No. Really. I am. I know...I know....all you regulars out there can't possibly believe it. "Call her doctor stat...... for God sakes call 911...this must be serious...because she never shuts up. No. Seriously. She doesn't. Just ask her husband"
But I am. Speechless. I pondered not saying anything at all as to not bring negativity into other's lives. I thought maybe I could say my absence was due to People finally seeing the errors of their ways and picking me up for the Snark Daily column of their magazine. Or, maybe The "CEO of Tomfoolery" finally got fired for insubordination and watching Wow Wow Wubsy on the job resulting in my new crazy busy position of "CEO of Chaos." But, then I thought, no, I lay everything else out here on my blog like a tableloth, why not this. Plus, just being able to write about it and get it to travel from my head to my fingertips to the keyboard to a blank page helps to maybe make sense of it all.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart to everyone who has stopped by to say hi and offer prayers. I am trying to answer everyone personally....but getting a bit behind. I been busy over here trying to make life as normal as possible before we venture into a new crazy normal. I thought I could give you an illustration of how I have felt lately:
A rollercoaster. This was when we went to Legoland while waiting for the biopsy results.....I love this picture.
I also wanted to share my new snappy short haircut. We are dubbing it the "Now you see it...Now you don't" do.
We had our 6th Annual Halloween Chili Party as usual over here at the Chaos house. We get tons of Trick or Treaters so it's alway a fun night......combine that with a bunch of friends, their kids and mulled wine cider and you have a blast. Did I mention lots of mulled wine cider? Do you like my costume? It's called "girl who lives in Southern California and gets to wear a tank top on Halloween night" I'm sending it to my sisters who are in 40 degree Michigan right now. They hate me.
Here's Carlos as Darth Vader 2nd year in a row......I like to think we're being "green" this holiday by recycling costumes.....
Here's part of the gang on the lawn........
ignoring trick or treaters while these two guys below doled out the candy.....
I think this is where the 18 year old girl dressed as a "sexy" bumblebee walked up....hence the expression on my husband's face. He kills me when he hands out the candy.....Not only do you get a piece of candy...but a bit of snarky attitude if you are a) trying to pass yourself off as a "15 year old kid dressed in a t-shirt".... b) pushing an infant in a stroller collecting candy for said infant..... and, c) a 16 year old girl wearing a waaaaay to revealing outfit and calling yourself a bumblebee. They all should know after all these years to just bypass our house Because, really, no Fun Sized Snickers bar is worth the comments from Cosme. But come they do....
And, then here we have the CEO trying to come up with a last minute costume. After weeks of telling me "no halloween....no dress up....I be Andres." I find him walking down the hall last night with his bed quilt on top of him. I asked him what he was and he said "a bankee" I suggested the smaller Thomas blanket (which is actually a yard of fabric that was fully intended to be a blanket at some point) and he obliged. Here he is looking more like a little sheperd boy who was really into Thomas the Trains......
I, of course, was branded the the uncaring clueless mother sending her kid out with a fabric swatch on his head to go collect candy for me to eat later while watching Late Night with David Letterman. Luckily he only made it to 3 neighbor's house. And, frankly they weren't surprised with his costume in the least.....
So there you have it......
As I enter into the last week before the big day I will be popping in and out. Heather will be posting for me after surgery here on my blog with updates on everything since I probably won't be able to post anything for a while.
Oh...you know how they say good always comes out of bad? Well, Gail will be coming down from LA on Thursday before my surgery with her arms filled with unedited Judge Judy tapes. Yep. I will be recovering with marathon, back to back episodes of unedited Judge Judypalooza.....Will the fun never end?
I'll talk to you soon! Karin :)
