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. 🙂  

In the last week, and in the month ahead:

1. No trick-or-treaters at my house :( Every year we seem to get fewer of them on our street.
2. Checked out the Spirit Halloween store one last time. I had no interest in buying anything, even though it was half off. Got a whole year to come up with next year's disguise :) I may start deciding as early as August.
3. No Spirit Christmas coming to my town. So far all the stores listed on their website are on the East Coast. The former Kmart will be empty once again :(
4. Trying not to think about Christmas yet, though I want to decorate the front yard and do not want to wait until after Thanksgiving to come up with an idea. Already bought some solar-powered Christmas light stakes at Dollar Tree. I wanted to get some before they ran out.
5. Not sure what is happening for Thanksgiving this year. Though we will have potluck at work the day before.
6. No plans to go shopping on Black Friday, at least not in person. And certainly not at 3AM! Online remains an option, but I am uncertain of that one as well.
7. I've posted the reading challenges I host for next year, and have signed up for a few I have already found. I keep on searching for these and post them to a Facebook group that collects reading challenges. I am moderator for the group.
8. Worrying over how many of the challenges I will finish for this year, with only two months left. As I pointed out earlier this year, I have a lot of categories that I have some trouble filling. Some I have resolved, but others remain. But there are several challenges I have already finished already, as I  have pointed out. 
9. Wondering how many ^^ I should sign up for next year. There are several I like to do each year and others I come across for the first time. Sometimes I think I'm doing too many, but they are hard to resist!
10. Again, not trying to think about Christmas too much right now, but am wondering what I will be doing, at least at work, since celebrations at home have pretty much disappeared.
11. Had to get a blood lab today for a doctor appointment next week. And I have a psychiatrist appointment just before Thanksgiving. This is one time of year I hate going to appointments!
12. The time change has messed me up as it always does!
13. The election results. Just. Cannot. Comment!