Good weekend

Well I had a pretty good weekend. Saw a movie with drew on Friday night, tried out a new running loop. Was very nice, carved pumpkins!! That was a lot of fun, did something different this year. Drew carved an "A" for the university of Arizona, and I carved Mr. Crabs from "spongebob" hahaha!
Sunday we went up to PA to visit Drew's family. His grandmother and her friend were visiting from Chicago. I went running there around 9, and then came back and hung out with "Gamma Jane" and her friend. They were so funny, dressed in the same outfit of black pants, black button down sweater, and a white turtleneck. It was so cute. It was kinda strange though, his grandma almost has the same eyes as my nana, and they sort of look similar. It was cool though to get to know his grandma better, I have really only met her briefly once before, though I have eaten a lot of her cookies :)
Anyway, it was really nice, and I am beginning to feel more comfortable visiting. I actually got an apology from his mom about something that happened a long time ago....I thought she didn't remember what had happened so many summers ago, but if she really meant it, it made me really happy that she said sorry.
I hope they like me as much as I like them, my family is so important to me, and I miss them, so its nice to be around drews family sometimes...Not that they can take the place of mine, but its nice to hang out and go on walks and have nice dinners with other peoples families.

Beautiful Saturday

Ahh, what a beautiful day here! Its not often that I say that about MD, usually I'm hating on the weather here. Its a perfect sunny, 60s, fall day. Fall here is so different that in MA, it usually seems like fall leaves change and fall off in one weekend, whereas here, we have several weeks of leaves changing and slowly falling off...its really nice actually. I went on a really nice senic run yesterday, it was really pretty with all the leaves changing and drifting off the trees around me while I ran.
It makes me miss soccer a bit though, the smells and the crunch of the leaves always make me think about highschool...playing sports, going to football games, applepicking and baking pumpkin bread with my sisters and mom! Makes me a tad homesick...or rather "family-sick."
Anyway, I think its off to carve my pumpkin!!

Life changing....eh?

Well, I know that things can't stay the same forever...everything changes. But thinking you can go home to your childhood town and family members is something you usually don't think will change. After my dad getting laid off from the computer industry I always just thought eventually he'd find something else. I kinda hoped they would find something in NC or around there...never thought about Fargo...hmmm, would I visit, sure..in the summer! Its cold up there!!
How sad would that be, no more $100 flights that only take 1 hr and bring me to see my sisters and most of my extended family. Grace would FREAK out, erin would not be happy, and I know that the rest of my relatives would really miss my parents being there. Who would take care of my grandparents? Grandpa would have to actually cough up $ to get things fixed around their house....hehehe.
I mean its great that dad got offered a job, but it makes me sad to think that I would no longer get to visit MA when going to see my parent...I will keep my fingers crossed and pray that he finds something close to where they live already. They need a smaller more managable home, just not in Fargo!!

Fall is falling upon me!

Well, as the summer is ending, that can mean only one thing...Fall must come in its place! No more early outside running, no more warming myself on my little balcony. However, it does mean apple and pumpkin picking time! I'm so excited this weekend, I am going to my favorite place, Larriland farms, to pick some apples and pumpkin, and probably some spinach or broccoli if they are in season yet! I am so excited, I think I'm going to make some applesauce with the apples i pick! I know its not quite the same without mom and sisters, but Drew will have to subsitute ;) hehe He seems to be more excited about it than he was last year....i have been working on him for a few years. Soph yr in college I got him to carve a pumpkin and bake the seeds with me, last year i finally got him out to pick pumpkins (after convincing him that it was ok for 23 yr olds to still do that) And this year he actually seems semiexcited to both apple and pumpkin pick! However, I dont think ill ever get him to be really excited about making applesauce....its ok tho :)

So as the seasons are changing, I too am thinking of a change. I love the painting, but man, its KILLING me and my car! I had to get $400 worth of new brake pads etc..and my car is only 2 yrs old! They asked if i did alot of highway driving at rush hour, slamming on the brakes etc.. and of course I do, its how people in MD drive! And unfortunately my body, back and neck, need readjustment too. Tho, they cant really be replaced as easily as the car parts can..hehehe So I'm trying to figure out what to do, I think id really like to be a college track coach, and maybe someday an art teacher...tho none of the schools around here are looking for a track coach, and really I'm too serious about running to be a highschool coach either....Anyway, I would also like to be the muralist at a Trader Joes, but they are all too faraway for me to go work at.... So if anyone can think of something I could do that fits me, please let me know!! I need help trying to figure out where my life is going!

Presidential "Thrashing"

Ok, so I watched my first presidential debate on TV last night....Not that I haven't been alive for others, it was just the first time I actually watched the whole 90 min. (drew is really into watching) Anyway, so did anyone else see this? Kerry totally verbally took Bush for a ride! Every good point Kerry made about something the Bush admin did that was somewhat embarrassing, Bush could only retort "well what kind of message would a president that says wrong war, wrong time, be sending the troops, or America." He even said this when Kerry wasn't even talking about the war! On and on ad nausea!
He is such a moron. Its like he just wanted to say "yea well I'm rubber you're glue....Etc" Bush is a TOOL! He had nothing intelligent to say. He made no good points! I was so embarrassed just watching him, however, I do have to say, at least he didn't talk about "nuclr" weapons or fumble any other "difficult" words. So good for him, hes learning to speak at a level above a 5 yr old.
It was so bad, Drew, a usually Bush supporter, seemed to be bending towards Kerry.
Yeah Kerry!!! Vote Kerry 2004!!!