My day started out kind of rushed. I woke up at 6:40 which I normally am leaving my house at that point to get to work. I made it out quickly, got to work, and settled in. Work has had a pretty depressing vibe lately due to the combo of a crappy economy and the industry we're in, we've just gone through 3 rounds of layoffs. The third happened just this past Thursday. Everytime it has happened it gets more and more sad. I'm not too sure what lies ahead for my company but I am thankful to still have a job.
Moving on to a more positive note, our company has a Halloween contest which a good amount of people dress up and it makes for a fun day. Since we just had layoffs the other day, I assumed that the moral would still be pretty low and people wouldn't be feeling it. But, I was pleasantly suprised that people still got dressed up and made it fun. It was even more nice to see that even through unhappy times in life people always press on and still can make good unfortunate situatons.
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We've been married for 2 1/2 years now and this was our first year home, passing out candy in our neighborhood on Halloween. Because I have such young siblings, we normally go with them trick-or-treating. But this year we decided we just wanted to experience a Halloween at home. I didn't grow up in an ideal area for trick-or-treating so we always had to drive to housing plans around the area. As much as I wanted to live in a neighborhood for the convenience on Halloween, I wanted to even more because I thought it looked like so much fun to be able to pass out candy. It looked so cozy to me when people would be bundled up with the hot drinks and cheerful smiles. So now that I have my own house in a neighborhood, I got myself all set buying lots of candy,setting up my chair in the front door, and flipping the front porch light on. The weather was pretty bad (it rained the whole time and was pretty cold) but there were still little troopers out there going from house to house collecting their treats. We got a good amount of kids and most of the candy is gone which was good for the weather we had. Everytime I would see the little ones I would get flips of excitement in my stomach thinking about how one day I will be out there with my umbrella trudging along in the cold with my kiddos. I can't wait for that day.
It's funny how I went from imagining one day having my own house and being able pass out candy to little ones. Now, that is my reality and I'm seeing the little ones come to my house and I'm imaging the day I'll be out there walking along with my own children. I suppose that how life goes. I like when the things I dream of become reality :-)
Alright that's all for now, I'm off to bed! I'm changing my alarm clock ring tonight to prevent any further sleeping in. (This isn't the first late start that's happened in the passed few weeks so hopefully this will do the trick. If not, I'm in trouble. I blame it the sun not rising early enough to wake me up.)
Happy Halloween!
~S.
