Showing posts with label fall. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fall. Show all posts

10.02.2010

Hello October



Once upon a time I didn't like fall much. I thought it was just a terrible season in the middle of summer and winter. This was probably when I was like ten years old and stupid. Now I love fall. Fall here in Kentucky is gorgeous, even though it isn't the crisp feeling I'm used to getting in Utah. I remember getting ready for fall in middle school by having a "Back to School" party. Seriously, what kind of nerd was I? Everybody brought a school supply and we exchanged them through some school themed Bingo on hand drawn cards by yours truly. I remember thinking it was pretty fun. I'm not sure what anyone else thought, but I think it happened several years in a row out of fun or pity. In high school I remember fall seemed to be a time of very little sleep due to early morning musical theater practices and whatever else you end up thinking makes you "busy" when you're 17. Dances, talking on the phone- remember using landlines? Weird. I have some pretty fun memories of football games, breaking old wooden bleachers in the rain and not doing homework. Fall at Utah State is pretty much the best ever. The gorgeous drive through the canyon added to naps in the middle of the day on the Quad, crazy roommates, hot chocolate when it starts getting freezing cold all sudden and all things Aggie makes for remembering one of my now current favorite seasons.

Hearing that USU actually won a football game made me slightly nostalgic (if I can say it even though I haven't been out of college for 50 years yet) for some of the fall fun.

11.18.2009

It is more fall than winter here. . .

Living in Utah, winter lasts f.o.r.e.v.e.r.
That sucks.

However, because it lasts forever, it also seems to start at the appropriate time. I am really enjoying not freezing right now in Kentucky, but am finding it hard to get into my usual Christmas spirit with such nice weather. It gets plenty cool/cold here at night but we've had some 70 degree days last week which made it hard to think about Christmas(I know for you Christamas haters it doesn't come til after Thanksgiving but oh well, I like it after Halloween) when all of your life memories of the holiday are associated with piles of snow and winter coats. And scarves. And hats. And warm fires. You know, Holiday-ish things. Or cold weather things.

Also, to my disappointment I can't seem to find anywhere in Kentucky or Tennessee where they'll let me tromp through a National Forest and cut down my own Christmas tree. Usually Thanksgiving Weekend is the time for cutting down the tree. Naturally I would get a permit, as we've done for the last four years, but here it doesn't even matter, it can't be done. All they have are tree farms. This is what the website says -" Trees that are unsightly may be earmarked for use as wreath and decorative greenery." And for some stupid reason, I don't want buy a Christmas tree at a tree farm. It just seems wrong after getting to cut my own down for four years in the mountains. My indignation about the tree farm caused me to remember hearing some sappy story at church about three trees growing up in a forest together and the other two got picked to be Christmas trees and then I don't know what happened to the scrawny Charlie Brown tree; probably something poetic. Clearly I missed the point that day, and the fact that I don't remember the story doesn't really help my case either.




Mostly I feel bad for the ugly trees that gets made into wreathes.

10.09.2008

Tagged

8 TV Shows I Love to Watch:

1. Friends
2. America's Next Top Model
3. Seinfield
4. National News
5. What Not to Wear
6. Grey's Anatomy
7. House
8. Anything with a countdown on VH1


8 Favorite Places To Eat:

1. Le Nonne
2. Kamin
3. Arctic Circle
4. Jamba Juice
5. Indian Oven
6. Timber Mine
7. La Familia
8. The Athenian


8 Things That Happened Yesterday:

1. Went to bed before 9 pm
2. Blog Stalked
3. Read Madeline L'Engle book
4. Went to my crazy job
5.Painted a wall really really really orange.
6. Ate at Village Inn with the money from an old savings account that john just closed
7. Got super stressed out about going to the dr. for a routine checkout. so stressed that my blood pressure was near hypertension.
8. called michelle on the way to said terrifying dr. visit



8 Things I Look Forward To:

1. this weekend
2. sleeping in for the next three mornings
3. more of fall
4. lunch with one of my best friends
5. the puppy being fun enough to play with and chase around
6. my pumpkin chocolate chip cookies which have yet to be baked
7. a raise
8. someday having a car that is not a POS



8 Things I Love About Fall:

1. sweaters
2. pumpkin smell, not the pie
3. leaves
4. hot chocolate
5. that it's almost christmas
6. boots
7. the pumpkin walk
8. how the air smells different


8 things I am passionate about...
1. family and friends
2. politics
3. getting enough sleep
4. reading
5. humanitarian and international projects
6. incorrect spelling and grammar mistakes in work that should be professional
7. fun
8. lists


8 words or phrases I use often:
1.Boo
2. Gross
3. Que onda buey
4. seriously?
5. yis
6. good night
7. suck it up
8. mouths shut, eyes on me

8 places I would love to go see or visit...
1. Africa
2. Latin America
3. Argentina
4. Hong Kong
5. Ireland
6.France
7. Spain
8. Japan