OMG it’s OCTOBER!! IT’S OCTOBER! YEAH YEAH YEAH! OCTOBER!!! WHOOO!!!
Thursday morning before my students came, I heard men yelling outside. I went into the living room to look out the window. At the corner of the street two men began punching each other. A FIGHT!
Me: (jumping up and down insanely excited) A FIGHT! Come quick! They are fighting!
I continued my insane bounce in the living room as Hubby came to watch. In my excitement my feet slipped out from under me and I nearly fell flat on my face on the hard wood floor. Guess I deserved that. I shouldn’t be excited about people hurting each other. BAD MANDOO!
That night, hubby, Kodi, and I went walking at another apartment complex where they have multiple playgrounds. They had a pirate ship at each playground, so of course I had to walk up on them and run around, spouting pirate talk, steering the ship, and even doing the stupid Titanic “I’m the king of world!”
I really wanted to slide down the slide, but hubby said no.
Me: Can I slide down the slide?
Hubby: No, it’s dirty.
Me: Can I crawl through the tunnel?
Hubby: No, that’s really dirty!
Me: You are a happiness killer!
At least I got to sit and bounce around on the spring animal things.
We then put Kodi at the top of the slide and made him slide down. I caught him at the bottom. He seemed to like this, so we let him play for a little bit.
Back home, I decided I wanted to watch a bunch of Halloweeny type movies for October.
Here is my list:
Dracula
Frankenstein
Trick R Treat (Never seen)
Hocus Pocus
Nightmare before Christmas
Halloween (Hubby has never seen)
Psycho
The Shining
Nosferatu (Never seen)
The Addams Family
Practical Magic (LOVE!)
The Witches of Eastwick (Never finished)
Interview with a Vampire
Donnie Darko (Never seen)
Sleepy Hollow
Constantine
The Others
Rosemary’s Baby (Never finished)
Suspiria
We ended up watching Suspiria that night. Seeing the movie on everyone’s top scariest movie lists, I was expecting something really terrifying. Something that would give me nightmares, but it wasn’t so. The only really terrifying thing – besides the wallpaper – was the last scene when the dead friend tries to kill the main character. Now that was scary enough to make me hide my eyes. And is it just me or does the music make your brain want to explode? It made me really nauseous, and I thought my dinner of French fries was going to make a reappearance. Oh and I just loved the part in the music where a spooky voice shouted “witch!” every so often. Funny!
Ugh! My eczema seems to be coming back stronger than ever. Hubby and I, after I finished tutoring on Friday morning, went to the hospital to get yet another doctor’s opinion and prescription. It was a catholic hospital. And for some reason my new favorite word to say is holy, which I say in a holy way. It’s Ho—ly—-.
Got a hole in my shirt (Ho—-ly— shirt). Got a hole in my panties (Ho—ly— panties). Anyway, imagine my surprise when I saw that the coffee shop in the hospital had Holy in the title; hence, most of my time spent there was saying Ho—ly— coffee.
Me: You want some Ho—ly— coffee?
Hubby: I don’t trust that coffee shop (He is very picky about his coffee)
Me: But it’s Ho—ly—
While waiting to see the doctor, I got overly excited when I saw a nun. I then started a conversation all about how much I love nuns.
Me: I want to be friends with nuns.
Hubby: Cute.
Me: I want to volunteer with them and plant flowers with them. I love nuns!
Hubby: Shhh! You are too loud.
I don’t know why, I just really love nuns. I’m not even catholic. Hmmm is it because of the Sister Act movies? I don’t think so…
I’m a witch who loves nuns.
In the doctor’s office, the doc began speaking in Korean, but thought he should try to speak in English to me. He then (in broken English) began to ask me about my family’s medical history. He then asked if I had any other medical conditions besides eczema. Does stupidity count?
The conversation then got real personal when he found out hubby was my husband.
He asked how long I had been in Korea, how long we were married. Where I lived in America and blah blah blah.
Doctor: Why did you marry Korean? What is the difference between American and Korean men?
Me: I don’t know. (my cheeks caught fire and consumed my face)
Why is it that doctors always like to dive right into your personal life? Is it because they have permission to ask about our personal medical conditions that they think they have the right to ask about our personal lives? He then prescribed hydrocortisone lotion and an antihistamine.
We then paid 20.00 to see the doctor (would have been much cheaper had I had insurance). We left the hospital, got my prescription at the pharmacy (again 20.00 dollars because no insurance. This was kind of expensive. I usually pay 10 dollars or less on medication.)
Then, because hubby promised, we headed toward the subway station to eat at Outback Steakhouse (YUM!) On the way to the station, I saw some clothing racks outside with a sale sign above them. Remembering the doctor telling me to wear cotton and stay away from other fabrics, I asked hubby if I could see if the store had any cotton t-shirts. They did! So I bought a long yellow T-shirt with navy blue sleeves. The best part of all, the reason I wanted to buy this shirt above all others was because, on the front is the word “Cheez.” I love cheese!
At Outback Steakhouse, like always, I got the chicken tender salad and French fries. Hubby got the steak and mushroom soup. We got the soup early, hubby let me try it. OH so yummy, and while he went to the bathroom to wash his hands, I consumed all of his soup. I couldn’t help it. It was too yummy and I was just so hungry.
Our food soon arrived. Hubby had ordered his steak medium well. It came out cold and medium rare, so he had to send it back.
Last night we watched Grave Encounters it is filmed in documentary style like Paranormal Activity and The Blair Witch. It is about paranormal researchers who spend the night in an old insane asylum. Documentary style horror films always freak me out. So I totally yelled at hubby for making me watch it and forced him to put on something funny. But before watching anything funny, I really needed to potty. I whined until hubby went with me and I made him stand just outside the door. But I was still freaked out, so I left the door cracked and as I sat on the toilet I tried to reach outside the door.
Me: Hold my hand!
Hubby: (walks away)
Me: T_T
Back in bed, he put on the Nostalgia Critic because we finished all of The Angry Video Game Nerd episodes. We watched a couple of episodes of NC then I went to bed, and guess what? I ended up having nightmares about that stupid horror movie. I totally yelled and whined at hubby when we woke up this morning.
Because of my eczema outbreak, I can’t really crochet or knit unless the yarn is super soft so I can’t do much Halloween crafts. I plan on going to buy some soft yarn soon so I can maybe make the spooky Sam Hain character from Trick R Treat (Never seen the movie, but the character looks spooky), and maybe some other spooky dolls or something. And I can still sew (BUT IT TAKES FOREVER). Hopefully, I will make something soon. SO PLEASE FORGIVE ME!
Hubby is painting my wooden cut out tree and is painting me some wooden Halloween ornaments. (PICTURES… if hubby will take them for me today. Let’s keep reading and find out).
I did manage to crochet my angel baby Kodi a shirt and pants the other day. And I am still working on my very soft sweater. I am almost done with the back. Then it is on to the front and the sleeves. Speaking of my little angel, he just stole my Witchetty Grub and is playing with it.
I still have two students left to tutor today then I am going to go sniff my sandalwood oil diffuser. I LOVE SANDALWOOD! It smells so warm and right now it is the perfect fall smell. Plus I used to sleep with a sandalwood sachet under my pillow. I had the best dreams! Hopefully the diffuser will give me the same effect as long as hubby doesn’t move it. It was right next to the bed last night, but hubby moved it across the room, because he thought the smell was too strong. That is probably why I had nightmares last night. HUBBY! Grrr…
In case you are wondering sandalwood helps redirect our focus to spiritual and magical things. It doesn’t help with dreams, but in my case it seemed to do something, because I had the most vivid and – well – magically weird and awesome dreams.
Witchy Tip: (after all it is October!) A good herbal sachet to keep under your pillow to help keep away the nightmares is a rosemary sachet. If you have any dried rosemary or even rosemary tea packets (I have done this – just opened and sprinkled inside a sachet). Put the sachet under the pillow and voila! Lavender and Chamomile are other herbs that are good to drink or even put under your pillow to help you sleep.
Perhaps I will stitch myself up a new rosemary sachet tomorrow.
Betony is a good herb that is supposed to help prevent nightmares as well.
It you have kids who are often plagued by bad dreams especially come Halloween time, hang dill in your kids’ rooms to keep those spooky dreams away! If you want to do something cute for your kids hang some garlic in their rooms, you know, just in case of vampires.
More witchy tips to come!
Next time: love and herbs.
Hmmm… guess no pictures this time. Hopefully next time, or later tonight in another post.
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