October Bucket List

We're nearly a week into October, my favorite month, and I've barely gotten to enjoy it.  The pace at school and at rehearsal has amped up, so I find myself justifying not doing things that I might otherwise want to do this month.  So, I'm making myself an October bucket list and I am going to try my best to do all of these things.  Note: most of these are movies to watch or food to prepare.

1) Watch Hocus Pocus.
2) Throw my annual Halloweentown party.
3) Make apple-onion soup with cheese puff.
4) Watch Practical Magic.
5) Make a cream-cheese pumpkin pie.
6) Watch It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!
7) Make chicken chili and apple-cheddar hand-pies.
8) Watch at least one horror movie, even though normally I wouldn't.
9) Get a pumpkin latte from a coffee shop.
10) Dress up in some kind of costume for Halloween.
11) Watch Disney's The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad.
12) Visit a pumpkin patch and make a Jack-O-Lantern!

I think all of this is essential and manageable.  I'd also like to make it down to Williamsburg-- there's no prettier month than October in Williamsburg-- for hot apple cider on DoG Street, and I'd like to visit Busch Gardens for Howl-O-Scream, or go through a hay-bale maze somewhere... but I don't think I'll have time this year, what with rehearsals and, you know, papers and midterm projects.  Nevertheless, I try not to forget that October comes but once a year, so I have to make the most of it now!  Luckily, some of these things are still good come November... :)