I’m just not into it this year. I really don’t care at all. We just bought candy today and not even that much - I think in hopes that many children don’t show, or we run out early. I don’t crave sitting here and waiting for punks kids (sorry if they’re yours) that are ungrateful and just want junk food.
I haven’t even put thought into getting a pumpkin. Well, I have a little. I thought it would be nice to go to one of the farms outside town and pick a pumpkin, have pictures with Carter and maybe see some animals or something; but it’s been rainy and he’s been sick. That just makes me not want to at all, even less then I *may* have wanted before.

Not to mention poor Carter doesn’t even have a costume for daycare on Tuesday. I could send him as the “cutest baby in the world”, even though I think he is, that may just be an easy way out.

I think I am getting the winter blues early this year. I crave the sun. I haven’t seen it in weeks; frankly, I’ve lost count how long it’s been. I want to sit on the beach so bad and do nothing, but I know that’s not going to happen anytime soon.

So… what do I do for entertainment? Feed my kitty some cap nip. He’s soooo flippin’ high right now. He’s running around the basement and then going back to the cardboard scratcher to take another lick, then runs again. I can hear him from my computer cubby in the kitchen. He makes me laugh. For a pet store special, he’s just that - special. I think, the weirdest cat I’ve ever met. And I thought I had issues.

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While I was working Thursday, I was driving back from the construction site which was near a conservation area that we used to frequent when we lived in the area. It was nice to be able to go back to that place and take some time to take in the scenery and kinda chill out a little.

I came across this place that I had almost forgetten about. These Badlands were formed from a large shallow sea - the Michigan basin, which 430 million years ago used to fill the region that is now inhabited by the Great lakes. Wow rocks! I’m sure that’s what you’re thinking, but I’ve always been interested in Earth Sciences and that’s why I took it in school. If I had only known that it would take me to this place - working on construction sites with dirty preverts men all the time.