Tara's costume!

Sorry, this is the only way I could get the pic to load.

Happy Halloween!!

It is Halloween morning and Simon and I are on the couch watching a Halloween themed morning show. I got up at about 6:45 this morning to help get Tara ready to go to work. They are having a contest for the best costume and she is going as Little Dead Riding Hood. Unfortunately she was not as lucky as the original Little Red Riding Hood who got away from the wolf. I made her hooded cape because we couldn't find a red hooded cape in the stores.

Tara and I were saying that she should go into work this morning and say, "I'm not feeling very well. Does anyone have an aspirin?"

Tonight Tara, Matt, Joseph and I are watching scary movies- Rear Window and Dead End Road. Hopefully we will get lots of trick-or-treaters. We got some good chocolate candy that we have all been forbidden to eat. (But we ALL have.)

We also carved pumpkins a few days ago and they are already shriveling. Tara and Joseph saved the pumpkin seeds and we toasted them with salt- delicious!
I have a pic of Tara's costume in its final state, but I can't get it to upload right now. I will get it up later.
Happy Halloween!!

And the job search continues...It seems that I am under qualified or over qualified for the majority of jobs in the Denver metropolitan area. It's like there is this chasm between jobs that require no previous experience- and usually only that you have graduated from high school (which is where I am because I never want to make glasses again) and all of the rest of the jobs that require at least two years of experience.

Grr...it doesn't surprise me but still grrr. I have applied for a couple of jobs, neither or which do I really really want- but I am getting cabin fever and need to get out of the house more.

Joseph has had two interviews with Davita, a dialysis center. It is sounding good so far.

I am tired of being on the computer--between yesterday and today I have sifted through about 1,600 jobs. My number has got to come up sometime--"Looking for a young creative person who has a passion for inventing ice cream flavors and reading books when business is slow." Surely that combination of letters and words will make its way into the Denver Post before too long.

Tonight Tara is making us veggie burgers with avocado and asparagus on the side. It's the least she could do after leaving us alone all day while she "works," what ever she wants to call it.

Can I get some oxygen over here?!

I have now exercised for 4 days straight. Yes me. Joseph and I are trying to take up jogging and there is this great park with a lake right by the library. There is a path around it and the mountains are within view the whole way. We ran opposite directions around the lake so we saw each other half way around and confirmed that we had both already had to stop and walk--darn mountain air- can I get more oxygen please? So our goal for our next run is to meet halfway around having not walked. Lofty goal? oh yes, we are big time.

Right now Joseph and Tara are watching the movie The Grudge. I've seen it before and they are both asking a million questions and debating whether the light should be on or off. They are so cute.

Guess What!!

Just wanted to say...Joseph and I got engaged!!!! It was that day we went to Berheim Forest in Kentucky. We were walking through this beautiful garden area around a lake and stopped under an oak tree and were picking up acorns because we were talking about trying to grow one. So I am standing there with a handful of acorns and all dirty and sweaty from being in the woods and climbing trees- and he asks me. Which was strangely nerve racking but wonderful.

It was a great day. Earlier that day we were walking a trail and I found an injured bat right on the path. It was such a sweet looking thing and we really wanted to help it, so we called the nature center, but they said no one was around to care for it. Plus we didn't have anything to transport it in. We got it off of the trail with a big stick. It was able to cling to the stick, just not able to fly. It looked like its right wing was injured. We watched it for a long time. It was special to be so close to this animal that you never get to have closeness with, but it was so pitiful and we finally had to walk on and leave it. We left it some water in a leaf, knowing that it was going to die.

So here we are, in Littleton and all moved in to Tara and Matt's house with most of our belongings in storage. The trip out wasn't so bad and Simon traveled like a pro, napping on and off most of the way and only meowing when we stopped at gas stations thinking surely it must be time for dinner this time.

It will be awhile before we achieve any sense of normalcy I'm sure, but for now all is well and we are happy enough sorting through it all.