To Rocky or not to Rocky? That is the question.

I'm stuck home alone on Halloween. Seeing as how I have no friends to hang out with in the Glens Falls area, I'm pretty bummed. I love Halloween parties and getting dressed up. But that doesn't work when you've got no where to go.

Yesterday I heard an ad on the radio that the Rocky Horror Picture Show is playing in Saratoga tonight. I've seen the movie a gazillion times (I first saw it in second grade, and performed a couple songs with a group in a talent show once - at a church summer camp of all places!), but I've never been to the live show or theatre screening. I had a friend who played Frank in Niagara Falls, and they had a showing at RIT every year, but I never actually went. Something always came up.

So now I'm considering driving down to Saratoga (about 20 minutes away) to go to the show. But I won't know anyone there. I mentioned it on facebook, and a friend told me I had two options: stay home, or wear a corset and make a bunch of new friends.

The problem is, I don't have anything particularly good to wear. The only corset I have doesn't fit properly - the back criss-cross has to be tightened to the point of overlapping - and I don't own any shiny hotpants or fishnets. The corset wouldn't be much good without those anyway. So I'd have to make do with moderately gothy dress I found in the back of my closet. Paired with knee-high leather boots and gowdy jewelry I should at least be passibly dressed for the event. I'd end up spending over a hundred bucks if I went out shopping for a proper costume, so that's not an option.

Basically, I'm posting this to psych myself up to go on my own. If I tell you all I'm going, I can't just wimp out and not bother. So wish me luck!

Oh, and Happy Halloween!

Less than a week til election day!

Even if you're confident your favorite candidate(s) are goin to win, show up to help set a voter turn-out record. They really do keep track of those things. I don't care if you back the same candidates I do, it's still important that you take the time to cast a vote. And you should do it even if the candidate you're backing doesn't stand a chance of winning. Did you know that public funding for future campaigns is partly tied to the results of past elections? Meaning more votes for a minor candidate can help their party out next time around.

And it's not all about the Presidential election! Frankly, the President doesn't have that much power over your life (unless he sends us to war or something *cough* *cough*). Most of the real power is in the legislature. That's why representatives only have two year terms. Or you might have a high and mighty senate race this year. Those are the people who actually write and vote on the laws and taxes and rediculous bail-out bills. 

Do federal politics piss you off to the point you don't even want to think about them? Then forget about it and focus on the state and local races. Think City Council and County Coroner and Police Chief. Tuesday is about a lot more than just Obama vs. McCain!

Those of you who've never voted before may not realize that elections aren't the only thing on the ballot. You could have state ballot initiatives (if you're in Cali, vote no on prop 8!), local ordinances, and boring stuff like the library budget.

Don't know where to go to cast your vote? Look it up! www.vote411.org

Hubby's out of town for a week... and I went shopping

I took Billy to the airport yesterday. He's going to visit his family in Huntsville for a few days then out to Vegas to see a college buddy. It was a 6 AM flight, which meant getting up at 4 AM to go to the airport.

I decided to stay awake afterward to go shopping when JCPenneys opened. I had a Penny's gift card from cashing out some Discover Card cashback rewards, and a couple American Express gift cards we earned from our American Express Clear cashback rewards. I love free money. I tried a million things on that I mostly ended up hating, but came home with some great deals. My primary mission was the find a super-comfy, yet not completely dorky, travel outfit. I flew to Australia last time in my fabulous but skin-tight jeans from Brazil. That is so not happening again.

There's whole categories of clothing known as 'track suits' and 'loungewear' that I've never previously owned. I was determined, but couldn't bring myself to actually purchase an all-velour outfit. They were available in a dozen colors and 2 different styles. But I just couldn't do it. Head to toe Adidas was tempting, but was quickly ruled out by super-scratchy seams on the inside of the jacket.

My requirements were fairly straightforward. I needed a color-coordinated three-piece outfit: a sleeveless layer, a long-sleeved layer, and long pants. The sleeved layer had to open down the front and not have a hood (for comfort and ease of taking on and off in-flight). The shell had to have a self-contained bra or be designed in such a way that my bra straps would not be showing. The pants had to make my ass look good (this concession must be made so Billy doesn't wine about me buying new clothes).

I ended up with a torquoise shell and a torquoise/marine blue/gray pants and jacket. It's all super comfy, not trendy enough to make me look like one of those girls I can't stand, but still more presentable than just wearing pajamas.

A gal don't spend 4 hours in JCP and just come home with a track suit though! I got a new wallet ($5), couple of lovely necklaces (buy one, get one), a full-length black/white houndstooth plaid skirt that is absolutely gorgeous, a black blouse because I own maybe 1 shirt that would go with aforementioned skirt, a pair of denim capris (for $2!!!), plus a dress and a cardigan that I'm going to return. The dress is cute, but it turned out to be $30 when I looked at the receipt (more than I'd expected) and the cardigan just looks dumb - it was in my bag when I realized it was 1 PM and had to check out (or I wouldn't get my doorbuster deals) - I'd tried it on, but not seem myself in a mirror. I'll return them tomorrow afternoon. Free money spending spree over, I'm now back in spend-thrift mode and probably won't be able to convince myself to buy anything in their place. Except maybe a different dress or other fun summer clothes on better sale. Looks like we're heading back to Australia and Brazil - winter here means it's summer there!

Doing the hundred

So far so good on hundred pushups challenge take #2. And this time I've got Billy doing it too! Of course, he's a lot stronger than me, so he got to start on week 3. I'm also not cheating  this time. Before I was doing the required pushups over the course of an evening. Now I'm doing them with as little time between sets as possible - so far never more than 5 minutes.

Click here to follow my progress on the pushups logger.

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Why not?

Bookmark these sites and click every day! FYI - If you use Firefox, you can save multiple tabs to open as your 'homepage'. So just add one or all of these along with whatever you usually use. Personally, I've added them all to a folder in my bookmarks bar and just use the the 'Open all in tabs' option.

And since it's October thebreastcancersite.com is running a special challenge. If users click to fund 500 mamograms, one of their sponsors will kick in an additional 200.