The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

1. The Good
I missed my little girl while she was gone, so it was good to have her home Sunday night. See her all sprawled out on the couch eating a cookie and reading a book? Like mother like daughter! That is definitely the epitome of a good time to me. Also on the good list -- the gingersnaps the Martin's brought by. At Church I was teasing Bobby and Kathy that they should make me some cookies "just because." yes, i am so lame, i will try and get anyone to make me cookies. if you are reading this blog wondering what kind of gift you could get me/way you could say thank you/ practical joke you could play on me -- make me cookies. Late Sunday night there's a knock at my door and I look through the peep hole to see a plate of cookies gliding back and forth in front of it. Of course Bobby made me work for it -- he held our front door shut for a good minute or two. I love funny little surprises like that.

2. The Bad
How can Halloween be almost here? I'm so unprepared for the approaching holiday/birthday rush. I know people have been teasing me about having my Christmas cards done, but the truth is: I HAVEN'T DONE A DARN THING! I'm tempted to just Costco them this year. Would that be so horrible? Take my poll and let me know! I won this cute Halloween sign when I subbed at Bunco last week. Of course Bonnie had the yummiest food and the cutest prizes. I really need another trip to Utah because last trip didn't leave any time for shopping. I still need to visit Iron Works/Rod Works?? and then Taipan. Holy cow! People always have the cutest stuff from there. So who's willing to put me up and do a lot of shopping with me?

And of course, I HAD to pick up some Halloween PJs for my Halloween lover. He keeps bringing me the catalogs with Halloween stuff on the cover, "Please read this to me Mommy?" He had to take the Oriental Trading one with him to the gym today. My boy loves pumpkins!

I am secretly excited to get out my orange bins -- Dustin told me I had to wait until October. Last year was the first year I decided to celebrate Halloween, after learning that our School District pretends like it doesn't exist, and I went a little crazy buying stuff, plus the after-Halloween sales. . . OK, maybe Halloween approaching isn't toooooo bad.

3. The Ugly
Allergies. I am hideous and I feel like a train wreck. My throat is sore, my nose is completely stuffed, and I feel like my head is full of cotton balls. My eyes are the WORST! Be prepared for the picture I'm about to post. You know how people tell you they are going to post a horrible picture of themselves without makeup/without their hair done/post baby/whatever and then the picture of them is actually GORGEOUS? Yeah, that's not going to happen here. Luckily I can just wear my sunglasses everywhere so no one can see my eyes. They are puffy and red, plus the crusty eyelashes each morning. I can't resist itching them either, so I've sot of given myself a blister under one eye. I've gotten so old, I can see the use in putting cucumbers to relieve the swelling.

So yeah, if you see me wearing sunglasses in some dimly lit store -- now you know why.