Digital Masquerade

It’s October and it’s my absolute favourite time of the year. This makes me a very happy girl. Seriously what’s not to love about October. The leaves turn, the sweaters come out, gorgeous coloured scarves and of course…it’s the time of ghouls and monsters.

We’ve been blessed with some pretty amazing warm weather last weekend and we took full advantage of it. We started off by hitting up Canada’s Wonderland’s Halloween Haunt on Friday night. We went with the rest of the Rue Crew and got to have a little meet and greet with the organizers of the event. We went last year and while it was good, they really outdid themselves this year with the Haunted Houses and all out ghoul atmosphere of the park. If you get a chance I’d highly recommend going. The line ups were non-existent, the people were amazingly cool and overall it was a great way to kick off the long weekend.

We’re going again in a couple of weeks for an engagement party so I’ll be taking some more photos but I did take some (ok quite a bit) of photos during our excursion on Friday. So I figured I would share them with you.
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I’ve finally finished processing and resizing the pictures from Montreal and thought I’d do a little day by day run down of our time there. We walked a lot. We laughed all the time and overall we had an absolutely restful few days in a city we both love. I’ve put the rest of the entry behind a cut since there are quite a few pictures.
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Apparently I woke up Gary last night talking in my sleep and this was what I said.  I have no idea what I was dreaming about but what can I say…I have crazy dreams and really that makes a great subject line

Today marks the first day of our vacation.  So far I have the following planned today in preparation for our trip to Montreal on Wednesday to Saturday:

• A little bit of work
• A lot of pictures to take off of my camera
• A lot of wash to finish up
• Food to prepare for Pandora for when my sisters watch her (She’s on a RAW food diet now)
• Go and see the Transformers tonight
• Find someone to take care of Pan

While we’re in Montreal, we have plans to see some movies at the FanTasia  film festival and do  a lot of wandering.  I have some spots picked out for where we want to go but if anyone else has any suggestions, let me have them!

I finally got off my ass and posted the photos from the Living Dead Doll Art Show. Sure, some of them are a bit blurry and I didn’t take pictures of all of the dolls, because honestly, there were a lot of them and I wanted to have a beer. I have to have my priorities in place you know.

If your interested in buying any of the dolls, or for pictures of the ones I didn’t shoot you can check out Toy Tokyo’s website.

I know that I’ve been meaning to update about my trip to NYC and also add pictures of the Living Dead Dolls but I’ve been feeling extremely tired lately and I’ve also been really busy. I’m unhappy with my website layout, and the integration of my photos gallery and when I’m unhappy with my site I just don’t want to update it at all. I have all these Daily Pictures on my hard drive that I haven’t uploaded yet and they are taunting me. I need a new look and feel. I need some inspiration.

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Well we came back last night after our trip to NYC and it was fantastic!! Evil Dead Musical, Living Dead Doll Art Show, new friends, lots of walking and three days with the man I love. How could it not be perfect? I plan on giving a full update likely this weekend but I’m too tired right now. I uploaded some of the pictures, except for the ones from the Living Dead Doll Show. I still need to crop and resize those babies.

If you want, you can take a peek at the ones I have uploaded so far in my gallery section here: New York City 2006 Trip.

Now I just need to get Pandora back tomorrow and my life will be perfect again

Last night was Rue Morgue’s Halloween Party and it was a great time. I took a lot of fabulous pictures only to wake up and find that my SD card is corrupt and can’t be read, I googled, tried all the tips and tricks and…nothing. So, unfortunately I don’t have any pictures of my awesome Halloween costume, or anyone else’s awesome costumes either. This makes me incredibly sad. I’m hoping that some friends (I’m looking at you Kat) have some shots of at least Gary and I, even if we’re not together. If you do, I would love to get a high res version of them so I can get them printed.

Anyway, I ended up running out and getting another card for our trip to NYC tomorrow. We have the airport limo coming at 8:00 am once Gary finishes his annual Halloween radio spot at 7:30am. I think I have everything I need packed and ready to go!! This trip is going to be awesome, I can’t wait. The only sad part is that I’m going to miss Pandora. My sisters took her back home with them tonight and I already miss her little snuggles. I’m so whiped by my dog.

I’ll be back on Wednesday night, so stay tuned for some pictures of NYC and Gary’s Living Dead Doll.

What I learned during my weekend at the cottage. (picture post)

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I just finished work. Yes, I know it’s past midnight so I’m obviously very tired but of course I don’t quite feel like sleeping just yet. Usually in a time like this I would go and bug Gary but he’s getting his second Universal Monster tattoo done tonight by Bob and he won’t be home until past 3:00 in the morning.

Normally they would have done it on a weekend like normal people but Gary is going to a convention in Baltimore this weekend which left me free to have a Williams Women weekend with my sisters and mother. Hell even my dog is a Williams Woman. I feel kind of sorry for my mother’s boyfriend who happens to be staying at the trailer we are taking over. It should be a good time. My sister is picking me up on Friday night and we’ll be driving up north after work where we will spend the weekend having pillow fights, bum wars, lots of exasperated name calling. Just like when we were kids. The only difference is that we will likely be very drunk.

Oh and I even bought a bathing suit for the occasion. That was an absolutely horrific experience to try and find a bathing suit, for an overweight gal like myself, at the end of the season. I still had to pay $40 for a bathing suit that has a seem undone after a 60% discount for the damaged 1/2 price merchandise. I swear fat girls get fucked when it comes to buying bathing suits. At least this one didn’t horrify me and I am not going to wear it with a t-shirt over it because that just screams “HEY LOOK AT ME I’M FAT AND TOO ASHAMED TO TAKE OFF THIS CLINGING UGLY T-SHIRT”. I have more self-confidence then that, but not quite enough to wear a bikini (oh god that makes me want to puke just thinking about it). I should probably buy some thread for the bathing suit I need to sew tomorrow night and when I’m done it’s going to look so damn adorable and not old ladyish. Just because I’m fat does not mean I want to dress like an ugly grandmother.

And don’t worry about posting comments about how I’m not fat, because I am certainly not in my target body range, and my BMI index tells me I’m technically close to obese or something like that. But you know what…that’s OK. I can honestly say that right now, I’m OK with my weight and my body. That may change in the next hour but in this moment I’m damn proud of myself. I’m eating better then I ever have been, I’m getting exercise, and most of all I’m loved and accepted regardless of how my weight may fluctuate and that ladies and gentlemen is what is important to me.

Wow that felt good to get off of my chest. So now I’m going to go to bed.