so sacred heavy metal goat-tee was worth it!
Well that's the only update I have for now. I will keep you updated on the job thing. Hopefully we will find out in the next few days!

Just cause I'm bored..

Misfits Fiend

Don't really have much to blog about lately. Been real boring around here. Michael working as usual and I've just been at home trying to get this place cleaned out and ready to "Halloween-ize" this place. Halloween is Michael's favorite holiday. So, we spend just as much time and money decorating our place as we do for Christmas. Michael is stuck working this weekend(again) but next weekend we are planning a nice trip to Knoxville to hit up all the Halloween stores to get some new stuff. Also we will be spending quite a bit of time making homemade decorations. I found this awesome website that has over 800 do it yourself Halloween props and decorations. Which should keep us busy in the coming weeks!
This will be the second year that Michael won't be working at the Haunted house in Kentucky, which was one of his favorite things to do when we lived up there. But we will be having a huge party with lots of gross foods, lots of booze, lots of friends and some small prizes for best costumes and stuff. It really should be a lot of fun!

The picture above is the Misfits Fiend, the kind of mascot for the band "Misfits" I painted it on the Music Room wall for Michael. It is one of my favorite things I've painted. Misfits is Michael's absolute favorite band. So, it was a labor of love to paint it for him!

Our Tama Drum Set.

This is our Tama SwingStar drum set, our crowning piece in the Music Room. We've been slowly adding to it when we can afford it. It has Roto Toms, Ziljian symbols, and Wuhan crashes. You gotta love the special touches with the skull sitting between the Toms. I wish I had better pictures of all the guitars, basses and amps. But they are scattered all over the place and I was to lazy to set them all up and take a nice picture of. Maybe I will post them in a later blog.

Michael's back is all better now!(YAY!!) He has a bit of stiffness but that is mainly due to the change in weather and his injuries from the accident. But the change in weather is awful on me too. New season brings on new alergies. Back home in Canada I never had alergies like I do down here. Some days I will literally be laying down all day long with an ice pack on my face to try and relieve some of the pressure from my sinuses, which I totally hate! I hope someday my body will get used to the differences down here!!

Okay I've again rambled on more then I thought I would. So, now it's time for me to finish this and try to get some sleep!
Hope all is well with everyone!! :D