I'm really excited for fall this year. I'm excited for it every year but this summer has had me in a pretty bad mood most days. I feel like I had a constant sinus headache from all the sudden temperature changes, the storms were ridiculous at our apartment and almost washed away Jeremy's car one day. (There's a small creek on our property. Well, not 'our' property, but where we live. The landlord's property.) The grass grew to epic lengths and the landlord took forever to cut it, making me hate taking the dog every time she had to go cause I was positive there was no amount of flea and tick guard in the world that would save her from the creek-grass and whatever was living in it, which I assume was pretty stuff. And that one cat kept creeping around and making eye contact when I said, 'hey, cat' but never came over to see me. Jerk. Oh, and our electric bill shot through the roof. Thanks, window air conditioner.
I'm also excited cause I've been obsessing over Pinterest ever since my sister told me about it early this year. I love making things. Homemade things, gifts, decorations, new clothes out of old clothes, etc. so obviously this was the place for me. Except I have a page of Likes of a bajillion various things, some easy, some not-so-easy, that I really want to dive into. Then my bank account reminds me that I have to wait another two weeks. This frustration at my creativity being stifled by money and the man (I guess the man?) is compounded by the fact that every time I walk into a craft store, I want to do every craft project they have on display. Autumn wreaths, Halloween wreaths (totally doing one, btdubs), painting artificial pumpkins, getting neat boxes to hide all our various odds and ends in the apartment, making Christmas decorations! (I am so pumped to make Christmas decorations. I've already started. I need ribbon. Do you have ribbon?) Except since the 'being an adult' thing happened, i.e. paying back student loans, when my paychecks come in, they aren't very helpful. So I've gathered all the assorted crafting items I have available and I'm going to make the most out of it until my hours pick up again. (They've declined recently since school started back up. Not as many families clearing out the denim walls. Selfish pricks.)
I've also started tie-dying. Sort of. We picked up dye in spray bottles and you just moisten (if you like) the area you're coloring and spritz. It's really easy. I re-did a dress and a tank top already. I'm currently waiting for a sock to air dry so I can set the color in the dryer. It needs to air dry because I don't want to get dye on my hands. Also a good reason for the spray bottles. Less clean up.
I recently got reTweeted by a band, The Silent Comedy, that I frickin' love. So that was my highlight for the week pretty much.
We're having Christmas at our apartment this year! My side of the family, and I'm really looking forward to it. Again, cause I get to make decorations and stuff, but also because there's so much more room since we got rid of the piano that I never played (or as Jeremy called it, The Musical Shelf). We're going to to get a tree, artificial cause I'm the only one that vacuums, and move the love seat out into the living room. I even have the movies picked out that are going to play in the background. Jeremy and I always watch two every Christmas: Love, Actually and Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang. So we'll watch those and I thought The Ref would go well with our family, I already know we all love it. I've considered A Nightmare Before Christmas but we should watch a Harry Potter cause I feel like we always watch at least one of them around Christmas in our family. Also, doesn't ABC Family do a marathon of them? Like, at every opportunity?
Plus since I finally cleared out all those excess dishes and glasses, there really is a lot of room everywhere. We even have serving plates! And proper mixing bowls! Not the double boiler pots I was using just the top pot of to mix up stuff, oh and cooking things! Like, a loaf pan. And a 9x13 pan. Yay for living like an adult and not a college kid, which I haven't been ever. I just have to downsize my folded wardrobe so we can get rid of a dresser, and get new bookshelves for the library so we can get the china closet out there and the apartment won't be god-awful anymore. Except for that mold issue, and all the other issues.
The door handle broke again so we just took out the latch bolt and put the handle back and we use the dead bolt. I hate our landlord. I don't even think he changed it when I got locked out and all that shit happened. I think he took it apart, and just put it back together. Classy guy, the landlord is.
