Countdown To the First Day of Fall

The first day of Fall is Friday and although I'll be sad to see Summer go, there are several things that come to mind that I'm looking forward to as the new season arrives:

*Fashion - Jeans, hoodies, sweats, tights, arm warmers, knee-high socks, sweater dresses, coats/track jackets

*Food - Soups, casseroles, and hearty dishes

*Keeping warm by the ever classy electric fireplace while watching movies, reading, knitting, and laptopping

*Taking note of nature's changes, especially leaves changing color, during my runs

BBBS Outing

'Lil and I went to Artistic Beads for our outing today to make some jewelry, something neither one of us had done before. It was a great activity for us, where we could sit and talk while doing a fun project at the same time.

There was so much to choose from - what type of jewelry (necklace, bracelet, earrings...), then what kind (elastic, memory, clasp...), and finally what you're going to put on your piece.

We each decided on an elastic bracelet. We thought it would be fun to do similar ones, so we each did colored beads with letter blocks of our initials. 'Lil picked white and blue for her colors and I went with yellow and green.



sidenote: the picture was taken from my phone, and believe it or not, it's the first time I sent a picture from my phone! It feels good to take another step into the 21st century :)

Ben & Jerry's Newest Flavor

Schweddy Balls coming to a frozen food section near you! Well, in 30% of stores that carry Ben & Jerry's at least.

Ben and Jerry's announced the new flavor today. Schweddy Balls, of course, comes from the SNL skit, "Delicious Dish."




The new flavor consists of vanilla ice cream, rum flavoring, with fudge covered rum balls and milk chocolate malt balls.

You can read more here.

Cross That One Off the List

One of my favorite ongoing lists is my "list of firsts" and I love when I get to check things off that list. A couple of the things I've checked off recently include shot gunning a beer and hot yoga. Today I was able to cross another thing off my list - go to a movie by myself.

It was a kind of a dreary day and most of my friends were out of town, so it seemed the perfect day to get this one checked off. I headed to JC theaters, making sure to hit up the early matinee to score the $6.50 movie ticket and sat down to watch "One Day".

The movie itself was okay, though a little too long in my opinion, but the overall experience was very positive and kind of liberating for me.

Countdown Is On

Top 10

Nothing like waiting until the last minute. Here is my Top 10 Metro Restaurants List:

1. Miyabi 9
2. La Mie
3. Simon's
4. Alba
5. Centro
6. Tacos Andreas
7. Proof
8. Jethros
9. Hickory Park
10. Django

Newest Buy

I usually never find anything on the clearance rack at DSW but I struck shoe gold last week when I found these:


They reminded me a lot of a pair of shoes my friend Emily had bought at the market in Spain. I think I told her several times the day she wore them how much I liked them, so when I saw these the other day, I jumped at the chance of buying them.

30% off plus my $5 birthday coupon = a good deal on a fabulous new pair of shoes.