bad/good

Bad news: Beatrice found my iPad.
Good news: she left me alone to make brunch and get on the computer.

Halloween is always* hot.
Good news: my flapper dress is sleeveless.
Bad news: I have to wear two layers of shapewear** to make it work.

*99% of the time.

** commonly known modernly as Spanx, or classically as a "girdle"

Happy Halloween.
It's Today.
Sunday.
The Thirty-First.

Fraud

In the same week that my cell phone company randomly charged me two hundred dollars for no reason, I get a fraudulent charge on my check card from Chick-Fil-A. It turns out that someone has made a "copy" of my check card (how the hell does that work) and used it. But this makes more questions that it answers. And now I have no check/debit card for a week, which is definitely a hardship; I may even have to go to the bank and use cash!

accomplished

I accomplished at least two things today: I sewed a hole up in my skirt (while I wore it and with the "wrong" color thread) and I took the kids to the beach by myself. We went to pick up Harrison from the state park, and I thought, while we were there...And Oh, it was a great time! I almost felt like a good mom, for a little while.

I have a another beautiful, un-posed picture of the boys against the fence, eating Halloween candy, three years ago. At the time, I wished for a daughter so much, and so hard that it was eating me alive. And here she is!
Of course, I would have preferred for her to arrange herself without a lightsaber and a ball, but....

Oh, and the other picture is one of the many random ones my phone takes.

hoctober

I know it is hot
and the sun in too sunny;
Life will still suck,
but it will be very funny.