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October 18, 2010
Wow. It has been a really, really long time.
The past few weeks have been more than a little crazy here in New York City. After renewing the lease on my lovely apartment, my roommate and I spent days on end cleaning and revamping the place in preparation for our two new roommates getting ready to move in. It was far from fun. It was man stuff. Replacing light fixtures, hauling trash, putting shelves together, hammering, bolting, and wrenching all sorts of things, including a toilet seat (ew). We ate Texas burgers with bacon and got a little high off paint and Clorox fumes. At the end of the madness we topped it off with a total man movie: Jackass 3D. We sat among dozens of high school boys and college frat boys and a few girls that I would rather not meet in a dark alley. Awkward. The show was full of crude, foul-mouthed, man-nakedness and vomit, but I must admit, I laughed way more than I expected to.
Have I mentioned how happy I am that it is autumn?
The past few weeks have been more than a little crazy here in New York City. After renewing the lease on my lovely apartment, my roommate and I spent days on end cleaning and revamping the place in preparation for our two new roommates getting ready to move in. It was far from fun. It was man stuff. Replacing light fixtures, hauling trash, putting shelves together, hammering, bolting, and wrenching all sorts of things, including a toilet seat (ew). We ate Texas burgers with bacon and got a little high off paint and Clorox fumes. At the end of the madness we topped it off with a total man movie: Jackass 3D. We sat among dozens of high school boys and college frat boys and a few girls that I would rather not meet in a dark alley. Awkward. The show was full of crude, foul-mouthed, man-nakedness and vomit, but I must admit, I laughed way more than I expected to.
So yes, these past weeks were a little rough. And so, once the work was done, I decided it was time to take an extra long weekend and enjoy some loveliness with my family in Connecticut. The weekend was full of Christmas music, Panera bread bowls, homemade pumpkin chocolate chip muffins, lots of time spent in the candle department of Target smelling things named “Fireside”, “Falling Leaves”, and “Cozy Cabin”, apple cider, walks through extra crunchy leaves, too many episodes of Jonas with my little sisters, pumpkins, grey autumn skies, more and more listening to Mumford & Sons, and a long bike ride through fall foliage-filled woods with one of my very best friends.
This snake attempted to make me fall off my bike by slithering in front of me on the trail. I thought I ran over it, but it didn’t seem to care and continued to move way too quickly for comfort…
The last few days have been such a nice break from the craziness of work, the apartment repairs, and the city, but I realized tonight that I have still not found time to do one of the main things I set this time aside for: writing. It is one thing to neglect a blog for so long, but another to neglect writing all together. It is what I crave. What I need to do to keep myself from getting too grumpy. It is also such hard work. However, I cannot let this four day weekend go to waste. I am leaving this blog once again to go set pen to paper for awhile, but I promise it won’t be another month before you hear from me again.
Have I mentioned how happy I am that it is autumn?
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