Halloween, "The Mask" and Other Things....

I normally go "all out" for Halloween. This year, I've had to allow for my body to do what it can and let other things "rest"...

My body is putting out limited stuff, so sorry to my grandkids, but Yamma isn't going as haywire as she has in the past. NEXT year, however...

*grin*

Here's the Halloween stuff:

(Yeah, it's usually MUCH more than this, but.....)

There's an outdoor connection for the lights (I'll post one for Halloween when everything's lit up) and the little goy in the cage screams to be let out as well as the "door knocker" who shouts things at you....but those can all be found at my Facebook page......

I have to finish the pumpkin, which is 2/3 there after getting the guts out and some of the features cut in. It's going to be an owl (mostly because of the damage done by a worm). This is what IT looks like this morning:

And I've got the glitter red on the Deadpool mask, hoping to get the black on it today, so it looks like this:

Yeah. This would be my "I gotta get to that" list for LAST week that I finally got mostly done....

*giving enough of an eye raise to make the people in the back wonder if I'm checking my head for cobwebs*

SO

There are a few things on the porch to still go out (like the little Chinese type paper lanterns that plug into the porch light) and the little bits for these items above that I mentioned....

Maybe I can get them all done for THIS weekend....

*sighing and giving another eye roll, making them roll ALL around the eye*

I'll keep you informed as to whether I get these taken care of with the ordinary stuff I try to take care of. We'll see....


(Addendum 10/27/16:  The Pumpkin Owl)

(And progress on the Deadpool mask. It needs a second coat of black and a little work on the eyes...)

(FINAL ADDENDUM: 10/28/16: The mask is done! Huzzah!)

Keeping With Tradition

It's a sunny day - possibly the last we'll have for a while - so I'm getting my bald head out (under cover, as it's still cold) and getting my garden ready for Halloween. Part of this in getting the outside (very well connected so as to not cause a problem) lights out in a connecter box that will last through Christmas - or through spring, disconnected in the garage, if it's a snowy year.

Yes, today's the day I'm getting geared up for Halloween, a little late, some would say.....

The grandkids will (hopefully) be by before then to "approve" the things I throw out there, so I'm trying to be nice. Okay, black candle lights, you can go out. Sorry, witch-who-screams, you have to stay away a few more years.

The youngest is four, after all.

*grin*

Of course, I CAN throw it all out and say that it's the cancer meds.....

*pondering*

Is This A Sign?

Cancer. We've been talking about it for a few months, I've been making ghost jokes about it...

But when talking my daughter's cat to the vet, it wasn't what I was expecting to hear...

Let me explain...

We moved to our current house in 1998, with a dog and a cat that we'd had. Our next door neighbor warned us of something that was partial to cats, and we started keeping Zippy, who had adopted us in Gorham, inside at night...

But that didn't stop Zippy from trying to cross the road when we let him out in the morning. A driver on his or her way to work ran him down...and we gave a friend's two kittens a place to live until they met the same fate. (Or at least we assume they did. Precious went out and never came back, so I assume that's what happened.)

Toby, the spaniel-type dog, who had odd fits of rage over small things, seemed to relax a bit when we adopted a collie/husky who was an "oops baby". (His mother wasn't supposed to have puppies because of an accident when she was young and his dad was a late neuter. Oops! Babies!) Bear was a little shy around humans, but he had the dog vs dog thing down pat. That is, until Toby went nuts on a neighbors kid and attacked him. We held him for ten days, as the law says we must, and then put him to sleep.

So, we had Bear and, briefly, the kittens...

And then we just had Bear...

When our daughter was about to turn ten, we decided to try one more cat - an inside one. We got a Maine Coon, hoping he would prove to be like Avatar, who lasted through 17 years...

But it wasn't to be so. Bear developed a tumor on his side. It was some sort of cancer they had never seen before. Tiger developed lymphoma. They passed within two months of each other, the cat in May and the dog in July. Bear was twelve and looked like Lassie. Tiger was nine and was the typical Maine Coon.

My daughter, in the meantime, adopted a dog in New York, a Shih Tzu/Pomeranean "oops baby" (he lives here.) One of the boyfriends adopted Meeko, who's lived here off and on....

And this time, it's me and Meeko, only five years old, who have cancers....


Why do I hear the theme song for "The Twilight Zone"?

Radiated Ghost Remains

First off, thank you all for letting me get the political crap off my mind last time. The only problem I seem to have with staying home is that I tend to get bored.....and with this being an election year, I would throw my television out a window if not for Pandora and NetflixI *shudder*. It's bad enough to have the Bad and the Ugly up for grabs this year (don't know what happned to the Good), but all that negativity.....

Suffice to say, I'm listening to Pandora this morning. The stations were going on and on about tonight's debate and I didn't want to hear it. I'm staying positive....

And I'm too busy trying to test my ability to glow in the dark.....

*grin*

Friday was my official "last" day of radiation (provided they don't see another growth anywhere), and I have my mask they used to make me stay still for the machine to do it's thing. It's my face, but extended out, as if I'm coming out of the wall. It has white stripes across the eyes, but I never gave the machine the chance to "blast" my eyes. I would sit in the waiting room until my time, practicing yoga, then would go into the radiation room and clise my eyes, waiting for the techs to come in and tell me "Good job" as they released the mask....

They were all amused by me telling them it was going to be painted like Deadpool....

What better memory of the whole ordeal of the radiation than a Deadpool mask seeming to come out of the wall?

Now, it's on to the chemotherapy, which they tell me happens right around Halloween (or shortly thereafter). Wouldn't that be a hoot - a Halloween chemo treatment start? Five days of pills, twenty three days off, and then five more pills, possibly until next Halloween....

Seems right. Halloween was when my grandmother left life when I was the tender age of six. That I should enter the next stage of treatment then seems very fitting.

And for those that want to see my mask:

It'll look better with paint.....

*grin*

The Good, The Bad, and The Obnoxious

Who is totally sick of all these blankety blank posts about the coming election?  I don't need to see any hands here, as everyone I've talked to who isn't 100% behind their candidate (and who is) are SICK to DEATH of all the ads, memes and other forms of media that are all just negative, negative, negative. What happened to the old days, when the politicians got your vote by coming onto you property, saying what they represented if they got elected to the House or Senate, and got your vote the old fashioned way: by REPRESENTING what they wanted to do and NOT what you were getting if you voted for their opponent?

Take my state, for example, which is run by a bigoted, racist Republican who insists that he ISN'T a racist or a bigot, (Here's just one of the "news flashes" he's been involved in: http://www.pressherald.com/2016/09/26/lepage-releases-three-ring-binder-with-photos-of-accused-drug-dealers/ )  we like to take the news on television or radio after it's been properly researched, documented and, in cases like this year's Presidential, Senate and House of Representatives have "approved this message". We like to pretend that it doesn't bother us that these people might not be "representing" themselves, but are just trying to get to that $174,000 that they want before all else...

And the ads?

They start almost before one has a chance to see who's up for votes.

Here's a few of those who appear on our ads who have NOTHING to recommend them other than their highfalutin big names, typically having an opinion about "their candidate" that takes precedence to do ANYTHING against the "other side" to make sure he or she wins.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Republican_Congressional_Committee

http://www.votevets.org/
http://www.thehousemajoritypac.com/
http://www.granitestatesolutionspac.com/ (we are in Portland MAINE, but still get these)
http://www.dscc.org/
https://www.congressionalleadershipfund.org/#axzz4OHeEfnP3

(this list will grow)

They do this form of "ad" because there are pros and cons to this, and if they can make you go to the polls - or NOT go to the polls - with your mind all confused about what you're voting on, they win.

And these are some of the numerous links to support or distract from negative ads continuing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_campaigning
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_ad

http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/08/19/432759311/2016-campaign-tv-ad-spending
http://www.wistv.com/story/33326812/vanderbilt-university-how-effective-are-negative-ads-in-the-trump-clinton-campaign

With all the negativity, do we NEED this?

NO !

How do we change that?

Don't do what they expect!

READ the links and realize that they have take control and only WE THE PEOPLE can stop it!

Do you LIKE having all the millionaires and billionaires coming up with ways to never pay taxes, making YOU pay thier shares? Do you LIKE having the minimum wage so far below a liveable wage while these people control who you vote for with their negative ads? You can change that!

It's time for the common man to step up and force our government to stop these things by voting from the heart instead of the thousands of dollars that they spend on trying to get their way. It's time to get control of the US by saying "This isn't going to work any more."

I have a dream.....

(Addendum 10/13/2016: PLEASE go and investigate your options, think about it, and vote with your heart. This is one such place you can check on tons of people....but don't look for Trump. He has never been a "real" politician, so there are no records.

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes)