Random Things Going On

It has nearly been one week from the Time Change that occurred last Sunday, and I am still trying to get used to it. Funny thing. I am fine waking up a 7:30 or 8am but around 12 it feels so much later than it actually is and at night I read and don't even go to bed till about 1am. Plus staying up all night to watch the results from the election didn't help in the getting to sleep earlier part. These days feels so long to me and so relaxed it is very weird trying to get used to the time change thingy.

Also Matt would have been leaving tomorrow morning but thanks to the grace of the Almighty I get to have Thanksgiving with him. So I get an extra 3 weeks with him now. YAY! So Matt gets back tonight from training he has been at all week in Northern VA and he doesn't have to leave anymore for more than 2 days. He was going to have to do some military orders but the unit said that he didn't have to so we get to spend more time together.

Other than that everything is going great here. We have rejoined the cell phone age, but are very limited on how much we can actually talk on it, so keep calling on the home phone. I am finding more and more books to read, and enjoying them very much (I know I am 26 years old and I just re-discovered the LIBRARY, AMAZING Huh.) Matt is loving his job and is excited for the work that he will start in December because he really likes the group he will be working with. And Archer, well, he likes to sleep all the time, and in my bed none the less so he is a very happy puppy. That's all folks!

Don't Forget!!!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!! Post #3

Here are some pix of Matt and I at the party.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!! Post #2

Tonight we have out Adult Halloween Party in our neighborhood. I didn't want to get all "dolled" up tonight. wanted to be more comfortable first of all, and secondly I really wanted to dress up as a vampire from Twilight. I know I am obsessed. Well it took me even longer to get ready today than yesterday cause I had no idea on how to do my makeup to enhance my eyes or how to do my hair. I have never done my hair in this way. Needless to say it turned out pretty dang good. So I am a veggie vampire and Matt is my helpless human that fell in love with me. I will try to get a pix of both of us together sometime tonight. (In case you didn't know, I am normally a blue eyed babe, but I got special Honey colored contacts for tonight. Tell me what you think of them.) So here are more pix. (FYI our lighting in out house make me look fake in bake because we didn't use flash. See pix below.)

~This next pix is with the flash to show how pale I actually got my face.~

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!! Post #1

HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE!!! Tonight I am going to post some pix from the official Halloween costume. Tonight I dressed up for my students and had a blast surprising them with what I looked like. My students who stopped by loved my costume and so did the neighborhood and all the families that came by for Trick or Treating. By the way Matt refuses to dress up for Halloween but he was my modern day Prince Charming. Archer agreed to dress up though. We even ran out of candy before all the kids were finished coming by. We ran out of 3 and a half big bags of candy.

Couple of funny stories. I was the Bell of The Ball. Little girls were in awe as they saw me and I could hear them from across the street, "Can we go to Cinderella's house?" Or I was sitting on the porch with Matt and I stood up to hand out candy and one little girl said, " Oh my, she is real." It was very cute. One little girl saw me from the sidewalk and just ran up the grass yelling, "Cinderella, Cinderella." with her arms open wide and gave me a huge bear hug, while her parents and grandmother took pictures. I also went to a local restaurant to sigh up for a costume contest and see a friend, and I was getting my pix taken for the contest and little girls started lining up to take a pix with me on the bench. I had like 6 girls sit next to me and get their pix with me and their parents said I actually looked like the "real" Cindy. Everyone was impressed that I made my costume. It was a very good night. Tomorrow we are going to an adult neighborhood party and I will be a veggie vampire with honey colored eyes and pale cold skin and Matt will be the helpless human that falls in love with me. Ring a bell anyone?

Without further delay here are some pix of my costume as the beautiful Cinderella. **One little note. I did have a little mouse named Lisa help me with the dress. If it wasn't for her the dress would not look anywhere as beautiful as it does. Thank you Lisa for helping me and teaching me how to sew.**

I CAN NOT BELIEVE THIS?!?

As of last night I "officially" have 26 students! That's right 26. I am so excited. I am actually going to, for the first time since I started teaching, start a waiting list. I feel so blessed right now because I had been hoping to get just a few more students, and WHAMO! In the space of 24 hours I get 3. AMAZING!

Friday is Halloween and this year I actually had a hand in creating my costume. I asked one of the parents of my students to teach me how to sew and we made my costume. I am dressing up as Cinderella. I got it last night and it looks amazing. I even have "glass slippers." There will be pix posted of the costume on Sat so look forward to them then. The dress looks so good the seamstresses at Disney would be impressed. And Sat night we have an adult party in the neighborhood and we are required to dress up. Well I am too afraid to go outside in my Cindy dress so I decided that I was going to dress up as a character from my fav book, Twilight. Super easy costume. All I had to get were honey colored contacts, easy and dress in regular clothing. Matt is going to be the helpless human that fell in love with me. He just has to wear regular clothing since he hates to dress up. I am going to draw a crescent mark on his neck though, just for fun. Anyhew I'll have pix at the end of the week!

What the Hey with the Hay?!?

It is that time of year in the subdivision where the contractors are hunkering down for the winter by putting Hay on every speck of dirt. Well this is an allergy that I learned about last year when we were here, and I think I have known it for a while cause I usually felt like crap after hay rides when I was a kid, but boy howdy my body does not like hay. This year my adverse reaction to hay has been scratching. I woke up this morning looking like I tried to strangle myself cause I have this huge scratch mark across the front of my neck that itches like a mad dog. It is so bad that I am having to cover it with makeup to try and hide it. I even had to wear a sweater to keep myself from scratching my arms and hands. Try being the word of choice as my students asked why my neck was all red. I also won't stop sneezing. Not a very fun day at the Allen House, its been my own personal Hades.