Halloween Party 08

Mystery Machine with Scooby Doo

Bob guards the 3H.com store

House 'O Phreaquezs

Cheese log mummy man with cream cheese bandages

My first doll cake

Kitchen party fun

My jester costume...one eye is orange and the other is teal...hard to see in the pic

There will be more photos on my flicker account!

The Great Pumpkin Carving of 2008

Sally from Nightmare before Christmas. It took me about 4 hours from start to finish. I'm rather happy it stayed in one piece as some of the lines are very thin. I guess I've missed my calling as a pumpkin artist :)

Veil Fan Demo

So ignore the lameass music in the background...this is a demo of my new toys at OUTober Fest in downtown Lafayette today at about 7 pm after our performance.

Tis the Season

It's after my birthday, so I can start decorating for Halloween! It's my favorite time of year...the leaves change, its not so frigging hot, and the neon colors and the great white flab goes away and you have pretty jewel and earth tones everywhere!

I need to figure out what I am going to be his year! Our Halloween party this year will also have a run through of the chocolate ritual...so maybe I will just go as the Dark Chocolate Goddess. Every pagan I know seems to get all serious and death worshipping around Samhain. They need to get that stick out of their Wiccan asses and revel in the harvest celebration. Yes yes yes, we need to acknowledge our ancestors, but does it have to be so darn depressing and gloomy? This is why I gave up Wicca for Lent years ago. Don't burn out the hamster working through that statement. Life is and banquet and I'm not going to be one of those people who starves to death!

My Garden as of Midsummer 08

The Story so Far

Ahh...it's finals week for ASL 201. I made it through my summer of insanity. Actually it was not as bad as I thought it would be. I could have taken another class at the same time, but I don't have enough time and get 30 hours a week in at work too. My knuckle joints are a bit sore, but no carpel tunnel...yeah...

My back is doing much better and I'm even dancing again. I've missed being on stage and just letting myself enjoy movement. I sucked not being able to have the full range of movement...I'm still only at 75% of what I had.

Sabastien's age is starting to show. My 15 year old kitty is getting on in age. I'll be surprised if he makes it to grad school with me. He's been through every apartment move, three different states, at least six 12 hour drives from IN - PA, two airplane trips, my homeless roving gypsy lifestyle in California, the loss of my other cat and his daughter Rayna, his new wrestling partner Sam, and now my return to Purdue. He has outlived all of his littermates and has been my familiar and guardian for all these years.

My strawberry and cherry tomato plants are just thriving and making fruit all over the place. Its so cute to pick off the little tomatos as they ripen. Some of my flowers have finished for the year and now I have bare patches in my garden...oh well.

More later...

Too Much to do and Nothin' to Say

Life has been hectic. Since May...

Joe & Jon moved back to Lafayette. Karen divorced Bob and took off to Arizona with Bailer. Bob, Jon and Joe moved into a three bedroom townhouse. Karen left her old apartment trashed, so we had to move and clean the left over stuff. Kyle is starting his apprenticeship with me to becoming a Reiki Master Teacher and may be going to Michigan for grad school. I've done more Reiki attunements in the last three weeks than I have for the past two years. Joe and Jon finally got jobs. Oasis Dancers is going a mile a minute with perfomances all summer. I've taken ASL 101 and I am almost finished with 102. I've done a performance review at work. I'm hand holding a number of people through some major policy changes at work that don't make a lick of sense. My blood sugar is all screwed up, so I don't know if it really is a diabetic issue or if it is the reawakening of my primal spirit that has been messing with my head...

These are my friends. My brain is at max capacity for fucked up shit.

I need a real vacation!