By Andrea Menzies
Many people know that Persephone was married to Hades due to eating candy-like pomegranates. However, the yearly time she went back to the underworld was October. This is an often overlooked origin to the Halloween story, and spirits traveling the roads of the Earth from the underworld in October asking for candy. The holiday was popular time for travel.
By Andrea Menzies
There are good events happening in DC and Maryland it turns out in 2024. I thought my Halloween was destroyed by the need for car and RV emergency repairs. I had planned to go to Texas and New Orleans to see childhood school friends for the holiday. I am single so I was hoping to talk to guys. I have met nothing but the most grotesque and abusive human sewage ever born going out in Virginia downtown so that is never happening again. A lucky break happened in that friends are going to DC and Maryland for events there, and can give me a ride. Halloween 2024 is not my wishlist dream, but it will have some fun things to do.
By Andrea Menzies
I have a mini RV, but the hitch rusted apart and broke. This has cancelled my New Orleans travel for October. Next time I will just get a hotel, or plan to sleep in a sleeping bag in my car. I wanted to carry more stuff, and have more room when traveling. I thought I could travel more often, and longer, and not needing hotels in an RV. The RV has been an epic money pit, and it was eating my travel money. If I had taken the payment money for the RV and put it in a travel account it would have done twice as well. The rust bucket has destroyed my October as I did not go to many concerts I wanted to see locally as I was purchasing supplies for the RV. Then it rusted over and broke when I tried to use it today! It sucked! I am selling it off this time for sure!
By Andrea Menzies
It is not a real Halloween unless you watch The Grimm Adventures of Billy and Mandy on HBO Max streaming service in October. It is the zenith of vintage Halloween mayhem, and my yearly tradition. My review is The Grim Adventures is the best show ever made.
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By Andrea Menzies
I am not injured, but the school I was working at had a real gun lock down today. I thought it was a drill as there are so many yet the guns were real. Teaching is somewhat simple and nice until it really is not in scary ways.
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https://www.wtvr.com/news/local-news/meadowbrook-high-school-lockdown-oct-11-2024
By Andrea Menzies
It was scary watching the vice presidential debate part where they tried to blame illegal aliens for housing prices. It reminds me of this joke on housing prices. No candidate blamed greedy house realtors, construction, or greedy land sales policies welcome to capitalism. Instead they victim-blame buyers for being bad at budgeting for ever buying fancy brunch or lunch.
By Andrea Menzies
It is an adjustment of sails sort of a week. You can choose how you handle things sometimes.
By Andrea Menzies
I made it to the Sisters of Mercy show in Baltimore, MD tonight! I just got home. More photos soon. If you are near this tour GO SEE IT!
