November? How did this happen?
I find myself in this predicament every year. I love October so dearly, but somehow the time just seems to hemorrhage out of and away from me. Before I know it my feet are already in November. It seems somehow unjust that time moves so much faster when I try to slow down and enjoy it.
Last week in particular just flew by. I did go out to celebrate Halloween, but did not make it out on the actual night. Instead I spent the weekend before hanging out in costume at Sanctum. They had a blood party and then we hung out at the gay Denny's until the sun came up. It was super fun, but staying out until 5 or 6 in the morning seriously kicks my ass these days. :)
My sister had a costume party, well, actually two of them. I missed the first one because I was sick.
(Did I mention there were 36 hours there where my apartment inexplicably just wreaked of paint thinner? Yeah, it made me super sick.)
I tried to stay home that night and get some rest, but my crazy neighbor, who to the best of my knowledge, has never ever in the two years he's lived above me, had ANYONE over to his apartment, decided to throw some massive dub-step soaked Halloween dance party all night. I managed to sleep through the first couple of hours of it, a-la tylenol pm and my migraine medicine, but as they got progressively more drunk, they got progressively more loud. Around 1 am I got dressed, packed up the dog and headed to my Dads.
In the morning we had coffee, and then spent the day shopping for my birthday. Shoe shopping. The worst kind of shopping there is. Lol. Do you know how hard it is to find a good work/athletic shoe in a size 5? Because it's super hard. It's even harder once you factor in the fact that I just can't justify spending $50/60/70/80/90+ on shoes (even if I'm not the one paying for them). It took all day, but we had lots of fun. We also picked up some power tools (because really, who doesn't want more tools?) and some flashlights, got lunch, and headed over to my sister's for her second costume party. This one was for the kids, so it was really mellow and cute. (Little B was Darth Vader and it was ridiculously adorable.)
My neighbor was up gaming all night the next couple of nights. He threw some pretty fantastic toddler style fits, including kicking the floor and throwing what I assume was the controller to his system. As a result I was pretty cranky for most of the week.
My birthday came and went. I was taken out to dinner by someone different every night the whole week which was pretty awesome. (You know how much I love food!) I also got to see a lot of the people I haven't gotten to hang out with much in the past couple of years so that was really nice.
I had every intention of heading out on Halloween, but when it came down to it, I ended up working late (and coming home grumpy), I was super tired from my neighbor screaming all night (all week), and I just wasn't up for spending the night on Mill. Instead I went home, got dressed up, made caramel apples, had a pumpkin beer, and watched Repo!. My neighbor, miraculously was nearly silent all night, and just having the night to myself in peace and quiet was the greatest thing in all the world.
I'm still (clearly) exhausted, and my neighbor continues to scream at his video games at night, though now it seems to be becoming less frequent again. My writing, I know, has gotten really flat over the course of the last 8 months or so, I know. I'm hoping that once the semester is over and I have some time to decompress my voice will come back to me. In the mean time, you're just going to have to take me as I am.
I miss you Dear Friend! I hope your holiday was super fun! Lots of love.
We have also had an impossibly hard time finding shoes or anything in general lately. Turns out we're now among a population of similarly sized people, so the already low stock of items in our size is made even lower. Then there's the whole issue of quality, which has decreased drastically in the past few years. The good quality shoes that used to cost $100, now range between $300 and $600, and even then those aren't worth the investment anymore. So, we've just concluded that we're just going to continue buying cheap shoes with the expectation that we'll have to buy new ones again in a few months anyway. In any case, my new goal has been to learn leather working so I can eventually make my own shoes, because they can't possibly turn out any worse than the ones I've been buying.
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