And Now for something completely different...

Ok, So today is Halloween, the last day of the Festival of Samhain. It's after ten, and I'm a little drunk. We took the kids trick or treating and now it's Horror movie time. Wes and Ty are watching Tucker and Dale vs. Evil. I'm kind of watching it, but I don't have that good of an attention span right now. I just had a glass of grog which is about the equivalent of nine shots of Jägermeister. It has apparently taken me twenty minutes to write  five lines, and I'm not sure why I'm suddenly typing in bold print. Sorry.  There we go, that's better. Wes has a tradition of shaving off his beard during the festival of Samhain so that his Father can see him as he was, which is really sweet, and kind of like tempting the Gods, because if he dies without a beard, he can't go to Valhalla. Also, Our anniversary is on the 23rd, the first day of the festival so it's also like, "Happy anniversary baby, I'm going to look weird for the next week!" But seriously, I'd like to give a big shout out to my Grandparents tonight, who where Pentecostal and probably feel really odd about that... And also a good friend, Richard Sharp, who I miss greatly and hope he is having a wonderful after life in the Summer lands. I actually don't have a lot of experience with loved ones dying, for which I am very grateful. We recently lost my Mother-in-law and my Sister-in-Law Judy, and I believe that they to are also in a good place in the summer lands.

On a completely different note, I signed up for a couple of Subscription boxes, both of which are Beauty boxes so it should be very interesting to see how that goes. for those of you who don't know me very well, I currently don't use a lot of make-up.Actually, currently is an understatement, I have never used a lot of make up. I foresee a lot of calls to "Tech support" lol.

Ok, so on the note that everyone else has turned in for the night, and  I will take my Que and do so also. I'm guessing that I actually got the word wrong on that one, because I have no idea why they want me to capitalize the q in Que... maybe it will make more sense to me in the morning... Maybe not, but hurray for spell check anyway! Without which, you probably wouldn't have been able to read this blog at all! So I will try to give you an update tomorrow on whether or not I still think this blog makes sense. Oddly, I'd like to note that I can not seem to spell tomorrow correctly when I'm sober, but seem to have nailed it while drunk.

So I will now bid you all fare well, I hope you had a wonderful Samhain. may you have many more!

*Edit* Ok, so after looking at last night's post, I am surprised to see that it actually wasn't that bad. There were a few grammatical and punctuation errors, but all in all still legible. And I made at least one person Chuckle.

Monday Morning, Sigh...

Well, it was a long weekend, and I didn't get much done. We went to the Pumpkin Carving Festival on Saturday. Freyja had fun, but it was really crowded this year and I didn't enjoy myself nearly as much as I did last year. We only stayed for about an hour. The kids decided they would carve their at Jen's house that evening.

Which brings me to the highlight of my weekend. Date night! This may not seem like a big deal to some of you, but we haven't had a date night since we left Mississippi, and honestly, I'm pretty sure we took to baby with us on dates in Mississippi. So after four years we finally got out of the house without any kids! Thank you SOOOO much Jen!  We didn't do anything exciting, just went to the Chinese buffet and did some shopping. But it was incredibly nice to get some alone time with Wes, even if we did talk about the kids most of the time. Granted it was usually something like "It's so nice to be able to sit down and enjoy our food without having to keep the kids in line" or "It's so nice to be able to go shopping with out some one asking for this or that." We got some good deals while we were shopping and picked up a couple of Yule presents for the kids. Yes, we bought other people gifts while we were out celebrating our anniversary! When we got back to town Freyja was asleep on Jen's Sofa and Ty was watching Doctor Who. They had carved a couple of lovely Jack O' Lanterns for Samhain.
Upon our arrival at home we determined that Tyler is a Drama Queen. Michael had spent the four hours we were out playing on the X-Box and had forgotten to eat. He tried to make us feel guilty about that by saying he didn't eat because he couldn't cook anything. It didn't work because there is plenty of ready to eat food in the house. There was Fruit, Cereal, sandwiches, left over pizza, snack crackers, etc. Tyler then declares that Micheal has no room to complain about being hungry because he hasn't eaten in "6 Hours!" Really! We were only gone for four hours, Jen fed them dinner, and he was eating popcorn when we got there! I know that he ate popcorn because five minutes later he was remarking on how buttery it was. Oh, and he becomes even more dramatic if he gets called out on his drama!

Then, yesterday, I had another Ocular Migraine. If you don't know what that is, it's a migraine that starts in your eyes. It sucks. I had my first one when I was pregnant with Freyja. I was driving home from my Mother-in-Law's when I suddenly lost vision in my right eye. It was scary as Hel! Fortunately I wasn't driving yesterday when my latest one hit. It was still scary though. Hopefully Wes's insurance will kick in soon and we will be able to find out why I keep having them.

So that was my week-end. It had it's ups and downs. The good news is I'm not nearly as irritable as I was before. The bad news is my migraines are back and we don't know why. We still haven't finished Freyja's costume and the boys haven't worked on theirs at all.

Up-Cycled Gifts for the Holiday Season.

Today I am working on some of my Yule gifts. Also, Jen stopped by and offered to let me split her table at the crafts bazaar in December so I might just do that. I've started by up-cycling some shirts. I've got some collar and cuff accessories going, and I'm making some Wine bags out of Up-cycled shirt sleeves. If I get off my bum and get going I might have a couple of Wood Burned Rune Sets done by then as well. Trying to  find some simple up-cycling projects to keep the momentum going with. I'll post Pics as I get them. I miss my camera.

I'm learning a little everyday about how to blog. Today I learned that I need to sign up for AdSense so that I can possibly make some money while doing this. Which would be great, the idea of generating an income is wonderful! While I love being a Stay at Home, Homeschooling, Asatru Mom; it doesn't pay very well. It would be nice if this blog could at least get me a Loot Crate or Nerd Block Subscription. I plan on getting them anyway and posting my views on them here on my blog so it would definitely be helpful. So if anyone has any other ideas on how I might be able to generate a bit of an income doing this, please share!

Pineapple porkchops anyone?

So, today I decided to try doing something new with dinner. Pineapple Pork chops! I have no idea how this will go over with the family, but I'm going to give it a shot anyway. It's a fairly simple idea. I hope they like it. Freyja will at least enjoy the rice part of it... Wish me luck!

In other news, I was going to add a new page and do my product review on the RC Street Hawk we received from BzzAgent for free. Unfortunately, I have no idea how to add a page and my tech support is driving her daughter around today. Sigh, I'm really not very good at this! I'm sure I'll get the hang of it eventually. At least I won't fail another English class because of it! (Seriously, I failed a college English class because I couldn't make a Web Page) So stay tuned , hopefully I'll figure it out in the next couple of days.

It's my Blog, and I'll Blog if I want to!

So I had a friend help me set this up this morning. I figured I'd use it to write about the many interesting aspects of my life! Just kidding, my life isn't that interesting! So I'll just write about whatever I want to. Homeschooling, product reviews, Subscription box unpacking... you know whatever I'm doing at the time.

What I'm doing right now is working on my 4 year old daughter's Halloween costume. She want's to be a Raven for Halloween. Specifically she want's to be Huginn! How great is that? So I have been attempting to make her a costume. First off let me get this out in the open, I am NOT "That Mom"! While I hope the costume will come out to be cute, it's not going to be stunningly amazing. I'm up-cycling an old set of dark purple bed sheets for this (I'm hoping it will look black in the dark). I tore the fitted sheet into strips and then tied the strips to a couple of coat hangers that my husband bent into the shape of wings. My next step is to figure out how to rig a harness to hold the little buggers up. I'm definitely enlisting my husband,Wes's help for that. The plan for the fitted sheet is to turn it into a tunic that will fit over her winter weather clothes so that she can be warm and stylish! If there is enough fabric left we want to make a hood as well. I ordered some black feathers off of eBay that we will incorporate into the costume if they arrive in time. Wish me luck, I'll post pics when I have some to post (and find out how to post them)