Hey, you might love summer so much you are weeping into your chardonnay right now because the temperatures have dropped and the leaves have suddenly gone all crayon-box on us. <\/p>\n
But I also know at least some of you love September as much as I do. Here are some things I love about early Fall (you know, “early Fall”: before the dark, rainy misery of November and the 10 feet of snow we will surely get in December.)<\/p>\n
10. Less sweat. <\/p>\n
9. If I should need an hour of relaxing, awful television that is not so awful as to make me woof my cookies (like “Tila Tequila Looking For A Gay or Straight Lover,” for example), the television will oblige me. 30 Rock! Gossip Girl! Glee! Being Erica! Save me from reality tv, won’t you please.<\/p>\n
8. That feeling of fun’s over, now get to work<\/i> that will always accompany September. If I was going into grade seven, I might resent this but as someone who really ought to get to work, I appreciate the subconscious kick in the ass. Now if you’ll excuse me I have to go sharpen some pencils for absolutely no reason except that I like the smell.<\/p>\n
7. Wearing jeans but not having to put on socks just yet. Also, putting on the jeans and finding money, lip balm and earplugs in the pockets. My jeans come pre-stocked for every eventuality!<\/p>\n
6. Sweaters. I love sweaters. Especially cardigans and sweater coats and old, wooly, soft sweaters and all sweaters. All of them. (And sock monkey pants.)<\/a><\/p>\n 5. The smell of damp leaves and the sound of plants curling up to rest until next year.<\/p>\n 4. I don’t feel nearly so lame for going to bed at 9 pm if the sun is down too.<\/p>\n 3. Not having to chase my children around the park, spraying them with sunscreen.<\/p>\n 2. Cooking all those old favourites; soups and stews and chilis and spaghettis and cookies and anything that involves more than one burner on the stove.<\/p>\n 1. Drinking glasses of rich, red wine, bare feet tucked under a blanket, rain beating against the windows, talking to each other and making plans.<\/p>\n (Oh – bonus points for our annual federal election!<\/a> Let’s all vote AGAIN and maybe this time something different will happen.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hey, you might love summer so much you are weeping into your chardonnay right now because the temperatures have dropped and the leaves have suddenly gone all crayon-box on us. But I also know at least some of you love … Continue reading