ohhh yeah

snow showers in the forecast for thursday at home.

i'm so excited!!!

i miss me some snow.

'Tis The Season

So it's a little early, but I'm putting up all my Christmas decorations today. I'm doing it early because when I get back from Michigan after Thanksgiving, I'm REALLY going to be in the Christmas spirit and I'll want to come home to a Chirstmasy apartment. I know I won't have time during the week to decorate, so today it is!

I started my morning with a peppermint white mocha and a cranberry orange scone. I'm going to make a pot of chili and some homemade cinnamon rolls. And decorate, decorate, decorate! And then decorate! And be merry!

I love the anticipation of Christmas

when the season changes it always makes me feel like something big is about to happen.

and then nothing big ever happens.

Random Thoughts On Homecoming Weekend

Friday night I realized that Saturday I would be hearing a tornado siren for the first time in over a year. And then came Saturday, and I was right.

Sunday morning holding a cup of coffee in a room full of unfamiliar faces (with a few familiar ones scattered about) I felt so at home.

Not to say Nashville doesn't feel like home, because it does. But so does Anderson still. And so does Michigan. And so does some unidentified place I have yet to live...

I don't think I'll ever be able to stay in one place for long.

When it's dark outside and you're on the toilet, it's no fun when the power goes out.

I discovered this at approximately 6:32 this morning.

It's Starting...

There was just a commercial advertising the Rockett's Christmas Show that will be at the Opryland Hotel this year.

And just in case you don't feel like it's too early, let me remind you that down here, the highs have *still* been in the 90's.

Getting Caught In The Rain

I planned on today being a day of staying home and doing nothing, mostly because the weekend thus far as been busy. Friday after work I went to Jennifer's house in Murfreesboro and went out to her friend's concert, getting back at 2am. Then we woke up at 8am and drove the 3+ hours to Pigeon Forge to go to an outlet mall, where I quickly spent far too much money. We then drove all the way back and then I came home (another 20 minutes or so from Jennifer's). And I knew I'd be gone all day tomorrow (immediately after work I'm going downtown to the Wildhorse for a Hanson concert, because I am that cool). So I wanted the day to myself and to be in my PJ's all day.

But then I realized I wouldn't have time tomorrow to go to the store and I needed to pick up my brother's birthday gift so it could get in the mail on time (He'll be 27 on Wednesday). Since I had to go out anyway I decided the perfect way to spend the rest of my afternoon would be to make a hot fudge brownie sundae, which meant I would need ice cream.

Leaving Kroger I got caught in the rain. It was the most beautiful 60-or so seconds (of me actually being outside in the rain) I have had in a long time. I know I've posted before about how we're in an extreme drought down here, and we have had some rain but it's always been while I was sleeping or at work. This was the first time I felt rain on my skin in I don't know how long.

And given the fact that it's still been in the 90's the rain wasn't a cold rain either, which made it even more beautiful.

I love it.