2 clowns, 1 prince and a teenager to walk them around

That's what my kiddos decided on for costumes this year.
I keep meaning to blog - there's been stuff to say, I've just been busy enough that I haven't sat down to type it. I do, however, want to say Happy Halloween!
Hope everyone has a safe and fun evening. :)
I'm off to sneak another handful of candy corn. Mmmmmm... That stuff and pumpkin pie milkshakes have made for a very yummy month.

Hooray!

This is a post about achieving a goal. (It's also a post that may sound like gibberish to anyone who reads it. lol)

When Vern got me to start playing WoW again I decided to try AV. Blizzard had instituted cross-realm battlegrounds while we were gone and I wanted to check it out. Oh, it’s so much fun! Man, do I love pvping.
My two main characters (Arinne & Arrie) were both exalted with AV within 2 weeks. I bought Arinne the Frostwolf howler since she plays mostly in instances with Vern and his friends. Sadly, I couldn’t buy one for both of my characters. (It's 640 gold - a lot of money in the game.) SO, I decided that Arrie would look cooler on a black war raptor anyway. It costs less money, but you have to receive rank 11, which takes a lot of pvp time and you are competing with every other player on your realm each week for honor. On my (very crowded) realm that is a lot of competition. PvPing with Arrie is a blast, so I decided to go for it anyway.
I’m not super competitive with others, but will make goals for myself and do whatever it takes to achieve them. Every day I’d say I had to have this much honor, and do a little better than the day before. This last Tuesday, when they posted the updated honor I finally got my reward. I actually decided to get four of them. You see, if you work hard enough to get to rank 11, you can buy any of 4 epic mounts from your faction, and while the raptor is my favorite, I decided to buy all four. (Only 9 gold each!) Along the way I have met some cool people. Sadly most of them play on other realms, so I only see them in the battlegrounds.
Anyway, I was so excited to reach that goal. I'm going to keep going until I hit warlord, for my epic pvp armor set. (Another couple of ranks.) I made it halfway to the next rank anyway, might as well keep going, right? Ha. Who knows, I may even ho for hwl. It only means little sleep for an extra month or so. lol
Anyhow, I don’t expect that most of the people who actually read this will know or care, since most of my friends don’t play WoW, but I was so excited that I took screenshots just so that I could blog about it. =)

Arinne on her howler...

Arrie's new toys...

Bed time! Sleep well. =)

The Day the Sky Fell In

Okay, so it wasn't the sky, it was our ceiling.
On Friday night, when Vern came home from work he called me upstairs to look at something. He points to a huge bulge in the ceiling in the front room that looks ike it's going to fall any minute. (It actually took about five minutes...)


Apparantly there is some sort of leak in our roof, and that area of the ceiling had become saturated enough to fall down. Two big pieces. It hadn't rained for days, but the wood and sheetrock were dripping wet. It happened pretty fast, there was nothing noticable when the kids and I were playing up there at lunchtime. I'm sure glad Vern walked in when he did.

It was a huge mess. Blown-in insulation everywhere. The wet stuff stained the carpet and the dry stuff coated everthing in the front room, kitchen & dining room.

Fun, fun fun. So, we are borrowing a steam cleaner and are waiting on some sort of action from our landlord. Meanwhile I hope it doesn't get any colder for a little while.

Lovely, huh? It made for a crazy sort of a weekend.

Works for me...

Playing catch-up again. It seems like time has been flying by extra fast lately.

I didn't get to post on Monday (mine and Vern's anniversary.) He took the day off, so I was busy enjoying time with him. We had a good weekend. I'm still in disbelief that it has been ten years. Crazy. I was hoping for a picture of us to post, but that didn't happen. Just imagine that there's a picture of two smiling 30-somethings right about here. lol Works for me. =)

In other news, LV broke his collarbone last night. (Him and Kirsten were playing around and he fell.) He's being a trooper about it. He'll be in a back/shoulder brace for a couple of weeks. The hardest part seems to be finding a comfy position to sleep with it on. Fun fun.

Hope anyone checking in here has themselves a great day. =)

hi and bye!

I'm going to be gone for a day or so. (Like you could even tell I was here. Ha!) Sorry to not be posting - I've been busy with photo stuff again. I said no to doing a fellow photographer's wedding, but yes to some other stuff. I'm now thinking the wedding would have been easier. Figures. lol Anyhow, I've been here, just busy.

Anyway, like I started to say - Vern and I are headed for a little getaway for our 10th anniversary. Nothing too fancy, just a hotel that's practically but not quite down the street. I have to decide where he's taking me for dinner tonight on the way there. I have no idea yet. A night away does sound great though - even if the scenery out the window doesn't change much.

10 years. Whoa. I'll have to do a special post on our actual anniversary.

Happy Friday! Have a great weekend!