End of summer

The iPod arrived at the office on Tuesday, and I've spent practically every evening since then organizing and re-organizing my music, importing CDs, figuring out playlists, etc. Not that it's that complicated, of course, but anything new is a bit different, and just getting totally comfortable with it and familiar with it has taken a little bit of time.

It has a 4 GB capacity, and it's almost completely full now. But a lot of that is Christmas music, so I could take that off in a pinch. It's been a lot of fun importing all my CDs, and discovering ones that I'd forgotten about, or just hadn't listened to in a long time. I had Bob bring his CDs in from the car, too, so I could get a few songs from them, and I had a couple of compilation CDs that friends had made me, so I have quite a collection.

We were talking about music at work last week (of course I had to show off my new iPod!), and Dan (he's new -- he used to work with us at BlairLake, and just recently started working with us at P3) asked me what kind of music I liked, and I was kind of at a loss. How do you classify it? Rock, I guess, although I noticed that when I imported my music into iTunes, a lot of it was classified as Folk. Not that it matters, I guess, but sometimes it's nice to be able to categorize things.

We had some friends coming over this afternoon, then we were going to go out to dinner, so Bob and I spent the day cleaning the house. He ran the vacuum cleaner and cleaned the windows, and I cleaned up the kitchen and did laundry and picked up in general. It's always nice to do a little more thorough cleaning than I usually do (okay, I almost neverdo), and it looks nice.

I also took the opportunity to put up a few Halloween decorations--a wooden pumpkin sign on the front door, a Halloween banner in the hallway, and a couple of black cat and witch things in the living room. I always hate it when the days start getting shorter and the nights turn cool, but even though summer is over, I guess I'm kind of looking forward to Autumn, too.

October is always fun because it's Halloween month! My friend Val in Indiana sent me a Halloween care package with some candy corn scented Yankee candles, a pair of Halloween socks, some stickers, and a bag of candy corn and peanuts. And last weekend I bought a deck of Halloween tarot cards--something I'd been looking at for a year or more, and finally decided to buy.

I obviously haven't been doing much writing this summer. But for some inexplicable reason, I signed up for NaNoWriMo again. Just a glutton for punishment, I guess.

October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month