Fall always makes me want to write.
I get so inspired by everything, the upcoming holidays, the food, the weather, the smells. I start to feel really productive on the first honest to God cold front, and from there it just escalates.
You can't help but to feel refreshed in the middle of October. You feel like patting yourself on the back. "Look what I just made it through, over 100 degrees during the day!" Not to mention the hurricanes and tropical storms that you may have encountered. But then autumn hits and it's like none of that happened. You're here now, wearing jeans and not sweating, and the air smells sweet.
Springtime is when you're supposed to feel refreshed and revitalized. You just made it through a bleak winter, and now you get to start new! That's when most people open all the doors and windows and start cleaning out their closets. Not me, spring is when I realize that I have to start digging out my shorts. Fall is when I throw open the windows and scrub down my baseboards. I have an insane urge to clean in October. I want everything looking nice so it's not messing with my mood. Then you get to really enjoy the season. You have jeans, you have sweaters, you have soup, and you can drink a hot cup of coffee on the porch without feeling a little crazy.
After you enjoy it for a little while, then the anticipation sets in. Look at all that I have to look forward to from here on out. As soon as people start decorating for Halloween, and talking about what they're going to dress up as, and where they're going, you know the Holiday Season has begun. From now until the January its' a steady dose of occasions.
Halloween kicks it off, obviously, at the end of October, and then in November, before you can even start thinking about sweet potato casserole, you have three or four birthdays. Alright, now we can get onto a fantastic week of Thanksgiving at Grandma's house. Whew! Then it's immediately time for all things Christmas. This is when everything kicks up a notch. The whole month of December is Christmas. Baking and decorating and cooking and planning and more decorating. Buying and wrapping and eating and baking and waiting, and waiting, and then December 25th is finally here! And then it's gone. But look at all this junk you have now!
Even after that's over, you have New Year's to look forward to. Even if you don't do anything completely outrageous, and even if you're not a big fan of football, its a good transitional holiday after what you've been through. And it's a big sigh of relief to make it into the next year.
I can't wait.
Dee
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