boo berry finds nemo, and as for the candy...hide it in a roth ira

hohum. well, it's been a long week! i wish i could've gotten to this earlier!

we had a chilly spurt, so the boys got to try out their jackets again. i'm pretty sure i heard chaco turn to bruno and say, "dude, you look cool." now bruno wants a real bomber jacket for Christmas.

 i spent much f last weekend trying to figure out exactly how to do the halloween treats for hospitality committee. i made these little stands for the sticks, but they weren't quite as wide as they needed to be (you had to have them super still to keep them standing up).

 then i put the oreo cakesters on a stick and stuck them into the green styrofoam block and froze them. it was a funny little sight in my freezer! then on tuesday i melted the white chocolate and frosting to coat them and throw them back in the freezer. and then i spent a couple of hours on tues. night decorating them into jack-o-lanterns. it was a bit of a hassle, but they taste great with coffee!

 and i brought my 3rd pallet home to work on...only my hammer was not as hard-headed as its owner...i kept trying and kept trying to unwedge those nails! several were rusted and the heads ended up breaking clean off! boo.

never trust a $1 store hammer for an 'expensive taste' project!

 so i decided that this one is going to be brown with earth tones. i started with the boarder.

not gonna' lie, i kinda' like the blue tape!

 phase 2-

 phase 3- now i am working on filling in the middle with some earth tone colors and will probably finish tomorrow. every spot with white in between the brown stripes will be filled in with circles or cylinder-ish ovals...i will post an after pic too.

 and when i came around the corner, there was bruno just looking at me, waiting. so we played...with a face like that, i hate being away at work for so long every day!

 and while i was getting necessities at walmart, i noticed they've redone the artwork on the general mills cereal. now boo berry looks a lot like nemo-holding his breath and turning blue....after getting beat up with a black eye....right?

boo berry nemo

and i think i'm regretting (a little) signing up for the mlep stuff...3 saturdays..oh well, paid training.

so, last night was halloween, and i stopped by target. how many ladies...women did i see dressed in way too short costumes ? too many. using halloween as an excuse to dress slutty- yuck. i had 0 trick or treaters..it might have been the "i-hate-children" sign i keep around for special occasions like halloween....j/k, but it seems like a good idea.

our students are having a mock election, and i am pretty sure obama will win at our school because our kids like free stuff. i will bet that if i took their candy that they worked so hard for last night and gave it to the kids who did nothing they would be a little pissed....redistribution, kids, you have so much candy, you don't really need it all anyway.


well, hope your halloween was spook-tacular! keep your own stinkin' candy...you EARNED IT!
julie