Marooned Mermaid Bork: Hello November, you sneaky gal.

"What did i just say, i talk so much i tune myself out"- Kelly, The Office

I think that's why i forget to blog, i am so tired of hearing my own voice, why would i want to read it too? That and life has and always will be so busy that when i get downtime i just want to be entertained... and putting words together to form a sentence seems like work.

Im going to start with an amazing deal... okay so if you LOVE coffee like me, you will love World Market's Coffee. Better yet, go to worldmarketexplorer dot com and sign up for the coffee rewards (every 7th bag free). THEN print out or find in your sunday paper the generous $10 off of $30 coupon. THEN go on a wednesday (Double coffee perks) and buy all coffee (The 24 oz bags count as 2 bags on your rewards).

I buy 3- 24oz bags at (8.99each) and 1- 12 oz bag for (5.99each).

And because this counts as essentially buying 14 bags of coffee (wednesdays only) i in turn get a coupon for 2 free bags of coffee!

So, for less then $25 i have 9 bags of coffee.

SCORE!

It'll last us months! and its good!

/amazing coffee deal

So my Lemon tree gave me its first actual lemon about a week ago! I cut it up and put it in a gallon of iced tea i made with my home made lemon balm! So good!!! Then my sister called and told me she had a bundle of clothes she was giving away, so of course i went and scavenged and brought home a new wardrobe for myself! Free clothes are the best! Spent two nights last week taking the animals to churches fall fest's. They were nice programs. I had goats both times and man alive, if baby pygmy goats arent the sweetest creatures ever... the second night the two babies were fast asleep on my lap. Aside from waking up for their bottle (Yes, bottle!) they were snuggled and snoring on my lap for hours :)

Friday night was glorious... i came home around 10 after a long LONG day, Bili made me a Gin (Bombay Sapphire) and tonic, our new favorite drink, and i took a nice long warm bath and washed my hair! It had been three weeks since i washed my hair. I was due!

Saturday Bili and i spent most the day in the kitchen cooking together. We had 'The Nightmare before Christmas' playing as background noise and we marinated steaks, made 24 deviled eggs, curried pumpkin fritters, zucchini cake with whipped maple icing, and sour cream cookies. All this was going with us on sunday to a halloween party!

We had found a Candy Thermometer at Walmart for $3 earlier that day... and I LOVE IT! Im so tired of testing the hardball stage of sugar in a glass of cold water... and i LOVE my thermometer! SO MUCH! so much!

I even used it to test the hot oil for the fritters. And, well... i have to tell you... i dont deep fry much. at all. ever. And i wasnt thinking clearly... and when i was done with the oil... i... um... well... put the pan in the sink...and turned on the cold water....

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...Bili and I barely escaped the explosion. But now i can laugh at the oil that exploded ALL OVER our kitchen. After we cleaned it up the floor was still slick, so we danced in our socks and slid around for awhile. Made it all better!

I've also been running for 8+ weeks every mon/wed/fri. Using a simple couch to 5k program. A few weeks have been repeated if i found them particularly hard or was unable to complete what was expected. Last friday was the first time i ran 20 minutes straight (2miles) without stopping, Ever... in my life. So it might sound silly, but im proud of myself. My Aunt just ran a marathon in a little over 3 hours and qualified for the Boston Marathon (all the spots were filled in record time (8hours) and she didnt get one). But i cannot imagine running for three hours... my schedule has me running 25 minutes straight this friday and that seems crazy to me!

But im doing it, and not giving up, so hooray for me. AND BONUS- my thighs are freaking awesome... seriously. Muscles GALORE! And i dont get winded running up the stairs. HA!

Found the joy that is home made face products.... ie: Aspirin Mask: 1 packet of BC powdered Aspirin (or 2 uncoated Aspirin pills) + tiny bit of water + 1 T honey= awesome face mask. Apply all over face, let it dry for 15 minutes then wash off.

awesome!

Also, 1T milk + 1T knox gellatin = mix and microwave for 10 seconds. Let cool a bit and spread on your nose and other blackhead ridden areas. Let dry completely. Peel off... and there ya go, home made biore Strip. CHEAP!

Sunday we hauled our dog and all that foodage to our friends house to eat, drink and pass out candy to kids. I had found a Conan O'Brien face to print off the internet and made it into a silly mask for our friend Drew to wear. Im sure the kids thought we were nuts but we thought it was hilarious for the Skeleton passing out candy to also introdruce his friend, TV Personality Conan O'Brien, who was hiding in the bushes. Who in turn told the kids to watch his new show on TBS.

Like i said, the kids were confused, but our tipsy asses were most definitely amused!

Today i need to get out and rake the yard some more. Our first clean up attempt got us about 9 huge bags of leaves filled. And we cram them in like no ones business. I think ill get that many or more today...and there is still another 1-2 more clean ups left on those trees. I wish our Maple would drop leaves like the Dogwoods did. My dogwoods are already done and DONE!

Looking at my calender i realize in a few short weeks i will be decorating for Christmas! I always decorate the day after thanksgiving because Bili works and I don't and I have almost a whole day to make the house cheery and beaming with holiday delight! And I don't decorate for any other season so its my one day a year to play with seasonal crap! I'm getting a little sick of our trees, so this year i will hang assorted ornaments from my curtain rod on pretty ribbon at varying lengths. Display Window Style! It will look good since i already hang giant balls from the front porch each year :)

And now, pictures:

Third Annual Zombie walk from a few weeks back! Bili and I were a 1950's housewife/husband!

Former Room mate, forever my son, Scot and his awesome cowboy costume.

this year's video about the zombie walk ... Bili gets interviewed up front! woot!

Part Two!

Since there was an after party at the gallery with a live band and booze i went home to shower and change in between... i didn't want to spend all night in pore-clogging grease makeup. But the fake blood stained my face so i had to reapply it for the night. Bili of course didnt bother changing, he enjoyed his green face.