I have always loved Halloween and have very fond memories of trick or treating as kids. We lived on a farm in the country so Mom would drive us into the town where we went to church and we would go to houses there since we knew almost everyone. I think most years we then went the few miles to the town where we got groceries and any other shopping and would stop at my grandparents' house and my great grandma's when she was alive plus the stores. Maybe those memories are part of why I love Halloween so much. Going through my mom's stuff I found one of my very favorite books as a kid, which is called Trick or Treat. We had looked for it before, thinking it was with our stuff but it actually was with her school stuff. I'm so happy to have found it! I plan to read it today since I was too caught up in movies and stuff yesterday.
I have all sorts of thoughts in my head for the month but never got an actual plan laid out so I will be doing that today. I did sign up for Rowvember and got the first workout email today. I was hoping they would be YouTube workouts but they are just written. Fortunately today's is for time. I don't have a monitor on my cheap rower so if he starts doing them for distance it won't be as easy since I'll have to find a way to guesstimate.
I sat outside last night for the trick or treating, about 2 hours (usually more like 3 hours). The temp wasn't too bad but wind was over 20 mph so it was still pretty cold. I ended up having to pop into the house for gloves and then for a blanket and then to swap my sneakers for boots. I had talked to a neighbor and she said they and some others were sitting outside just figuring it would have some less covid risk. I had enough candy for about twice as many kids (ended up with about 140 kids, compared to 220 last year) so we have a lot left. I made myself feel kinda rotten last night from eating so much. I made popcorn to go with my movie so I hate to think how much more candy I would have eaten without that! It was ridiculous, I really was bad as a kid. I have separated out some candy for myself so that hopefully it will help me control myself. Everything is going in the freezer so it won't stare us in the face till it's gone. By having my stash the hope is that I will use it wisely and not feel like I have to eat some NOW before hubby eats it all. I hope this works bc I am at my highest weight and feeling very discouraged about it.
My 80yo great uncle is in the hospital with double pneumonia and his covid test came back positive yesterday. They are treating him with steroids and breathing treatments and he says he is feeling some better. His son has it, daughter-in-law is sick but supposedly negative, daughter tested positive but is asymptomatic. A friend of mine found out her whole family has covid. I wish a magic wand could return us to the way life was in 2019. Well, I wish for a better world than that, but this one is particularly rotten.
JB, I have a friend who liked horror movies until she had kids and now she can't watch them anymore. I never saw one until I was in college. My mom did not do scary at all. She actually made us leave the theater during Ghostbusters! I'm not sure if it scared her or if she was just worried that we would be scared and have nightmares. She saw it when we were older and was fine. But last year she watched Beetlejuice and was spooked.
She watched scary stuff when she was younger so I wonder if she was like my friend and had to stop when we were born. There was one movie that just saying the title would almost give her nightmares, it had scared her so much when she was younger. I finally watched it last night, somehow feeling it was weirdly appropriate or smthg in the year we lost her. I can't imagine being scared from it, let alone being haunted by it the rest of my life! But some of our quirks are endearing and her inability to tolerate anything scary or spicy will always be a fun little thing we remember about her. We used to tease her and she was just like hey, you do you, I'll do me.
Oddly enough, the first horror movie I watched was Poltergeist and for some reason she watched it with me! Yep, she was spooked, but I was hooked.
Sorry to ramble on. Feeling nostalgic, I guess. Yesterday was tougher without her than I anticipated.