so long, sweet summer

today is the last day of summer!
this has been a good summer. a weird and unexpected summer,
but really full and fun and wonderful… and now i finally think i’m ready for fall!
i’m getting really really reeeeally excited for all the happy little things
that come with the new season. liiiike…

• eeee! christmas music! how soon is too soon? never. that’s what i say.
• our birthdays are coming up. husband charming’s birthday is so soon. and he will be old. and by old i mean 25. but considering we met at 15 and 16, 25 is old. then again, i remember thinking how super old he was when he turned 18. oh, and my birthday is in november and i will not be old.
• fav shows are back! i haven’t really caught up on any of my shows yet [it’s okay, the dvr is on it], but glee starts tonight and i’m seriously excited. i’ve already prepped myself with plenty of car soundtrack singing. i’m totally ready.
• holiday candles. when the weather cools and you get to light up the cozy holiday scents… oh, that’s my fav. but i’m pretty sure steven thinks my candle love will catch the house on fire someday. i really hope not.
• wearing my uggs. oh, my uggies. i’ve been looking for any excuse to slip them on lately. nothing could possibly make your feet as cozy as uggs do. and when your feet are cozy, your whole body is cozy. it’s science. so RIP old uggs [whose innocent lives the mean flood monster took], and welcome to my life, new uggs that bff mary should not have purchased for me, but i will accept them out of friendship and decency and love.
• the mall all decorated for christmas. i always feel like i’m in a christmas movie. it’s all so happy and spirited. plus, i just automatically love anything that makes me feel like i’m in a movie.
• the yellow and red leaves that show up everywhere and the sun peeps through them and makes everything glowy and fallish. i love that. [but i hate when they fall and make the trees naked. downside.]
• the horses get their fuzzy fall coat and it is so cute and cuddly and fluffy.
• weddings & love. we have two major friend weddings on our agenda for the next few months, and a couple of super big deal engagements, too. the love and holidays combo is so tingly and happy!
• finishing school! there’s finally a light at the end of the longest bachelor’s degree tunnel ever. it’s only a matter of weeks now. i really can’t even imagine how good that will feel.

i’m ready. i’m so very ready.
and there’s so much more to look forward to
like harry connick, jr and couch cuddle time and
the smell the cool air gets when people burn fires in their fireplaces
and elf and the holiday and pretty winter coats and fall nail colors
and i’m not eeeven gonna say it, but it rhymes with “dristmas dree.”
but what am i doing to myself? it’s like a jillion degrees out.
now i have vibe confusion. oh well. at least i’m prepared.

until next year, mr. summertime.