Basket Case

Cheylene and Rob hosted the 2nd evening of scary night movie. This was their front porch. They had other fantastic clues inside. I failed to take photos. When I saw their yummy appetizers my eyes were only fixed on one place.

Matt guessed the movie, well done!!

Between dinner and the movie we played a few games with prizes. The first one we had to throw the heads in the basket that was hanging on the door knob. The second was who could get the most balls the the small baskets on the floor.

Congrats to Myles and Matt. Had a blast and you never know when Balyle may come get a little som'in som'in from you.

Twilight Characters Who are you? I'm a Alice

Brent you have got the take the test and let me know!
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I got tagged by Audrey

8 Shows I love to watch:

1- Biggest Loser

2- Seinfeld reruns

3- Friends reruns

4- Frasier reruns

5- Dancing with the Stars

6- American Idol

7- 24

8- Golden Girls reruns

8 Favorite restaurants:

1- Cafe Rio

2- La Costa

3- Taqueria Manteca

4- BJ's

5- Chicago Fire Pizza

6- Felipe's

7- Chipotle

8- Raley's sandwich dept

8 Things that happened yesterday:

1- Ran 5 miles at 5:30am

2- Got my car washed

3- Was told I still have a job (phew)

4- Ate dinner from Panda (comfort food)

5- Watched Ironman

6- Went to the gym

7- Was disappointed by a (guy) friend

8- Went to bed at 9pm

8 Things I am looking forward to:

1- Being done with the work day

2- Meeting up with old co-workers for din din tonight

3 Lisa getting prego

4- Alan coming home for Melanie and the kids

5- This weekend's 1/2 marathon

6- Scary movie night this weekend

7- Bringing my dog back to Manteca with me for 6 weeks

8- The movie Twilight to come out

8 Things on my wish list:

1- A house

2- Gas prices to go back to $.99

3- My zits will go away forever

4- Man of my dreams

5- A hug

6- A sport's massage

7- To eat McDonald's and not feel guilty about it afterwards

8- Get into a career where I don't have to listen to people complain (Does that exist?)

8 People I tag:

1- Melanie

2- Lisa

3- Danicia

4- Mindy

5-Kristen

6-Jennifer

7- Allison

8- Angie

Bass Pro Shop in Manteca

This past weekend was the Grand Opening of Bass Pro Shop here in Manteca. Mike and I decided to go later last night. We got there about 8pm and that place is like a Disneyland for adults. We took some fun pics. This place is really amazing. I'm not a hunter or fisherman but I can most certainly appreciate this place. They have a waterfall that is two stories high that fish live in at the bottom of the tank. They have stuffed fake animals all over the place.

You have to see it to believe it!

Egyptian Festival Oct 18th

I have a homeowner that invited me to the Egyptian Festival, in Ripon, that his church was putting together. They had wonderful food and great live music. I even bought a few items from their shops. They had three of them right next to each other down in the basement of the church. One shop was just of Egyptian apparel, the other had all the pictures, statues, book marks, jewelry of Christ and a wide selection of rosaries. The other shop was the shop will the Spinx, Pyramid, King Tut, and all that other good fun stuff. I was introduced the the Father and told him to be proud he was doing his missionary work. Novel kept inviting me to their next mass. :)

I SCREAM YOU SCREAM WE ALL SCREAM FOR ICE-CREAM Oct 18

Brent and Floyd hosted the past weekend's scary night movie. A group of us get together and there's a theme with how the place is decorated and what you have for dinner and maybe some activities. The movie was I Scream You Scream We All Scream for Ice-Cream. It was about an ice-cream truck that's driven by a clown. He hands ice-cream to children and when they eat it it kills their dads. We had yummy homemade pizza and then while we were all chillin' Floyd and Brent were like guys we have to get this movie started now. So we migrated inside and found our seat. Now it may have been a movie from the $1 bin from Walmart but anything that involves clowns and children is a bit creepy. About 15 min into it Sherry, Floyd's sister, said hey um you guys I just saw two images walk across your front window. Are you expecting anyone else tonight. Floyd answered no. She said she was serious there were two people, adult images that walked by. About 30 sec later the front door opens and two people dressed up in clowns attire come running in with machetes in hand and the 8 of us screaming out loud. Low and behold it was Van and LaMar...my parents. They had it rigged the whole time and Sherry was just being observant. Although they couldn't had planned it better. After everyone caught their breath we stopped the movie for a ice-cream intermission.

Meanwhile Floyd was cleaning up split wine off the floor.

15 and Delirious October 19th

Sunday I was in town for the Scary Movie night at Brent and Floyd's so I thought I'd just stick around and do my long run along the bike trail. It was a beautiful morning. I started around 8am and had 15 miles to go. There's a few things that are different running along the bike trail vs. running here in Manteca. There are several fellow runners and that just gives you a blot of sanity. That's right I'm not nuts...look at everyone else that's out here. There were also cyclists who scared the crap out of me a few times. Thought I'd have to change my shorts. I'm used to running with cars and you can hear them but when you have 10 bikes that zoom past you coming from the back you jump a bit. Trust me on that on.

As the run got longer my brain starts to slowly focus on only what's in front of me. I can't do simple math or think about what I'm going to eat for dinner that night. It's primary focus is my current state. With that I began to get delirious and start seeing things that aren't what they seem to be. About mile 7 here was a tree stump but could have sworn it was a man in a hunching position that was getting ready to pounce on something. On the way back mile 14 there was a tree that I saw had a iguana the size of a large dog in between the branches. As I came up to the tree sure enough just a part of the wood. I just shook my head I decided to stop sight seeing and just focus on the pavement in front of me. I carried on.