Sometimes, when I look at Tootsie Rolls, esp the bigger fat ones with their own little piece of protective cardboard inside the package, I remember the toilet we once had on the front porch at Halloween where we put lots of mushed and melted Tootsie Rolls all over it and inside.....

I love Halloween.

I love Tootsie Rolls still too.

Raided the kids' bags when they weren't looking, which was hard, cuz they are usually always looking, or if they are like Gunner they carry their trick or treat bag with them all over the house.

I just wore the two costumes I bought on sale at the Halloween store the year before. One is a brown Eskimo girl outfit, my favorite wore it to most of the costume parties the Stake, YSA, and Institutes held. The other is the pink leopard print cat one. Same size but the pink one seemed to be a little too tight.

Well, the roommate is out. No last act of revenge or anger, even when I told her I was only giving $60 of her deposit back. Using the rest to replace the carpet. Its either give her the money or get new carpet, which it was new when she moved in. I'd rather have the carpet. I even took some money out for new pots she burnt spaghetti sauce into and something to clean up my dryer... I think my washer needs a good cleaning too after all her mildewy clothes. Maybe I should've taken more money out...

Whatever. Its done! Its over! Not my problem anymore. Never have to deal with that again.

Until I forget about my roommate experience and want to get another one.

My dog seems to like life better also with the roommate gone and Claine here. He likes Claine. Cassie stopped by to get her mail the other day and Max beelined it up the stairs again at seeing her face. I think things are less tense around here with her gone...

Currently Claine is hanging out at my place while he does this mandatory training or something at Williams and while I dont have a roommate. Thas a little weird. I don't understand my sisters' husbands. I dont know how to communicate with them. It'd be just as awkward as trying to live with/communicate with Art. All I know is that boys like food. So I bought lots of food and stole lots of junk food from Halloween which seems to appease him.

I'm figuring out the whole mortgage and bills things without any rent help. That's interesting. But it seems to be okay even with the holidays coming up. I mostly bought Christmas in Oct anyways. I still had rent money to help me then... And I even paid unexpected bills like the carpet and fixing the car to pass inspection and dog pills and doctor bills, etc. I must've paid my tithing...

All in all I think things are going better in life. Less stress, so much less stress in fact my period is just itching to come. Its driving me nuts. Usually I'm so stressed it refuses to come. But not this month apparently... I get cravings for dry food like crackers, thats new, my hormones go all whack and I cant find anything that will make me content, want to watch random movies all the time, odd pains in my uterus, wanting to blast music all the time, gas-y and all of this is before the actual period mind you. It hasn't come and it prolly won't for another 4-5 days.

Meanwhile, I get to celebrate Veterans Day by my annual being poked, grabbed, and scraped in inappropriate places and then going to work.... yaaayyy....