Halloweeeeeen!

So, um, what the heck are child-less married folks supposed to do on halloween?   I found myself pondering this question as October 31st rapidly approached.  We talked about throwing a halloween party back at a pumpkin carving party with Ryan's friends, but due to our lack of party planning skills, it didn't look like it was going to happen.  Until Wednesday, two days before the blessed event was to take place.  Thanks to one of Ryans friends, Miranda, who helped think of some fun ideas and round up the troops to come, the party was back in action. 

One of the perks of deciding to throw a party at our house is that it actually forced Ryan and I to start putting our house together.  This has been a daunting task that I have been mostly avoiding for the past month.  However, thursday night we finally hung some pictures, removed the Muhammad Ali poster that Ryan had previously decorated our fireplace with, and started organizing stuff in our two "rooms of death" where we have been shoving stuff that was piling up elsewhere. 

Friday I got to stay home from work and experience the whole house wife experience for the first time as I cleaned and organized our house.  What a day....I think I would rather have been at work (which is saying a lot... There are not many things I would choose work over...)  Everything that could have gone wrong, definitely did.  Don't believe me?  Here's a list

• The dog, who I love most days, was a monster, and was either peeing on the floor or biting my ankles as I was trying to clean. 
• Right after I finished cleaning the kitchen floor and counters, I went to make the kitchen more festive and plug in some halloween decorations....which blew a fuse.
• While moving the crockpot full of yummy pulled pork to a different plug because I couldn't find the fuse box, I knocked over and broke our cute little Scentry candle warmer, full of delicious smelling wax, which was not so delicious smelling on my freshly cleaned counter and floors.  Dog pee was now second to wax on my list of least favorite things to clean up that day.
• Finally, the house was clean and it was on to errands.  I ran to Hollywood video, found the movie we were going to watch that night, only to realize that I didn't have my wallet....  which as it turns out was in Ryan's truck at Ryan's work a half hour away...
• I put the video on hold at hollywood video and decided to run over to Ryan's work and get it.  On the way I realized that in the midst of all the wax and pee cleaning up, I hadn't had time to eat all day and I was starving.  I decided a spicy chicken sandwhich at Mcdonalds would hit the spot. It wasn't til after ordering and halway through the line at the drive thru, I remembered that they require money to get your food, and all mine was still in my wallet in Ryan's truck.  Doh.
• Finally, after getting my wallet, I returned to Hollywood video to pick up the DVD, which as it turns out, had somehow been rented in the past hour.  Thanks a lot, hollywood video.
• Last on the errands run was Walmart, which I thought went without a hitch, til Ryan called when I was on my way home, and I realized that I had forgotten to get buns.  So it was back to Walmart for me.
• Because my hunger had not been helped by Mcdonalds, I got a little bag of Cheetos at Walmart to snack on on the way home.  As it turns out, Juneau loves cheetos.  And her jumping at me and trying to eat them makes driving a tiny bit difficult.  Luckily we made it home in safety, although because of the road hazard the cheetos became, still hungry. 

By this time, I was ready for the work to end and the fun to begin.  And I'm so glad I have a sweet husband who came home and knew just how to make my day better :) The party turned out fun too.  We had lots of yummy food, costumes, friends, and fun games (including the how long can Mike go without exaggerating game?  Which he lost every time....) Ryan and I dressed up like cowboys, and Juneau dressed up as a football quarter bark (hahaha gotta love walmart dog costumes!) After the festivities we watched What Lies Beneath (which I ended up buying by the way, grrrrr hollywood video) and I remembered how much I hate that movie.  Overall I think the party was a success! 

Juneau in her little Quarter Bark jersey. Sorry all the pictures on this blog are of my dog.  More of people coming soon....

Saturday, which was actually Halloween, we decided to just forget about Halloween all together.  We went running, then Ryan went golfing while I went shopping at Disneyland aka Nordstrom Rack (for the first time in like two months, whooooo I'm doing so good!) and then we went and saw a movie that night.  We got home to a fully lit house (whoops, we forgot to turn off the porchlights, and probably tricked half the children in our kid infested neighborhood) watched some Dexter, then went to sleep.  Happy Halloween!