All Souls Day
It was an uneventful Halloween. Doubly so because I did not get a single call or email from work, which seems unprecedented.
We just ran around in the morning, did some necessary shopping and some unnecessary shopping. We stopped into an antique mall, which we haven't done in months, and found a few things. I don't even remember what we found right now honestly. But I know we only spent about $45, which is good.
We got back here and just kinda lounged the rest of the day. I put on an early 80s movie called 'Saturday the 14th', which I loved as a kid but watching it now, it is quite bad. We had watched something before that, but I don't even remember what it was. I slept through part of this second one. And then for the evening we watched the 1970s 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers', which I think was a tad too slow for the Sparrow.
I had this feeling all day like we should have been *doing* something, but I had no idea what to do. We did talk about carving pumpkins, but then both agreed it sounded like a lot of work. I don't think there is anything wrong with a lazy day, but it just sort of felt like a dud to me. Then again, I have often for years built Halloween up to be this big thing it just never is. We could have gone to the BIL and Gayle's place, and *maybe* had fun scaring trick-or-treaters, but we were there last year and they barely had 10 people. Kids today are lame and parents overprotective and people just don't go door to door as much.
We tried the bar thing last year, which stunk. Though I did feel the habitual itch to have a drink simply because. The Sparrow doesn't like haunted houses and I don't like waiting in lines, so that wasn't an option.
I think part of the issue is, whenever I have a day off I feel like I am supposed to be "taking advantage" of the time and getting something done. Since I so often sit at my desk working and ruminating on all the things I could be doing if I wasn't working. Of course, I am off today and the to-do list is massive so we'll see how motivated I am. The goal is to get all the inside and all the outside Halloween stuff down. The HVAC people are also coming at some point after 8:00 for yearly maintenance. Then we unfortunately have a housewarming party to go to tonight for this former coworker of the Sparrow. I used to think she was an okay person, but she shows so many signs of being just like my sister... a narcissist. Right down to constantly bitching about how her dad "owes" her all this manual labor to come fix up this new house she bought.
Tomorrow the Sparrow works, so I will have another no-excuse day to get stuff done inside or out. We had a big branch fall out of the New Orleans oak that will need to be chopped up. And do we need a reminder that massive oak fell at the bottom of the hill almost 10 months ago and still has not been dealt with. There's the mulch pile by the vegetable garden and the lawn in general with it's 10 inches of leaves on top that needs to be cut.
There's no shortage of things to do. The weather has turned slightly as well. It had been in the 70s and 80s this week. Now the high today is in the 50s. Which, isn't bad weather to be working outside in. I must get motivated.
In typical fashion, it is only Friday and the dread of work Monday is already upon me. Also the dread and stress of the inevitable holidays bearing down. I really feel some excitement at the possibility we may have a small Thanksgiving here, but there is also the drama and stress of what that means. It means not going to my mother's and all the B.S. that is going to cause.
We were supposed to be hearing soon about when the kittens we are fostering are going in to get fixed, but nothing yet. If it happens next week the Sparrow may have to take a day off work as I am going to the Meat Packer and to Niles both.
We also have this Christmas craft project we were going to work on that we need to start. The Sparrow has been pushing it on me since June, and I just cannot creatively get into such things out of season. I am getting to the point where I feel like these homemade gift craft projects are just not right for the state of our life right now. I get the purpose and fun behind them, but there is so much shit around this house to get done it just seems like this added thing and added stress we don't need.
I need to feed the birds and squirrels. They are out there causing a ruckus because I haven't yet.
We just ran around in the morning, did some necessary shopping and some unnecessary shopping. We stopped into an antique mall, which we haven't done in months, and found a few things. I don't even remember what we found right now honestly. But I know we only spent about $45, which is good.
We got back here and just kinda lounged the rest of the day. I put on an early 80s movie called 'Saturday the 14th', which I loved as a kid but watching it now, it is quite bad. We had watched something before that, but I don't even remember what it was. I slept through part of this second one. And then for the evening we watched the 1970s 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers', which I think was a tad too slow for the Sparrow.
I had this feeling all day like we should have been *doing* something, but I had no idea what to do. We did talk about carving pumpkins, but then both agreed it sounded like a lot of work. I don't think there is anything wrong with a lazy day, but it just sort of felt like a dud to me. Then again, I have often for years built Halloween up to be this big thing it just never is. We could have gone to the BIL and Gayle's place, and *maybe* had fun scaring trick-or-treaters, but we were there last year and they barely had 10 people. Kids today are lame and parents overprotective and people just don't go door to door as much.
We tried the bar thing last year, which stunk. Though I did feel the habitual itch to have a drink simply because. The Sparrow doesn't like haunted houses and I don't like waiting in lines, so that wasn't an option.
I think part of the issue is, whenever I have a day off I feel like I am supposed to be "taking advantage" of the time and getting something done. Since I so often sit at my desk working and ruminating on all the things I could be doing if I wasn't working. Of course, I am off today and the to-do list is massive so we'll see how motivated I am. The goal is to get all the inside and all the outside Halloween stuff down. The HVAC people are also coming at some point after 8:00 for yearly maintenance. Then we unfortunately have a housewarming party to go to tonight for this former coworker of the Sparrow. I used to think she was an okay person, but she shows so many signs of being just like my sister... a narcissist. Right down to constantly bitching about how her dad "owes" her all this manual labor to come fix up this new house she bought.
Tomorrow the Sparrow works, so I will have another no-excuse day to get stuff done inside or out. We had a big branch fall out of the New Orleans oak that will need to be chopped up. And do we need a reminder that massive oak fell at the bottom of the hill almost 10 months ago and still has not been dealt with. There's the mulch pile by the vegetable garden and the lawn in general with it's 10 inches of leaves on top that needs to be cut.
There's no shortage of things to do. The weather has turned slightly as well. It had been in the 70s and 80s this week. Now the high today is in the 50s. Which, isn't bad weather to be working outside in. I must get motivated.
In typical fashion, it is only Friday and the dread of work Monday is already upon me. Also the dread and stress of the inevitable holidays bearing down. I really feel some excitement at the possibility we may have a small Thanksgiving here, but there is also the drama and stress of what that means. It means not going to my mother's and all the B.S. that is going to cause.
We were supposed to be hearing soon about when the kittens we are fostering are going in to get fixed, but nothing yet. If it happens next week the Sparrow may have to take a day off work as I am going to the Meat Packer and to Niles both.
We also have this Christmas craft project we were going to work on that we need to start. The Sparrow has been pushing it on me since June, and I just cannot creatively get into such things out of season. I am getting to the point where I feel like these homemade gift craft projects are just not right for the state of our life right now. I get the purpose and fun behind them, but there is so much shit around this house to get done it just seems like this added thing and added stress we don't need.
I need to feed the birds and squirrels. They are out there causing a ruckus because I haven't yet.