Hallow's Eve

Tonight I'm going to Value Village to put the last things together on my costume for tomorrow. Also I have a 70's party on Friday night that I need to find some pants for. I have some cool 70's style shirts, but alas, all my bell bottomed pants have been donated to charity or have fallen apart.

Brant and Barb are having a low key halloween potluck. Perfect for me. Darrell's been hinting for me to make a Black Forest Trifle for the potluck, I'll have to go grab some ingredients tonight too.

I've been having some problems running lately. Mainly in the motivation department. Music isn't cutting it like it used to and TV moves too slow for me, almost doubley tortorous, forced to run and watch tv! So I downloaded an audiobook to my iPod. It's called "The 4 Hour Workweek". It claims to be a manual on how to take any job and turn it into a 4 hour workweek, leaving yourself time to actually live your life. It's pretty interesting actually. The main lesson is to not save everything for retirement but to take mini retirements throughout your life. Some of the book does sound like a get rich quick scheme in alot of ways. The author claims to own his own business, makes $40,000 a month, won a kickboxing championship in China, competes in the national tango championship in spain, etc. But it is interesting and gets me through my runs.

I don't really need anything on my outdoor runs, it's the indoor treadmilling that kills me! Once this book is over I think I'll find a german audiobook or french audiobook, may as well learn and refresh my languages while treadmilling. At the same time, I can't listen to these books without doing something else, so I think this might be a good system.