It is Witch Day!

Too ill this week or try to cover the illness by being too busy.
Where has nearly a week gone?

I got lots of help from our trip to Atlanta. I still have tests I must get done down there. A dye study, which we have been screaming for since I forget when, and another MRI. AH! I hate those!

I have gotten some great breakthrough medicine, however, when I take them I get a bit...er, um, DUMB!
OK, OK, let's hear the jokes!
Like, how can you tell when you are on them then! Har har!
I try not to take them unless I get really bad...like last night and today..I just took one about 10 minutes ago, so I must hurry to write this. I can nearly feel my IQ dropping.

I have been wanting to show off my witch collection for a while. Now please understand these are just the few I have picked up while living here or my friends and Sisters have given me.

I love each and every one of them. You can come by any time of year and see them, they do not get put away after Samhain.


Isn't she adorable!









Not technically a witch, but too cute not to share!


My pride and joy! Isn't she a beauty! You should see her when it is dark and the red is pulsating.


I bought this one at Big Lots and she has outlasted all the smaller ones battery wise. She has a tiny watch battery under her cauldron that makes it glow. The top of the cauldron used to move a bit like it was boiling but it lost the little wire. I took it apart to fix it and the place the wire rotates on is broken. Too tight to solder.


This one needs a bit of touching up with paint pens, but he glows as well.


This one also glows as you can probably see the purple in her skirt a bit.

OK, that is part of my collection. The part that is here in SC with me, the rest is in a cold storage bin in VA.

You could say I own stock in Duracell batteries, but a lot of them are watch batteries and the others I use only rechargeable ones.

I saw a video the other day on a guy who took a lantern battery, you know the kind, it is a square 6volt battery. I saw him take it apart and out poured 32 AA batteries. It was to me a revelation, but and this is a big BUT, until I do it for myself, I will not believe it.
It would mean that for the same $6 I pay for 6 AA batteries, I could buy a lantern battery and get 32?!
Nope, I got to see it for myself.

If I do it, I will, um..wait what was I talking about? Oh shit, wait, wait....OH yeah, if I do it I will docu, um, docu, ah hell, I will write it down here.

Yep, there is goes, my brain has gone numb or something similar.
So much for getting my Autumn wreath on the door.

I got a craft-like-thing in pictures to share on my blog. How to make your own easy equinox wreath. Hopefully, I will get them posted before it is time for the Yule wreath!

Oh, no. I have "Springtime for Hitler" running through my brain! It's an ear worm!!!!!
Please, if you are easily offended or have no frikkin sense of humor, do not go to the link!
That link is for the 2005 film version of The Producers, "Spingtime for Hitler".
However, this is a link for the 1968 film version of the original movie.
Anyone who is an insane Mel Brooks fan (me, me, me!), will know the line from the 2005, "Heil myself", was a nod to another movie of his in 1983 that makes fun of the Nazi's called "To Be or Not To Be", which was a remake of the 1942 version.
Note for both movies, Mel Brooks does a voice over of the second Nazi in the beginning of the musical, "Don't be stupid be a smarty, come and join the Nazi party"
If you are adult enough to sit through both versions of the musical, you can see big production changes between 1968 and 2005. Maybe it was money or something.
Nathan Lane does a great job not just playing his role BUT as a real homage to Zero Mostel who was the original Max Bialystock.
I told a friend yesterday that I liked the Dick Shawn 1968 version of Hitler better that the person playing him in 2005, but I am wrong. They are both really good, and there is so much time that lapses between the two productions that the 1968 peace & love version of Lorenzo St Dubois (LSD) wouldn't really be understood today. Plus the fact the 2005 storyline goes that the person originally cast for Hitler breaks his leg opening night and the director of the musical has to step in.
Will Ferrel, (I really am sick of that guy) plays the role that Kenneth Mars played so well as the writer of the musical, Franz Leibken.

I bet that was more than you wanted to know about The Producers, huh?
Sorry, I watched both movies and "Recording the Producers: A Musical Romp with Mel Brooks" all last night.

***SPOILER***
I can encapsulate the movies this way. New York, 1959. Max Bialystock was once the king of Broadway, but now all his shows close on opening night. His neurotic accountant Leo Bloom proposes a scheme tailor-made for producers who can only make flops: raise far more money than you need, then make sure the show is despised. No one will be interested in it, so you can pocket the surplus. so they produce a musical called "Springtime for Hitler" written by escaped Nazi Franz Liebken. Then they get the flamboyant Roger De Bris to direct. AND they hire as a lead actress the epitome of blonde jokes everywhere, Swedish bombshell Ulla (Uma Thurman in the 12005 version, whose last name has over 15 syllables). As opening night draws near, what can go wrong? Well, there's no accounting for taste!
***END OF SPOILER***

OK, I have gone WAAAAAAAAY off topic, it is the pills, I am telling you.
I have scattered thoughts to match my scatterbrain!
I better go before I tell you about my Aunt Frieda falling off the Matterhorn!
That's a joke son, I keep pitching them and you keep missing them! Sheesh!