Annual Halloween shopping weekend in Roseville with my jr-high friend Natasha & her son Austin was fabulous as always...even better we made it over 2 days this time, since a mutual friend Jenny happened to be moving 5 minutes from my parents, so we got to pop over & see their new house too! Even though I was trying to restrain myself, I bought too much Halloween stuff as usual, but amazingly NOTHING at the JoAnn gigantic Costco-sized superstore. I bought out Wishing Well as usual, very proud my total was well less than $100 (heh!), and we even eventually succeeded in the day's ultimate mission of finding Austin a pirate pistol at Party City. We knew we were pretty early for Halloween shopping since it was the weekend just after Labor Day, but due to
The week between was hectic as always seems to be...I wish one of these days work would slow down just slightly!...then I raced away Friday afternoon to pick up
Saturday was sleeping in (finally!), then Brittahytta Bed & Breakfast was in full swing with homemade waffles with maple & Grand Marnier syrup
I am SO glad I had these weekends booked with friends, since without these visits to break up my constant stream of stress, I think I might have lost it completely by now... :) The weekdays in between were of course super-busy for work, then I'd either have choir rehearsal at night for the concert I would not be able to participate in (I hate feeling useless like that but oh well), or I was frantically laying brick on my patio with clamplights setup in the dark...but more on that project in a separate post! :)