Even More Halloween Fun: Thursday 13

Colleen at The Thursday 13 holds a weekly blogging prompt where bloggers make a list of 13 things on Thursdays. The topic is for you to choose. The blog host doesn't have any official graphics to display on the Thursday 13 posts, so I decided to whip one up myself. 🙂  

 

Today is Halloween! Here is more humor for the holiday, both old favorites and new ones.

National Candy Corn Day

Yes, that is a thing and it's today. Most of these are old ones I posted a year ago, though I found some new ones today.

What's More Scary--Halloween or the Election?

Less than a week before the Election, which is getting more hype than Halloween. I was surprised, but also glad, not to have seen any Trump costumes at the bar last Friday. I normally want to stay away from posting stuff about the Orange Menace, but these I had to get off my chest.

I certainly hope that is said in these two memes comes true! Personally, I'm more spooked by the election than the Halloween itself. Which do you find more scary?

This is what I want to see next Tuesday.

Yes, they do! Let's keep it to only one!

National Cat Day

 Today is National Cat Day. Some old and new ones.

Book Discussion: Reading Challenges Coming

It's getting to be that time. As you have already seen, one has already popped up for 2025, though many do not begin appearing until November or December, some not until January. This one was posted in September. This is one I have not taken part in, though I am always willing to try new ones. I'm waiting to see what others come up. There are several I've done for years now like the Color Coded, Popsugar and Book Riot (see my blog archives for links). One I'd been doing for years, the Poetry one, was not offered this past year. I was little disappointed about that. 

I pointed out in this post from August some bizarre and troublesome categories. I have since managed to resolve most of these. I found an Instagram recommendation, though I have yet to get it to read. I may choose to do a reread for the literary hoax one, since two books that I have already read that fall into this category seem to be the only onesI can find. I still have not found poetry by a black British writer, one of the categories for the Feminist Challenge, on which I still have a few other hard-to-fulfill categories. It was beginning to look like I may not get them all, but we shall see. 

I already began making graphics to display on each of the challenges I host. In recent years, I got a head of the game and posted them in October. But it now looks like I won't post them until November. Though I may begin drafting the posts this week, depending on how much other stuff I have planned for the remainder of this month. 

As soon as the other challenges become available or when I find them, they will be posted on my blog. Many are on blogs or website, though some are on YouTube, Instagram or X/Twitter. I am moderator for a Facebook group that posts challenges and am often searching for those coming up, particularly at this time of year. 

Meanwhile, I'm still working on some of those for this year. Like the feminist one, as I have already said. I've not gotten very many on own memoir challenge this year, but will try to get more in, as many as I can till the end of December. Five is the minimum, but I have already gone past that many.

As far as my posting for the Book Discussion Challenge is going, I signed up for the first level, but I am now nearing completion of the second level. I plan to join this again next year, too. 

Be on the look out for challenge posts in the next months!

Black Cat Day

Today is National Black Cat Day. Not to be confused with Black Cat Appreciation Day (August 17), but  I'm glad to see black cats get some national days. And this coming Tuesday is National Cat Day (post to come then).