Some things to think about:
There's only 84 more days until Christmas
Every catalog ever printed will arrive in your mailbox over the next two weeks. Just when you've thrown them all out, you'll get round two and eventually round three.
Halloween candy is already stale in the grocery stores because it's been there since August 15th.
You can't find anything to buy that's summer anymore because every rack is now covered with long sleeves, coats, scarves, gloves, pants, wool, corduroy, and fleece. The sales have been cleared but fall is still full price. (It was 90 degrees here yesterday).
Airline tickets are still expensive and they're not coming down.
Gas is still really close to $4 / gallon.
You feel pressure to "decorate" your house for fall or Halloween or Thanksgiving or all the above.
The days are really much shorter now but the country won't let us recognize that because they moved the official daylight savings time to first week of November. (Guess the whole country was complaining about O-crap-tober so they gave us a little more daylight a little longer).
Football is in full swing and if you're a football widow, you're starting to really feel it now, probably worked yourself into a real good mad.
Baseball is finally in playoffs so that's a whole new kind of obsession
Basketball mania is just around the corner
Your kid will change their Halloween costume idea 50 times before the end of the month and then you'll end up making something out of old pajamas at the last minute.
Homework, soccer games, football games, choir rehearsals, science projects, etc have taken up all your family's spare time.
You're ready for another vacation but see no light at the end of the tunnel until Spring Break.
And because everyone is super busy, they (whomever you choose) decided to make us "aware" of some serious stuff: It's National...
- Breast Cancer Awareness Month (get a mammogram girlfriends if you're over 40)
- Down's Syndrome Awareness Month.
- Domestic Violence Awareness Month
- Meth Awareness Month
- Energy Awareness Month
- National Cyber Security Awareness Month
It's also finally cooling off, the leaves are turning colors, time for apple pie and pumpkin spice lattes, and we should remember to be thankful while we're being busy busy busy.
6 comments:
Yes, it is a CRAZY time - BUT! Now you can listen to Christmas music without people looking at you like you're sprouting a second head.
Christmas music forever.
Happy O-crap-tober day!
As I sit on the couch and think of the many to-do's on my fall list, I simply tell myself that I will start working on those tomorrow. After all, tomorrow is another day! Right now, I have to catch up on all of the season premiers that I've missed in the past week. House, anyone?
O-crap-tober will just have to wait.
Wow. I feel very AWARE and a little depressed thinking about all the battered meth addicts who have breast cancer and down's syndrome who aren't conserving energy when they're ID is stolen. Hmm. Lots to think about.
Also--you Californians are experiencing the opposite of what we Oregonians experience in February, when Target and Old Navy are covered in shortshorts and bikinis and we still have 4 months of cold and rain.
so are you saying i won't be seeing you anytime soon?
Yes - I am still stuck in summer and shocked that is Oct and I have so much to do. Wow - 84 days normally I woudl be so excite dbc I loe Christmas not this year since that means P wil be deploying.
It is also, Pastor Appreciation Month :)
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