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My week(end of October)

We're approaching the end of October here.  It's been a fun month!  I love October: The month when the leaves are at their most colorful and the foliage could literally jump out of real life and on to a computer desktop background.

I actually did a lot this month.  I had my birthday on the tenth.  There were no plans made until about lunch time the day of; that's when I went with some friends to dive bar karaoke.  I sang a few songs and had a few beers.  After that we ended the night gazing into a fire at a friend of my friend's backyard fire pit.  I love those.  When I buy a house one day I want a fire pit in the backyard, one of those nifty stone ones, next to a patio, next to a pool, next to the kitchen for easy access to snacks.  I can't promise to wait thirty minutes after swimming to eat though.

Last weekend I visited a mystery mansion for the first time ever.  Went with a few friends of mine that I hang out with several times a year.  We've kind of formed this core group of us that go to events regularly, or semi regularly.  So far this year we've had a few parties, a couple game nights, I hosted a backyard movie in the early summer, and on Friday we'll all be going to see Newsies!  I can't wait.  Anyway, the mystery mansion was awesome.  You were handed a clipboard (along with pen and paper) and took notes while moving from room to room of this old mansion.  The actors were extremely convincing and only a couple of us had it all figured out by the end.  I myself had it all wrong; had fun nonetheless.  Before the mystery we had pizza and my friend Melody and her roomie made a big salad for everyone. After the mystery house another friend from the group, Curt, helped make milkshakes—pumpkin milkshakes, and they were delicious!

This week things are chill.  I'm working on a new song that is—done, basically.  I did a few more tiny tweaks tonight.  I tend to tweak songs obsessively.  I really like this next song.  It's a toe tapper, and it's just so fun.  I think everyone will like it a lot.

Well, that brings things to this weekend.  This year on Halloween night I won't be putting on a funny or scary outfit to head out into the night wearing.  Instead we're all getting dressed up snazzy ("we're" is the group) and heading out for a nice dinner, followed by a night of live theater!  I feel like our group is turning into the group of friends from How I Met Your Mother, except all of us are single (and we don't live in New York City and one of us isn't Neil Patrick Harris).  Also, we're missing a Lilly and Marshall.  Plus, we've got more people.  There are more like six to ten of us total.  And sometimes people come and go in the group.  Ok, so we're nothing like the HIMYM group.  But I love being friends with them all and we're planning more outings together!  So that's exciting.  The night will start by meeting at Melody's apartment.  Then we're all going to eat at nice restaurant in Ardmore.  We'll follow that up by carpooling downtown to The Kimmel Center/Academy of Music to see Newsies.

I think it will be a great way to end to my favorite month.

Oh, and also today is National Cat Day!  So, pet your cat and give them lots of love, or if you don't have one, pet a friend's cat.  Here's a link in case you don't believe me:  http://www.nationalcatday.com