Friday at work turned out to be all right. When I got home, I was so happy that I had an entire weekend, finally. We watched Sean of The Dead that night.
Saturday was jam-packed with fun!
I put some clothes on hold at Mervyns (forgot my department store card), I bought new Dickies pants at the army surplus store, some friends met us and we went to the local specialty Halloween store, and from there, we drove over 40 miles just to go have sushi! Well, two reasons for that: it’s my favourite sushi joint and I wanted to celebrate the new job and first paycheck, AND we had tickets to tour through the Winchester Mystery House by flashlight! There were seven of us friends, but we were stuck having to tour with a group numbering a total of 25. That meant we were stuck with teenagers. Blech. Not only that, the tour guide was herself either a teen or in her early twenties, and sounded like a valley girl, and dressed something like Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets Xena Warrior Princess. As a matter of fact, lots of people felt the need to dress in Halloween costumes to tour the mansion by flashlight. I have no idea if it’s just because it’s so close to Halloween, or if people do this every time there’s a scheduled flashlight tour. In either case, I found them to be retarded.
But I still enjoyed touring the house with my friends! I’m happy to know that I’m still creeped out by the same spaces in that house, no matter day or night when I tour the place (I’ve toured it three times now). This makes me want to research the house and its hauntings further.
We got home around midnight, but then realised we had to set our clocks back an hour to end Daylight Savings Time.
I was so tired, but then, for some reason, I got a burst of energy. Weird. So I started tidying up and planning for what the house altar will look like. That finished me off for the night, and I slept soundly.
While I had weird dreams, I’ll have you know I did NOT dream of work!!!
Woohoo!!
Today I spent most of the day doing laundry and cleaning house and putting up more of our spo0ky décor. I’d call it Halloween déor, but we keep it up year ’round. :p
While I went about my day, I started hearing a scrub jay outside, and I remembered that I’d been wanting to update you on what sort of critters we have near the new place. We moved to our new abode in early July, and since that time, I’ve been hearing scrub jays as well as the familiar mourning dove that I used to hear back at the old apartment.
We also have black squirrels in the neighborhood, but not near our house, cuz our house has a plethora of cats roaming in and around it. Of the six units in this old Victorian, at least four are occupied by cats, and of those four units, three of them have indoor-outdoor cats. Ours is the only unit to have indoor-only cats.
My legs are SO sore from all the walking and standing I’ve done over the last two days. Clearly I do not get enough exercise through the week, what with all the commuting and sitting at a desk at work all day. I’m going to have to hook my bike up on the trainer in the Kitchen to get some winter exercise.
I don’t mean to ruin my own fun, but I realised today that my need to clean and organise is a precursor to george. He’ll be here around November 8th. So I’m 11 days out. Gotta start takin’ better care of my diet and health from now til then. Although I was good to myself last week and popped lots of Vitamin C and Zinc tabs as soon as I started getting a sore throat after all that overtime work and exhaustion.
Oh and as of yesterday, we’re officially in Mercury Retrograde. I need to watch my tongue and my attitude, my spending habits, and my tendency to overshare during Mercury retrograde. Pay attention, zept!!!
Getting back to the subject of Halloween for a moment… this year I WANT to stay close to home. I think it’s the first time ever that I don’t feel the need to be at some big party somewhere. We have the option to hang out at a nearby friend’s house and pass candy out to the kids, so I may do that. Afterwards, I’m content to be at home and focus on the coming year and what I expect of myself.
Although I no longer believe in deities, I do still celebrate Halloween Pagan-style, which is to say that Halloween is my New Year’s Eve.
So tonight was rather relaxing for me to finally set up our house altar. It needs some finishing touches by my boyfriend, as it’s a shared altar.
And with that, it’s time to curl up with a good book.