Halloween Countdown and November Goals
Well, four more days! I love all holidays, and Halloween is a good one. About half the people in our neighborhood do it up big, and the other half don’t give out candy at all. Somehow it’s an unspoken rule that if you don’t put up any Halloween decorations, you are not participating, and everyone skips your house. The people who do give out candy go all out, with lots of decorations, and a couple people put together a haunted house in their garage. Since we do give out candy, I do my best with outdoor Halloween decorations. This year, however, I discovered that some of my old ones no longer worked, like my giant light-up spider who sat in our bushes, and the string of ghosts that went in a palm tree. All I had were some orange and purple lights to string through the bushes, and some skulls for the other palm. I did the best I could, but everything seemed a little messy and haphazard. My husband came out to look at it and said “Well… Halloween is supposed to be weird.” Yes! Halloween is supposed to be weird- let’s go with that. Since Halloween is four days away, that means November is almost here, and I have some big goals! The first- and biggest- is that I’ve decided to join San for NaBloPoMo (National Blog Posting Month.) The challenge is to post 30 blog posts in 30 days, starting November 1st. I though, “Why not? There’s nothing else going on in November.” Ha ha… just kidding on that part. I almost didn’t do it because there’s so much going on next month… but I’ve been wanting a challenge, and I’m hoping it will be the extra thing that helps everything else fall into place. We’ll see! I know… who has time to read blog posts every single day? I feel like I can barely keep up with blogs as it is. I don’t expect anyone to read every post. My plan is to continue my usual posting schedule of Sunday (the Weekly Rundown), Wednesday, and Friday, and put all the fun running things in those posts. For the other posts, I’ll title them so that the subject is obvious- if that sounds interesting to you, great. If not- no worries. There may be some meanderings coming up! Another goal for November is to finally, finally run a race. My husband and I registered for a Turkey Trot, and my goal is to actually make it to the starting line! I’m not sure I’ll actually be “racing,” given the low mileage and lack of speed work (not to mention my “difficult foot” situation) but I haven’t run a race in two years, and I would like to be at this one. And the last goal is to do a Peloton yoga class every day for the month of November. This isn’t too much of a stretch (ha, get it- stretch?) because I’ve been doing a class almost every day. But there will be some days here and there where I would normally skip it- no skipping allowed in November! Do you decorate for Halloween? Do you get many trick-or-treaters? What are your goals for November?