while Rip was getting groomed, I walked the trail. leaves are changing. beautiful day.

wrapped some more gifts. after my one-a-day-pepsi, had a violent urge to puke. didn't make it to bathroom. so the hall got a mop.

started on a burlap voodoo doll.

Izzy invited me out to play with her. cleaned out Christmas Trunk, broke down cardboard boxes, wrapped a couple of gifts. inventoried Santa Sacks and Gift Card Book Boxes.

on Monday.....

cleaned floors.

merrily working on Christmasy things. slept in AND lengthy chair nap. in Kevin's chair. my new chair is not a nap chair. I've decided that I am going to try for a 3X on Walkfit. that's 22,500 steps in a day. put this on my tomorrow list....(insert eye roll emoji here.) if I watch enough tv and walk the whole time I watch anythings possible, I guess...it's good to have goals.

last nite

while talking Rip for his moonlit bedtime potty walk, we didn't turn around at the first parking lot of park like we always do. it was such a bright, pretty night, we walked to the second parking lot. then I decided I was already at 17000+ steps, I'd just walk till midnite and see if I could get the 22.500 steps for my coveted first Walkfit 3X goal. and......found a YouTube video to walk in front of.....and at 11:47 p.m....mission accomplished. my own personal little victory.

the guys might be back today if the parts they ordered come into lumberyard, so set an alarm. something I did for years and years and years and now just do randomly to keep track of appointments, obligations, etc. mornings are my best sleep. I always suspected that. and now I know it to be true. back in the day it was an alarm clock. first a windup. then a series of digitals. there was the worry of electrical outtages and power failure. I always put it just out of reach so I couldn't hit the snooze. now it's my phone. my phone does EVERYTHING. I can calculate, check my calender, social media, look shit up, shop, play games, track my steps. it's a portable boombox. don't want to carry a book? read on your phone. (but I have to blow it up so big that scrolling is annoying. so I stick with REAL books except in extreme emergencies where I find myself without one.) what time is it? don't look at your wrist. it's on my phone. if I had a ring camera, I'd know who was at my house when I wasn't. I can communicate.

found out last night while Kevin was watching tv that there is an Australia Ghosts. hmmmmm.

"we" finished our 3rd section of fence! yay "us"!

daylight savings time. Katie's 27th birthday. how is that even possible? KJ and family came over to watch the Chiefs lose. and Idk what Rip ate when the grandkids room and Katie's doors were open, but he puked and puked and puked some more.

rainy. Kevin left to work on fence while I was mid-walk.

so I built my Miniverse Halloween Haunted House...glued pompoms on grands new X-mas bag gift tags...brought in some of the Halloween stuff...tossed the jack-o-lantern over the fence. He had earned eternal rest.

Happy Halloween.

I spent the day working on Violet's Christmas notebooks...the grands Christmas sack tags...made my first Spider Bread...carved a jack-o-lantern...whittled down the grands gift list...donned my witch garb...went to Trunk or Treat with KJ, Ann, & Izzy....opened my Mini Halloween Miniverse Ball...used prime credits to rent The Conjuring Last Rites. a perfectly wonderful day.