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Dominica and the girls headed down to Houston this morning so that they can celebrate Halloween with the Grices.

The Ralstons arrived decently early.  We got Panda Express.  Then Danielle and I went to TMobile and tried to get me an iPhone 7+ but they were all out of them so we had to order one that should arrive later this week.  While we were there we set Liesl up with her own phone line which she will get to use as soon as my new phone arrives and we get her transitioned over.  She is getting my old iPhone 5S that is still in very good shape.

I had dinner with Rachel tonight, then Art and Danielle picked me up and we drove towards Austin.  We decided that it would save a bunch of money if we stayed in Temple tonight at the EconoLodge instead of going all of the way to Austin.  So we did that and will be in Austin tomorrow.

Sunday.  We were pretty tired after our super late night out last night at the halloween fundraiser party in Plano, we did not get home until nearly four in the morning so we slept in a lot today.

I played Castle Crashers with the kids again today.  We are getting pretty good at that game, but it bothers my wrists, it is too much arcade action for me.

I did some WordPress work today, had a site that was hacked and I was brought in to fix things.  That took quite a bit of time.

Dominica made stir fry for dinner tonight.

The Ralstons are on their way down to Texas tonight.  They have been driving all day and stopped in St. Louis tonight.  We are expecting them to come through Dallas tomorrow.  We doubt that they will see Dominica or the girls as they need to get down to Houston tomorrow for Halloween.

We are well into the hectic SpiceWorld whirlwind of activity at this point.

Saturday.  Tonight is the Halloween Fundraise that Dominica and I are attending with Estella and Zen.  Most of the day was just spent relaxing, although we had to prep for the party tonight.

It was a huge halloween party out in Plano, I think.  We went out there and the entire house was decked out in the most extreme decorations.  I heard that it takes three months to get the house ready for the party.  There was a DJ, bartenders and everything.  It was a really nice party.  Loads of people and food.  We had a good time.

It was pretty warm, however.  My costume was killing me, I was sweating like crazy.  I had to take most of it off and we spent most of the evening outside to get fresh air.  Although we did go dance for quite a while towards the end of the time.

We took Uber home, my first time ever, which is funny as we have two friends who are Uber drivers.

It was a nice party and it raised a lot of money for charity and we had a good time.

Friday.  Friends stopped over for coffee this morning.  Our house is a busy place these days.

For lunch I went down to “Fake Fernandos” and joined Rachel and her lunch crew.  We ate outside today, although the food really is not very good there.  I’m not sure that I should keep going there as it is too expensive for the food to be so blah.

Rachel came home with me today and the afternoon was spent talking to her about quitting her job and what her strategy should be as she is so stressed out and the job just does not make any sense for her and is actually losing her money rather than making it.  High stress, losing money – no bueno.

Rachel found out that her car is completely totaled.  The cost to fix it is way more than the car is worth.  Sadly she still owes nearly the entire cost of the car, she just got it.  So now she has no car, no way to fix it and owes the full cost of a car that she doesn’t have.

So it was a very busy day of everyone dealing with that and the car and all of the things going on around her job, travel plans and so forth.  Chris came over in the evening as well.  I got to play Skyrim for a while.  The girls and I played Castle Crashers a bit, as well.  They love that game.

Hung out with the kids tonight.  Won’t see them much this week.  Dominica and Rachel went out tonight so it was me and the girls.  We ordered in Domino’s Pizza and set up movies in the bedroom.  Both girls got into the Pink Panther movies.  We watched the “remake” original and then started watching one of the 1970s ones.  Both girls really liked the first one.  Only Liesl liked the old one.  It was The Pink Panther Strikes Again.

Thursday.  Almost time for SpiceWorld, only a few more days.  And almost time for Halloween.  A busy upcoming weekend.

We had Internet problems at the house today and I had a hard time getting anything done as it was so problematic.

Just a normal day of writing and posting.

This evening Shawn and I went out for some beers at the Drunken Donkey up in The Colony.  We walked in and before I even made it up to the bar the bartender looks up and sees me and is like “What are you doing in this country?”  It wasn’t Allie who used to bartend at Redneck and was the NTG bartender for our SpiceCorps meeting a few years ago.