Halloween Weekend

This weekend was pretty busy. Had to take the little one to get shots Friday. Before we left for the Dr. office, she ran back in the house screaming, "I need my zombie!". (Kris got her a zombie doll from "the claw" at walmart.) When we got there she was totally brave, even after seeing other kids cry. She kept asking for them to call her name, it was so cute. Everything was good, till they did the TB test. She freaked, I don't blame her, I hate that shot. 

Here she is with her zombie.

After we got home, I started getting ready for the Halloween show Kris band was playing. 

We dressed as Joker and Harley Quinn escaped from Arkham Asylum

Creepy Smile! 

The next day we went to my brother Josh's house, in Ventura, for his mom's birthday. (fyi he is not my blood brother) Ate some good burgers, and german chocolate cake, it was so nommy that I could not finish it. Then the boys had another show, we got our makeup done by Kristi. I was lazy and was not feeling well to do my own makeup. Next time I will try it myself, I really wanna do my whole face.

Of course the pic he took of himself is black and white. I don't know why he does that.

Yesterday we were going to go to the Creepy Cruise, but I just really wanted to stay home. So the little one and I made cookies. Oh my the frosting I made was delish! I will post the recipe later.

Little one excited about making cookies and her favorite apron.

Halloween is coming!

Halloween is almost here! Its my favorite holiday. I get to dress up, dress up my little one, and they are finally selling house decor I like. This halloween is going to be busy, just like the last, and the one before that, and the one before that.  Did I mention I love halloween? 

My fiance and brother's band (Shades of Grey) is going to be playing two shows this weekend. The one friday night we are all going as Batman characters. I originally wanted to be Batgirl, Oracle or Poison Ivy, but the man wanted to be Joker so I am going as Harley Quinn. We are not going as the originals or the movie versions, we usually put a twist on our characters for halloween. So we are going as the escaped mental patient versions of Joker and Harley. I did quite a bit to get this costume all together. I should post photos of everything...... 

(10 minutes later) 

My inflatable hammer, I painted pow on the side to give it a comic book type look. 

I bought the hammer on buy.com, I believe its an inflatable clown hammer.

These are my boots and fishnets. I painted one boot red, which was a PITA, then painted on the diamonds to both of them. The fishnets were also a pain, they would not take dye, so I had to paint them also. I used fabric paint on all. I am just hoping they do not itch all night.I do love how the boots came out, and might wear them with my Harley shirt for fun.

 This is the Straitjacket "dress". Its a top and skirt, stupid ebay.  It was 10x way to big for me, I am not a skinny girl, but I am not a 3x. I had to size it way down. There was a hole in the middle o show your cleavage  which I liked in the photos, just not when I get it on. So I sewed up the front, you can't really tell with the belt thing in the way. I also painted Arkham Asylum on the back, just so everyone knows were I escaped from. 

This is a tank that I made out of two tanks the checker pattern is also on the back. 

I might wear this under the jacket, I am still unsure.

 Here is my lovely blond goldish wig I got off ebay from Hong Kong. Its a pigtail wig, with clip on extrax hair. Its for an anime character Elizabeth from Black Butler, I am not familiar with this anime, but love her hair. Also made the mask out of a one dollar mask I got on buy.com, I just cut the outside frame of it off and then cut the eye holes in a sort of cat eye feminine look, I did not want to look like Zoro lol.

 I will have photos of me all done up, along with everyone else.

More about my other costume in the next post. 

I fail!

I know I said I would post more, everyday if I remember. Well I fail, hardcore! I went on vacation to see my mom and sister, and to show my fiance around my home town. Then school started and I got super busy.
I really want to answer all the questions now just to make up for it, but what I am gonna do, again is try and finish my 30 days of blogging .... well 28 days (^_^) . I am really hoping to do it this time!

Day Two

Today I am supposed to tell you all the meaning behind my blog name. Well I have to tell you first my name is Shannon. I got the nickname, Shananigans, in collage from a friend. I am not sure why, but aparenly I needed a nick name and we spent weeks trying to come up with one, when my friend suddleny said shananigans, that's your name. It stuck for a little while. When I moved to California the first person I met out here was named Shannon, so I decided to go by Shananigans so there was less confusion.  Some people now only know me by that name. I wanted my blog name to have my name in it and putting my, in front of it, gave it two meanings.
So Rawr!

Day One

So for my first post for the challenge I am to post a recent photo of myself and 15 interesting facts about myself. I am not sure I will be-able to post 15 facts, but I will try.

1. I am a called mommy by a wonderful little girl.
2. I am engaged to an amazing man.
3. I am hoping to start school again next fall.
4. Grew up in Mobile, Alabama.
5. Was born in Mississippi.
6. Now live in Lancaster, California.
7. I am a horrible speller.
8. I curse to much, and can't control it.
9. I have anxiety and depression.
10. Whovian
11. Whedonist
12. Gamer
13. Internet junkie
14. Crafter
15. Costume lover

Here is the most resent photo I have of My daughter, fiance and myself.

Rising from the dead. I'm back!

Because I want to....

I am going to start blogging again. Starting Sunday, I am going to challenge myself to do 30 days of blogging. I need to get myself in a habit of doing these, and this challenge seems like the best way to get started. It will be a little difficult when I go on vacation from the 7th-14th but I will make the time to get on and blog. Here is a list of the challenges. Maybe next I will do a vlogging challenge, or a exercise one, who knows.

Day 01- A recent picture of you and 15 interesting facts about yourself

Day 02- The meaning behind your Blog name

Day 03- A picture of you and your friends

Day 04- A habit that you wish you didn’t have

Day 05- A picture of somewhere you’ve been to

Day 06- Favorite super hero and why

Day 07- A picture of someone/something that has the biggest impact on you

Day 08- Short term goals for this month and why

Day 09- Something you’re proud of in the past few days

Day 10- Songs you listen to when you are Happy, Sad, Bored, Hyped, Mad

Day 11- Another picture of you and your friends

Day 12- How you found out about Blogger and why you made one

Day 13- A letter to someone who has hurt you recently

Day 14- A picture of you and your family

Day 15- Put your iPod on shuffle: First 10 songs that play

Day 16- Another picture of yourself

Day 17- Someone you would want to switch lives with for one day and why

Day 18- Plans/dreams/goals you have

Day 19- Nicknames you have; why do you have them

Day 20- Someone you see yourself marrying/being with in the future

Day 21- A picture of something that makes you happy

Day 22- What makes you different from everyone else

Day 23- Something you crave for a lot

Day 24- A letter to your parents

Day 25- What I would find in your bag

Day 26- What you think about your friends

Day 27- Why are you doing this 30 day challenge

Day 28- A picture of you last year and now, how have you changed since then?

Day 29- In this past month, what have you learned

Day 30- Your favorite song.

Wishing I was different.

This anxiety attack that I am having, as I type these words, are the worst ones ever. They slowly creep up on me and I can feel them coming but can do nothing to prevent them. Everything annoys me, every little thing drives me up the wall. I can feel it start in the center of my chest and it oozes out from there to the rest of my body.
As I lay here trying to settle down, everything he says and does bothers me and I don't know why. I wish he would comfort me but when he tries and hit a spot that triggers me I snap. I try my best to explain, but I am so rallied up that it comes across as bitchy. Then he moves away and it flues my fires and I want to scream, yell, throw things... So I move on to the floor to try and relax. He is not listening to me tonight, so why bother. Still wishing he would just try and comfort me, but he retreats to what I guess is the living room... As I lie her on the floor wishing I didn't feel this way. I know he won't comfort me tonight. Who could blame him. I'm hopeless.

Potty training my 2 year old.

Potty training has been ........ frustrating. My booger, somehow that ended up being her nickname when she was born, but that's another story and its what I will be calling her on this blog. Anyways, we started a potty chart not long ago to track how good she is doing. When she goes potty she gets to put a sticker on her chart, and when she finishes a line of 13 she gets a prize. After figuring out that she could still go in her pull up and in the potty and get a sticker, mom uped it one more, now she must stay dry and use the potty to get a sticker. If she goes number two in the potty she gets 2 stickers. She has a hard time remembering she needs to go so I have my phone set to ding an alarm every 30 minutes to remind her to go.

Today has been pretty good, when she saw she only needed three more stickers to get a prize, she started to tell me when she needs to go. She did get here prize, happy meal toys or dollar store toys I stow away. Now she is working on her net prize ... but after 4 stickers she is getting discouraged.  I am thinking of making it shorter amount to her prize, but I know if she stays dry and uses the potty all day, she will probably get a prize a day. So far today she has gotten a total of 8 stickers and its only 2pm, she has been dry all day YIPPIE! She did have a number 2 accident, I am thinking she has not gotten control of that muscle yet, cause she will tell me right after it happens and waddles to the bathroom to get cleaned up. Ugg the potty training journey .... will it ever end ............

Feeling eww ...

I need to start loosing wight and getting in shape now!

I want to go back to my prepreggo size which was a 7, I am
in a 16-14 now. I'm going to download and start power 90. I also will be doing roller derby practice 3 days a week starting soon. Going to go back to juicing at least once a day which will be dinner or an add on to my other meals. My doctor gave me a little tip "eat breakfast alone, lunch with friends, dinner with enemies" meaning eat a big breakfast, medium lunch, and small dinner. It makes sense considering you need the most energy in the morning, from food, and less at night. It might also help with sleeping since I won't have all that pent up energy. The photo I posted here I have on my desktop, of my laptop, to help me out. So I am trying to follow it, drinking water instead of koolaid (which is always available in this house), no eating after 7 (hard one), avoiding preservatives and high salt content (need to anyways since my cholesterol is high). This is going to be a struggle, but I am going to do it! My reward for losing the weight, I am getting the Alice in wonderland sleeve I always wanted. 
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More to come

I know I have not posted like I said I would, insert sad face.

I have been obsessed with coupons lately, like mad obsessed... might need to see someone with all the money I save! The last few weeks I have been getting all my stuff together to join the local roller derby team starting up. I am also trying to get back into knitting things again, I want to learn how to knit in the round as soon as I find a leg warmer pattern with size 3 needles for my toddler. I have started a stitch n bitch group, still trying to find a meeting place.

I have decided to post about all 3 of my hobbies, and new ones to come. Also am going post about my life as a mama and future wife. Maybe some wedding things, maybe not. I have been saving all my wedding ideas on my pinterest account.

More to come .... hopefully
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