Saturday 1st November - Nine for November

 

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Oh, the joy of a new month! New starts! An open door to a month of adventure!

Unfortunately it is still the same old me standing at that door, with same old weaknesses (could you pass me another biscuit please? Well, maybe two.. )

 but I won't give up trying...

I used to do a 'write a blog post every day' challenge in November which my son introduced me to (you haven't posted in ages!) but since that habit has stuck, I'll need to think of something else.

I have read of various lists of prompts on various blogs, and I've decided to produce my own;

1 send a postcard 

2 write a letter 

3 send an email (chatty, not business)

4 make biscuits 

5 make scones

6 make a cake

7 tree

8 leaf

9 seed heads 

10 flower

11 child

12 woman

13 man

14 house

15 shed

16 office

17 sea

18 woodland

19 hills

20 parkland

21 Beethoven

22 Debussy

23 Bartok

24 red

25 blue

26 yellow 

27 light

28 dark

29 dawn/dusk

30 circle

I reckon I've got nine categories. Nine for November. I'll do whatever I feel like for each prompt; find a poem instead of making a cake for example (fewer calories!), or photograph a tree instead of drawing one. Each one takes as long as it takes; 30 seconds, 30 minutes...

I'm not planning to do them in order, as long as I've 'done' them all by the end of the month I'll be content. Of course I could do some of them several times... the point is to have a list to turn to whenever I feel the desire to zone out and get sucked into playing Freecell

 - what a monumental waste of time and brain Freecell is, why do I get so hooked in? 'Just another game, another game, another game'. It has, however, given me an insight into how people become addicted to online slot machines - 'just another game, another game, another game'. I'm more sympathetic to their plight 

Well, Freecell has to stop, and mainly because I'm sitting here with such a painful stiff neck - no, don't waste your sympathy on me, please - it's entirely self-inflicted. In a way I'm almost grateful because it's given me the jolt I needed to take action. 

Happy November everyone! May the month be full of lovely moments for you. 

PS SUPERMOON coming up... 5th November