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Upcoming Stuff, Plus That One Picture of My Dog in a Hat Just Because It’s Halloween

This injustice was not done by my hand.

It is a busy first weekend in November coming up, and every weekend in November will involve some minor or major traveling. It is a busy month!

Tomorrow I am assisting with a wedding with SilverBox Photographers, which is very exciting because they are EXCELLENT. I am going to learn so much, but I also know that I won’t be a drain on their resources as far as the time they’ll have to spend teaching me. So that is awesome.

The wedding tomorrow is in Ste. Genevieve, which is about three hours from here. It’s also in a gorgeous part of the state, especially with the fall color. I am going to stay overnight and drive back through the St. Francois Mountains on Sunday morning, taking pictures. The weather is supposed to be beautiful.

Next weekend is another wedding with SilverBox, this time in Palmyra, Missouri, which is about an hour and a half from Columbia. I am very glad that I don’t have to process the photos because the week after that is crazy with travel, all because Tracy is interviewing with geriatrics programs for her fellowship. She has three in two weeks, all requiring air travel. Two of them are the week of November 10- we have one night in Orlando, Florida, and two nights in Columbus, Ohio, and we’re both expected at work three days out of five that week.

The following week, the week of the 20th, we are going to Springfield, Massachusetts for two nights.

And then the week after that is Thanksgiving, and Tracy is headed to DC for that, and I may go to Chicago for a night to do family photos for a cousin. But the Chicago thing isn’t set yet.

Then it will be my birthday. And then it will be December! That means Christmas. I am already behind!

But Halloween isn’t over yet, is it? Stop talking about Christmas.

Tonight my family comes over to my house for my second annual Halloween Party. My parents have lived out in the country for fifteen years, where no trick o’treaters come to their doors. My sister lives in an apartment complex. We live in a big suburban neighborhood, and we get a good number of kids, so everybody comes to our house to see the kids in their costumes and give them candy, because it’s just fun.

Meanwhile, we’ll eat chili dogs (christened ‘Chilly Hallow-weiners’ by my mother and sister, and you have to say that in a hollow scary voice) and eat candy until we climb the walls, and likely watch The Nightmare Before Christmas unless I go out and locate a copy of The Corpse Bride, which I might try to do. My mother had never seen The Nightmare Before Christmas until last year, and then she loved it. So maybe she’d dig The Corpse Bride as well, though it’s not quite as Halloween-y. At lunch, I will see if Ninth Street Video has it. Otherwise I won’t put too much effort into the chase.

Anyway, I had to post the picture of my dog again, the one where she’s dressed like a pumpkin but not too upset about it. It’s one of my favoritest pictures ever. I want to say that I did not do this to her, but the shelter did (the same one that named her), and I just got the photographic evidence but incurred no wrath for wrestling the dog into that hat. She is so cute.