goodbye October

 

today is halloween and we've come to the end of october finally. i really love halloween and now the end of october is also my wedding anniversary and i think maybe i set my expectations too high because i'm just really ready to move on to november.

i went to a really fun workshop last week to learn how to embellish jean jackets - i brought in an old pink one that i have. we had our choice of painting a stencil or using a transfer and i chose the transfer because a) it was a design i really liked and b) i figured i'd just make a mess with the paint. i love how it turned out and it was fun to be creative with a bunch of other women although they were all strangers to me. now i just have to wait for the weather to get cool enough to actually wear it.

c played in her first ever basketball game for the ymca and her team won 38-15 so that was exciting. i am still annoyed that we're even playing basketball at the y this season when i'd asked for a break (i don't think i'll ever stop being annoyed about being ignored) but that doesn't mean i'm not going to be there to cheer my girl on.

a few hours after the basketball games we attended the halloween howl in our downtown. we went 2 years ago and had a blast but we were a little too busy getting married last year so i vowed that we would attend this year and made sure the kids had costumes and candy buckets and mentioned the event every few days so that chris knew we were going. it was fun, c's best friend was there with her family so we all walked around together, there was a haunted house which the kids all loved and a ton of candy was being given out. i dressed up as kuromi - hello kitty's naughty friend and got a lot of comments on how cute i was. that's probably why i like this event so much, i enjoy the attention.

and then the next day was our much anticipated 1 year anniversary. well, i guess i was the only one anticipating it. i had a gift for chris - a wallet to replace the one that was stolen earlier this month. this one had skulls on it fairly similar to his tattoo and i had fun picking it out just for him.

i was excited to see if he had any special plans for the day but he didn't and we ended up just going to the ymca so that the kids could swim which was really not how i'd wanted to spend the day. so now i know that it's all going to be up to me to plan birthdays and anniversaries and holidays. i had hoped this marriage would be different but it's not. good thing i have years of experience making the magic for myself.

and now we're on to november which is birthday month for me and many of my family members. i am under no illusion about anybody planning anything special for me but, trust me, i'm going to make sure i have a fabulous month!