The Catch Up

Now, where were we...I'll start where I left off....Friday

I finally went and picked Mike up VERY early Friday morning. I think it was sometime around 5:00 am. We were both dog tired, and I only had two classes the next day- so, since I have hardly missed any school at all this semester I decided to "take a mental health day." We slept well until noon that day. Mike woke up first and cooked us lunch while I did some minor straightening up around the house. We spent the rest of the day catching up on two weeks worth of recorded tv. I know it must sound so lame, but after he works two weeks straight and I have two weeks full of non-stop homework we both want nothing more than to lay in the bed and watch television.

We were planning on having some friends come over on Saturday, so we went to Wal-mart to get the must needed groceries. Mike decided it would be smart to also visit his truck at the Pilot at exit 86 to drop off some of his things and then we'd hit up the Oak Grove Wal-mart there- especially since Kentucky doesn't charge tax on groceries. As soon as we got into the store Mike got really excited and wanted to see all the Christmas stuff. I am just as bad as him so we dedicated a pretty long time to exploring all the fun ornaments, platters, mangers, and more.

Mike's sister called to see if we had eaten dinner yet, and we met them at Captain D's for a quick bite. We didn't bother getting any of the food we needed for Saturday since we wouldn't have time to take it home first. Instead we just went in town after dinner.

When we finally got home I challenged Mike to a game of scrabble and made some coffee with the new Pumpkin Spice creamer I bought. We only played one game, but I guess it took a long time, because before I knew it Jackson called me and it was around midnight. Jackson came over for a few minutes to decided what to make for our Halloween gathering the next night. I had some cook books for him to browse through. Once he left, Mike and I were extremely tired AGAIN, but managed to stay awake for a new episode of Stargate Atlantis before drifting off to sleep.

The next day we had to drive to Nashville for my soon-to-be sister-in-law's baby show. Mike wouldn't be attending the party, but he would get to see some family that drove great distances to be there, and spend some time with the boys. I always think baby showers are kinda awkward and I already felt slightly out of my element because there were so many people there I don't know. But, I made a onesie...so this made it better:


I am pretty sure Mike's family thought it was kinda weird...but...it's totally me.

As the shower was winding down, I got a call from Mike asking me to come pick him up from downtown. The guys he was with were still planning on staying down there a little longer and we had to get back for our friends and it was getting pretty late. I hate driving in Nashville when I don't know where I am going. The shower was at Mike's brother's house which is off of West End. I know that part fairly well and I knew I needed to get to 2nd Ave. This would have been hunky-dory if almost all of West End hadn't been closed down. So, I had to get off West End into some back roads and I just followed the people in front of me. But, they went back onto West End, we drove for another block, and then the road was closed down again. So, I wanted to try to get near Cafe Coco because I knew I could get around everything. I had to do some really weird navigating around the park....West End Ave...and other stuff but I finally got there. The whole while Mike and I are yelling at each other on the phone because we don't handle these situations very well together. Once I got to the area I wanted to be in Mike's directions didn't make any sense to me and I got onto the interstate when he wanted me to go somewhere else. But, I eventually got on track and got to him.

It was about 6:30 when we met back up and neither of us had eat yet. I assumed there was going to be food at the shower, and I figured Mike would be going out to eat. The shower just had cookies and stuff. So we grabbed some Rally's and booked it back home to finish getting the house ready for company.

Jackson, Charlsie, and Steven came over and we went to the Biker's Who Scare haunted house. I have been to it every year that they've been open. I absolutely loved going to it and have told everyone I know that they put on the best haunted house. Mike had tried to convince me to go to a different one this year, but I managed to convince him to go to this one- for tradition sake.

We got there and the line was pretty long. I was already expecting that. But this line was longer than normal. We clocked it and ended up being in line for almost two hours. I wore the wrong kind of shoes and my feet were so sore when we left. We FINALLY get inside and start. It took prolly 15 minutes and we were done.

Stood in line for two hours to tour a haunted house for 15 minutes.

It was so lame. Every year before the rooms were really scary. This year wasn't at all. At a haunted house you are supposed to go into rooms and see something happen. You see what's happening when you get in there and then something unexpected is supposed to happen. You are supposed to be waiting for that shock. But we were just floating from room to room seeing something already in progress that isn't scary. It isn't scary to come in and see people I know are fake pretending to cut each other's legs off. It's scary to come inside to a room where some guy is just chillin and THEN bam his legs fall off. As a kid I remember going into each room with fear wondering what was going to pop out at me next. There was none of this feeling at all.

The only part where I got scared at all was a dark maze at the end. And I was only scared because I saw someone working at the haunted house who hates me, and I got scared she would try to kill me in the dark.

They also don't understand the gag with the chainsaw. Chainsaws are scary- yes. But they are not scary when you have one in every room. And not only is there one in every room- but there are like 2 or 3 people in a room with one.

But the funniest part of the whole thing happened when we were walking down a hallway with people pretending to stab us and this kid working it yelled "KNIFE!"

When we got done we headed to Wal-mart to pick out pumpkins to carve. Got a couple forgotten items and headed back to the house.

We put together our Halloween feast:


Bubbling Cauldron Dip with Bat Wings


Brains, Bones, and Werewolf testicles

After eating we got started carving pumpkins. I had planned on also watching a scary movie that night and playing a healthy game of Clue, but between the 2 hour haunted house wait and carving pumpkins we didn't have the time. I had no clue the pumpkins would take so long, but I had a really good time doing it. I know I did it as a kid, but I don't have any memory doing so. Once, as an adult, I tried to carve one, but thought it was too hard and ended up stopping and throwing it away.

But, Steven had done this before and with his help and using the really cool kits you can buy it was really easy.

I was super-duper proud of myself for completing it.

From L to R: Mine, Mike's, Charlsie's, Steven's and Jackson's



This made night three of going to be extremely tired. Because everything took so long, we didn't get to bed into late. Mike and I were planning on going to church, but it was not happening. Instead, we got up around noon again and ate lunch before getting ready to take him back to work.

So, back to the grind again. Yesterday and today I have been trying to get all of my homework for the entire week done, because I would really just like to relax. I have a bunch of movies to watch and I still haven't read the 4th Twilight book- even though everyone else in the world has.
Oh, Mike really liked his Halloween care package. I got disappointed though because the cd I made him didn't work :( Oh well.