In This Town We Call Home, Everyone Hail to the Pumpkin Song!

It's Halloween! Awesome holiday. Of course no one remembers (or cares, I would argue) where it originally came from, but does it matter? Free candy!

I can't believe how fast October went. It was like the blink of an eye. I have been working so hard on my business and on school....and now SAI too, since official visits have started (2 down, 3 to go for colleges; still 4 left for alumnae chapters). And trying desperately to get five minutes in here and there with my husband, who is likewise very busy. We did get to have time this weekend--we drove to my brother's house in Oxford and babysat Zachary for an evening, then spent the rest of the weekend just hanging out. I still can't believe how big Zach is now, how incredibly smart and talkative. His new phrase is "HOLY COW!" said with great relish. Thank you, Uncle Ryan, for teaching him a PC phrase. :)

Things that are tickling my happy bone today, besides Halloween and still floating on a Zachary-shaped cloud: Redwings, Redwings and more Redwings....I have six, count 'em, six appointments this week and just finished out the month with three new team members....I'm reading Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton, who I really like.....NaNoWriMo starts tomorrow (not that I will be really really participating, but I am going to try a bit, when I can--it would just be silly to devote too much time to it when I have all my own schoolwork to do that is NOT fiction)....the thought of calling up an old friend and getting together for a snack or a drink one day soon....got my BLAST tickets in the mail.....there's lots of chocolate in my house--oh wait! That's Halloween again. Whoops!

And mostly I just like fall. Cathy's blog (see right) waxes quite eloquent on the subject, but I want to pay my own little homage here, too. The colors are so brilliant. I remember this time last year when Ryan and I went to Traverse City for our honeymoon, and how EXTREME the colors are there. Obviously the further north you go, the brighter the colors, because the weather is, on the whole, chillier than down here. But even what we have here is enough to make me smile. Fall is my favorite season, I think. Although mostly I think I just like it when seasons change....I like the transitions.....anything that sticks around too long does tend to get boring. Case in point: first snowfall, as opposed to one hundred and eightieth snowfall....yeah.

And of course, right now I have a packet due, so back to work with me. Why do I always feel most inclined to write here when I have a deadline?