fall is here!!!!!!

i absolutely ♥LOVE♥ fall!!! it is the best season out of the four. i even have a list of why i love fall so much! here ya go!

reasons i ♥ fall

1. the changing of the leaves (gotta love those colors!)
2. halloween (my favorite holiday)
3. the way the leaves crunch under your feet when you walk on them
4. the sound the leaves make when they blow down the street after a gusty wind
5. the wind!!
6. the sound of the wind chimes outside
7. my birthday!!
8. the crisp air
9. the way the moon looks against the night sky (it's different in fall)
10. hot cocoa and spiced cider drinks
11. the way you have to cover up w/ an extra blanket
12. all of it...i love it all!

i really believe that fall is like a magic season. there is definitely magic in the air. the way the season just flows. i wish it just lasted longer. like do away w/ winter and summer. fall and spring!! that would be just perfect! not too hot, not too cold...just perfect!! i love it!! enjoy it all!! ciao!!

ooo...that smell

have you ever been outside right before a rainfall or a snowfall and the air has a certain smell to it? like you know it's gonna rain or snow soon. they each have different scents by the way. but you know, like you sniff and say "hmm...gonna rain soon" or "hmm...gonna snow soon". you just know. well tonite when i was walking out of the grocery store the air had that scent to it. i got in the car and said to my mom, "wanna hear something strange?". "ok". "the air smells like snow." she was now as perplexed as me. okay...it did get cooler here, way cooler. it was in the 80's on friday and today, tuesday, it only reached mid 50. that is a 25-30 degress difference, but the smell of snow in the air. strange. she noticed it when we got home. right now, it's 49, but still not cold enough for snow. too early too! they said it was gonna rain and i would understand the smell of rain in the air, but not snow. i like snow, but it's way too early! i don't think it's gonna snow, it was just way too strange. had to share. ciao!

finally!!!!

it's about damn time! that's all i have to say. about what you might be thinking to yourself. about time the pizza huts here in indiana got real breadsticks. i haven't had the real thing, the ones with the melted cheese on them since i was last in jersey, which was 5 years ago! 5---five! that's a long time. when i lived in jersey i went to pizza hut almost every weekend and got these delicious breadsticks. after we moved here, my mom and i decided to go get yourselves some and was so damn dissapointed when they brought us out these plain breadsticks with a cup of melted cheese to dip them in. what? and the cheese wasn't even mozarella, it was some kind of yellow cheese, not cheddar, i think it was american. ick...ick...ick!!! what the hell kind of crap is this? we were disgusted and majorly dissapointed. it was bad enough we couldn't get real new york style italian pizza (we did eventually find a place with real new yorkers) and there was nowhere to get a real italian sub (still haven't found) and there was a serious lack of cute unmarried guys, but we'll save that for another post, but this! we were so desperate that we tried like every pizza hut in the area. there's alot here and none! none! until now! oh joy! there were so good. i weep at their goodness! sad i know but if you didn't have something for 5 years and then had it again after that l-o-n-g time and it was so damn good...you'd weep too. don't lie! had to share and kudos! to you indiana pizza huts for finally coming to your damn senses. by the way, they are called "cheesy sticks" here if you want to try them. ciao!!

5 years later

Today, sadly, marked 5 years since the attack on the United States. 5 years! That is such a long time. It seemed like it just happened yesterday. It still kinda seems like a dream too. More like a nightmare but you know what I mean. I still remember where I was when it happened. I was at work. It was a year and a month since I moved from New Jersey to Indiana. I had also just gotten back from a vacation to New Jersey a few weeks earlier, by plane. I use to live in a small town w/ alot of people in Jersey. Sounds familiar doesn't it. 16 miles southwest of New York City and those Towers. I could actually see them from certain areas from where I lived. I use to stare at them every chance I could, wishing and hoping that one day I would live in that magical city. I wanted to be like those towers in a way...larger than life. Make a name for myself. It's silly I know, but it was my dream. August 21st would be the last day I would see those towers and everyone else I loved in New Jersey. They are all still alive, I'm just so scared to go fly on a plane. Still...5 years later! So, there I was at work and it seemed unreal to me. I just wanted to go home, be with my family. It was the longest 8 hours of my life. When I did get home, I was glued to the tv, just watching over and over again, wondering when I was going to wake up from this horrific nightmare. All those lives...gone. I feel so much for those people that lost loved ones that day from those attacks. I can't imagine what they must have gone through. I even had a nightmare that night. I was in a car with my Mom driving on the overpass in Jersey that we would always have to drive over and it a was spot where you could almost always see the towers. I looked over and said "Stop the car!". She stopped and we both got out, looked over and then a plane went into one of the towers. I woke up sweating and crying. It seemed so real. Even the days that followed seemed surreal. I live pretty close to an airport and not hearing any planes was so scary. Like the world stopped and it did in a way. I hope to God we never have to go through any of that again. I don't want to be scared anymore. I want to be able to go on a plane again and visit my relatives and friends. I can't let them scare me. 5 years later...I'm ready not to be scared. God Bless!

new blog!

hello all and happy late september! hope you all had a great summer and great labor day! i think summer went by way too fast but i love fall so i'm not complaining. i started a new blog. it's called "A lipstick or lipgloss a day". it's my journey through my many lipsticks and my attempt to wear them all. check it out. i posted the link. ciao!