life

snow daaaayyyy.

October 31, 2011

Sunday morning I woke up to this:

It was pretty and all, but snow and I don’t get along all that well. I’m a fair weather fan. You know, Thanksgiving and Christmas are awesome occasions for snow, and I embrace it, but other than that snow falls into the same category for me as Sunday night. Bleh.

There is one other time that I love snow, and more specifically, snow storms. And that is when I get to have the day off from school. The town where I work lost power and were unable to restore it in time for school today. Gleeeee! SNOW DAY are two of the most beloved words that a teacher can hear. And although I have to admit that October 31st is a little early for a snow day, and that this makes me a little nervous for the rest of the winter (we had 5 snow days last year and had to go a whole extra week at school to make up for it), i’ll take it! Any reason to get a day off is a good enough reason to put a smile on this girl’s face.

Right now I’m sitting on the couch in my stretch pants, watching DVRed ELLENs and drinking a cup of fog lifter coffee. It’s quite glorious, I’m not going to lie.

I’ve also got a incredibly long list of things that I want to do on this day off. Here’s some ideas that are reeling in my head:

finish my curtains

make something delish for dinner in my le creuset

write some blog posts

go to Homegoods

do all my laundry

watch Something Borrowed

finish Catching Fire

hang up some artwork in the apartment

look for a rug for the bedroom

take a nap

It’s doubtful I’ll get to them all (or even half, really), especially since the idea of getting off the couch does not seem like a likely one at the moment, but we’ll see what happens. You never know, sometimes I surprise myself.

Happy Monday, everyone! A very happy Monday indeed.

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mamma said there’d be days like this.

October 20, 2011

I honestly hate to be a Debbie Downer and usually try with all my might not to be, but yesterday was just one of those days that was hard. I messed up something at work that got me all nervous and worried and the whole rest of the day I felt off. Like nothing was really going my way. I spent the night relaxing with some hot tea and hit the hay early with my Kindle (I’m reading the second installment in the Hunger Games), but before winding down I clicked over to Pinterest to see if I could find any words to settle my woes.

I found all these nice quotes and decided to post them today. Because I know we all have days like this where we need a little pick me up. I hope your week is going better than mine and here’s to hoping today will be a brighter day for me.

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honey pot hill.

October 19, 2011

That blue sky is legit. Happy Fall!

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falling for fall.

October 18, 2011

This weekend I really started to accept the fact that it’s fall, and you know what? As much as I am addicted to summer, fall’s got me smiling. I am loving wearing long sleeves and fleeces, walking around my apartment in slippers, and the warm light that graces the sky each afternoon.

I really tried to make the most of my Sunday this weekend. I woke up early to have breakfast with Zan before he headed out to Lincoln to work on his new (used) Subaru. It’s an outback, so come winter we’ll be riding up the slops in style. He’s been working on this car almost every weekend and I can’t wait for him to be done! After breakfast I hopped in my car and drove over to Target to look for a grey throw blanket to go over a trunk in our bedroom. I luckily found exactly what I was looking for and made it out of there with only the things I needed and nothing more. A RARE occurrence in this girls life. I was so proud of myself I decided to stop in at Marshalls and treat myself to some clearance artwork. Wait, what? Basically I saved my money just to spend it 15 mintues later. How I roll.

After Target I met up with Meg back home and we drove out Route 2 for apple picking in Stow, Ma. Destination: Honey Pot Hills Orchard, which as been a favorite fall destination for a couple of years now. We filled up a bag of apples (I’m not much of a plain apple eater, more of the bake-it and devour it type), ate hot dogs and went to heaven with apple cider donuts. Man, those are delicious.

While at the apple orchard we discovered via twitter that the glorious Wegmans was having it’s grand opening in Massachusetts just a mere 20 minutes from where we were. So naturally we made the last minute decision to take the drive to the motherland and enjoy the sights and sounds that IS the mecca of all grocery stores. It was the end-all-be-all best afternoon of this October. Just sayin’. It was insane.