Thursday Three

Oh my goodness, I’m not sure if this has ever happened before–it’s double blog day! Yep, two blogs posted on the same day. Sorry, but what’s a girl to do after writing all through the night and then it turns out still owes the people their regular Thursday blog? Double blog day it is (just don’t get used to it).

1. Encouragement can come in all forms. I was at a monthly presentation/gathering of creatives this past week and met this sprightly 73-year-old cheerleader. A cancer survivor who decided she wanted to be a cheerleader when she “grew up” now goes around telling people how great it is to be alive. Once you hear her victory cheer, you can’t help but agree.

Cheerleader | Moving Peaces

2. Football has found a place in our home. I know, what?! Yes, you do have the right people and my musician husband is fully on board with this new trend. For whatever reason this was the year we decided it was time to watch one game a week and root for “our” team. Lucky for us, the Carolina Panthers have managed to stay undefeated so far, even though this past week’s game was a total nail-biter. Go team!

3. Every Halloween we look the same. You know, that day when people dress up in ridiculous costumes and get all excited about who they will “be” on their day off of being themselves? Yeah, well, we wear the same thing every year. Perhaps it’s laziness or as the hubby says “it’s a classic!” Therefore, he’s always Floyd the Mechanic and I’m a rodeo girl (or someone who wears bedazzled wrangler shirts with boots and pigtails). If you look at the past few years of Halloween photos, we always look the same, but sometimes what looks the same on the outside is totally different on the inside. This year’s Halloween included a “meh” pumpkin, working in costume, walking to see the most decked out house in town, and shouting out our guesses of what people’s costumes were downtown with a few friends.

Our Annual Halloween Attire | Moving Peaces

Scary House | Moving Peaces

Meh Pumpkin | Moving Peaces

The Week’s Threes

I wanted to get to the Thursday Three, I really did. I also had a great last post for the month of October and relationships in mind, but life happened instead. As a writer, I go back and forth between wanting to write all about life and living it. Or maybe it’s just that tumblr keeps seeming to crash every time I try to do something, and I just don’t seem to have the patience for that. Oh, but I have so much to write and think about so here it goes… 

1. The fair here is nice, but I still say Iowa’s is better. We spend Saturday perusing the fair during the day time this year and met up with my sister and her boyfriend. We saw some shows that ranged from clogging competitions, dogs jumping and BMX/FMX tricks. All that and it was a perfect sunny and cool fall day. 

2. Too many shows, so little time. I know, I just said last week we wouldn’t have anymore shows any time soon but somehow we ended up with free tickets to Michael Buble, and it was so good. We sat about as high up and far away as possible in that big arena, but I still loved it. He is quite the singer and hilarious Canadian man. 

3. Costumes aren’t really our thing. We embraced them anyway though for the weekend’s festivities. Every year the hubby is “Floyd the mechanic” thanks to a goodwill find years ago, and every year I try to be creative and end up looking kinda strange. There was a failed attempt at a costume constructed primarily out of cardboard boxes but then I was a cowgirl instead. We ended up at two very different but fun parties on Saturday night and it was good to see so many new friends.