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2 Days til the Party!

So Cute....Bye Bye

So today marks 2 days until our grand Halloween party. I had off so I spent the whole day starting to clean and decorating. I put up the streamers, set up the table and went to Wal Mart for the fog machine and strobe light. I also found black balloons so I bought 60 of those and blew them all up during the night. We'll have around 150 balloons all over the place. It's wonderful. I set up all the pumpkins around the house and they look great. I put up more cobwebs and finally reorganized all the DVDs so they're not all over the floor! It was a pretty lax day all and all. 

The Halloween Food Table

I found a great radio station today called Switch 1197 www.switch1197.com. It has some rockin' dance music from Australia. I listened to that while decorating and downloaded some of the songs I heard for the party. I also got a scary sounds CD for only $3 at Wal Mart to play in the kitchen. Amy worked from around 3-9 today. It was her first day and when she got home she said the work was easy but she didn't really like it. =/ Looks like she'll be looking for a new job as well. I'm still waiting to hear back from some places. I'm going to the Northampton Coop tomorrow to harass them about giving me a job. 

Colleen brought David, her beaux, home from the airport at night. He's a pretty cool guy and has made the coolest creepy bird head costume for the party! I showed them what the place will look like with all the lights and it's amazing! The fog machine is pretty kickin.

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9 Month Pregnant Lady on Trapeze

Pumpkins Like Whoa

Amy Getting Dirty

Amy and I both had off from work today so we spent some quality time at Wal Mart getting stuff for our party. I also decided to pick up $5 worth of pumpkins from that cart on Route 9. We ended up getting 20 mid to small sized pumpkins for only .25 a piece! I paid in change because I had to get the cash from my change jar haha. It was awesome. We went home and started to carve them that night. As we were washing them Lee, our landlord, came over with a giant pumpkin and was like "uh, Deana and I thought you guys might like a pumpkin...." as she stared at our 20 pumpkins everywhere haha. They had gone pumpkin picking and had gotten one for us! So awesome! So now we have a Mama pumpkin for all the little ones. 

Our Pumpkins!

Amy cooked all the pumpkin seeds the following day and made all sorts of flavors. We have two containers of pumpkin seeds from just 10 pumpkins and we have 10 more to carve! We decided to save the original 4 that Amy bought for people to carve when they get here =)

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Cute Little Chinese Acrobats

Pancakes and Pumpkins

I Fucking LOVE Pancakes!

Started the morning with some pancake making! I had been wanting pancakes forever and I bought a whole wheat mix at the "Dotties" of Northampton. I put some of our frozen raspberries in them and cinnamon. They were delicious! Amy and Colleen liked them too. Mmm nummy num nums. 

Ume Enjoying the Sun on Our Porch

Amy and I spent a day together running around and doing stuff. Went to the thrift store so she could pick up stuff for her costume. She's going to be Facebook lol. She's going to wear all white and replicate everything facebook on her body haha. She's amazing. We went to target so she could get sticky notes to "friend" people all night long. =P 

The Pumpkin Patch

Found a pumpkin place on the side of the road that was selling tiny pumpkins for only $.25 a pumpkin! They also had some giant ass pumpkins. I love the pumpkins. 

Salvo!

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Sarah Palin...I Love This Hoe =P

The Grand Picture Update

A Really Cool Vintage Clothing Store in Noho

OK so here's the deal, I'm going to do a quick update of the month I was too busy to update on here with some random pictures underneath all this text. Enjoy!

Trixie and Monkey Working on Their Klaus Nomi Piece

Living with Colleen and Amy is rocking. Ume is a joy. Amy has been looking for a job non stop and she just recently found one (even though she doesn't like it so much). 

Colleen's a Sexy Bitch!

Our house is great but I might be allergic to it. I've been coughing for about a month. Went to the free doctor in Brattleboro and he said I was having allergy induced asthma and that my bronchial tubes were inflamed. He gave me an inhaler but I've stopped taking that as it wasn't doing anything for me. I still cough a little bit here and there but it's not on my chest any more. Most people think it was mold and now that the heat is on it's not as bad. 

Rarr!

I did the Residency program at NECCA for about 2 weeks. I was not impressed. I knew it would basically be open studio but the energy wasn't working for me and the fact that I didn't have my own trapeze yet to rig was annoying. We finally had a few good days of working on stuff but that didn't last long. We kept getting jipped out of our time there by either being locked out or having people overstay their morning workout in the space. My back was doing ok and I was stretching well but then I think I overdid it and the right side has been killing me. I'm still taking it easy now. My right wrist is also fucked up from landing a back handspring poorly at the Chicago gig. I can't do a handstand without bending my right elbow. *angries* 

Having Fun at a Park in Holyoke

I also started working at the coop again right after residency. Now that I quite residency I'm looking for another job down in Noho. The drive is just too much for me and I'm kind of burnt out on traveling and this isn't helping. Also, Colleen's schedule doesn't exactly match up with mine so I was driving quite a bit at the end and I just wasn't into that. My car is breaking down slowly and I need to get all sorts of shit fixed on it so I don't want to be driving 1 hour every day to Brattleboro and then back again. 

I Keep Finding Her on My Bed haha

All this stuff is totally stressing me out. I had quite a few bad days/weeks this past month. I didn't have any money yet was spending so much on gas and training that I didn't want to do. I'm taking steps now to make this all better. I might have found a space at a local cotton mill type place with a photographer who wants to share space. For almost unlimited access I would be paying less then residency. Totally worth it to me. I also had a rockin lesson with Codhi from New Mexico. He was here to do a show and he gave me a trapeze lesson. It reinspired me to create on the trapeze and I loved it. He's a great guy!

Improving

I really like my life down here in Holyoke though. I love the house and I love the area. I'm really excited to get things finally settled and have a slightly relaxed life.  

Amy's Bakery Says, "Suzanne's a Chick!"

The General Feeling at Residency

I Added Some Things to Amy's Design

Bye Bye Van (At a Wedding Reception with Amy's Family...Odd)

Mahjong and Tealights

Amanda, Ed and I... Mac Geeks.

We Be Crazy

Haven't You Heard? That the Bird is the Word?

The Cutest Little Pug Ever!

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Haven't You Heard?