Pinktober is Coming to an End

It's Halloween. I think that Paul has decided to be a Zombie this year.

NaBloPoMo starts on Saturday. I looked at the prompts on Blogher and none of them really interested me very much. I wish they had alternative prompts. I never have really finished one of these. I've tried a few years.

Speaking of not finishing, I had planned on reposting blogs about breast cancer this month, and even though I found a couple that I felt were really good, most of them came off as waa waa, I hate pinktober. I found it pretty amazing that so many people living with or beyond breast cancer feel so disenfranchised with pink. There are a lot of reasons for that. For me it's the total commercialization of the month. It's seems like a pink nightmare before Christmas. I'll put on a pink tee shirt and a pink tutu to raise funds, but I really don't want to walk around in a pink hoodie carrying a pink travel mug all year (or even all month) long. I've heard others claim that all that money isn't really going toward research, and that there is no research for better treatments for stage 4. I have heard people even claim that nobody is really getting free mammograms. A quick web search pretty much refutes all that. Research is being funded. Women are given mammograms and services are being provided for survivors. Still, I am kind of glad when the frenzy is over every year.

I did score on pink this year. Komen for the Cure Atlanta and the Buckhead Hotel Consortium were giving away weekend packages to two survivors every week this months. I had to like their Facebook page and send in my story to enter the contest. I did and I won one of the packages. I have a weekend stay at the Marriott Hotel in Alpharetta and a visit to The American Doll store. Since I don't have a granddaughter and Mollie is too old and definitely not interested I have arranged to have Sweet Caroline visit the store with me. She  will be able to pick out a doll to take home and I will get to spend some fun time with her. I'll bet that she will be surprised to find out that I exist outside of church. I'm looking forward to getting the voucher for all this.

Happy Halloween!