I threw a party!

A few weeks ago, I had the thought that a Girls "Book Fair" Night would be super fun and the perfect way to host a party without getting all weird about it. I planned it for the week before Thanksgiving as a kick-off to cozy reading season and invited all of my reader friends. I can't recommend this kind of party enough. I was able to mix all of my different circles together and everyone had something to talk about because everyone there loved books. I asked each person to bring three books that they enjoyed and everyone got to go home with three new books. We had an awesome variety and everyone added even more lists based on each other's recommendations. I ended up with Circe, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, and The Ember in the Ashes series. All three I wouldn't have necessarily picked for myself but I'm so excited about. It was such a fun night and I even ended up getting invited to my first (and second!) book clubs! 

 

Vintage blogging question?

 Has anyone else noticed that Blogger is getting kind of wonky? I know it's a vintage platform, so this might be par for the course, but I recently got flooded with updates from 2012 (which has been a fun trip down nostalgia, but those kids are in college now!) and I've lost other blogs I used to follow. Is this the beginning of the end? And how are we archiving blogs? I know this has been asked before but maybe a better option has arisen since 2012? 

Halloweekend

 On Wednesday last week, I started to get all in my feelings because Halloween was almost here and I didn't feel like we'd celebrated enough. And then C executed the most amazing holiday/birthday weekend and I got to do all the things I love with all the people that I love and it was basically the best Halloweekend ever. 

Holy shit. These pictures were ABSOLUTELY loaded in no particular order. Let's just lump the whole weekend into a nonsensical timeline:

Pumpkin patch and an awesome selfie with the guy

Shenanigans. She asked if I could "lift me like a deer" and then right away said, "Of course you can. Pick me up!" 

Ahh! Okay. So one day we went to an exhibit of Trolls: Save the Humans. It was amazing and totally worth the drive, even if some families are less in tune with the social contract than others. There's gentle parenting and then there's... whatever was happening here. But it was still an awesome time (and I was even more grateful for my own hooligans)

On the grounds there's also a huge historic mansion that was still decked out for Halloween. The pool table was a giant Oijia board! 

And on another day, an old friend and I did a Mudgirl run! If you get the chance to do one of these, you totally should (even if it feels kind of scammy when you sign up) It was such a blast

RIP socks

This is the "before" After I had mud in my ears even after my shower! 

Oh look! We're to Halloween now! Which I took almost no pictures of. But at one point we ended up at bars like we were children

Sydney (a shark) and her sweet friend Kate (a mermaid)

I was spoiled perfectly, including a shirt that reads "My daughter and I talk shit about you," a smut book, a crafty little ghost, and new coffee syrups. Like I said, perfect. I feel quite seen.

Averson was "The girl with the green ribbon" It was so niche and so perfectly her. Halloween Averson is one of my favorite Aversons. 

Birthday donuts! 

Early morning birthday gym crew. I dressed up like Winnie the Pooh and I loved it so much I almost abandoned my witch costume. We did birthday burpees and there were enough people to not make it suck, and most of my favorite gym people were there. Apparently I'm a person who goes to the gym on her birthday for the 45th trip around the sun. 

I watched part of the new season of Nobody Wants This, and the main character's mother says that she prefers to spend her birthday in the energy she wants to bring into the next year. If that's how it works, I am feeling very optimistic about this next year <3