Halloween

I like dressing up for Halloween!

This year, Halloween was on a Wednesday-Lame if you ask me.
Trying to celebrate Halloween in mid-week makes me wish Congress would vote to keep Halloween on the last Saturday of the month.  That way we can celebrate the day all day with big parades & brunches, a pre-haunting nap to get jazz up & there would be plenty of time for a dash to the store for last minute candy.

All in favor, vote Huzzah!

So we at the Hutch's household celebrated with haunting up the mantle (with a few decorations) & windows (with small cardboard cut outs taken from Cascade's Campus Life giveaways.) and not answering the door when the trick-or-treaters (only 4!) came knocking. 
Why so little celebrating? I had to work overtime that day (7-5) & took the bus home as Kyle had class. We both got home around 8pm & didn't even carve pumpkins!

This is how Bailey felt about Halloween.



She at least let the trick-or-treaters pet her as compensation for not having any candy (See--dogs can come in handy for adverting children's attentions.).

I can loose perspective...

How do you feel when someone puts your life into the perspective you should be living with.

For me, it hurts. 

Because I find truth in the love & honesty in the aforementioned clip. It makes me think I could be doing so much more. Or doing so much better-in general. But what does that even mean? I try to tell myself--you are you & they are them. Your life is different. You shouldn't think like this. 
But that is foolish thinking & I should not be lying to myself.  I am moved because I have become stagnant.

I want my life to have the perspective it should. I want connections to stay strong & for my face to not crinkle up in frustration so much. Even after that sentance, I had to remember to relax my face & shoulders!

I want to do what's right for me.  Listen to the words of advice, like from our physical trainer who said last night, "no more Jack in the Box right before working out. Or like, ever." And I know he means the Taylor Swift kind of never ever, not Sean Connery's idea of never ever.

So how can I make that happen?

My book from Book Club at work states the different steps to achieve feeling more efficient. My books from my dad feature ways to be smart with money, with time, with my identity. My book from God gives me the structure those other books are based on. My book from my husband gives me a simple wisdom.

So much advice! It can be over whelming to try to change.

I know I want something to change but I know my life is limited to being work oriented. Thus is limited in all other aspects. Because I have made it this way. I know I don't like that I have sacrificed friends, family even myself because of how I have limited myself. I can feel the unbalance in my soul and I need to balance myself out.

What do you do when you know you're unbalanced? Do you seek advice? Clean house? Go to sleep & hope the feeling dissipates?  What are your remedies to getting to the point where you are feeling like the best you can be?