puppetmaker | No Nanowrimo for me this year

Instead I plan to write an entry to my web log once a day for a month.

I haven't done that in a while. There was a time that I managed to make an entry every day for three months but life and other things got in the way.

So this is a month of random head clearing for me. Some of this I will make public and some of private.

I figure if I get some work done on a few writing projects, bonus for me.

I do find that writing out a blog entry sets me up for writing other things. It clears my head and gets the writing flowing.

Halloween went well.

I got the graveyard up. While I was doing it, one of our neighbors was jogging by and she told me how happy she was to see that I was putting it up. She had been taken pictures of her kids in front of it for the past 8 years.

Caroline's make-up went well. I let her dictate how she wanted it and applied it. She was a werewolf wearing a red hood. She got together with a gaggle of her school friends and ran around the neighborhood getting lots of candy. "Best Haul Every!" was the declaration when she got home.

We gave out comic books. I love it when I hear the children leaving and being excited that they got a comic book. For some kids, I think this is their first comic that they own. I think I have extra teenagers because they have been getting comics from us for years and they like it.

If I had taken a shot every time I saw an Elsa or Anna, I would have been soused within the first hour. Best had to be the family where the dad was dressed as Christoff carrying Anna and Elsa up the steps. The girls were twins. Lots of Ninjas this year too.

Rain curtailed the flow later in the evening but we had a good turn out.

One thing I like to do is sit on the steps and watch all the groups walk by. The neighborhood is filled with the sounds of excited children and parents. It is a rather comforting sound. Helps one believe a little more in humanity.

Today I am taking a day to regroup from the whirlwind that was last week.

Tomorrow I move onto the next set of projects I need/want to do.

Dr. Who is on tonight and is the first part of the end of the season. I am looking forward to where this is all going.

I am grateful for the sounds of Halloween.