Idyllic Chick

I'm not a huge Amazon.com fan. I use it more for researching the availability of books and videos than for purchasing items. But this is cool as hell:



Maybe winning a Segway isn't that great of a thing, but imagine all of the obscure references that we'll be able to find covering our obscure interests! This is what the computer age is alllll about!

I am finally starting to get psyched about Halloween! It took me a little longer than it usually does due to so many other things going on. What usually gets me going is preparing for Necronomicon. Since I didn’t go to Necro this year , I didn’t even think about any kind of costume for that event. And lately I’ve been putting all of my crafty/creative time towards working on my clogging team’s ‘costumes’ for our upcoming open house (On Tuesday, November 18th at 7:30; Westside Recreation Center on the corner of NW 8th Ave. and 34th St.!).

But last evening Laura and I trekked to Center Stage, and that got me started in the Halloween spirit a little bit. Then Chris and I got a great start on his costume. That is what truly got me excited about the season. After some frustrations with cutting out the fabric, the pants of his outfit got sewn together quickly and easily, and they fit him perfectly. It was a pretty big victory for me, since I had a to a bit of pattern altering: a task with which I have little experience.

This morning C&I talked about what kind of food we want to take to the annual Halloween party. Then I remembered that I’m taking half a day off on Friday to help Laura drink booze. Um, I MEAN, help Laura decorate and prepare for the guests! And, boy howdy, didn’t that helped get me riled up for Halloween! Can't wait!

C&I had a lovely weekend in Jacksonville! We both took part in his sister’s wedding, and had a great time socializing with his urber-cool family. Granted, I was missing Necronomicon in order to fulfill my perhaps-some-day-to-be-family obligations, but I found myself finding many similarities between my weekend and what I would be doing had I been in Tampa with my chosen family:

Friday night Marcy wanted to try on her poofy red dress that she would be wearing for the ceremony. She and Susan and I spent most of the late evening doing some last minute sewing, trying on clothes, and plying each other’s bodies into undergarments designed to reshape our bodies into forms that require very little lung capacity. I was so reminded of having the pleasure of lacing Lorena into her corset in preparation of a night on the prowl at Necro. I wonder who got to do that for her this year?

I also specifically thought of Necro on Sunday morning. Eyes blurry and head pounding, I went to pee in the wee hours of the morning. On the bathroom floor I found the entire outfit that I had worn on the day before, where I had drunkenly left it after changing into my jammies. It fondly reminded me of something that Eric had said one year at Necro when I wasn’t able to attend: ‘It’s just not Necro without seeing Sharon’s leather strung all about on the bathroom floor!’ Flattering, no?

I did think of Necronomicon often over the past weekend. I miss CarolAndEric something awful, and Laura left me sweet messages on my cell phone of costume ideas and Lobster Boy autographs. Even more than those obvious reminders, the whole sensation of the wedding weekend reeked of Necro. Everyone was happy and having a great time. Laughing and eating and drinking. Meeting new people and rekindling friendships with folks who hadn’t been in touch for a while. And isn’t that what a good weekend is all about?

Courtesy of Joe: Hoom! Maps and Walking Directions

Last night C&I went to see _Cabin Fever_ with J&L. We were four of ten people at the show, and the other folks were far younger than us (Well, maybe not younger than Chrises.), so we didn’t find it inappropriate to refuse to bide by the normal movie-going rule of silence throughout the film. We laughed aloud, we cheered, we jeered. Surprisingly, we didn’t say ‘fuck’ nearly as often as the characters did. And we tried to. Laura didn’t even stop at making fun of the movie characters. She made fun of the movie *patrons* as well!

Sorry Stephanie, I loved the movie. Not as much as I loved _House of 1000 Corpses_, but _CF_ was everything a campy horror movie should be: gross, stupid, and funny. (Caution: spoilers ahead!) The guy you want to die first doesn’t. Nevertheless, when he does, he does so in a wonderful way. The nice girl is done wrong, and the bitch of the group dies in a horrible way. It was all beautiful. Just beautiful. And Chris thought so too. So be sure to ask him allllll about it!

I got so. Much. Done. Yesterday!
Believe it or not!
After lunch I cleaned off my desk. I have had so much work to do, I was just throwing papers on my desk and not paying attention to them until it was critical that I do so. Of course by that time, the papers were buried by other papers. This shows how long this paper tossing mania has gone on: by the time I got down to my desk-pad-calendar, I saw that the calendar was still on August. Bye-bye September! Sorry I missed you!

Now things are neatly tucked away into stack trays, organized by urgency. Once I got that done, I was able to step back and really concentrate on one thing at a time, without having all the mess staring at me from my desk, distracting me and pulling me into all sorts of directions.

I am on the road to organizational recovery. It’s a tough road, but I’ve got a nice, comfy bed onto which I may lay my head at the end of each day’s road.

I’m finding it very hard to concentrate on work this morning. I’m bopping from website to website (Tenacious D DVD releases on November 4th; I’ve never read any Poppy Z Brite, but Rob got her name in my head and I’m thoroughly enjoying her livejournal; Entered a sweepstakes to meet Rob Zombie and was miffed to find that I’m in the ’35-49’ age category now instead of the youthful ‘25-34’. So I lied.) and checking my e-mail over and over again. Sent Thomas to El Indio for breakfast for all of us. My sausage, egg, and cheese burrito was scrumptious, and I got to spend 20 minutes eating it instead of doing work.

I’ve actually found it hard to concentrate on just about anything over the past couple of weeks. I’ve favored vegging on the couch and flipping channels between ‘Law and Order’ and ‘American Justice’. I’ve ignored laundry, house cleaning, food preparation, and watering the plants. I don’t feel funky or depressed or anything. Well, except for a couple of days. But I just don’t feel like doing anything productive. And lawd knows there’s plenty of productive things that need done both at my home and at work! But maybe if I ignore them, they’ll go away. Then I’ll have more time for the Food Network. ;-)