"You Have Been BOO'd"

Halloween is upon us! I have been busy getting goodie bags put together for my grandchildren this past week. For the first time in my life I made caramel apples! I think I did a so-so job....I will post pics so you can see them later in the week. It was a fun job to do-especially the decorating. I love the holidays-Halloween really gets it going for me. The next one will be Thanksgiving , to get me really pumped about Christmas. Well, really I am already pumped about it. I will soon be able to start buying for my SS partner.....ooooh what fun!

I "BOO'd" a good friend and neighbor last nite-about 7 p.m. me and the hubbs get in the car with our bucket of goodies, drive by their house once, then twice, stop, and he jumps out running up to their house,planning to ring their doorbell and run out and hide behind a big tree they have in their front yard. About that time their next door neighbor pulls into his driveway, and jumps out of his truck yelling "HEY!!! WHAT ARE YOU DOING? WHAT DO YOU WANT AROUND HERE?!!!

The hubbs says "JUST DROPPIN' OFF SOME HALLOWEEN SHIT, MAN." (You got to understand the hubbs didn't want to be doing this in the first place...lol) I had driven around the block after dropping him off and was not aware of this confrontation and conversation...when I picked him up he was walking very fast down the street. He said it was probably ruined, because the guy had gone over to the "BOO'd" partys' house as the hubbs was walking away. He said he heard the excited neighbor describing him, to my friends, as he walked away. Oh well, it is the thought that counts, right?

Happy Halloween all!

Last Day to Sign Up For SSS

Yup - you heard me right. This is the last day to sign up and participate in the SSS! If you want in, you had better hurry up and get your name in the pot. There are already over 80 people who are signed up. Last year it was so fun to watch as each person got their gift from their Secret Santa and posted pictures and blogged about it. This year I will be able to watch as my recipient opens the gift that I chose for him/her then post pictures and blogs about it. Let the fun begin! Hurry over to Decisionally Challenged blog and sign up before it is too late!

A Surprise Birthday Party

I am going to a surprise birthday party this Saturday. I am happy/sad and mad. I am happy because it is my older brother Willie's birthday (and his twin sister Wilma's). It is the first birthday party he has ever had in his life and a surprise party no less! I am sad because he is so very sick. He was diagnosed with COPD about 5 years ago and it has really gotten bad. He can hardly take a step without being completely out of breath. I am mad because he is such a sweet big brother, this is not fair to be happening to him. I want to just scream! He was always the one we looked to for help and guidance when we were young. He stepped right up when Mother died and took us by the hand and led us through it. I am mad and sad because I cannot stop the world for a little while, so that I can spend a little more time with him, and tell him how much he means to me, how much I love him, and appreciate him for who he is. You know how you get that dreaded feeling that something bad is coming or something horrible is about to happen? Well, I have that feeling, and it is just making me sick to my stomach, and I cannot do anything to stop what is about to happen to my sweet brother.

I Interrupt this blog for SSS

I have joined the Secret Santa Soiree! I am sooooooo excited to be part of it this year. I watched as each person received their Secret Santa gift last year, with envy. I wanted so much to be in on it but did not have a blog. Well this year it is going to be different, and I am in! I love Christmas, and all that goes with it. The sights, smells, the giving, the food, the family together, everything! I am ready to start buying for my blogger-only trouble is-I dont know who she/he is yet. I will be reading a lot of blogs this week so that I can get prepared, by trying to get to know who all the people in the SSS are and find out a little more about them. The deadline for signing up is Oct. 15, so if you want in-you better hurry. The last time I looked at the "linky" at Decisionally Challenged, there were close to 80 participants already!