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It’s time to start thinking about Halloween!

August 21, 2007 by Tricia

You may think it’s a little early to start thinking about Halloween, but it’s already the end of August and I know people who start planning what they’ll do next Halloween almost from November 1st.

It’s a big deal.

I mean really. If you celebrate Halloween it’s one of the only times of year when you can truly be someone else. Dress yourself up, even take on a slightly different personality and get out there and have a good time.

In one of my career incarnations I was a makeup artist. I suppose I still am as I have the training behind me. As a result of my skills I was always quite popular come Halloween. Friends and family would come over to have me do their makeup and add some special effects to their costumes.

I guess you can tell that Halloween is still one of my favorite celebrations. I haven’t actually started to plan this years Halloween celebration, but I suppose it’s time to start thinking about it.

zombie.jpg The Costume Cauldron has a huge variety of Halloween costumes and items to decorate your home with, in fact it’s said that they have 14,000 Halloween related items.

They have everything from Sexy Halloween Costumes, to kids costumes, costumes for couples, movie or celebrity related costumes, funny costumes and so on. Just about anything you can think of really. They even have theatrical makeup and accessories to complete your look.

I think the year that I had the most fun helping people with their costumes was the year we all dressed up as the living dead or zombies. I had a lot of fun doing the makeup for that. The Costume Cauldron has a great zombie rot costume that would let anyone look like the living dead!

outhouse.jpgMy sister always had great costume ideas.

One year she had me help her dress up as a tampon. Unfortunately it was supposed to be a used one! Another year she went as a turd. Yes you heard me right.

Now I didn’t search all that hard for one of those types of costumes but I did find an outhouse costume! Isn’t that great?

If you enjoy Halloween as much as I do visit the Costume Cauldron and see if you can find something interesting to wear this year.

I’d love to hear what you might be dressing up as!





Filed Under: Cool stuff, Culture, Entertainment, Fashion, Home and Lifestyle, Recreation, Shopping Tagged With: accessories, adult costumes, career, celebrity, celebrity costumes, couples costumes, creative, decorations, dress up, Family, friend, friends, funny, funny costumes, Halloween, halloween costumes, halloween decorations, help, home, house, idea, kids, kids costumes, kit, living dead, makeup, outhouse costume, planning, pumpkin, pumpkin carving, sexy costumes, sister, style, theatrical make up, zombie

Oh my head!

August 21, 2007 by Tricia

I’m having terrible luck these days.

I feel like I’ve been getting sicker and sicker with my Crohn’s disease over the last few weeks. Then last week I had flu like symptoms that hung on until Saturday or so and then as if that wasn’t bad enough I woke up with a terrible migraine on Sunday.

My headache was so bad that I lay on the couch most of the day and evening and took far too many Tylenol. Late in the evening I tried putting a heating pad on my neck and shoulders and it helped a bit but not enough.

Finally Chris offered to massage my neck and shoulders so I sat on the floor in front of him while he kneaded my neck, shoulders and back. Every time he tried to massage with a bit of force it hurt really bad. I know he wasn’t massaging hard at all but it left my whole upper back and lower neck feeling bruised! In fact the area still has a tender bruised feeling and it’s more than 48 hours later!

Oh and I still have a headache! Not as bad as on Sunday, but it’s still there.

I wish all these aches, pains and symptoms would just go away. Even if they’d only disappear for a day I’d be happy.

Filed Under: Chronic Pain, Health Fitness and Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Inflammatory bowel disease, Life with Chris Tagged With: aches, aching, back, bruised, Chris, couch, crohn, crohns, disease, flu, headache, Health and Fitness, Health Fitness and Beauty, heating pad, hurt, IBD, Inflammatory bowel disease, migraine, muscles, neck, offer, pain, Saturday, shoulders, sick, sunday, symptoms

Some of my solar lights aren’t working

August 21, 2007 by Tricia

I think I’ve got to get some new solar lights for my garden. We actually bought some new ones this year and they’ve got a switch on them so that you can activate them, but a couple of them don’t seem to be working.

I’ll have to go out in the garden at night and figure out which ones aren’t on. It could be that the batteries just aren’t recharging in the sunlight, or there might be something wrong with the light fixtures, or for all I know maybe we simply didn’t turn on that little switch that activates the light.

I guess I should check them before I think about buying new ones huh?

I’m just disappointed. We have a fair amount of solar lights spread out throughout the garden, but when a few areas aren’t lighting up properly at night it looks funny to me.

I’m the only one bothered by it since they’re in the backyard … but still … I want the things that I buy to work.

Filed Under: Decor, Great Sites, Home and Garden, Home and Lifestyle, Home Decor, Living Green, Recreation, Shopping, Tricia's Garden Tagged With: backyard, batteries, buy, buying, garden, light, light fixture, lights, night, plants, solar lights, sunlight, turn on, work

Oh oh I’m stuck planning a party

August 21, 2007 by Tricia

Chris’ uncle is turning 80 in November and his mother just called us and put us in charge of planning a surprise party. Yeah, we’re going to surprise and 80 year old man. I hope we don’t scare him into having a heart attack!

So now I’ve got to rent a hall, plan a dinner and send out party invitations. Oh I have to try to figure out the guest list too, preferably before I send out the party invitations of course.

Normally I don’t mind planning parties, but I kind of feel like this has all been put on me. Everyone else is out of town so I really won’t have any help. Also, if I can rent a hall for the right date the party will take place only a few days after Chris and I come back from Las Vegas, which means I’ll be out of town the weekend before the party that I’m planning. So forget any last minute arrangements!

Hopefully this doesn’t end in chaos.

Filed Under: Entertainment, Family, Great Sites, Home and Lifestyle, Life with Chris, Recreation, Socializing Tagged With: 80th birthday, birthday party, chaos, Chris, dinner, hall, Las Vegas, men, menu, mother, November, Party, party invitations, planning, Rent, rent hall, surprise party, weekend

The concert was fabulous

August 20, 2007 by Tricia

Well my husband went to the Rick Wakeman concert last night with the kind man who saw my post and gave him a ticket absolutely free of charge.

He said it was amazing. Chris wouldn’t stop talking about the concert for at least an hour when he got home. I’ve nicknamed my husband SirTalkaLot so you can imagine the barrage of babble I found myself listening to. LOL

He had last week off work and had to go back to work today so I kept telling him just to settle down so he’d be able to sleep. He didn’t. He’s a musician as well so he had the chords going through his head and as a result of being so hyped up he didn’t sleep well.

I’m glad he’s so happy, but I swear sometimes it’s like living with a teenager!

Filed Under: Entertainment, Home and Lifestyle, Life with Chris, Music, Nightlife, Recreation, Socializing Tagged With: amazing, back to work, chords, Chris, concert, free, go back to work, happy, home, husband, Music, musician, off work, Rick Wakeman, sleep, teenager, ticket

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