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Thirteen Reasons I Look Forward to Fall

1. The leaves changing color. It doesn't happen often here in Metro Denver, but once in awhile we'll get a fall where the leaves will actually turn colors other than yellow and brown. I was in Missouri one fall and the leaves were absolutely gorgeous!
2. Walking in fallen leaves. I love the crunchy sound and the smell of dead leaves.
3. Cooler temperatures. I love snuggling in the blankets with Marcus when the air starts getting just a little chilly (I can't stand downright cold).
4. Kids are back in school. I can go to the park or a store during the day and not be surrounded by tons of kids. I can also get some peace and quiet in my house until about 3pm.
5. The smell of wood burning. Our neighbors have a wood-burning stove. Burning wood is my favorite smell in the whole world.
6. Sweaters. I don't like the pull-over kind, but I love snuggling up in a cardigan sweater.
7. The absence of bugs. Especially this year, I'm really looking forward to the mosquitos dying. Stupid bugs.
8. Hot Chocolate. I can only drink it when the weather is nippy. Yum!
9. Thanksgiving. I love making and eating pumpkin pie. I can only eat it around the holidays, though.
10. Daylight Savings ends. I hate the whole notion of screwing with our time, but at least we get that "extra hour" when we "fall back".
11. New Fall television shows. There are a few intriguing shows in the line-up this fall. I'm also getting itchy for some of my favorites to return.
12. Football. The only professional sport I've ever followed is Denver Broncos football. GO BRONCOS!!!
13. Our Anniversary. Even though Marcus and I aren't married, we celebrate our anniversary on October 28th. On that day in 1992, we offically decided to become a couple and it's the first time he said he loved me.

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So, either I'm way too dumb to get this or way too smart.

Does MySpace seem overly difficult to use? It all seems so pointless over there. I have a page, but I don't use it. The pages make my eyes bleed and I hate having to turn of the stupid music. Plus, everytime I try to login, it sends me to a page that says "You have to be logged in to do that." Um, yeah, that's what I was just doing. Also, everything takes so freaking long to do. It sits there forever thinking about doing something, then comes back as an error. It's so lame...I don't get the mass appeal of it.

There are some pages kept up by actors on The Office and some of The Mythbusters guys that I would like to check out once in awhile if it wasn't so freakin' difficult. I wish everybody would just have a real blog.

I just got back from storage and I found more supplies that I had bought for that garland...more beads to paint and more yarn, just not the darned instructions!!!!! I threw out a whole trunk load of stuff: stained paper, old coloring books, plastic crates that are cracking because I've had them since my freshman year of college in 1984 (LOL). I didn't realize I still had so many craft supplies over there. I knew I had a box of styrofoam and a box of pinecones. I found my old ukalele that I bought in Hawaii. I wish I had learned to play it. *sigh* I also went through a whole box of old woman's magazines (like Woman's Day and Good Housekeeping) that I had kept for Christmas party ideas. I'm chucking the whole thing. If I ever need to throw a dinner party like that, there are plenty of recipes on the Internet. I giggled at one fo the magazines from 1987, though. The hair! And the shoulder pads! Gotta love '80s fashion!

How in the hell did it get to be almost Labor Day weekend? My 40th birthday is a mere 12 days away! AAAAAAAAAAAAH!

OK, I'm better now. That is all.

I spent all day yesterday going through stuff. Why do we (people) need so much stuff? A whole family of pioneers used to get across the country with only as much stuff as would fit in the wagon. I cringe when I think of how much money I've wasted on things that really have no value anymore. I spent hundred of dollars on WWF wrestling figures in the early '90s. I had no reason to get them other than an obsession with wrestlers and a desire to own all the figures. I wasted hours and tons of gas driving from toy store to toy store to find one I didn't yet own. Now, they sit in a box. I don't give a rat's ass about wrestling. I probably couldn't get more than $20 for them on ebay. Those Star Trek vhs tapes that I just had to have? I've maybe watched each one twice. They sat on a shelf collecting dust. Absolutely worthless now. I bet if I gave them to Goodwill, they'd probably have to trash them. Who buys vhs tapes anymore?

I'm pretty certain that DVDs will go this way eventually. As broadband connections get better, we'll be able to download to disk almost any movie we want to see instantly...or it will be on some giant server somewhere that we can access immediately though our ISPs. Even now, with services like Netflix and Blockbuster, why pay to keep hard copies of stuff around when you can have it mailed to you in a couple of days?

I've got at least eight boxes of viynl albums in storage. I wonder if they've warped by now. I've entertained the idea of ripping them all to digital, but should I really bother? I mean, I haven't listened to a vinyl album since my player broke over 10 years ago. The quality will suck. Should I just give it up? Just purchase CDs or iTunes versions of songs I really want? Most albums only ever had one good song on them anyway. I'm torn on this one.

I've got four HUGE boxes of stuffed animals—mainly teddy bears. Are there any charities out there that would accept used stuffed animals?

I spent a good portion of the day yesterday trying to find the instructions I spoke of last Thursday to the crocheted popcorn garland I was making. I'm pretty sure it was in a craft magazine. The problem: I have three whole bookcase shelves full of craft magazines and patterns. If I live to be 100, I'll never produce a fraction of those projects. When we moved a few years ago, I had weeded out a lot of the magazines that didn't have projects I would ever do. It's time to do that again.

Marcus and I brought a bunch of stuff from storage two nights ago to throw in the dumpster. Some jerkwad was rifling through the dumpter and left a lot of that stuff laying on the ground. If someone can get use of our garbage, more power to them, but I wish they wouldn't leave a mess for someone else to clean up behind in their wake.

OK, that's if for now...gonna go look through and trash more stuff.