Why October Is Not My Favorite Month...
I've been through a lot of strangeness in my almost forty years. A LOT! So much, that when I tell people my life story, they think I just have a very vivid imagination and that I'm off my meds again or something. I basically live the real life version of a soap opera. Every now and then, I'll have some normalcy and things will calm down and we'll have months go by without anything out of the ordinary happen. October usually isn't one of those months. Some of my worst things ever have happened in October. But also, one of my best. I'm one of those "good news first" people, so I'll tell you the good first. When I moved back home to California from Ohio, it was the first week of October in 2001. That was a good October. That trip was pretty cool really. I didn't do the bulk of the driving, my husband did, and we did it in three days. Only two nights spent on the road and the third night we were home. Back home ...