Em’s Blogtime Fun

     It’s October; the tenth month on the Gregorian calendar, 8th on the old Roman calendar, and first in line on my list of favorite months!  October not only has the best weather and overall feeling, but also holds the day of my glorious birth.  Which, incidentally, is considered a holiday.  By me.  Happy birthday, Emily!  I am turning twenty this year; where the past 19 years of my life went, I really do not know.  Maybe in some alternate dimension I am still five, or maybe I have already passed, or maybe I do not exist as a human.  Maybe I exist as a blowing of wind or perhaps I exist everywhere all the time doing everything, giving me room to make the choice to be here now, blogging for you.  Doesn’t that make you feel special?  I choose to be here with you.  I think that is incredibly special.  Not that there are tons of demands for my time, but evenstill.
     With the coming of October and my birthday, we grow evercloser to Halloween.  I am a huge fan of Halloween.  I love the twisted innocence of everything.  You know, little kids dressing up as zombies, dead whatever, bloody something-or-other, etc.  Of course you’ve got the kids who dress up as super heros, princesses, animals, etc., too.  And all to get candy.  Free candy.  I mean, what is better than giving a seemingly zombified little kid a lollipop?  Probably a lot of things, I will admit, but it’s still fun.  And what’s better, is being that little zombified kid getting the candy.  I still dress up for Halloween.  Not solely for candy anymore, but I’d say it’s about 40% of the deal.  I just like dressing up; usually something with cool face paint or lots of sparkles or something I’d want to be if I were not myself.  Like a magical mermaid-detective for example.  Aside from dressing up, Halloween brings a lot of other fun activities.  Like Halloween coloring books!  I got a new Halloween coloring book this year and my goal is to color all of it by Halloween.  The picture below is a werewolf I colored the other day.  Enjoy!
                                        
     You know what else October brings?  Midterms and tests.  Which is quite unfortunate for the month.  It would be so perfect if we could just push them to November or something.  Or maybe omit them alltogether!  What do you say?  I think it’s a brilliant idea.  If not that, though, November can handle them.  It has Thanksgiving to keep it a good month and balance out the not-so-goodness of midterms.  Maybe I should propose that to IWCC.  I’ll color them a page from my coloring book and write my proposal on the back.  Genius.  I will let you know how that goes.
     I would like to take a moment in this public blog to let everyone know that the 53rd Annual Gem and Mineral Show is on October 4th and 5th from 9 A.M. to 6 P.M. on Saturday and 10 A.M. to 5 P.M. on Sunday.  It is at the Westside Community Center at 3534 South 108th St. in Omaha, NE.  According to the flyer I have been anxiously holding onto for about 5 months, there will be special displays and exhibits, dealers from six states (!), local artists making glass beads and jewelry, a raffle for a cool amethyst cathedral, and you can learn how to polish stones and make arrowheads!  How cool does that sound?  And let me say that I am in no way affiliated with official advertising of this show, I just am really, really excited about it.  I am more of an advertising agent of nature; letting people know about cool things that Mother Nature puts out there for us to experience.  She pays me in good sights, sounds, smells, etc.  And sometimes she lets me stumble upon super sweet rocks that I can put into my ever-growing collection.  Also, speaking on Mother Nature’s behalf, there will be a meteor shower, the Draconids, from October 6th through October 10th, peaking on the 7th or 8th.  The Draconids, spawning from the Giacobini-Zinner comet, can be seen in the northern evening sky.  They will come from a point that almost coincides with the constellation Draco the Dragon.  From njnightsky.com, “This shower is a real oddity, in the respect that its radiant point is highest in the sky as darkness falls. The shower is definitely a sleeper, producing only a handful of languid meteors per hour in most years. But watch out if the dragon awakes! On occasion, fiery Draco has been known to spew forth hundreds – if not thousands – of meteors in a single hour. Since the moon is at first quarter this year during the shower’s peak, this hard-to-predict shower is worth checking out. Unlike most meteor showers, more meteors are likely to fly in the evening than the morning hours after midnight.”  So, everyone, cross your fingers for clear skies and keep an eye out!