I almost completely managed to forget that I gave myself a gift:

I requested Wednesday off, in order to give myself a three-day weekend for Halloween.

At the time, I'd hoped either I'd come up with some excellent Halloween plan that could sprawl intentionally into a third day, OR I'd hoped that I would forget about it and be pleasantly surprised. It has been the latter!

I definitely didn't get to enjoy October quite the way I'd hoped to. It went by extremely fast, and mainly in a blur of... just ordinary things. We really did have a lovely month weather-wise, and the colors were beautiful. Unfortunately, I'd kinda banked on spending this last weekend (my Monday/Tuesday) getting all my yay! Halloween! feelings/plans out, and the snow the last two days has definitely dampened that. (We wound up with maybe... six or seven inches of snow? Not as much as threatened, but not as little as hoped, and WAY too much for the first snow of the season.)

We're upsettingly lacking a plan for what to DO for Halloween over the next couple of days.

It won't be the haunted corn maze: their last night was tonight, and I wouldn't be surprised if they closed last night and tonight anyway. The corn maze is always fun, plus has the nostalgia factor of having been where Alex and I went for our first official date when he came out to visit me the first time. But it was also *better* back then, lol. It's gotten a lot more expensive and crowded and those more expensive tickets let you access a lot less than they used to.

We might go to a haunted house, though I'd hoped to do one earlier in the month so it'd be less crowded. One of the bigger ones is open through the end of the week, so maybe Wednesday to keep the spoops going, but avoiding the Halloween-day crowds?

I think tomorrow we'll maybe go to the Butterfly Pavilion again, since in October they have their "Spiders of the World" exhibits, and we've only got a couple days left to see them this year. It's also indoors, which will be nice, since it's supposed to still be really cold.

I also need to do my annual "Over the Garden Wall" watch. I'm dismayed that I've made it this far into the month and haven't done it yet.

Do we carve a pumpkin? We'll have to go BUY a pumpkin in order to do that, but maybe.

Do we make some sort of silly Halloween baked good? Do we go to a horror movie or two just like a normal Tuesday for us? There's a goth club concert, but that sounds a bit like the bad kind of exhausting, and it's at the club where drinks are $20+. We can car-bar/pre-game it, but still, I'm not even sure how much tickets are.

I will be very upset with myself if we do NOTHING for Halloween, because it IS my favorite fucking holiday, but the snow has pretty much killed my seasonal enjoyment... I'm hoping enthusiasm and inspiration somehow yet strike!

(Of course, it'd also probably be a good idea for me to spend my extra day DOING ALL THE THINGS I'm struggling to catch up on.)