all hallows eve eve

today i got ready for halloween. this involved painting my fingernails:




and making scotcharoos to take into work in the morning. thank goodness mom sent me some halloween cookie cutters! i also wanted to make roll-out cookies and use the cute sprinkles she sent, but i thought these would be easier (and they were).

tomorrow, i am going to wear my halloween socks to work and watch scary movies on tv and eat all the halloween candy that i got from mamsis.

candy corn soda

i finally got my halloween package last friday. hooray!
it was jam-packed with goodies, some more appetizing than others. there were oreos and pay-day mix, and sour worms (i only got one, josh ate all the rest) and peeps. there was also these severed gummy body parts and brains. mamsis also put in candy-corn flavored cola. i put one in the fridge and tonight i drank it. it wasn't as nasty as i thought, and taste suprisingly like candy corn-but i think it might put me in a diabetic coma.

Death to DST

i'm going to get on my soapbox for this post since today is the end of dst. i hate daylight savings time. its not only that i don't want the hassle of changing all the clocks in my house and my car. i don't think that you should be able to lose and gain time in the blink of an eye. other than changing time zones when crossing state lines, time should be constant. that's why it's always on the x axis. i can't believe that indiana is now on DST; mitch daniels, you will never escape my place of hate.

on a more positive note, when i was driving to work this morning, the woman that was being interviewed was part of an organization that was trying to educate the public on why antibiotics shouldn't be used for colds and the flu. i thought that this was a good use of time and money and the posters that they give to doctors offices really put superinfections in perspective. the guy interviewing her asked her where she got her funding, and then said, "but you don't get tax dollars, because that's what everyone asks." and he said it in a way implying that she shouldn't get any. i guess that just means that his tax dollars will go toward paying thousands of dollars for expensive hospital treatment for the poor. i'd rather mine went toward education, but i don't get a choice in the matter.

good morning snowfall

last night as i left work, i was warned of the impending "blizzard" that was going to hit. i forgot about it this morning until josh opened the blinds and i saw a world of white. sorry this isn't a scenic view of the mountains. i couldn't see them for all the snow.

josh scraped off my car after he scraped off his own, but it was a pretty scary drive to work. i would have thought that in CO, people would know how to drive in snow, and also the snow plows would have had most of the roads cleared by 11 am. i was severely disappointed in both. as though dealing with the idiots weren't bad enough, the traffic light were covered with snow. it was hard to see what color the light was, but fortunately i didn't get into any accidents. work was pretty easy, most people didn't want to go out in the snow. hopefully this snow melts before halloween, or else i will have to eat all the candy myself.

sticky situation

one of the things on my list of things to do while i was home was to harvest honey. my dad put in the bee escapes a few weeks ago, so all we had to do was pull off the top supers since the bees were trapped in the bottom (this cut down on the stings 100%).

the extraction went fairly slowly because the extractor only holds four frames at a time, and i think we had about 100 to do. it took us about 2 days (we didn't work on it the entire time) to extract all the honey, and then we started straining. this takes a really long time because it has to go through a 600, 400, and 200 micron filter and they clog up fairly quickly and have to be cleaned often. this leads to honey all over everything. the counter, the floor, and the workers were all coated in sticky sweetness. i even got some in my hair.

i think dad said he got about 10 gallons in the end, and i was able to bring back some jars to my co-workers. mom even got some wax to use in candles or soap or maybe just to carry around and smell the waxy scent. i think that she will send some to anyone that wants it, just remember to send back your empty jars.