3 Thoughts Thursday: Halloween

1. Rainy Halloweens are yucky.
I, for one, am not interested in trick-or-treating in the rain. Nor am I interested in getting in and out of a vehicle in the rain with my child so she can go trick-or-treating. Luckily our town's T-O-T'ing got postponed until tomorrow due to the rainy weather and high winds.

2. Wearing a Halloween costume all day as an adult is not for everyone.
I do it because it's fun; but I don't look down on other adult people if they don't wear a costume. I mean, I'm probably shorter, so I can't look down on them. But still.

3. Fun fact: Every time I write "Halloween" I sing a song that reminds me how to spell it.
Sometimes I even sing it out loud, but usually I just think it. The song was a topic of discussion amongst some of my Facebook friends this morning. We learned it at Smith Elementary School back in the day. Here's how it goes:

H, A, double L, O

W, double E, N spells Halloween

Wordy Wednesday

Word of the day: phlegm.

It's my favorite word. Why? Because it's so fun. Obviously. It's fun to say. It's fun to spell.

Twitter Tuesday

Time to start getting all the craft stuff ready for Emma's Halloween party on Thursday. Or maybe I'll do it tomorrow. #procrastinatorsunite

Dear Weekend: Cramming it all in

Dear Friday,
Sorry I didn't get around to posting a blog today. I was super duper busy getting ready for the weekend.

Dear Worn Out Women retreat,
What a fun time! A bunch of women from church rode on a big church bus (i.e. old school bus) an hour away and got to spend a night at a gorgeous camp near Bloomington. Most people slept (or not) in the main building - which was a GORGEOUS log cabin, complete with many taxidermied animals on the walls - but MIL, my two aunts-in-law, and I slept in this tiny cabin across the lawn from the. Let's just say that I shared a twin bed with one of my aunts-in-law (we slept head to toe, like Charlie Bucket's grandparents in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory), and MIL shared a futon with my other aunt-in-law. We were served delicious food and heard from a wonderful speaker. Lots of laughs and tears and fellowship.

Dear Evansville surprise for MIL,
It worked! MIL's birthday was last Monday. We celebrated that day, but the REAL celebration was this weekend. Only MIL didn't know that. She and FIL were going to Evansville to see a band called The Devonshires on Saturday night. Little did she know that Big Daddy, my sis- and bro-in-law, and I were going to be there to celebrate with her (it was FIL's idea). After a lot of behind-the-scenes planning, lying creative storytelling, and secret-keeping over the past few weeks, the four of us rode down together to Evansville on Saturday afternoon and got all set up at a table with a great view of where the band would be performing. When MIL and FIL arrived, we started singing "Happy Birthday" at the top of our lungs so MIL would hear us. She finally spotted us, and was totally floored that we were there. We had a great time at the show, celebrating and partying. Score a big W for us!

Dear sleep,
I miss you.

3 Thoughts Thursday: Random randomness

1. Heated car seats are wonderful when you have a tendency to have a cold posterior.
My nose is cold, my hands are cold, my feet are cold, my tush is cold. So having the option of making the driver's seat warm up beneath me is glorious. Even if it makes me feel as if I've peed my pants when the seat gets all warm.

2. I call the smell left on my clothes after eating at Subway the "Subway stink."
The food is delicious. (I had the Tuscan Chicken sub on Italian herb and cheese bread today. OMG. Yum!) But the stink that stays on your clothes for hours and hours is terrible.

3. Whose Line is it Anyway? was the funniest show ever.
Ryan Stiles and Colin Mochrie were my favorites. Click here to see a clip of a few of the best of Ryan and Colin moments. This is one of my favorite Whose Line sketches of all time. And here are some Whose Line bloopers. You're welcome.