Camra Sadness, Halloween Fun, and New Washer and Dryer!

Well it was a fun weekend here is a small play by play of what happened.
Friday Night: Got home relaxed, and found out my family was going to be gone for the night. I was able to have a spooky romantic dinner with Justin. We then decided to relax and watch T.V. together. While in our room the rats had a fight, a BIG fight. Justin got them separated, and found that he had blood on his arm. We both were scared, there really isn't much you can do for such a small animal, especially one who will just eat any bandage you put on it. It was Magellan who got hurt, on his foot. We watched him to make sure the bleeding stopped and that he was not in any danger. Then we knew we needed to put him in a sterile environment so the wound would not get infected. So we got out their travel cage and added some clean bedding, and food and water. Well, they did not like being separated. Macbeth spent a little bit of time running around looking down at his brother. Magellan, was wondering around the small travel cage looking up. It was pretty sad.
So, somewhere in the last 2 weeks I broke our camera. The display does not work anymore. I am going to see how much it will be to repair of replace it. Man, this could not happen at a worse time. I am about ready to pop, and we would not have any pictures! I am also super bummed that I didn't get any pictures from this weekend.
Saturday: We woke up to Magellan pounding his little hands on the cage trying to desperately get out. He looked a bit stir crazy. We let them out and played with them for a little while. After we put them back into their separated cages, I wen toff to eat. When I came back in the room Justin told me to watch Magellan in his cage. So I did. After a min. or so he started pushing on the top of the cage and was able to open it!!!! Crazy! So, we had to put little book on top to keep him from opening it. I then spent the rest of the day helping my sister get ready for the party. We decided not to do the sugar cookies, because she didn't want to. (which was fine because I don't think we would have had time) The chocolate ghosts turned out really great! It just took a few to practice on (the first 5 were pretty bad looking). And, When it says teaspoon they mean a spoon you serve iced tea with, not a measurement spoon. One I got all that figured out they turned out awesome. I am going to try and do snow men this Christmas with the same recipe. We got everything set up and ready around 4ish. Justin and I then were off to the pet store to get more bedding for the rats. It was nice and relaxing to see all the cute puppies and various other animals. It made me super sad to see the feeder rats and mice. I really like our rats. It is pretty hard to not want to come away from a pet store without wanting to take all of the pets home. We got back to the house and I was off to get myself ready. I decided to be a pirate, because it was super easy and I knew we had pirate stuff in the house. (I am really sad I don't have any pictures of my costume because I thought it turned out pretty dang good. It was around 6 when I was finished getting ready. I had to hop on getting final details ready outside and inside. I frantically made a quick Halloween mix for the party. Alas, I wish I had more time. but next year I can add a few more scary songs to the mix.
We also got a new (used) washer and dryer. My parents Dryer was finally dieing after about 23 years working. (For the past few months we have been hanging our cloths out on a line.) It has been nice but really hard to spend all day doing laundry. My dad and little sister were great and took over dinner duties for me. (I was annoyed with myself, we were supposed to eat at 5. Just not enough hours in the day...) Mean while, Justin was out back cutting off dead branches from the willow tree and prepping the pit for a large bon fire. Guests and trick or treaters started to arrive!
It was great to see my sister and her family! They were Dressed as the little bee and the BeeHive. Super cute! After all or most of the guests had arrived they spent some time out at the bon fire. It was pretty huge! Justin burnt 2 more broken chairs on it, which made it super bright and very hot. The guests then went inside and started playing games and generally having fun. I was able to go outside and spend most of the evening with Justin, it was a perfect Halloween night, no wind not too cold and almost a full moon! We had a few surprise visitors, My cousin Berlin and a friend came by to say hi and visit for a moment. And my cousin Laura and her roommate stopped by for a quick visit too! It was fun fun to see them all. Laura was dressed as the queen of hearts, the coolest part of her costume was that she had a pink croquette flamingo from the movie! I loved that! Justin and I then prepped things for the glow stick fight my sister had planned next. (Basically you cut off the ends of glow sticks and fling the liquid at each other. I know it sounds dangerous, but that is what she wanted to do.) It was fun to watch the kids run around glowing. Then a little bit later my brother and his friend with came over with their Rave car. Seriously, he has a fog machine, laser lights, a disco ball, and a good sound system. Such a silly looking this to see in your drive way... We also had another really fun house on our street this year, they had tons of pumpkins lights and a grave yard, all synchronized to the music from the Haunted Mansion. It was fun to go over and see it. Then all the guests left for the dance, and we started to clean up the worst of it. Then I was able to spend another hour or so out side with Justin, and that was really nice.
Sunday:Well I spent Saturday Night and part of Sunday morning feeling sick. I suspect it was from over doing it Saturday combined with being kicked in the stomach on the hour every hour all night long. So, I was not going to go to church. I slowly got up and ate, and started cleaning things up. I spent the morning with the rats, while Justin cleaned out their cage so we could put them back together again. They spent the morning on my shoulder while I cleaned. The rats were super happy to be together again. Afterwords, Justin was like shoot, since I am home I am going to switch out the washer and dryer. I was like wholly crap that is a HUGE project. But once Justin sets his mind on doing something, he does it. (oh, my parents also went out of town that morning for a funeral) So, he got started cleaning out the laundry room and moving out the old stuff. (Also, after 3 or 4 hours I was feeling much better that day. Which makes me think it was my silly baby kicking me...) I was sent out to get some pipe dope for the gas hook up. Which made me laugh because I was super afraid I would go into Home Depot and ask for dope pipe or dope for my pipe. Something silly like that. But I didn't! And, the guy knew precisely what I needed. By the time I got home Justin and my little sister had removed the old washer and dryer and had moved in the washer, and were getting ready to move in the dryer! Justin installed everything while my sister and I worked on organizing and throwing away old socks, and other things from the laundry room. My brother came home and helped us finish everything up. and we ran a few loads through the washer and dryer and no leakage from the gas!! It was a big thing to get done. I am super glad to have that project out of the way. I think my parents are too. The house is looking really nice right now. Unfortunately this week I need to take down all the Halloween decorations which will make another temporary mess. Thankfully the next big decorating project is not till Christmas. I just have a few more projects to do before then, making stuffed animals, finishing a crib...
I just hope I will be up, and able to get everything done before the baby comes!