Tenth Month.

October. October? OCTOBER!

Touche, 2009. Just when I thought you were slowin' things down a bit, you hit me in the face with the onset of the tenth month of the year. I should've known better.

So. Yeah. October. It's starting to FEEL like fall now, although the leaves haven't really started to change yet. It's too cold for the A/C but too warm for the heater to come on so the house is perfect during the day and it gets to that cold in an I don't wanna get out from under the blanket" kinda way at night, so I like it. It's also given me the chance to get on a green tea kick the last week or so. No sugar, hot water, green tea. Amanda and I have been all about it, and hey, it's good for the soul (and the immune system...watch out, Swine Flu!).

October really is a good month. I talked about September being the start of fall, and the feel-good atmosphere that brings with it, but October is when all of this really gets kicking. It means the fair, changing of the leaves, the heart of football season, and Halloween. It also brings the PLAYOFFS in baseball, which, once again, my Braves failed to make (Braves 2010! Woohoo!). It's a great month to get scared in a fun way, and to get wrapped up in that trick-or-treat hype you got as a kid.

Anyway, props to October. I know I'm kind of letting my fingers type without thinking tonight, but I'll take what I can get. It's been an interesting few weeks since I last wrote here. All good and great for the most part, but I took a slight step back in one aspect of my life I didn't want to have happen again. I'm still struggling to find a middle ground with it. I don't want to be controlled by it, but I also want to be strong enough to resist the pull of falling back to where I used to be. The line is too thin for me to stand on it sometimes, and gravity is always working against me. Just gotta stay strong.

But October, yeah. The theme of this blog. Tenth month of the year. Back to getting scared. Amanda and I have one haunted house down, and we want to hit up at least one more before Halloween. We went to "Spooky Woods" in High Point the other night, and it was great. Got stuck with a bunch of high school kids on the trail and laughed at their reactions as much as our own. The place is perfectly designed for the fun scare, starting with a Texas Chainsaw type of house and going through a corn maze and a castle with rooms set up to look like all of the scariest horror movies. I went about 7 years ago, and it's really improved since then. Definitely had several jumpy moments that turned into laughter pretty quickly. Can't wait to catch another one.

I'm super-tired now and about to crash, but some pretty cool things are coming up in the next few days. Amanda's got a GIG Friday night of all acoustic Beatles stuff which will be a lotta fun, and SATURDAY, we're heading up to DC to kick it with Ryan in the city for a couple of nights. Two shifts of work between now and then, and the weekend will BE here! Can't wait. Going to sleep with that thought.

Gnight.
D.