Almost (Really) Fall

Hey, what’s that I see in this weekend’s forecast? We might finally — at long, long last — have the first day that hints at real fall weather! Sunday is supposed to be a high of 75. After months and months of sweaty, sticky, gross days in the 90s and even over 100, I absolutely can’t wait.

Around here, we have little need for sweaters or sweatshirts, and only a very brief window of opportunity each year to wear them without sweating profusely or passing out from a massive heat stroke. But since I wait all year for this (and not terribly patiently, either), I couldn’t help but indulge in some fall shopping recently. One of the packages should be waiting for me when I get home from work today, so I am excited to head home and try those on and plan on hopefully wearing some sweaters next week!

The cooler weather also makes me want to be outside as much as possible, so I am in full event-planning mode as well. If pumpkins and leaves and holiday festivities are included, so much the better! This is the time of year that my husband gets used to me asking, “Hey, do you want to check out (fill in the blank with a random event or activity I read about that he likely is not interested in)”, but he’s a good sport and will almost always nod and say “Let’s go.”

Sometimes we discover something fun that we want to do again the next year. Sometimes, we simply find something to just never, ever try again! But either way, we get to spend time together, try a new adventure with each other…and wear those new sweaters I just bought!

It’s Fall, Damnit!

I feel like I just pulled out the boxes of fall decor for September 1st, and now I have already boxed all of that back up and started tugging out the many, many boxes of Halloween decorations!

Every year, I tell myself I have more than enough fall and Halloween decorations. And every year, I buy more, anyway.

The inside of the house is decked out with ghosts, spiders, skulls, and jack-o-lanterns, but the show everyone is waiting for hasn’t started yet. My husband takes over for the outdoor display, and I turn the reins over to him. He’s been kicking around and mulling ideas for months now, and he has collected yet a few more items for the yard.

We have actually had neighbors come by in years past and ask when he is going to decorate, and cars have stopped so people can get a closer look once he has everything set up. He gets excited to show me something new, or when he changes something and wants someone to see it right away. It makes me smile to watch him get so into it.

I can’t believe it’s October already. Around here, the transition to fall just means the temps aren’t quite reaching 100 anymore, hovering around 85. I can’t wait for the first cool, breezy days. I can’t help wanting to shop for sweaters and sweatshirts, even if it’s still hot outside! It’s fall, damnit. Time for the weather to catch up.

Restored

On a whim, I applied a theme to my blog that I had used before. Lo and behold, all of my sidebar widgets, images, and text reappeared like nothing had ever happened. I have no idea why one theme wipes them out while another retains them, but I was relieved to see my old blog back.

This morning I was able to import the few posts I had written on Blogger. Now I have to go through over 800 posts that I had reverted to draft over here so I can re-publish them. Of course I won’t get that finished today. It will be quite the stroll down memory lane, reviewing each one before I re-publish.

So please don’t kill me, but I am going to remove the Blogger site and set up shop over here again, now that all of my information has been restored. Apparently I will need to be very careful if I ever decide to change themes again, but this one was always one of my favorites, anyway.

Football

My husband and I are heading out to visit my older stepdaughter at her college this weekend.  My husband bought tickets for the football game tomorrow evening, and he was so excited to tell me about it.  I was a bit puzzled: sure, both of us love football, but we are hard-core, loyal fans of different teams we grew up loving.  We certainly support my stepdaughter’s college aspirations, but even she has not demonstrated much (or any) enthusiasm for their football team.

I asked him why he was so excited about this game.  He told me that I had mentioned how I miss going to my younger stepson’s football games, since he graduated high school a few years ago.  My husband smiled and said, “Now we get to go to another football game together.”

Every day, I find a million new reasons to adore my husband and fall in love all over again.  That was certainly one of them.  I admit I had originally been thinking how long a day this was going to be, how late we will be leaving after the game, how tired we will be…but after he said that, I let go of all those silly worries and gripes.  

He is happy because he gets to take me to a football game, and that is all I need to know.  Bring on my football jewelry, dig our stadium seat cushions out of the garage, and pile on the team colors!  We have a football game to catch.

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