NaBloPoMo

Against my better judgment, I signed up for NaBloPoMo (National Blog Posting Month), which means I am somehow personally requiring myself to post a blog every day for the month of November. No guarantees about quality or quantity of content (thankfully), just one post per day. I'm guessing there are going to be at least a couple of "hi, yes I do exist today, and here is my obligatory post" posts. But I will attempt to come up with something interesting to say. I think half of my trouble with posting very often is either I feel like I have nothing at all o say or I have so many things to say I can't pick which one to write about (and so I don't write anything at all). And the other half is easily summed up in the 13-pound little one who is currently sleeping downstairs (but sleeping nonetheless - thus, the TWO posts today!).

Happy Halloween!

I really haven't given much thought to the fact that today is Halloween, and we usually don't do much. However, I normally go to the store to get candy for the neighborhood kids at least 3 or 4 days, if not a couple weeks, beforehand. This year going to the store is a lot more complicated than it has been in the past, so I just managed to go an hour or so ago. To my amazement, the extreme quantities of Halloween candy that one can observe on at least one if not two dedicated candy-aisles starting the beginning of October were gone! The dedicated candy aisle was almost completely bare, except for Kit-Kat bars (I guess Fred Meyer ordered a few cases too many) and a little bit of the candy that most moms around here make their kids throw out because it's not wrapped air-tight. I did manage to find one very lonely bag of Reese's peanut butter cups and a few bags of mini Airheads on the regular candy aisle (mind you, the Airheads where on the very bottom shelf and not easy to see). I think "the holidays" that are generally blamed for the trend of weight-gaining this time of year needs to include Halloween, too!