Nov. 7: Taking Down Halloween in These Foolish Things

I’m not into work today. Yeah, I did a bunch of urgent things today, but then I decided to finally take down all of my Halloween decorations so that I can move on to decorating for Christmas.

I don’t normally decorate for Halloween, but with the girls coming this year, I decided it would be fun to make cutout bats and put them all over the place! It took several hours to cut out bat shapes and attach them to the walls in strategic places to make them look like they were flying across almost all of my walls.

I also found strands of cute pom-pom garlands with bat wings on them, so I strung them all over all of my lighting in the kitchen and dining room.

It was fun to decorate this year and so fun to have visitors staying for three nights!

Nobody slept very well. On the first night, Wen and Lis both slept in my King Sized bed, but apparently, Wen tossed and turned and snored all night. Wen’s body temp also runs very hot and she needed the AC to be turned down to an unbearably cold temp.

So on the second and third nights, I insisted on sleeping on the sofa while Wen took the bed in my 2nd bedroom. I love that sofa. There’s something so comforting about taking all of the pillows and the back cushions off and falling asleep on that thing. It’s my chemotherapy sofa. There were days when I was getting chemo that I just could not get up off that sofa, and it was so soothing to snuggle under a blanket and just stay until the day turned into night and into the next morning.

I think we all slept much better once we got the temp figured out and we all had our own sleeping spaces.

And as much as I love to live in my own space and to keep the temperature how I want it and to decorate how I like and to clean to my own liking, it was so, so nice to have other humans here - humans I adore.

I was sad when they left and I think I’m a little sad taking down all of the decorations because as I was decorating, I was thinking about all of the fun we were going to have.

So this weekend I’ll be decorating and need to plan something fun for the Holidays. How can I get more humans in my space? They don’t necessarily have to stay here for days on end, but it would be nice to have a little gathering over here.

I’m also already planning for my new year. 2024 was certainly a year of transformation, and I have several ideas I’m kicking around already for 2025.

And as weird as the last few days have been, I have to keep thinking of the positives. Good things are ahead - I can feel it. I really can!

I’m making space, prepping…and decorating!

xo,
GS