Roughin' It!

I've been experimenting with a new scrapbooking software, as you may have noticed... If you like it, I'm going to be hosting a giveaway soon! Keep an eye out for that if you're interested. :) :)

Cheers!

fallin'

Okay, so this season has been the best. I love fall, but you see... Texas doesn't do the "seasons" concept very well, and the last two "falls" were spent under extreme situations regarding unpleasantry. ANYWAY, this fall has been amazing! My apartment has always had the fall color/decor, which makes it extra festive.

 I get to take the residents through various fall traditions. I just love it. I wish that I could post pictures of them, but I can't. :( Here are some boring, non-resident, work pictures. Just know that my oldies are super awesome and the pictures I took are super adorable. I know, super.









To start off, we went camping last weekend. But that's another blog post... once I get Amanda's pictures that she took. ;) I really enjoyed the 15 hours we spent there, and I can't wait to go again! These people are pretty cool. I'm not an incredibly social person, but I really liked hanging out with this group of people. Here is a preview...

I've been baking like crazy... and I'll post that stuff later, too.

Anyway, even though it hasn't rained very much, being a Texan, I still think that the leaves look amazing. So Antho and I went to the nature center yesterday to go for a walk.

We did a bit of trespassing... WE DO DANGEROUS THINGS BECAUSE WE ARE DANGEROUS PEOPLE. Just kidding. I just wanted a picture. Thank goodness I didn't get poison ivy.

We stopped to get pumpkins for Lindsey and Brendan's birthday party today... HUGE! I lost ten pounds carrying it to the car.

(I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE THEM!!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!)

I got home to my mail box and found this:

It's official!!!!!! I have a degree!!!!! I actually did it!!!! I was so scared that some fluke would keep me from graduating. But no- it is October, and I have official looking proof that I did indeed graduate in August!!YAHOO.

In other news, I've been baking, playing WoW with Anthony...



... watching Community, which is a hilarious show. WATCH THIS. (I only started watching it a week ago, and then Suzy posted a video a few days ago... it was a sign. I was meant to watch it. Ha.)

... and enjoying life in any way I can. My family is coming to Springfield for Thanksgiving, and I cannot wait. I'm surrounded by people I love, and everything is beautiful this time of year. This was extremely picture heavy, so I'm sorry that I just dumped a month's worth of stuff into one post. Thanks for reading!

Cheers!

it walked on my pillow

This is how the day went:


I came back from the conference on Friday, so Saturday I spent with Anthony. We went to Fudruckers for lunch, because we constantly pass it on our way from here to there. It turns out that Fudruckers is awesome!! The condiments were all fresh and you get to pick exactly what you want! I hate tomatoes, but I was able to get pico de gallo!! AWESOME. Oh yeah, and I can get sweet potato fries there! 





Last weekend, we were hanging out at the different pet stores around town, and we debated getting some birds. We decided to wait a week and rethink that topic, since I tend to be pretty rash sometimes. Anthony and I decided to find the perfect bird cage from an antique store, and if we found the perfect one... then that would be our deciding factor.


WELL, in the parking lot of one of the antique stores, I found a smooshed bird right where I was going to step to get out of the car. It was a sign! I had to save the birds! 





Anyway, so yesterday, we decided to go to Ozark to go antiquing. We literally looked through ten antique stores last weekend, and the cages were either too small, too expensive, too ugly, or they weren't even functional. I had pretty much given up on finding a spacious, pretty cage. 


(We go sidetracked, as we often do. Look at this gorgeous book room!!!!)





I made one last suggestion to try out The Feathered Nest, even though everything in that store is incredibly pricey. We made our way to the basement which smelled super(super) funky, and I found this epic cage:





That was the last sign. We headed back to the pet store from last week and picked out our birds, Atticus and Imre (pronounced, Immree).  Atticus is the white one, and Imre is the green one. :) :) :)





"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view- until you climb into his skin and walk around in it." 
- Atticus Finch, by Harper Lee

"This is why there are so few musicians. A lot of folks can sing or saw out a tune on a fiddle. A music box can play a song flawlessly, again and again. But knowing the notes isn’t enough. You have to know how to play them.”

‎”A poet is a musician who can’t sing.Words have to find a man’s mind before they can touch his heart, and some men’s minds are woeful small targets. Music touches their hearts directly no matter how small or stubborn the mind of the man who listens.”

- Patrick Rothfuss

(The setting is in the town of Imre.)

We are hoping to get the parakeets comfortable enough to play with us. They've already hopped on to Anthony's finger! I've been playing Mozart for them, mostly. :)


I have got to get my reflexes under control, because any time I'm trying to touch them and they decide to move AT ALL, I freak out. I have a bruise on my nose and scratches on my arm from flailing inside the cage and bashing my nose. The birds didn't do it-- no, I did it to myself. I'm so cool.





In other news, I jokingly told Ant that I would play WoW with him... and then I ended up following through. I LOVE IT!!!! Ohmylanta I am in big trouble. Hello, time waster... 

Also, I dyed my hair redish again... Whoop!

 I hope that you all have had a great weekend! Happy FALL!!