November?

Hi. How are you? I hope your answer is that you are doing very very very well. I hope I hope I hope!

Can you believe that it's November? I can't either. This is finally the part of the year that I can really really rock the sweaters and scarves instead of just forcing them when the temperatures dip from 85 to 76. (That's sort of a widely regarded Savannah trait... "Ooohhhh!!!! 76!!! Fall is here!!!")

No, but really. It's fall. It's 51 degrees out. And there are stale leaves to be crunched with the bootsies that are on my feetsies. And as celebrated as this weeks weather reports were, we are experiencing some technical difficulties with our heat... making... machines....? (What is that called?! Blanking.) We have set the darn thing at well above 75 degrees (to test out whether or not its working), but it doesn't do anything because the temperature in our house has been at a consistent 58. Cozy!

I hate it. I already am a big baby in the winter time, but this is just a whole new level of ridiculous. It needs to be fixed. It has to be fixed. It will be fixed. LANDLORDS, CALL US BACK! (And oh yeah-- my heat/ AC is still busted in my car. There is no relief!)

In the meantime, I'm spending extra time at coffee shops and or any structure that is warmer inside than outside and then this weekend, we are escaping to Charlotte! Yay! I really love it there. Especially with the trees being the way they are right now. Viva Charlotta!

Oooh... Halooween! I almost forgot to mention it. All day I kept forgetting that it was even happening. Halloween on a Wednesday? Confusing. I'm a very hesitant Halloweener (Yeah), but I went for it last weekend with my ladies at a birthday / Halloween party with some friends. But I just couldn't muster up the want-to again last night, so we passed out candy to all the adorable kids in our neighborhood. THE. Cutest. Oh my. My favorites were 1. a little black girl who was dressed as Whitney Houston (so on point) and 2. a boy who was a ghost, old school style -- white sheet and two cut holes for eyes. Can't beat the classics. Unfortunately, we had more visitors than we were expecting and ran out of candy pretty early. So, we turned off all of the lights and closed the blinds so that we didn't waste their precious time (and also so we didn't have to show them our ashamed faces to tell them that we had failed them), but every once and while, we'd get a knock on the door and a very eager "Trick or Treat!" and we had to cower in the kitchen like little babies. We're sorry, Children of Baldwin Park! We are the worst!!!

Anyway.

I think that's it.

But I just really like you guys.

And thanks for reading this. It really means a lot to me. Whatever this blog is or whatever I want it be or whatever it turns into, you guys always take 5 minutes (or, let's be honest... closer to 15... homegirl can ramble) of your day to be a participant in this blog.

AND I LOVE YOU FOR IT.

HAPPY NOVEMBER.

Weather Patterns

Can someone please do me a solid and mail me a box of the Trader Joe's Pumpkin Bread mix?

Because I need something of Autumn like properties in my life right now. I'm hoping that it will have some "If you build it, they will come" sort of affects on this 85 degree weather  we are having right now to please get out of dodge.

Shorts and sandals should just a thing of the past at this point in the year. I'm jealous of puffer vests and fuzzy socks.

Things that I'm thinking about

 ...that you most definitely need to know. 

• Somehow, seeing peaches in Georgia never get's old. (Case and point: this morning at the Farmer's Market)
• I love the "60's, 70's, and 80's" radio station on Pandora, but I hate it when they play Creedance Clearwater Revival. 
• I am definitely ready for some colder weather up in here. I couldn't even justify doing a special post about Fall's debut yesterday because it hadn't earned it yet. And so, I wait. 
• Speaking of earning things, I'm more in love with Savannah than ever. It is just simply home for now. 
• Lately, all I've wanted to do is cook. And bake. And cook. And bake. So much, that I'm running out of excuses to make some sort of dessert or sauce or salmon everyday. Will someone please come over here and be my official eater and I can be your official baker? 
• I am very happy that Rob and Kristen are getting back together. Controversial, I know. I stand by this. 
• (Also, can we talk about what in the world is going on with Amanda Bynes?)
• I can't decide if I'm excited for my upcoming birthday (Monday) (21) or not. But I LOVE birthday's. Why am being weird? It's weird. This year is weird. 
• Confession: I've been wearing my Crocs a lot lately. They're just SOOooo comfortable. ...I mean...the fact that I even have Crocs is... well, it says lot. 

Cool Chicks

I love everything about this photo of Smith College students making a Victory Garden.

Can college moments like these please last forever?

Can I please garden in oxfords and tweed? 

And can it please be fall already!?

What's everyone doing today? Come on. Jump in. Take the plunge. Comment! You know you want to!

Photograph by Fred G. Chase. 1943.

Workin for the Weekend

Yeep yeep yeep! We are going to Charlotte this weekend and I am so excited. It's going to be mid 50s and from what I hear, this beautiful tree covered city is starting to transition into reds and yellows. 

Maybe it's the latte I just downed, but my hands are literally shaking in anticipation. There will be food. There will be fall. There will be festivities documented in fotos. Alliterations galore.

In the meantime, we have a four hour drive ahead of us accompanied by a super playlist composed by Spencer and I of VH1's 100 greatest songs of the 2000's. It's amazing. Basically reliving the most conscious years of my life thus far.