Who you gonna call? Ghostbusters!

I was out to Will Poultry buying some chicken wings and blue cheese when it occured to me I was only around the corner from the Central Terminal.  Tonight there will be a live 6 hour special on TV from the program Ghost Hunters on the "haunted Central Terminal". 

It was a dreary day, perfect for some pictures so I took a spin over.  I was really surprised there was no one else there, although there was a police car posted on all sides which wouldn't let you go any closer.  I walked up as far as I could and got a few shots. 

Isn't it beautiful?  Think I may look into volunteering there as Buffalo makes it's first steps towards restoration.  http://buffalocentralterminal.org/you-can-help/volunteer-with-the-ctrc/

Random Acts of Cleaning

Also known as why my house never looks clean.

I start out in the living room.  Take down the globes from Mom's vintage chandelier to wash them.  To accomplish this I need to stand on a kitchen chair.  As I go to return the chair back to the kitchen I think to myself, those chairs really could use some cleaning.  So, I dig around underneath the kitchen sink for the furniture cleaner.  While doing so, I decide I have too many bags stuffed under the kitchen sink and I pull all the bags out, put a limited number back in and ditch the rest.  Use the furniture cleaner and clean the chairs.  Wow, they look so much better.

Well, back to the living room.  Clean off the table in there, dust all the picture frames, take the globes off the student lamp and take them into the kitchen and wash them.  Okay, I'm not going to get distracted again ... so back to the living room.  Really working my way around the room and realize there is a big stack of coupon sections from the last couple weeks paper.  Time to get rid of those, but first let's go through them and see if there are any coupons worth clipping.  Fifteen minutes later, I've managed to cut out $3 worth of coupons but did rid myself of the pile of papers.  The coupons will then make it to the lazy susan on the kitchen table where they will stay until they have expired ... never even making it into my purse.

Time to get the globes for the lamp, so I dry them off in the kitchen and realize my clean sink now has splatter marks and soap all over it, so after putting the globes back on the lamp I go back to the kitchen and clean the sink. 

So, I've got a clean sink, the kitchen chairs are clean and the globes are done from the living room.  When Nick comes home I'm going to have a hard time convincing him I didn't spend the day watching TV!

It's Fun To Stay at the YMCA ...

Can't think of a better way to start the day than turning on the car radio and hearing the sounds of the Village People.  Besides that, it is supposed to reach 70 degrees today and we are in Buffalo.  It's Octobber 27th and I haven't broken out the socks yet.  Even left the windows open at home, so I'm sure the cats have found a nice little perch in one of the open windows.

To add to the wonderfulness of the day, my brother had his last radiation treatment and my daughter gets the cast off her foot tomorrow morning.  Sure hope it has healed properly as someone is not too fond of using her crutches.  What were they thinking when they gave her a walking cast?

Another awesome pumpkin

My daughter and her friend carved pumpkins.  Here's the one she came home with.

It began innocently enough ...

While perusing my favorite message board I stumbled on a post titled "What should I bring to a potluck?"  While scanning the replies I came across a recipe for pumpkin bars.  What the heck, I have some canned pumpkin.  Why not try them?

So, I gathered up all my ingredients and had to dig a little deeper than I thought for a couple of them.  The next thing I know, the entire contents of my lazy susan cupboard are spread out on the floor and kitchen table.  That is when I realized, I'm a spice whore.  WTH?  3 containers of garlic powder (2 of them open).  Not to be outdone were the containers of black pepper, anything containing garlic, all their Italian seasoning cousins and not to let the baking supplies feel left out ... 3 containers of cinnamon, 3 packages of expired yeast  and enough sprinkles to decorate my Christmas cookies until I die. 

So, I weeded through all the duplicates and expired stuff and think I filled up half a kitchen trash can.    I really hope those pumpkin bars were worth it!

I love Halloween!

And I have passed that love on to my daughter.  Although I have tired of the pumpkin carving over the years, fortunately she has picked up where we have left off.  Here's this year's effort. (so far)

I'm sure there will be many more, but won't let her carve any more till it gets closer to Halloween.  So, we will probably be off to get some more pumpkins this afternnoon and hopefully get some foliage pictures while there is still foliage left.  I have really been slacking this year.  Although I did manage to get these cool shots last night while Nick was outside grilling.  Isn't that sky gorgeous?  And the rainbow was just the icing on the cake!





Is there any job more boring?

Than folding laundry.  This job has to be tops on my least favorite job list.  (although emptying the dishwasher is a close second!)  Heck, I'll even leave some of the clothes in the dryer to take a ride with the next load just so I don't have to fold them.  But chances are, some of them are mateless socks anyway which just end up in a basket in the laundry room forever until one day in a purging frenzy the whole lot of them just gets tossed in the garbage.  Where do the mates of those socks go anyway?