Nightmare Before Christmas

It's the first of two Friday the 13ths this year! The second one occurs in December. 

I'm starting to see Christmas items in stores, so it really is like a Nightmare Before Christmas.

Pumpkin Spice Cartoons

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. 🙂   

It's getting to be that time! No doubt you've already seen seeing Pumpkin Spice everywhere by now.

Some of these are new to me, some I've posted in the past.

After the Debate

 

Spirit Halloween Store First Visit

The Spirit Halloween store opened on Sunday afternoon. I went  around 3 then. An employee said they's opened an hour earlier, with a long line waiting outside. I'm glad I went later than that!

The former Kmart parking lot that's been empty
since 2020.

The former Kmart building storefront with 
the Spirit Halloween banner.

The official costumes (above photos) and the off-brands with weird names (below photos). The Snow White knockoff is called Apple Queen.

Corpse Bride animatronics.

Too Hot to Write!

That was how felt all day yesterday. This was the first week I did not participate in the Thursday 13 since I began doing that weekly prompt in June. But it doesn't have to be every week. Hot weather is expected again today and this weekend. I didn't feel up to working on my writing either. I got a little behind on that one when I was sick last month. I don't often feel up to  sitting at my computer when I'm sick, and the hot weather the last few days made me too sleepy to think about writing. 

I'm posting this in the morning before it gets hot and before I head to work. The center was closed on Monday for Labor Day and on Wednesday for the monthly staff meeting. It was weird being gone for a week! 

Waiting for the hot weather to end! Wondering if the 97 degree weather will still be true when the fall equinox hits. I won't be surprised if that is true.

And I've been driving past the former Kmart to see how they are doing with getting the Sprit store set up. The banners are up. Two delivery trucks were in the parking lot yesterday and boxes were piled up on the sidewalk. Displays of items are already up, but I don't know when they will be open. It's so fun to have one in my hometown. I'm glad to see the building getting some use for a while, after four years of the building and the parking lot standing there empty.

September Bookish Bingo

 The new card is here.

My Books:

1. Spin: The Rumpelstiltskin Musical--Neil Fishman (3 squares): Audiobook, Twisty Plot, Sunshine 
2. Plants vs. Zombies Volume 1--Paul Tobin (3 squares): E-Book, Plants on the Cover, Cover is a Drawing
3. Powdered Peril--Jessica Beck (6 squares): Shelf Love, In a Series, Physical Book, Police, Secrets, Free Space
4. Angel--Johanna Lindsey (7 squares): Free Book, Book Club Read, Abstract Design on the Cover, Fate/Destiny, Secrets, Historic, A Favorite Author
5. No T. Rex in the Library--Toni Buzzeo (1 square): Pirate
6. The Mountain is You--Brianna Wiest (2 squares): Self-Help, Nonfiction, Life Lessons
7. Far From the Tree--Robin Benway (3 squares): Library Book, Not in a Series, Set in a School

25 squares completed on September 12

September Begins

 It's now here! 

Though it's not fall yet, it still feels like summer when the equinox hits. Weather in the 90s is expected later this week. 

My hometown is getting a Spirit Halloween store this year. It's already being set up in the building left empty by Kmart in 2020. It may only be a temporary store, but I'm glad to see the building get some use after four years of being unoccupied. Our town rarely gets stuff like this. I was surprised when one appeared in the empty Staples building 10 years ago (Ace Hardware now occupies that building). I'm excited to see the store!

I'm not thinking too much about Halloween just yet, but after seeing this idea, I totally want to do it. I'll have plenty of milk jugs to use, I just have to find cheap glow sticks. I see them a lot at Dollar Tree, but they've been out the last few times I've looked. 

More on both of these to come.