Creature of Habit

So... much... shiny... ooo....

Hello blog!  It's been awhile!  Actually, it's been a month and a day which should probably be restated as quite awhile.  As you have probably guessed I'm not the best at being consistent.  But, really blog, I'd like to write in you more.  In fact, I'd like to do a lot of things more instead of just sitting around at home surfing the internet for jobs I could maybe do.  So I made this!  ----> It's my good habits checklist, inspired by a chore checklist I had when I was little.  Except this one has things like "run" and "blog" and "clean"(well I guess this is technically a chore).  I even bought the old school foil star stickers as motivation to complete said tasks.  And let me tell you, nothing motivates quite like foil star stickers (except maybe pumpkin cheesecake ice cream from Brusters! Mmm!)

Speaking of pumpkin flavored things, here is what I've missed telling you about whilst I was away:

Ali, who played Hero, afraid of the LARPers

- Hey it's fall!  Woohoo!
- I was in my first Shakespeare show - Much Ado About Nothing - which I did with Pittsburgh Shakespeare in the Parks and got to spend a lot, I repeat, a lot of time in parks (which I love! Hooray!)  (Except for the stink bugs. Boo!)
- Stink bugs attacked Pittsburgh. (Hide ya kids, hide ya wife) Ah!!  But we survived. (Barely).
- Wifey aka. my good friend Carrie finished her dissertation and came home from her year in London. Hooray!
- My mom went on a cruise and didn't take me (Boo.)
- I got a sex change (Just kidding!)

Delicious bat & pumpkin cookies I made last October

Okay, so I guess you haven't missed that much in a month, because I haven't done a terrible lot.  But, not only is it fall but it's OCTOBER!  (Or as I like to call it, Rocktober... Why you ask? Because it rocks, of course!)  If you haven't guessed October is my favorite month because of the following reasons:
1. My birthday!
2. It's falls in my favorite season - fall
3. Pumpkins = Jack O' lanterns

One caught the swine flu. :(

4. My birthday!
5. Pumpkins = Pumpkin flavored things (Like pumpkin cheesecake ice cream!  Double mmm!)
6. Leaves changing
7. Halloween = Costumes! Scary movies! Haunted things! Oh my!
8. My birthday!

As you might have noticed, I mentioned that my birthday is in October.  It is the 29th, in fact which is deliciously close to Halloween.  And although today is not my birthday, (it is, in fact, my unbirthday) it won't be long now until it is my birthday!  I don't know if you know this, blog, but on your birthday, you can do whatever you want!  For example, you could dance the macarena, or rob a bank, or eat pumpkin cheesecake ice cream (which I plan to do) and no one can say anything because it's your birthday!  (Well, they might say something if you rob a bank, but if you're in your birthday suit when you do it, most likely they will be rendered speechless by your beauty/bingo lady arms.)  Just a little foreshadowing for what is to come this month.

Oh and blog... I'll see you soon.  I promise. ;)

Forever and ever, et pumpkin cheesecake ice cream,
Cara

Song of the Day: Jump in the Line - Harry Belafonte

Halloween Movie of the Day: Beetlejuice

"Okay, I believe you!"