Tag Archives: Fall

Today: Goodbye, summer. Hello, fall.

7 September 2011

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This is how I know, sadly, that Labor Day has come and gone:

  • The U-Haul trucks have dropped off the last of their papasan chairs and mini-fridges before going back to… wherever U-Hauls come from.
  • My parking pass has expired.
  • The heat in my office turned itself on, and I have burned my foot twice on the vent thing.
  • Everything in stores is made of wool, ergo I am breaking out in hives.
  • Speaking of hives, I am allergic to whatever is growing/blooming/cytoplasma-ing right now.
  • I am instantly pale.
  • Each of my siblings have moved into new apartments, and I know none of their addresses (it feels sort of like that time Grandma moved to Chicago and no one told me).
  • I feel a strong urge to buy school supplies.

Check me out! I'm crazy!

With such awesome news to share, Nick and I knew we needed squeeze a few more drops out of summer this weekend, making time to visit with friends and family on the roof, north of Boston, on a lake, and down the Cape.  I am so excited about what’s to come, that (despite the extensive list posted above, which may lead you to believe otherwise) I don’t really mind that summer’s essentially over.

Today is the first day of the rest of our lives.  Thank goodness I packed the Benadryl.

Also On Tap for Today:

What will you miss most about summer?  What do you love most about fall?

Today: Help, I’ve fallin’.

7 September 2010

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(…and I can’t get up (at 00:30.) And I can’t stop laughing. And I am going to Hell.)

Okay, but where are the Splenda Pumpkins?

Fall is a magical time in the Northeast.  And other places, too, I’m sure. Even though I’m practically elderly, I still get those back-to-school butterflies and look forward to the promise of a new (you are no longer in) school year.  While some may choose to mourn the passing of Summer, I’m trying to focus on all the fun Fall has in store.  That doesn’t mean I’m taking my beach chair out of the trunk just yet, however.

On Tap for Fall

  • Marathon training continues and the weekly mileage creeps higher and higher
  • Soccer starts next week (which gives me juuust enough time to buy shin guards and attempt to re-learn how to play via You Tube videos)
  • A weekend in Newport
  • Green Monster seats for the Red Sox v. Blue Jays
  • Merrell Down & Dirty Mud Run 10K in New York
  • Jimmy and Colleen get married!
  • Paint, fabric, built-ins, and furniture galore
  • Tufts 10K for Women
  • The Boston Book Festival …bigger, better, and still free.
  • Clark’s anniversary (hard to believe a whole year has passed)
  • Speaking of Clark, he’s definitely wearing a Halloween costume this year
  • Christie and Mike run the NYC Marathon
  • Vacationing in the Western Caribbean and Mexico!
  • Thanksgiving (a.k.a. an excuse to bake turkey-shaped cakes)
  • My 10 year high school reunion (should be good for a laugh or ten)

Squeeze in some apple picking, leaf changing, college football watching, and a sweater dress or two and I’d say we’ve got quite the Fall ahead of us.  Press your Life Line if you agree.

Also On Tap for Today:

What do you love most about Fall?

Today: Celebrate the New Year

11 September 2009

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Happy New Year.trapper keeper

While New Year’s Day is traditionally celebrated on January 1st, the anxiety of choosing a really good resolution coupled with a hangover and the biting cold of, well, January, doesn’t exactly thrill me.  But the start of a new school year?  Now that’s cause for celebration.

Sometimes, when life is feeling dull and uninspired, I stick my face in the supply closet and inhale deeply (I don’t huff the glue, promise).  The smell of file folders, crisp copy paper and–if they had a smell, paper clips–brings me back.

Remember shopping for school supplies?  I loved deciding which color three-subject notebooks would correspond with which class.  Social Studies was usually green (symbolic of all things geographic and land-based), Biology was blue (for the tears I shed while dissecting poor, helpless Kermit), and Math was obviously black. I don’t think I need to expound upon that.

The year I needed a graphing calculator was a low point for back to school shopping.  I am pretty sure I could launch nuclear submarines from that thing, but Heaven forbid I try to add or subtract.  I would have been better off with a simple slate and piece of chalk.

Yesterday marked the first day of school in Boston and to celebrate, I cleaned my desk, reorganized my pen and pencil cup and opened a fresh bottle of Purell.  I thought about all of the things I’d like to accomplish between now and June, and the small (and big) ways in which I can do and be better.  It’s sort of like deciding the summer between eighth and ninth grade that you’re only going to answer to the name Twinky, you get jazz and will ridicule anyone still listening to the Backstreet Boys, and you don’t eat anything orange… only it’s a bit more authentic.

I wonder if I will ever stop mapping my life by the academic calendar.

Also On Tap for Today:

  • Remember those we’ve lost by giving the gift of life: Red Cross blood drives at Fenway Park (6a-1p) and City Hall (11a-6p)

What was your favorite school supply?  Did you ever get the lasers background in your school portrait?  If so, consider me jealous.

Today: Fall back to reality

9 September 2009

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This is how I know it’s Fall (even though it isn’t until September 22nd):

  • I wore a sweater today.
  • I am allergic to my allergies.
  • I can’t find a parking spot.  Anywhere.
  • There are giant yellow buses.  Everywhere.
  • I wore corduroys today.  Kidding.
  • The tomatoes at Shaws looked a little funky.

This summer might go down in the record books for all the rain the sky poured on us, but otherwise, it was kind of a dud.  If it wasn’t raining, it was pouring and if it wasn’t pouring, it was raining.  And then late August came.

In the last two weeks, we’ve managed to pack in a whole season’s worth of good, clean summer fun.  The part where I fainted from dehydration at Country Fest wasn’t exactly fun, but it was relatively clean.  That was not one of my finer moments.

In an action packed two weeks, we finally saw the sun, closed on and moved into our new condo, went to a real Cirque du Soleil show and then a fake Cirque du Soleil show (there are no words), had Nick’s nearly stolen Vespa fixed, drank Matt’s FDA un-approved Mattaritas, floated around in our new rooftop pool (heaven), celebrated Tim and Stacey’s wedding, danced like maniacs, bought fresh vegetables at a roadside farm stand, made Andrea dress up like a beer bottle, gave purple nail polish a go, finished reading The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society and wished there were 200 more pages, stalked various dogs in our building and surrounding environs, and smiled at a homeless man holding a “Just Smile” sign by the underpass.

If I can pull all that off in two weeks, just imagine what I am capable of in a whole season.  Bring it, Fall.  Briiiing it.  By the way, there’s a new direct to DVD Bring it On movie out.  No word if Sparky Polastry makes a cameo.

Also On Tap for Today:

  • Have dinner with Mom and Dad after giving them the grand tour of the new place
  • Congratulate the Dana Farber Institute on raising $1 billion… a year early… in a recession; inspiring!
  • Pick up some fresh flowers at the market
  • Take a little break and read about a little… um… fart

What are you most looking forward to this Fall?  And how much do you love a good country song?