Friday night, Jackie went to Cindy�s house for the night. I got some much needed me time.
Lisa and I had made plans to get together, but at the last minute we decided to go out. It was a great idea! We ended up going to the Rec Room, because supposedly they play 80�s, 90�s and some of today�s music. It was pretty cool. I think the bar is slowly turning lesbian. I don�t mind, but there were a lot fewer guys around then I expected. The few guys that were there, I was pretty sure they were batting for the other team.
Oh well. At least I was entertained. Stupid me drank a ton, well 5, White Russians and I gave my phone number to some chick I didn�t know. Dumb. Just because I felt sorry for her because she looked so lonely standing there by herself.
Hopefully she lost my number because I didn�t even remember her name!
Lisa and I were starting to get bored, but the place started to get busy when it got close to 11. So we stayed and watched everybody get drunk and stupid. Including me.
I had great time talking to Lisa. I really, REALLY, miss her! Lisa, I love you girl.
The Rec Room was fun but I think it might be more fun on Saturday�s. At least when my sister and me went we had a blast!
The Rec Room was okay.
I got home from the Rec Room about midnight. I stood in the open doorway and made sure Lisa got in her car safely. Then, I went inside. It was very quiet.
I started missing Jackie. I felt guilty about being furious with her for losing her Harry Potter glasses, so I started looking for them. I could hardly stand up straight, but I looked for a half an hour and finally found them.
I put them on the coffee table.
The room was still spinning so I decided to stay up a bit longer until I felt a little better. Jackie had �Ernest Scared Stupid� in the DVD player, so I watched the last 20 minutes of that.
Finally I went to bed.
Around 3 a.m., I woke up screaming for Jackie. I had dreamed that she was stuck in the painting above my bed, and I woke up clawing at it.
Very scary.
I slept until 9:00 a.m. Max came down and his mom went to work. Right away, we left for Florissant to go pick up Jackie. I needed to be back by 4:30 so that we could get ready to go to Tombstone, the haunted house.
At Mom�s, the kids played in the back yard. I found out my sister Maggie is moving out of Mom�s house, into her boyfriend Mike�s house. I was proud of her, because that is a big step.
Maggie had brought her and Mike�s dog, Phoebe, over to Mom�s with her. Phoebe is a big baby, a lover, and a sweet dog. She�s a boxer-lab Mix and she loves kids. The kids couldn�t get enough of her.
We left Mom�s around 2:45.
We were almost home at 4:15 when I remembered that I hadn�t picked up the fudge for my Grandma�s birthday. We stopped by the Amish place down the street from my house, only to find out that they weren�t open.
Is the Amish Sabbath on Saturday? Just wondering.
So, with 15 minutes to spare, we drove quickly down to the Dierberg�s Plaza and ran into the Chocolate Factory. Thank God, they had fudge. I bought a box for Grandma, a box for me, and a box for Tony. Lisa, I was going to buy you a box but I don�t know if you can eat chocolate with your stomach issues. Let me know for future reference, okay?
We got home at 4:32.
I�m good.
Tony got home a few minutes later. We chatted for a few minutes..then we went inside to get ready. Of course, I�m back into makeup so there was no going to Tombstone without my face on. Come on!
Around 6, Toni and me and the kids left to go to Tombstone. Now, we had done our research on it, and they said that kids were welcome, and that it was pretty tame compared to the other haunted houses in St. Louis.
We stood in line for a friggin hour! We were 2nd in line!
By now, it was getting dark, and the fog that they pump out was starting to wash over us. Jackie and I were coughing a little. I forgot, that crap sends me into a slight case of respiratory distress, but I did some deep breathing and I was okay. The kids were getting a little creeped out as we waited, and we talked to them, saying this wasn�t real and those people were just actors.
All that went away once we were inside. This was genuinely unsettling to me, and it occurred to me that a haunted house wasn�t some place that a homicide survivor should go to. I worried a little about Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome and some other crap.
Anyway, we were all sufficiently spooked half way through and suddenly we ended up in a pitch-black maze. I could not see my hand. I kept putting up my hands and I kept hitting walls. Out of nowhere, I had a terrible panic attack. I genuinely felt like I was going to die right there. Toni later said that when I spoke, it sounded like I was far away.
3 of the scary guys surrounded me and were taunting me..�What�s wrong with you?� The whole time I have a death grip on Jackie�s hand and I�m telling them, �I�m having�a..panic attack.� Then I had a flashback of a menacing presence coming after me in the dark.
There was silence and suddenly with a whoosh some sweet soul grabbed me by the arm and took me out some back door. By this time, Jackie was sobbing hysterically and scared to death. Besides being thoroughly spooked, I had poked her in the eye when I had been searching for a way out. And I couldn�t very well comfort her in the midst of a panic attack. I felt bad.
Poor kid.
I felt awful. Here I had been telling her it wasn�t real, and I freak out. Embarrassing.
We waited for Toni and Max. They came out too. Max had been petrified and wasn�t speaking to his mother. Thank God we didn�t go to the Darkness like he had wanted. They wouldn�t have made it through.
I think we might wait until the kids are much older before we let them go in another one. Except the one at Six Flags. That one sounds pretty tame.
But who am I to judge? Look what happened to me.
Sunday, Jackie wakes me up at 9:00 a.m. We get up and get ready to go to my Grandma�s. See, her birthday is November 1, not the 3rd. I got her birthday mixed up with my Wedding anniversary. Stupid.
Anyway, I had gotten her a few things and wanted to take them to her.
Fudge, Gardenia Perfume, Biore� Pore Strips (for her nose) and a butterfly key chain that Jackie made for her.
Grandma was happy to see us. We had breakfast, and then she opened her presents. She was genuinely thrilled to get the fudge. Yeah, I know she�s a diabetic, but she�ll make the fudge last until the spring. So neener, neener, neener.
Oh, and I gave Grandma�s dog a bath. I had the privilege of de-pooping her dog�s butt, and then after that, I got to cut away dog hair off of her butt. The dog keeps puckering her butt because she�s scared I�ll cut her. I know, TMI.
I swear to God, that dog needs a better diet. One without White Castles. The dog wouldn�t have these problems if she had a balanced diet.
After Grandma�s, we did laundry.
After that, we got home at 4:45. Every time I tried to get ready, someone was knocking at my door. Finally I got my makeup done, my horns on, my feather boa and my wings on. The only thing that didn�t work with it was the cape I�d bought, and the fake eyelashes. Stupid things wouldn�t stick.
The kids got to trick or treat, but it was misting, which sort of made things miserable. Especially for my bad back and me. One street we went up seemed like Mount Everest.
I was tired.
Jackie got two bags of candy, and we went home. I was exhausted from the entire running the entire weekend.
We watched �Children of the Corn� with some selective fast-forwarding, and then we went to bed.
Today is Monday, sucky Monday. I wasn�t ready for this.
9:44 am - November 01, 2004
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