I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's

It’s Halloween. MY holiday. And what am I doing? Sitting at home by myself. No plans really – other than going to Matthew’s sister’s house tonight. Most importantly – today is Bijoux’s birthday! She is 4 years old. A most important day that brought that baby into this world and into my life.



That’s her modeling a mink coat I want to sell on Ebay. I should get on that.

Matthew was supposed to take today off, but something came up at work and he had to go in. I guess the entire air traffic control system would just shut down if he weren’t there. Oh well. They give us money every 2 weeks so I will shut up.

I wanna be Bob Dylan. (sorry. Listening to The Counting Crows)

The builder has finally approved our contract and they have drawn up the prints, so the house is a go. They even gave us hard hats the other day. Hopefully it will be finished by May. I would like to be in there by summer. Now we have to get this place fixed up and ready to sell. The master bathroom has to be painted and we need to remove some furniture. It’s WAY too cluttered in here. I want to have another yard sale, but I guess I will have to wait until spring. I have an entire set of Pfaltzgraff dishes to sell. I could try Ebay, but the shipping would be a pain in the ass.

Back to the house. I have been comparing this house to our house in Georgia and really we got a lot more for a lot less money in Georgia. This new house is about the same size and basically the same floorplan – but it costs $65,000 more! Can you believe that??? The cost of living up here is just ridiculous. Matthew got a pretty nice cost of living raise when we moved up here, but we never really saw it because things cost so much more.

I like having a glass block window in my bathroom and they came back with a price for it. $575. For real glass block. There’s a difference. In Georgia they charged us $900 for acrylic. This house does have some nicer features than our old house. Like all chrome fixtures and door knobs rather than that tacky brass shit.

There is no pain you are receding… (some Pink Floyd now)

We are doing our selections (carpet, cabinets, counters etc) next Friday so we have to get our ducks in a row by then. I am thinking of doing brown bricks – a nice mixture of light and dark brown with white trim. How does that sound? I notice a lot of tan trim with the brown bricks and I don’t like that. I like the contrast of white.

Freebase! Don’t you get too high baby. (Grandmaster Flash. My musical tastes really run the gamut eh?)

So in the time it took 2 songs to play, I typed a total of 5 sentences. Ok so I get sidetracked easily. Sometimes I have the attention span of a 4 year old.

I’m getting hungry. I guess I need to feed my mother today. Do I really want her to live with us? Can I handle that? So long freedom. When I was a teenager, I felt like I was in a prison. Do I really want to relive that? It’s bad enough now. But to have her in the same house? I don’t know. The money will be nice. That’s not nice is it? But really if she pays us a few hundy a month for rent, we can get the basement finished quickly. And she will still be able to save some money in case she needs it in the future.

What would an angel say; the devil wants to know. (Fiona Apple)

Anyway, I guess I should hop in the shower and go pick her up.

Happy Halloween all! I hope you enjoy it. And next year - party at my house! Big one. Halloween, Bijoux’s 5th birthday and my 30th. You will need to be there.