It’s been awhile since I last wrote, but I got so busy.  I’m all done now with the classwork I needed to do ahead of my Vancouver trip, so that I wouldn’t fall behind.  I did two chapters of PHP and one chapter of CSS, worked on Jessica Lee’s website and discovered the world twice over.  Now I can truly say I have lived!                         … the life of a computer geek.

One week til I leave for Vancouver!!! I’m so excited.   We’re all having a party at Clairessa’s place in downtown Vancouver on Halloween.  That’s going to be super fun.  I’m going to be a bum this year and not make a costume.  There just isn’t the time or money unfortunately… it would cause me too much stress.  Boo… I know.  Next year I’ll make two costumes and do a wardrobe change in the middle of the evening to make up for it.

What I’m really focusing on right now is Jessica Lee’s website, which has to be perfect.   I really want it to be something special that people will enjoy shopping at.  I’m having a little web designer/developer trepidation that it will take me too long to make the website or that the shopping cart will turn out to be a nightmare.  Lots of nagging uncertain thoughts.  That is why this is doubly important for me to finish and do well – then I won’t feel this way ever again!

It has not all been work lately though – Ryan and I went to the Los Angeles Haunted Hayride.  It was the first time for both of us, so we didn’t know what to expect.  Now that I’ve had the experience I think that I would like very much to go on a hayride again, but the haunted part was just ‘meh’.  I really loved sitting in fresh hay in a flatbed trailer with a bunch of happy strangers getting pulled around all over the place.  That’s an experience I would like to explore.  The scary part was not super scary and I didn’t like all the performers screaming so close to me, it was grating.  I get much more scared when I’m at Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights and I’m walking around and someone jumps out at me when I least suspect it.   I should be going there in the next few days.

Pacifica Air is still toodling along.  We’re still waiting for our certificate to mature, which means we can submit our stuff to the FAA and do proving runs.  There’s been a few small aviation business deals we’ve done while we’re waiting, but it’s all very tenuous until the money is in your account.  Aviation is not a very dependable or forthright industry.

This weekend was an oasis of fun in the recent desert of living though, we did all sorts of Autumnal activities like go to Target and get little orange candycorn lights, which I put up around all my windows and my balcony, and I got a cute pumpkin candle holder centerpiece for my table, which I lit along with my other candles and played my guitar in the soft orange glow.  I also made soup!!!  Which was yummy, I put all sorts of veggies and just the right spices in it.  And we went for a hike in Trabuco canyon, which was interesting in many ways if not for beauteous reasons.  Much red rooibos tea was drunk and a good time had by all.

Trabuco canyon is very canyony, but I wouldn’t recommend it for hiking.  It took a very loooooooong drive down a very treacherous boulder filled ‘path’, for I would not call it a road, to even get to the trail head. Unless you are in an off-roading vehicle I wouldn’t advise it.  Several cars and us didn’t even make it to the trail head because parts of the path ahead of us were just a swatch of jagged foot high rocks – it would have just shredded the bottoms of our cars.   So, we parked and walked from there which meant we were pooped by the time we reached the trail – bah!  There was also a lot of Poison Oak and even at 5pm it was hot, so though our moods were jolly, I can’t say that it inspired my soul and regale you with tales of natural beauty that would impress you.  Foiled again!

I talked to my Mom Saturday morning, I was very relieved that she was safely back from the cabin and in good spirits.  She went up by herself last Monday, and it still has Dad’s stuff just as he left it, so Clairessa and I were worried she’d get into some weird mood and take her life.  It was a valid worry I think, but anyway she seems to have dealt with some of the issues regarding his death, so maybe she’s gonna be a bit happier from now on…..?  I really hope so.  I’ll go up near Halloween and give her a big hug.  Adelle will love that, she loves Mom and visiting Vancouver.  I’ll drive up so that I can easily take Adelle and the foliage is gorgeous through Oregon and Washington at that time of year.  It’s worth it to go just for the drive.

Looks like we might get government funding for Pacifica.  Keep your fingers crossed.  This would be the hugest relief and allow us to keep full control of the company without being under-capitalized into extinction.  Right now I know a lot of us are under-funded and under-funned, but I’ve got some ideas like the Los Angeles Haunted Hayride!  It will only solve the latter problem though, sorry.  I’m planning on doing that in a few weeks and of course Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights! So. Much. Fun.