It's time for the cruise!!!!!

HOORAY!!!!
It's time to leave for the cruise! Tomorrow morning we are getting up bright and early to drive to Tampa and leave on the Inspiration!

Isn't she a beatuy?
Here is the interior of our stateroom. We have a picture window!

heh heh can you tell I am excited? Maybe just a little.

We are going to Cozumel, Mexico.


We'll be back on Monday afternoon.

Matt and I haven't decided yet, but we think we are going to take a shore excursion that is horseback riding to some Myan ruins. Sounds like fun to me! We have some other choices, like ATVing to a private beach and kyaking to Passion Island OR going on a submarine to this underwater excavation site. COOL! Who knows what we will actually do. But no matter what...it will be AWESOME!



Okay well Matt has to go to work and he needs his computer so I am outta here.

We will take lots of pictures!

Love ya, everybody!!!!!!!!

October already?

Ohhh I do love Halloween. It is for sure my favorite holiday. I think I used to love it as a kid strictly for the candy, but as I got older I began to appreciate the cool costumes and the whole idea of being someone else for the night. I know whodathunkit? A grrrl who works in the theatre likes to pretend to be someone else. No stretch there, but still.... I just think it is so much fun and so magical. The one night of the year when you can just cut loose.

I read a thing on MSNBC that said Halloween is out and a new thing is in. It's called "Falloween." I think it’s just so the candy and greeting card industries can have more stuff to sell, but it’s all good to me since its more Halloween time.

No, I didn't make it up:
Falloween (fawl.oh.WEEN) n. An extended celebration or observance of Halloween, often beginning several weeks before the day; the retail season that extends from the beginning of fall through Halloween and Thanksgiving in the U.S..

Here is some interesting info I found on wordspy....
This term unites the words fall and Halloween to recognize the lengths to which many people now go to celebrate the latter. (I think most people know the origin of Halloween. Just in case, it was originally Hallow-e'en or Hallowe'en, a contraction of All-Hallow-Even, the night before All Hallows Day — now All Saints Day — which is November 1.) If you saw houses bedecked with pumpkins and skulls and cobwebs a couple of weeks ago, then you know those people are fully immersed in the Falloween thing.

I don’t care what it is called, I just like to celebrate and hand out candy and go to costume parties and eat cool treats. Can you imagine how cute my 7 year old step-daughter is as a PRINCESS???? Yeah, she rocks.

I think I actually get to go to a costume party this year. Jamie M. said she was thinking about having one at the Festival. Oooch I hope she does, but I have no idea what to wear. Frankly, I left all my costume stuff in Cedar City, UT. Because we always have the Superhero party and I guess I bring new stuff in the hopes that I will figure out a new costume....

But I digress....

I know the celebration we have now is nothing like the original. I know that people used to "celebrate" by leaving out offerings for the dead and by putting stuff on their houses to ward off the evil spirits.

Right now I sort of feel like I am an evil spirit. Maybe I am.....




DO you know this costs $60??!!!??!?!?!?! Ohh I want to go, but good goddess who can afford such prices???? Well I guess lots of people who make more money than me (just about everyone does!).

So if you happen to somehow have some extra tickets (that have ALREADY BEEN PAID FOR), I would love to have 2.

>;)

Told you I was feeling evil.


NOW IT IS TIME TO DECORATE THE HOUSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am not cut out to be a housewife.

What is up with Friendster being so freakin' slow? I swear they are doing maintenance every single day now and I can still never get around. Oh... it’s not that. I'm just frustrated. I am stuck home all day with no internet and all my pals working. I'm just bored. I can only spend so much time exercising and I can only wash so many clothes..... The most exciting thing I do these days is decide what I am going to make for dinner.

Well it only took 3 weeks this time before I am climbing the walls. I like having breaks between shows, but this is just too long. We have no money so I can't really enjoy my time off because I am worried that we will go over budget. Matt has picked up a part time job on the weekends and he thinks that gives him license to spend. I am pulling in a whopping $209 a week on unemployment and feel bad if I buy an iced coffee. I do not understand people who spend money recklessly. I mean, I am not saying you have to be a hermit or anything, but if you don't have enough money to buy something DON'T BUY IT!!!! That's just MHO, of course.

This is hard because I would like to get a lot of things off my chest, but too many people read this for me to feel comfortable. I'm not saying I don't love you guys, but apparently I need to say embarrassing things, however - I just can't get over it and write them. Silly, I know, but true true true.

I am not happy. I will just leave it at that.

*sigh* Computers....

AAAARGGGGH!

My computer is still not working.

Matty is trying to fix it, but its being difficult. He just said he wants to throw it out the window. Bummer. I guess that means it will be a while before I get a computer again. Grrrr. Matt is working a deal with his boss to trade overtime for a new laptop. That means I get this laptop, Cool. It’s old and clunky, but it works and right now that's all I care about. Can I tell you how boring it is out here in the 'burbs with no internet????

Yeah, I watch a lot of cooking shows.

Oooch, so Debbie came over tonight. She seems to be fitting in nicely with the OSF crowd. (Because it is impossible to dislike her!!!)

Hmmm...Well I got up to 16 minutes on the cross trainer today. I think I will try for 17 tomorrow. My ass is killing me though. Okay not really, but I feel weird not bitching!!

My new total of lost inches is 22!!! I KNOW can you believe it????? That is 4 dress sizes! Today I tried on some of my fat clothes and they were so big I had to get rid of them. It was silly to see myself in them. Oh yeah that feels good. Keep thinking good thoughts for me. I am finally losing weight the right way, but it is frustrating the hell out of me. I have only lost 28 lbs. in 4 months. But its a good weight loss not a crash diet weight loss......so I keep telling myself its okay and I will be fine and the scale is still going down no matter how slow..... blah blah blah

Well I'm off and babbling so it must be time to end this.

Okay okay I'm working on it.

YES I DID SAY I WAS GOING TO TRY TO WRITE EVERYDAY.

But my computer is broken. Hubby is trying to fix it, but its slow going. *sigh*

We had Kenzie this weekend! I have not seen her in 5 months. DAMN SHE IS CUTE! She's a cheerleader now with Pop Warner. She is a bulldog! I know, I'm not one to love cheerleaders, but this is what she wants to do and I have NEVER seen her so dedicated. She is even doing better in school because she knows she has to have good grades to stay in the sport.

I am going to get some video clips up here as soon as I can. I took a few photos, but since my computer still isn't up and running, you will just have to wait.

Ooch, I am getting ready to celebrate my 11 month anniversary as a NONSMOKER! Hubby and I will be on a cruise when I reach it. WOOT! Jamie M. says I should have a big party for my 1 year anniversary. Do you think? Would people feel weird about coming if they are smokers? (several of my pals are still hard core smokers) I don't want to make them uncomfortable.

Okay I know this was a crazy mishmash of crap. Welcome to my life.

:D