Halloween boredom

I’m a little bummed out because this is the first Halloween in a long time that I’m not going to be celebrating (save for putting on a “My First Halloween” bib on Sean). All the friends, bars, and music venues are doing their costume parties tonight. I always GO ALL OUT for this holiday. I pride myself on my homemade costumes- even if it’s the night before or the night of, I rummage through my hefty bag full of ‘may be a good costume piece one day’ clothing and come up with something. I like to get started a month early or so, so that I can really get it right. Last year I was (upon last minute rumaging) a dirty hooker, black eye and all. I even stuffed the rear end of my leopard print pants with inconstancy pads- I had the most borderline offensive booty in the place! Some of my past favorites include Cruella DeVil and Carmen Miranda (the chiquita banana woman).

As I was saying to a friend tonight, I am really excited that I have a child now for this holiday. I’ll get to re-live the magic all over again, and dress up with him when we go tricker treating!!!!! Mommy’s also going to rummage through his candy bag to look for poisoned candies (aka stealing some of the ones I like). *smile*

I also can’t wait to get my own house. I want to be the “scary house” in the neighborhood. There was a guy in our neighborhood growing up that ALWAYS had something scary in store for the trick or treaters. We would stand at the bottom of the driveway and dare each other to go up there. He would hide in the bushes and jump out with a roaring chainsaw (de-chained), or set out a scarecrow a month before Halloween then the night of, be the scarecrow and jump at you when you knock on the door. It was AWESOME!!!! I soooo want to do that too!

I’m really bored, and now would be the perfect time to try to clean up my laptop. I’m running out of disk space and can’t even defrag it. The three major things that are taking up space are my pics, my music, and everything I’ve written and saved since I got this thing five years ago. This is tedious and monumental stuff. The pics I like to have on hand because I never know when I’m in the mood to take a trip down memory lane, or want a specific pic or cartoon to post somewhere. I’m reluctant to put them on a disk and stash it away. The writing I hardly ever go back and read, but they are forever protected from prying eyes in my computer. I also worry about what might happen to the disks of my writing- theft, or losing them, or fire or whatever home catastrophes may come. I could make multiple disks, but then the likelihood of them being found and read is greater. It’s not like they’re pornographic or the confessions of a serial killer or anything, but they’re MY thoughts (granted, in print) but if I feel the need for other people to read them I will try and have them published. And oh good lord the music!

The music is the real beast here. I have the regular Windows media player and I don’t know how many albums on there. I think my downfall came about the time I was house sitting for my musician/music loving best friend and her husband. I told her I was going to put some of their CD’s on my computer. I don’t think her husband was too thrilled about it, I think he’s in the “that’s stealing” boat, but I don’t think she minded as much. I considered it getting paid (granted one could argue that it was actually Susan Tedeschi and Eddie Vedder paying) for the efforts of taking care of a Jack Russell Terrior, a Chihuaha, and a medium sized Lulabell mutt- all three of which were hyper, loved to pee when they saw me/ I wrestled with them (not to mention pooing in the hallway that led to my bedroom), and pur Lula who howled in mourning outside my door every time I went to have a dog-free good night’s sleep. I make them sound a bit horrid, but I do love those little critters, and still consider myself “aunt lisa” to all of them, even after the divorce and custody battle. Back on track…. I burned probably upwards of about 30 albums, a lot of them artists that I’ve never heard of before (thinking “if they like them, then I probably will too…”) I haven’t gotten around to listening to all the albums, and for some of them I’ve heard a song or two while hitting ‘random’ on the player. (that’s another story too, I feel a little abused when I have to rush to change the song after being assaulted by Tears For Fears’ “Change”) I know I need to get rid of a lot of the music on there, but I feel the need to listen to the albums first, and just keep the songs I like. It’ll take forever!!! And what about those artists that I feel I should keep for posterity… s/a the more boring less thought provoking Leonard Cohen of the eighties, or those of the Peter Frampton/Steely Dan/Jackson Browne/Fleetwood Mac sort that I rarely listen to?

I was just thinking now, that I could break it down into a game-plan, and not get overwhelmed by the big picture. Listen to one or two albums a day, I could even do it during Sean’s feedings, and erase/keep accordingly. Good idea! Also make it a goal to buy myself a little fire-proof safe.

So that’s that, and a good half an hour’s time wasted on rambling to you here.