Ah, October.
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ladybug_archiveSo it really just hit me while I was looking out at the beautiful orange and yellow leaves on the trees in the yard and thinking how the sun hasn't quite come over the mountain yet.
Man, October is almost over. This is the last Sunday of the month.
It's quite a bittersweet feeling. I love October so much. And I remember back in the day when we went off of Daylights Saving Time today instead of a week from now. Ah, such good times.
It sure was stupid to extend it with the excuse that it was to keep kids safer on Halloween. Most of them still wait until after dark anyway, at least around here! People don't want to be trick-or-treating in the daytime! That takes away a lot of the spookiness and fun of it.
I remember when I was a kid and Mom and I would go crazy decorating, putting big fake webs all over the living room and kitty cutouts in the windows. (One time a real spider got into the web and sat there with the fake ones. Oy vey.) I always loved that, even moreso because Mom and I would often do some of our fun verbal role-play while we were doing it.
I don't know why it is, but for years now I've found decorating rather tedious, so we haven't done much of it. I get so frustrated when it takes so long with things not going right, like the Christmas lights tangling up or other things, that I really only like doing the barest minimum of decorating. I always think, though, that if I had the money there's lots of lovely Halloween and Christmas decorations I'd like to buy and have around.
I also don't know what I'm even going to do for a costume this year. Money has been tight and when I have it, I prefer to spend it on things that will get used all the time and not just on one night in October. Last year I just did some weird ghetto thing, putting on my M*A*S*H shirt and my YGO dogtags and my camouflage cowboy hat, and I suppose I was just a random nurse or something at the 4077th. I always think maybe I'll buy those fake wings at Wal-Mart so that for once I can do a complete Rouge the Bat costume, but they always seem to be gone when I have money set aside for them, and then this year I'm trying to balance out the money among other things. But we have to go grocery-shopping one more time before Halloween (and get the candy), so perhaps I'll still get the wings, if they still have them.
I actually had four costume ideas or so, but they all would have required the purchase of some pre-made stuff that I just couldn't see myself forking over that much money for. But I thought of Ishizu or a steampunk Mai, and crossplaying Jim West or Snakes Tolliver. I might still do a ghetto Ishizu; my hair is fairly perfect for it. The problem would be not having a dress that looks like something she'd wear.
I've almost got my October Writing challenge completed. The long entry was finished last Sunday and went up on time, even though I didn't think I'd ever be able to manage getting done for the opening of the ten-day window for posting it. Now I just need one final short story. My original idea was to end it with something silly, the way I started it, but then Mom gave me another serious, creepy idea and it immediately took precedence. If I could just think how to start it, I could get cracking on it. I'm puzzling over it because I'm running out of reasons for Ginger and Lou to stop somewhere freaky. I've already had the car break down, run out of gas, and just plain get lost. So I'm trying to think if their last ghost would come to them instead of them accidentally going to her.
I wish I could get to the Build-A-Bear and get Twilight while it's still October. I want one more lovely drive in the autumn leaves before it's November. They usually are mostly down by then.
Also, I hear the latest round of Funrise plushies have appeared on the East Coast. I'm anxious to get Celestia and Cadance of those when they arrive out here, but I want the Build-A-Bear Twilight more. I might end up asking for the others for Christmas if I don't have them by then. Hopefully the Wal-Marts out here will get them in time for Christmas, as I assume that's the point of releasing them at this time. It would be ridiculous if they're held up as much as Octavia and Applejack were!
And then next week The Queen of Peru (Ginger and Lou's episode) is going to air on MeTV. I'm wondering what to do about that, because while I do have the DVD version, I wonder if I might like a back-up VHS copy. And while I might like to have a back-up, The Rockford Files airs right during the news. Dad already has to watch a later broadcast of news on Sunday because we record Cannon. I'd hate to ask him to miss the other live news and just watch on his computer because of hoping to record something else. **headdesk.** Although if I didn't have any copy already, I definitely would ask.
Man, October is almost over. This is the last Sunday of the month.
It's quite a bittersweet feeling. I love October so much. And I remember back in the day when we went off of Daylights Saving Time today instead of a week from now. Ah, such good times.
It sure was stupid to extend it with the excuse that it was to keep kids safer on Halloween. Most of them still wait until after dark anyway, at least around here! People don't want to be trick-or-treating in the daytime! That takes away a lot of the spookiness and fun of it.
I remember when I was a kid and Mom and I would go crazy decorating, putting big fake webs all over the living room and kitty cutouts in the windows. (One time a real spider got into the web and sat there with the fake ones. Oy vey.) I always loved that, even moreso because Mom and I would often do some of our fun verbal role-play while we were doing it.
I don't know why it is, but for years now I've found decorating rather tedious, so we haven't done much of it. I get so frustrated when it takes so long with things not going right, like the Christmas lights tangling up or other things, that I really only like doing the barest minimum of decorating. I always think, though, that if I had the money there's lots of lovely Halloween and Christmas decorations I'd like to buy and have around.
I also don't know what I'm even going to do for a costume this year. Money has been tight and when I have it, I prefer to spend it on things that will get used all the time and not just on one night in October. Last year I just did some weird ghetto thing, putting on my M*A*S*H shirt and my YGO dogtags and my camouflage cowboy hat, and I suppose I was just a random nurse or something at the 4077th. I always think maybe I'll buy those fake wings at Wal-Mart so that for once I can do a complete Rouge the Bat costume, but they always seem to be gone when I have money set aside for them, and then this year I'm trying to balance out the money among other things. But we have to go grocery-shopping one more time before Halloween (and get the candy), so perhaps I'll still get the wings, if they still have them.
I actually had four costume ideas or so, but they all would have required the purchase of some pre-made stuff that I just couldn't see myself forking over that much money for. But I thought of Ishizu or a steampunk Mai, and crossplaying Jim West or Snakes Tolliver. I might still do a ghetto Ishizu; my hair is fairly perfect for it. The problem would be not having a dress that looks like something she'd wear.
I've almost got my October Writing challenge completed. The long entry was finished last Sunday and went up on time, even though I didn't think I'd ever be able to manage getting done for the opening of the ten-day window for posting it. Now I just need one final short story. My original idea was to end it with something silly, the way I started it, but then Mom gave me another serious, creepy idea and it immediately took precedence. If I could just think how to start it, I could get cracking on it. I'm puzzling over it because I'm running out of reasons for Ginger and Lou to stop somewhere freaky. I've already had the car break down, run out of gas, and just plain get lost. So I'm trying to think if their last ghost would come to them instead of them accidentally going to her.
I wish I could get to the Build-A-Bear and get Twilight while it's still October. I want one more lovely drive in the autumn leaves before it's November. They usually are mostly down by then.
Also, I hear the latest round of Funrise plushies have appeared on the East Coast. I'm anxious to get Celestia and Cadance of those when they arrive out here, but I want the Build-A-Bear Twilight more. I might end up asking for the others for Christmas if I don't have them by then. Hopefully the Wal-Marts out here will get them in time for Christmas, as I assume that's the point of releasing them at this time. It would be ridiculous if they're held up as much as Octavia and Applejack were!
And then next week The Queen of Peru (Ginger and Lou's episode) is going to air on MeTV. I'm wondering what to do about that, because while I do have the DVD version, I wonder if I might like a back-up VHS copy. And while I might like to have a back-up, The Rockford Files airs right during the news. Dad already has to watch a later broadcast of news on Sunday because we record Cannon. I'd hate to ask him to miss the other live news and just watch on his computer because of hoping to record something else. **headdesk.** Although if I didn't have any copy already, I definitely would ask.
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Date: 2013-10-27 03:36 pm (UTC)H'm... all the incidents you list seem to be car- related. Without actually knowing the show or fandom, there's things like hitting someone or something (here, it'd be a deer!) that gets up and walks away, or finding someone in the vehicle, or stopping at a 'normal' place like McD's... but you'll figger it out!
My house and yard are disgraceful after a year of working two jobs. The only upside is that Hallowe'en decorations can consist of one cheap bag of fake cobweb spread over the porch and front flowerbed.
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Date: 2013-10-27 03:42 pm (UTC)Hmmm, stopping at a normal place. I did do that a bit by having a ghost at their work, but I like that idea. The only issue is that if I used the ghost I planned to use, she's only in one specific location, which is an old abandoned house.
LOL. That works! Fake cobweb is such fun. I always loved getting it up everywhere.
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Date: 2013-10-27 06:45 pm (UTC)One of our alarm clocks is old and has already jumped back an hour, even when I try to reset it it jumps back. It was a little disorienting the first time it happened and I was trying to figure out why the alarm on my phone had gone off, but not the other. Then I couldn't figure out if I was running early or running late. Oy.
I've only kept up decorating for Christmas. And even then it's only the tree. Though this year won't be able to have a tree in my house with Sam the kitten. Probably will have one over at my mother's though. Even then, we'll have to be careful with what ornaments we use. The problems of owning cats on the holidays.
I just keep imagining ghetto Ishizu as wearing biker gloves and combat boots. It's kind of amazing.
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Date: 2013-10-27 07:11 pm (UTC)Oh dear. That sounds highly aggravating.
LOL. Ah yes, cats and their love of Christmas trees and ornaments.
ROTFLOL. That would be hilarious. And rather interesting.
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Date: 2013-10-27 08:43 pm (UTC)Not aggravating so much as confusing. I'm so disoriented in the mornings, I never know whether to believe my phone or the alarm clock, so I end up going and checking the other clocks as well to see if I'm early or running late.
All-Doom themed cast. Bam.
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Date: 2013-10-27 08:45 pm (UTC)LOL.
Buwahaha.
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Date: 2013-10-28 04:09 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2013-10-28 12:44 am (UTC)We don't decorate for Halloween, but we do give out candy--we have a lot of people come by in two hours; it's amazing.
I honestly don't know what I'll be this year, though I will be giving out candy. I think I might be River Song's alter-ego, Melody Malone, from the Manhattan episode.
Good luck with the plushies!
Bleah at the TV fiasco. I have to wait to watch OUAT and Tenth Doctor Lookback Special because dad is watching something else now... If I don't get to it tonight (I will try, though), I'll give you the heads-up tomorrow night. :/ I saw the first half, though; it's okay so far.
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Date: 2013-10-28 01:13 am (UTC)That sounds fun!
Thanks!
Bah. Okay! I'll probably just go ahead and watch it if you don't manage to get to it.
Did my RP message from four hours ago ever go through, by the way? I figured you'd just disappeared again, but there's always the possibility of cyberspace acting up.
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Date: 2013-10-28 01:25 am (UTC)Yep!
*nods* Okay.
Ugh, I had replied; I just sent a second version.
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Date: 2013-10-28 03:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-10-28 04:05 am (UTC)