Halloween at the Merrimaker

Tom and I both worked long days yesterday, getting home around 9:30 PM.  The Merrimaker was having there Scary-oke Costume Contest but we had no time and Tom had no desire to dress.  I rummaged through my closet and found my old LiveOak Music Festival shirt.

The shirt was purchased down in South Beach while I was visiting with my friend Dwayne.  It looks like a denim plaid shirt with a vegetable in every white square.  Hundreds of vegetables.  I always wore it on Thanksgiving, but was getting worn as the years went by.  A few years back, the theme was chosen for our LiveOak camp as Birds of a Feather.  I glued some feathers, added some fringe on the arms and back and tied a leather string with feathers hanging off on the back.  This is it from LiveOak.

I decided to wear this last night and be a bird, a rooster, a cock.  Tom went as an alcoholic.  Funny!  When we arrived, there were a spattering of locals.  Lots of picture taking and then lots of Scary-oke.  I mean Scary!  The highlight of the night were the costumes, which is why I post.

Blurry, Oops.  Janice, Josh & Abby, 3 Little Angels

Jeremy as Sister Mary.  Wonder what the child will look like.

Dustan as Super Gorilla?

George's T

Cynthia's T 

Jimmy Mancini as Mafioso with Rubber Band Ammo

Beauty and the Beast with Angela Lansbury?

Chaz & Cher

Student Joan & Fr. Donovan

Scary-oke!

Janice, One Lovely Angel

Jeremy's Pregnant Suit

Darth Bunny and Winner of Costume Contest?

Little Bunny

Greek Goddess and her Blind Referee

Meow!

Always have to have a Jesus

Cute Couple

Another Angel, Josh

Chris Garcia as Chris Garcia

Cute Zombie

Damon & Mac

Mancini and a Mike

Jo the Witch and her Sister

I'm Here

Spartans Behind the Bar

One Busted Skeleton

Needless to say, the last picture is how I felt this morning.  One Busted Skeleton.  Halloween is still two days away, but this guy has had enough tricks for one weekend.  Back to work tomorrow to Stage Manage at the PAC for Pilobolus.  Long day, but about time we start doing some big shows.

What is it?

I say it's an alien's eye.  What do you see.  Comments?

Domestic Partner Registry

So, it is complete.  At least our part.  Today we mailed in our Domestic Partner Registry.  As I mentioned in our previous post, Tom quit his job.  It was a perfect opportunity to register as Domestic Partners.  It is also fitting that after ten years of being together we make it legal.

I must say that I was disappointed in what we had to do and not do in order to do it.  I went to our local county's web site to find out what fees were needed to be paid and to get the proper forms.  To my surprise, there is no form and no fees.  In fact we did not have to go to City Hall at all.  Instead all we had to do was fill out a form from the Secretary of State and mail it in.  Not exactly the pomp I was looking for.  The fee was $10.  Also an additional fee of $23 for same sex couples.  Equal?  I think not.  Why can't we go to City Hall and wait in line to be committed?

One of my favorite Pix from Donovan

We had to get the form notarized, so I called a friend of mine, Rachel who verified our identities and stamped the form after giving her our fingerprints.  Off to the Post Office to mail our form and it was done.

Rachel filling out her part

Tom looking for ID

Time to verify

Money Order to the Secretary of State

Declaration of Domestic Partnership

No fanfare at the USPS

Double the Help

It's in the mail

So now we wait.  We decided on not changing names, which was an option.  We thought about changing it to TravelingDog, but I like my name.  It was a great way of spending my birthday.  Off to crochet and then a pork meal with homemade applesauce, compliments of my Domestic Partner, Tom!

Birthdays and BuddyJack Day

I've been wondering what I am going to talk about on this blog.  It's been great developing a discipline about writing often and I would prefer not to lose that.  Today is my birthday.  Celebrating 46 years.  Entering my 47th.  Yesterday we celebrated BuddyJack Day.

BuddyJack came into our lives as a wandering dog in the Merrimaker.  It was getting late in the night and the bartender, Lindsey, suggested we take him home due to the fact we were "dog people."  We did bring him home and took a picture of him the following morning.  I posted some signs around the neighborhood asking if anybody lost a dog.  Tom made sure that I didn't name him, so not to get attached.

About a week later, I got a phone call about Buddy.  Yes, I did name him after a few days.  He had become a part of the family and I was sad that someone was calling to claim him.  We set up a day and a time for the owner to come retrieve Buddy.

His human came and we chatted about Buddy for a short while.  It seemed that Buddy was a runner and it had cost the owner huge amounts of monies for fines from the dog catcher.  The owner was thinking about giving him to a ranch or somewhere else.  I found my in and stated that I would keep him.  The man said OK and let me know that his name was Jack.

It was my birthday two years ago and BuddyJack was my gift.  He got his new name from our friend Sam.  I liked Buddy.  His name was Jack.  Sam said "Call him BuddyJack!"  Perfect.  Last year his name was placed on the calendar as BuddyJack Day, October 24.

Today, after Tom quit his job yesterday, we are going to register as Domestic Partners in order for him to get on my insurance plans.  I am also going to learn how to crochet today.  It's going to be an interesting few months ahead.  Looking forward to it.

Happy Anniversary!

Today we celebrate ten years together.  What a ride it's been!