Just finished putting away the last of the chaos from today's adventure. Our basement flooded last night, just before we headed out to Nick's surprise birthday party. The party was great. We got home relatively early and went to sleep. We decided to cancel all of Sunday's plans to spend time fixing the basement.

Which we did, we fixed the basement. Everything that was on the ground, but not soaked, is now in some kind of plastic container - the floors have been wetvac'd, then mopped. The whole downstairs smells like some very clean vacation paradise. an Arctic vacation paradise, I think. We were able to get some laundry done too. Mountains of laundry remain to be explored, but at least we've scoped out a map. Maybe weeks from now, all of our laundry will be done.

Jason's parents are coming out for a visit after Christmas. As bad as the flooded basement was (keep in mind that it's still raining - threat of flooding isn't over) that's the happy face I'm putting on - that we've managed to totally clean out the basement well before their arrival.

Halloween flick update: Miraculously, many children have phoned in their pumpkin stories, as we had asked. We recorded them all onto cassette and have .wav versions to boot. Very fancy, indeed. We will be forever grateful to the extremely helpful adults who encouraged the children who made it all possible. All of these messages. Possible. They're very good.

Also, we shot another pumpkin scene, with maybe one or two more scenes left to go. And Dan video'd the sema ceremony, which was really a big deal. So that's all good.