“stay with me, go places… once more for the ages”

October 2009

Finally. Started. Listening.

Well October, I didn’t know you were here, and now you’re gone.  Old friend I don’t know if you know, but this is our 22nd year together.  Do you remember when I dressed up as Peter Pan for Halloween and my older sister dressed up like Tinkerbell.  I was so mad about wearing panty-hose, and also a little mad that Tinkerbell was double my size.  We’ve had a lot of good times together.

October, this time was a bit different than it had been in the past, but still exciting with new twists and turns.  It was great getting to go back to Oklahoma for OSU’s Homecoming.  Getting to see old friends and spend time with them.  This is something I greatly missed, and it is something I greatly think I needed.

My grandparents came in and we spent some quality time together, and I rounded you out with a couple Halloween parties and a good old Haunted house.  October this year you were awfully good to me.

But October I think that I’ve been neglecting something and all it took was one trip to Oklahoma.

October you always are there.  Every year I can count on you coming through and being the month right after September and you get me ready for November. I forgot that I’m here in Conway for a reason.  I can’t neglect that this is home, as short of a time that I may be here I can’t neglect that fact.  The fact that home isn’t something you find, but something you make.  Let me repeat that more emboldened, October.

Home isn’t something you find, it’s something you make.

I think that’s important.  We can’t wait for life to take us over, we need to take over life.  Is it hard because I have people I care deeply about that aren’t here?  Yeah, it is, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t worth doing. October, who knows… this time next year Conway, Arkansas could feel more like home than anywhere ever has.  It just depends on what I make of myself here.

What I do know, October, is that you are always an adventure and always a little different than the year before.  Don’t tell all the other months, but you are really my favorite.  You always seem to shake me to my core.  I’m glad for that.

Oh and more on “listening” another time.  I’ll let you know what I hear.

Challenge

Take a Chance With Love

I’m not sure what this might mean to you, but I can tell you that in my life I’ve always come out better if I took a chance on love instead of backing down.  Don’t over-think things.  Half if not all the time we are over-thinking every step in our life, and especially when it comes to love.  Don’t regret the things you never got to say, or the things you should have said.  Say those things now.  Do those things now. Take a chance with Love.

Books I’m Reading

This month was an off month for reading. I didn’t enjoy these books as much, but I did decide to read the original vampire book in honor of Halloween.

I don’t think I’ll ever read the Twilight series.  Vampires should be scary, not super attractive and just wanting to love. #soapbox

War & Peace ~ Leo Tolstoy

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions ~ Edwin A., Abbott

The Time Machine ~ H.G. Wells

Dracula ~ Bram Stoker

Album of the Month

Alright this month has been a little interesting, so i decided to go with a nice little Icelandic group called Sigur Rós.  Pardon the naked butts on their album cover, but their music is amazing.  Don’t believe me?  Well check out the videos below.  I don’t know what they are singing, but I don’t’ really care.  It just sounds good.

Med sud i eyrum vid spilum endalaust ~ Sigur Rós

Long post… wow sorry… October was packed.