the upcoming week

Next week is going to be glorious! Mostly because of the whole no school thing, but also bc i have big plans. I'm staying in Utah for thanksgiving and going to my uncles for thanksgiving and so i will have tons of free time. here are some of my big plans:

• clean and organize my apartment (i am weirdly excited about this)
• paint-- a project i wanted to start a few months ago, but haven't had time
• read, read, read (i went to DI today and got about 6 books)
• catch up on school work (not really fun, but whatever)
• watch lots of movies and tv

those are the plans so far. not much, but it will keep me busy. hooray for holidays!!

i like to read

currently reading:

recently read:

The Hunger Games was great. I highly recommend it. Quick, good read. Just started c&p, but so far, so good!

And in other matters, life is really good right now.

pumpkin

what a wonderful squash. the best thing about autumn is probably how pumpkin food and drinks are offered everywhere. i LOVEEE pumpkin. I would just like to shout out to all my favorite pumpkin foods in no specific order:

pumpkin chocolate chip cookies

pumpkin pancakes

pumpkin pie

pumpkin bread

Einstein's pumpkin bagels & pumpkin cream cheese (SO good)

pumpkin seeds

brain dump

-currently reading "the 7 habits of highly effective people"..how come no one ever told me to read this before???

-i fixed our tv and now have cable again. yay

-i love water (just thought i'd throw that in)

- i love where i'm living right now

-i have a test that starts tomorrow and have a lot of catch up to do in like 2 days. eeek

-i need a job like nobody's business (or free money, either way)

-i love crafts lately

-i'm thinking about donating plasma

-i'm wayyyyy excited to have my fav hair stylist do my hair again for the first time since february (she got married, i was gone all summer etc)

-i'm very content w/my life right now.

-i've got to wake up in a few hours, so goodnight.

autumn's sweet we call it fall

you guys, today is the first day of fall!! Those of you who are regulars to my blog probably know i have a really big thing for summer; but you may not know that i love fall. It's such a pretty season and the weather is nice--i'm a big fan.

Yesterday I went to my gmas and I picked apples from her apple tree and pears from her pear tree and tomatoes and roses and it was just a great time. She even gave me the last corn cob that could possibly be pulled from the stalks. it was about 3 inches long and had about 3 kernels on it. Oh, grandma. Here's a pic:

(ps. how autumny is this picture?? credit to bb taking it)

a few of my favorite things about autumn:

-boots! i love them

-cardigans

-pumpkin..in everything. YUM

-carmel apples (i eat these year round, but they are more fall appropriate)

-crunchy leaves

-colored leaves

-tights (i'm gonna do it this year)

anywho, happy first day of autumn!! woot woot!

mad men ♥

Seriously, a great show. It's set in the 1960's (possibly my fav thing about it) and revolves around the lives of the people who work in an advertising agency on Madison Avenue in NYC, hence Mad Men.

The beautiful people in the pictures are Don and Betty Draper. And in case you doubt my judgement, it's won 3 Golden Globes and 6 Emmys, so bam. it's awesome and i love it. (and how great are these pics?)

awesome

go watch this, bc it's the coolest thing i've ever seen.

thanks britt for the link.

http://www.andric.biz/News/news.htm

these boots

i'm kinda in love with over-the-knee boots right now. i want some. oh and my birthday is oct 14 for anyone wondering.

so cute.