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Oh hey, Halloween

      This Halloween was celebrated in quite the unique way. Dylan and I started off the night relaxing on my neighbor's porch before moving over to Lillie's for their dreaded last day... Ate our last ham and apple sandwich on the patio while listening to some  French sounding music. Strangely, Benton showed up in a trash can and led us back to Lillie's. My smile hardly fell as we schemed to steal a lady on a bad date, moved our dancing feet, and I was graced with a Trash Can dance. I wish I could get the pictures form the strangers' phones.          Next, we joined my neighbors for a fire and a homemade video on a projector on the porch. Was quite the setup. We ended the night in Benton-Holiday Style, riding bike down 1st, shouting nonsense to the bar goers. Always entertaining. 

High Five for Friday

It's the first of November, people! Insert obligatory "How is it already November?!" statement here. The blessings have kept coming and am excited for the weekend. I hope everyone had a fun Halloween and good week! Here are my high fives for this week, linking up with  Lauren Elizabeth  for HF4F.  1. An awesome first week at work, building great relationships with several girls, and the  complete  joy of hearing a girl that was previously suicidal say she's "happy to be alive." I'm unbelievably excited to be doing this work and seeing the changes in these kids' lives.  2. One of the best Halloween celebrations I've had in all 24 years of life. I could make it sound even wilder than it was by writing about starting off drinking wine out of the bottle, not breaking our Irish Car Bomb Tradition at an Irish bar, and making friends with some Front Porch Sitters on my walk home... But I should also mention that it was only like half a glass of wine lef...