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Rainy days and Saturday's...

Yesterday we woke up to the weather being cold and raining. I LOVED it! It was time to turn on the fireplace and warm up my hot cider. My sister and nephews are here for the weekend and we had intentions to go to the pumpkin patch and have some good ol' fashion fun but the wet kept us from our plans and we had to come up with Plan B.

We went to a costume store in Westminster that looked like a castle. It was huge and yet it was incredibly crowded. It seems that everyone had the same idea as we did regarding Halloween and rain. As you walked into the store they have an impressive display of gory (plastic) dead bodies and zombies. Surprisingly enough none of the kids were afraid of these monsters. I wasn't sure if it was because they understood they weren't real or if I have been watching too many horror movies in front of them and they were all now desensitized. We made our way to the back of the store where all of the costumes were. That was also where all of the crowed was. We inched our way through the many isles of costumes on display. Some were funny, some were scary and some were just down right stupid...like the condom wrapper. Why would you want to be a condom wrapper? Whatever. My sister will be accompanying me and my wonderful and supportive husband to the fun and fantastical fair of the Witches Ball and needed some proper attire. After a growling hour and half and several hundred dollars later we finally left and headed out to Isis to attain our tickets for the Ball.

At Isis, of course, we purchased several items other then the tickets and then headed out to Toxic Hell (aka Taco Bell). For a mere $24 you can feed a family of seven. Then came the wallet kicker. We went to IKEA again. I have to stop going there. I love that store and it loves it when I walk out of there stooped over in shame and bogged down with hundred of dollars of furniture and other assorted nix-knacks that I could have probably lived without.

It was very late when we headed home and I lulled myself to sleep with the smell of freshly put together furniture and clean linen. Note to self for the future...rainy days and Saturdays don't get me down they make me broke. : )

Until next time...  

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