happy halloween

i love halloween. i spent 2 years working for spencer gifts and dressing up for halloween. it was a blast. now i work in an office so no costume just halloween t-shirts. the real fun is tonight when i go trick or treating with my niece and nephew. they both love getting candy and seeing everyone. all of their friends will be out and we will make our anaul halloween visit to the neighborhood bar and the convent. yes we go to both every year. the bar crowd is great and they all make a fuss over the kids and so do the nuns. my niece and nephew went to the catholic school up til last fall and the nuns all look forward to seeing the kids every year. i am just as excited as they are and i don't even get any candy.

world series champions 2008 the phillies

the phillies did it. i was 13 and in junior high school the last time the phillies won the world series. 28 years later they finally did it again. for those that are superstious comcast tried to make sure that a philadelphia team would finally win. they put a small statue of william penn facing the correct direction on top the the brand new comcast building in philly. you see the theory is that once the gentlemans agreement not to build anything higher than billy penn was broken our teams were cursed. now he is once again atop the highest building finished this year and now we have the first major league sport title in 25 years( the last win was basketball in 83). by the way the same about of time billy penn was not the highest point.

my phillies

they don't get to finish game five until wed. i want them to win so bad along with the entire philadphia area. so good luck guys finish on wed so we can party!!!

I AM A SUCKER

yes that needs to be capitalized. this past weekend was our first alone in our new home. home such a nice word. anyway my boyfriend has been talking about getting a cat since we started the process of buying a house. now that we have a house he has talked all week about getting a cat. i was not excited about this idea. the main reason is that i know i am allergic to long haired cats and sometimes i get a reaction around short haired cats as well. mostly around more than one. i was worried when we got winnie since she has long hair but i am fine with her. so saturday off we go to the spca. there are tons of cats at the local spca. we find one we like and want to adopt so we fill out the paperwork. then they tell us they need winnie's vet records. so we have to go back on sunday. of course after being there for an hour saturday i have an allergy attack. not fun. i not only get a runny nose and sneeze my throat feels like it is closing off and it is hard to breathe. sunday we can't go back to the spca until after 12:00 noon so we grocery shop and get cat supplies. then off we go. the cat we like is there and we play with her and then we take her home. of course the cat loves me and loves to be petted. this makes winnie jealous she has to get her pets while the cat gets her pets. she even follows me around and of course winnie follows her. i can't believe i let him talk me into a cat. although he did agree if things with my allergies get bad we will get rid of the cat. i am hoping we don't have to do that but we will see.

1 AND 1

when i went to bed lat night the phillies were losing 4 to 0. while i hoped they would come back and win it wasn't to be. hopefully they will win at home where they have the advantage. our pitchers are used to swinging a bat unlike the american league pitchers. they may not be great hitters but they can at least move the runner. GO PHILLIES!!!!

winnie

my baby is adjusting to the move really well. the only thing that she is having a problem with is going out. she is use to us going with her and she is slowly getting use to going out alone. her other problem is that she really wants to go in the grass. unfortunately right now the only area for her to go in the back yard is not really grass. she will go because she needs to but tries to get as clos to the grass as she can. it is funny to watch her pressing up against the fence to go when we know she wants to go into the grass. this weekend if it doesn't rain we are gong to try to expand her area so she has grass.

now for more

well the ride to work is much longer now. i am slowly going to try new ways hopefully i can get the trip down to 45 minutes instead of an hour. i cut 5 minutes off this morning and there are more ways to try. i know that it will just mean learning my way around and finding out which ways make the trip easier. the only good thing is that it is all back country roads for the most part and that helps. i just need to cut the time down and it will be ok.
boyfriends mom and sister came over with 3 of their dogs last night. that was fun they were so excited to see the house. his sister was to help us move but got called into work and had to go out of town. she can't wait until thanksgiving at our house and neither can i. the only downer is that my mom and dad can't come since my mom's surgery has been moved to the day before thanksgiving. oh well maybe next year.