Happy October

Well, my two week reprieve from paper writing was over this week.  My school goes from Thursday to Wednesday, so yesterday was the last day of my school week and today is the first day of my new school week.  So my paper for "last" week was due yesterday.  Yesterday was also the last day of that particular class.  Each class is 8 weeks and there are no breaks between classes.  So today I start a whole new week and a new class.  It's continuous all year.  I think they take off 2 weeks at Christmas (which will be very, very nice), but it's the only break unless I request one.  By next summer I may be ready for one, but the more I take off the longer it'll be before I graduate. 

Anyway,  I say all that becaue I have definitely noticed when I have a paper in my class I'm less likely to write on here.  I'd like to change that because I do like writing just for fun, but I do get tired of it. =)

Anyway, I am enjoying my runs right now.  It feels calm.  I don't know how to explain it, but I don't dread them and if I don't feel like running, then I don't.  I didn't run on Sunday because we had a crazy busy day.  So I was going to run on Monday instead (I rarely run on Mondays)  However, I got home and Damian had gotten pizza, so I grabbed a slice, ate it and then took a bath.  It was nice, I didn't regret not running at all.  Tuesday I couldn't run because I was hanging out with my sister.  So the first run I did this week was yesterday, 3 miles. 

I will say, I do get that twinge of thinking only 3 miles and it's already Thursday, that means I have to run today, tomorrow, and Saturday to make up for it.  But then I tell myself, no I don't have to do anything.  This may change, I can already feel it changing, but for now, I'm good.

So my weekend . . . it was ridiculous.  I don't know if I mentioned it but when my uncle died he gave all of his neices and nephew (one nephew) a small inheritance.  He was never married and had no kids but it was still a nice surprise.  My aunt died a few years ago, who was also not married with no kids, and she left everything to her siblings, so we figured that would be the way it would happen with all our single aunts (two) and (one) uncle. 

Anyway,  I would like to put some of the money I got from my uncle away for my kids and I've been putting off looking into it.  So Saturday I decided I would go to a couple banks and talk to them about it, it's not enough to really invest, so I was thinking some sort of high interest savings or a CD.  "High interest" my butt, they are marginally higher than a regular savings and the CD was marginally higher than that.  Completely ridiculous.  But it made for a busy morning. 

Then I took Maddox to lunch and we bought a couple Halloween decorations at Lowe's.  I have discovered that Maddox is very, very into "Happy Halloween" as he calls it.  He really wanted decorations so I bought some just for him.  Then I went to the running store because the shoes I bought on my birthday gave me blisters on the arches of my feet, which are terrible.  But I got new ones and a pair of socks in exchange.

Sunday we went grocery shopping, then spent 2 hours (at least) in Verizon getting new phones.  After that we went to the pumpkin patch. 

We took a family photo, but it's on Chris's phone, which means I'll never see it.