You Know What Time It Is!

Happy day after Labour Day!

( Yes there is a u in there. )

So all the wee children are back to school today and doesn't that mess up things for everyone! Traffic and schedules being changed. On Sunday I went through Walmart with Blondunicorn and it was anarchy but I knew this before I went there and boy didn't a tiny part of me got all nostalgic about the first days of school for my kids and picking out books and pens and pretty girly stuff all pink and sparkly! Until your jammed up cart to cart with screaming 5-12 yr olds and then you think "Thank god that is over!"

I was all over it like most parents, cheering along side them happy for the "mom I'm bored" and "I don't want to go to bed at 8" arguments to be put in the suck it up category because I'm free of you now for a few hours! I feel for you guys but doesn't it screw up everything else? Buses that ran at certain times over the Spring and Summer have been shifted or completely removed from service, traffic crawls, and all the TV stations change their Logos. On the side though snack foods are much cheaper during the school year and that's right up my alley. I thought Sunday was bad well she had to go back there yesterday and 2 hrs of torture later she came home frazzled and in complete disarray wide eyed and in "I'm never doing that again mode."

With everything back to normal, the power grid back up and running and BC's Monsoon season coming up as Fall approaches...you know what this means...

My absolute FAVOURITE time of year is coming, I can feel the changes and that makes me very...very...excited. Now I'm not big on craft blogging but Bean has a rather large project or 10 she wants to do involving making a large mess on the Prop/Halloween side in the form of a 6 foot tall Reaper and comfort things on fall foods side so I'm thinking of running video for those projects instead so we'll see what happens. Bean and BU are Pintrest junkies so I'm sure they will have stuff on their...um...boards? Anyway The 3rd Annual Halloween Party, Fall returns and new shows... I love new shows!

Limitless
BlindSpot
Supergirl
Mr Robot
Gotham
The Bastard Executioner
SUPERNATURAL!
AHS
TWD

Can you tell the ones I'm excited to see?

On the writing front...I'm still progressing (ya me) and have made quite a few new friends along the way ( Thank you Twitter! ) I guess I should thank G+ as well although I find that it reminds me of Tumblr but more interactive if you choose to be in turn it's making me more comfortable in my writing skin even though I still have about 5 chapters of Revisions to go through and have been slacking on but I'm determined to get those done this week and as usual on Wednesdays I post the story progression on CF

Anyway guys it's a short one today lots to do lots to plan.

Video...oh boy

Have a great week!
See Ya
S

I Think I Snorted When I Laughed

I've been talking to a few people and it seems like this is the year of changes for almost all of them. At first I thought it was just people around my age but it's not just them.

Many employment changes, weddings, babies, graduations, dreams and nightmares. You all know about the changes going on in my life so far. Now after B has pulled it together and graduated early. she's all done! 

My girls are grown and their lives are their own...NOW WHAT? Trying to figure out what to do with myself seems to be the hardest part now that I'm laid off even though I'm still not quite off yet.

I always try to focus on the humour in The Zoo and there's plenty of it. It's hard to pick which one to talk about. I have a pick for this week and it's kind of at her expense but hey...she's used to it and does it to herself! Now my girl has this bucket list of weird things she wants to do. One of those things is to go grocery shopping in Walmart in a gorilla suit.

Why you ask?...

Because she's bat shit crazy that's why.

So me being me stepped it up a notch and fed into crazy.

Me: Why a gorilla?
Her: I don't know? I just have to do it!

Me: But why a Gorilla? Why not an Orangutan or...OMG a Baboon! (The light-bulb over my head shows up just as horror starts to sneak into her eyes)
       You have chaps! (She rides a Harley)
      We can paint your ass blue! (Horror fully takes over)

Her: Why?...
       NO...
       NOT GONNA HAPPEN!

Me: But it would be so funny! (Almost falling off my chair laughing because I can really SEE her doing this!)
Her: NO!
        No ass painting,
        NO chaps...
        NO!

Me: Go big or go home... (I think I even snorted when I laughed)
Her: Woman don't throw that in my face!

The conversation quickly changes from NO to BABY STEPS! So if you see a crazy woman in a Walmart in the Lower Mainland in a monkey suit of some sort and it's not Halloween check and see if her ass is blue. Take a pic, a good one because I know I will!

See Ya
S