Monday, November 2, 2015

Manic Monday: Costumes, Singing, & Friends.

It's Monday, and I have to say the weather outside is something close to wonderful because the sky is cloudy, the air is wet, and I put on my Northface vest! Yes! After a weekend full of work, events, and Halloween, I feel like today is about to get a little manic..another Manic Monday! When I hear that tune play, memories of going to a small town in the middle Wisconsin named Hollendale come to mind, and I have no idea why. LOL. What comes to mind is the care-free slow speed that people lived like compared to the running around one has to do now-a-days only to free up some time to actually do real life stuff like going to the gym, reading a little, and maybe writing a blog! Hahahah. I mean, it's a little therapeutic to sit and recall (or not) what actually happened over the course of a few days and capture the moments to some degree or another.

Unlike most of my weekends, people were having house parties, and one place was hosting a Halloween costume contest. Friday was more or less an easy walk-through a yard party where my buddy knew the host, and we showed up to graze the food table and chit-chat with a bit. I was a cowboy. Not too original cause apparently I dress like that everyday less the cowboy hat! What did come out of it was a bunch of gals line dancing. It looked really fun!! Borderline...one of the local cowboy places does line dancing a number of nights a week, and I think I may need to cowboy up and get to some learning. Keep an eye out. I maybe coming out of my coutry-phobic line-dancing closet soon enough....maybe!

Halloween was on a Saturday this year! In years past, I watched the
parade in West Hollywood where you would see more colors than one might expect and then get to watch them all disappear into the night as you tried to escape the parking lot of cars trying to leave the area. When I lived there, it was cake! All the fun was only 1/2 block away. Now, you have to know someone that knows someone to get even close and maybe have a sofa to crash on if you drank one to many. Just because of all the newness of my life, I felt the need to take advantage of the day and celebrate. When I decided what to be and that it might actually be a pretty good costume, I began looking up places where I could get hair, make-up, and the rest of the costume that I didn't own. Before long, I was learning how to apply the powder at a local beauty salon, rehearsed a few of the movie lines, and out of the bathroom walked a Robert Downey Jr. from Tropic Thunder. I spat out mostly movie lines...for everything the whole night! LOL. I thought I was gonna get pulled over, but in the end, I didn't even drive. The house party we ended up at was full of characters, food, and a few choice drinks. I made a few new acquaintances, and got a bunch of laughs out of the deal. It was a great night that has given me few ideas on other "characters" to dress up like in the future.

Today is the end of my weekend. It's been a good day, and most of it has been pretty low key, but it started early. This cutie texted me about wanting to make the karaoke scene I was creating at one of the local pubs. Not actually expecting her to show up, I was taking in the music until it was my turn to rock it just a little. Before I knew it, she was there, and she can actually put on a pretty good show and held a good tune. You can tell a lot about a person when they karaoke! After a few songs, we went our separate ways only to have the same exact morning problem bring us back together later--she can't sleep past 5:00 AM either. It was then that the weather was at its best. The sky was just starting to light up, the mist was thick, and my Jeep was full of morning dew. Can you believe it!! As most of my morning go, I end up with a cup of Joe. Having company to figure out what the rest of the day and week would look like was a treat especially at a 'Ma & Pop' breakfast diner. It's fun catching up on life and non-work related stuff. It's nice to have someone familiar to share part of your day off.

Eventually, I made my way home to nap. The cloudy weather must've been working a number on me, but I passed out for a short while..not to mention that my gut has been off the last day or so, which the last time that happened was when a short someone was having the same problem. Hmmm. What was odd about my passing out was the sound of the train engine from that Unforgiven Metallica song played. Usually it plays as I'm about to wake up. Before I could even tell, I was in it...dreaming in vivid 3D. I can't remember all of it, but the parts that I do as they were happening left me feeling I was exactly were I'm supposed to be at this moment in time and in life. I suppose we'll see.
Well, that's the basic weekend review of things beyond my continued reading of the Brenne Brown book, Daring Greatly. The more I read it my perspective on how I see some things about myself, my reactions to things relationship wise, and what other people are like is taking on some new color. I'll make mention of it in the near future. There is it folks. Enjoy your week.


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