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I am a novelty to many (and I'm fine with that).

I have a very silly sense of humor usually riddled with malapropisms (and I'm fine with that, too).

I ask too many questions of Life and I expect all the answers.

I trust people too easily when I shouldn't; however, I respect everyone regardless…unless they do something to make me think twice.

I don't cheat. I am tactful yet will give the truth up front (and never mean to hurt anyone's feelings with it).

I like to help the people who have helped me, and even those who have not.

I never forget... but sometimes I misplace things.

I never lose hope.

I am awesomely blessed for the people who have come into my life, and I am blessed for the people who have left because I realize I didn't need them anyway.

I honestly feel that laughter is the best medicine you can have.

I believe in being strong when everything else seems to be going wrong.

I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles. In other words, I'm human, and definitely not perfect.
But tomorrow is another day, and there's so much cheese to be had...

(thank you to Ranae S. for this bit of inspiration!)

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

So much to catch up on!...

A very well-defined orb, above Mark's head
The haunted Hermitage Hotel looms beyond...!

I have so many photos from so many events to finish, and so much to post about here:

The Horror Hootenanny... Doc Satan's Halloween Hoedown... Mount Olivet Cemetery... and of course, Halloween night spent with our small close group of friends down in Daves Hollow.

Just a few of the Jack O'Lanterns carved, plus the Ofrenda
at Daves Hollow on Halloween night

Yes, it will all get done... in time! Time is a precious commodity, and we never seem to have enough of it, do we.

I'm realizing I seriously need to reorganize this site, and set up a separate page for each event to properly convey the photos I take - and lordy, I seem to take a LOT, judging by the count of pics on my Canon: 1,010 of them! And that's just this past month's worth! Eeek.

Guess no time like the present to enjoy time off this Autumn, and get busy doing it all. Keep ya posted!

A lone tree I call 'The Sentinel' as dusk falls
across the way from our campsite at Daves Hollow

Late in All Hallows Eve, and it seems a lot of
spirits are out and about!

Monday, October 10, 2011

The 2011 Horror Hootenanny in Nashville...

I have SO many photos to process (over 250) and so much to say about it... but just don't have the proper time to devote right now, so I'll leave it at this: it was a BLAST! A stellar success and the most fun I've had since last year's Hoot. Dr. Gangrene did a great job, as did everyone else who was a part of it. Of course, I went overboard on the ghoulish monster makeup (see pic below) but it was to be expected. I think the bald cap and pointy ears freaked a lot of people out... hee hee hee.

Mark and me, scarin' things up at the 2011 Hootenanny

Overall, a great turnout of people, many fantastic bands... and I'm already at work on the next one!

Dr. Gangrene and Sheree "Little Bloody Dead Bo Peep"

Me and Sheree with the awesome Wolfie Von Crud
from the Creeping Cruds

By far, this guy was the scariest zombie in the place!
A truly amazing makeup job!

Sheree and me pose for our latest 'portrait'

I have LOTS more photos to come in the next few days.

The Occasional, Introspective Quote from Poopy: Words of Wisdom to Grill Cheese By

4/05/10:

"Honesty is the best policy... especially when you have to explain to the Wife why the stove hood is missing, the surrounding cabinets are burned, and the ceiling is stained with black soot."

- His delicate explanation of the not-so-small grease fire he caused (and is having to clean up and repair)

12/30/09:

"Learn from the mistakes of others. You won't live long enough to make them all yourself."

- Concurrence with a friend

12/15/09:

"If time flies when you're having fun, then do people having the most fun die sooner?"

- lunchtime ponderings

12/1/09:

"When I was growing up, I used to hear about a drug called 'acid' that caused flashbacks. Now I take a drug for acid that refluxes."

- workplace ruminations on growing older

9/22/09:

"Yada yada yada. Here it goes again. Back on the job."

- upon returning to work after a 10-day vacation break and finding it slightly difficult to get focused and motivated

7/31/09:

"Now that I'm older, wiser and more aware of who I am and what I can do, I realize that I can no longer do what I used to when I was young enough to do it."

- bittersweet realizations when pondering mowing the daunting 5+ acres of lawn before him

7/10/09:

"There's always someone willing to do your thinking for you, if you let them."
- deep philosophical musings during a caffeine-infused meeting with a friend

6/26/09:
"It's fun to see where life has gone... and to wonder where the hell it's going."
- when on the internet, looking up old friends from the past

6/10/09:
"Next time, use protection."
- in response to a friend's claim that he discovered 'unexpected' pumpkins growing in his yard

5/26/09:

"I don't know, I don't have anything smart to say. I'm a dummy, remember?"

- a very tired hubby, mid-way through a 10-day work schedule (and no, he's not a dummy at all, actually)

5/7/09:
"We grow too soon oldt, and too late shmart."
- uttered in German accent - on why people make the mistakes in life that they do

5/6/09:
"It's too far to be close, and too close to be far."
- on asked why he (the Husband Unit) was not using his bifocals to read my blog

11/18/10:

"Dear, you're hard to see, because you've gone around the bend."

- his explanation of my silliness during one of my laughing fits

8/29/11:

"The English language has some wonderfully anthropomorphic collective nouns for groups of animals. There is a Pride of lions, a Murder of crows, a School of fish, an Exaltation of doves and, presumably because they look so wise, a Parliament of owls.

"Now consider the baboon. The loudest, most dangerous and aggressive of all primates. And what is the proper collective noun for a group of baboons?

- a Congress.

"Sometimes, the jokes just write themselves."

- just tellin' 'em like he sees 'em

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Wednesday, November 2, 2011

So much to catch up on!...

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The 2011 Horror Hootenanny in Nashville...

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