Fall colors

I was able to away from the everyday hustle and bustle of my area and go to a rural small town where they had a harvest fest.  There were so many things for they eye to see!  Lots of crafty goods and live animals and, oh yes, there was funnel cake!  I saw live goats, baby pigs, miniature horses and lots and lots of people everywhere.  I enjoyed the homemade potato pockets filled with mashed potatoes.  YUM!

Getting around there is like getting around to all my favorites.  I visited a market that serves my favorite soup every Friday, stuffed green pepper soup.  I visited a surplus store and picked up a few things.  All in all, it was relaxing and very beautiful there.  The leaves were just beginning to change and all you could see along the mountain sides were trees with leaves just beginning to turn all shades of yellow, light green, red, coral, all beautiful hues of the most wonderful sunset.

There wasn't anything I missed that I wanted to do.  I hit every one of my favorite things to do, see, and eat and enjoyed every decadent moment!

Chloe waited at home for me.  I missed her a lot, but when I got home, she was waiting there with lots of licks and snuggles to share with me :)

Today, it's raining and the breeze coming in the house is still so refreshing despite the gray clouds and the raindrops pelting lightly over my head on the skylites.  Today is the kind of day that makes you want to curl in a cozy blanket and watch hallmark movies and drink spiced coffee on the sofa with your best friend.

While I sit here sharing, I look out the window and see the trees across the way already starting to change at the caps, Chloe laying on her favorite crocheted blankie sleeping peacefully, and I can hear the rain softly falling on the roof above my head.  It's a quiet symphony right outside my window as I watch the wind moving the trees from side to side in a sort of woodland waltz.  It's truly beautiful and peaceful where I sit.

The beginning of fall, my second favorite season!  Second to it's opposite, spring.  I guess I'm a sucker for colors!  I love the colors of the spring, the bright greens and yellows and how the flowers burst forth with blooming.  In the same regard, there's fall with its burned oranges, corals, rusts and the falling leaves and sweater weather.  Hot mulled cider and pumpkin patches and apple orchards for kids of all ages to enjoy.  I don't know which I love best, but I do know I love the feeling I get when the wind blows as it kisses my cheeks.

Don't forget to find the color in your day and remember to soak it in!

Firsts...

I wonder how it would be to write my random thoughts about this that or the other and have people follow what I'm writing?  Are there people out there that think the same things, feel the same ways, experience the same things?  This I can say; I am passionate about a lot of things and see almost everything...whether or not I will comment on all I know and see is quite debatable, but at least I know I have an opinion about it.


Some say I'm passionate about Chloe.  She's my Yorkie (aka daughter).  She's been my partner in crime for almost 11 years and I love her for keeping her yapper shut...God only knows how much damage she could do divulging my inner-most secrets...she knows it all; the good, the bad, and the sketchy.

I think I'm going to approach this as a venue to get my thoughts out there and let them flow as they will.  You know, little insignificant thoughts that somehow make themselves significant enough to put down in this blog.

Here's what I like:

• getting a great deal
• great finds at the thrift store
• shopping with friends/family
• eating good food with friends/family
• $10 fill a bag days 
• sunny breezy days
• long, beautiful hair
• short, sassy hair
• mascara that doesn't clump
• shoes that don't hurt
• my 11 foot Christmas Tree in the den by the fireplace

Here's what I don't like:

• being unemployed
• feeling hungry when you're trying to go to sleep
• being sleepy after ample sleep time
• people who use curse words as often as the amount of times they took a breath in
• piddle pads that need to be changed
• fish that die from Ick disease
• paying for bad food with bad service

Here's what I LOVE:

• my family (family is not always those biologically associated with you)
• Chloe
• my car
• taking care of those I love
• cooking
• good music
• someone who listens AND hears you and loves you despite all they know about you
• helping someone out and they didn't even know you did
• the food network

So I'm looking for a job and my days are good or bad, sometimes both.  A good friend (someone I consider family) told me that she thinks it's totally appropriate to wear bright lipstick to make yourself feel better when you're feeling crappy.  We'll call it a red lipstick day.  I have lots of those.  I think it's a great idea!

Yesterday, we went on a venture to find something bright to wear.  Nothing bright found, but great finds.  Today, the venture continued and there were great deals had.  17 pieces for $10 and the options were plentiful!  Tomorrow the search continues...wonder what we'll find tomorrow?!

I feel like cooking a great big pot of something wonderful but don't know what.  Really I just love the cooking part and the tasting part and the way the house fills up with all the wonderful smells of good cooking and "home."  I love the look of those around me when they walk through the door and say, "what smells so good!"  Of course I'm procrastinating.  I have a lot to do.  There's laundry that's being neglected, college work that should be done, the futon bed that needs to go into the next room, the dog needs a bath, clothes that need to be put away.  Today, I'm just not feeling it.  Not going to let myself think about all the jobs I'm qualified for but not working at.  Not going to think about the 2 dress sizes I wanna be down to.  Not going to worry about all the "B" items on my prioritized list of things to do...just going to enjoy the breezy day and push the windows open while I sit and soak up all of my thoughts and get them out in this forum.

Until later :)