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I Thought I Saw Fall Here, But It Left

Let me start this fairly negative, fairly lighthearted post by saying that I like to stay up a little later on the weekends (to about midnight) and it is very hard for me to sleep past eight in the morning because that is already an hour later than I normally get up during the week. My body has a well-oiled sleep cycle that doesn’t like to be tampered with. Well, last night I woke up to the most painful screeching sound I’ve ever heard. It was our fire alarm. Not my apartment’s fire alarm, but the whole building’s. When you hear it your first instinct is to jump out the window half because of your groggy sleepy brain but half because it hurts that bad to listen to. I threw on some warm clothes and my roommate and I ran out of the building. It was four in the morning.

When we got outside, we expected it to be about thirty degrees because that’s what it has been all week, but we got something even better. Can you sense the sarcasm yet? There was snow covering everything. Sure, it was only a light dusting, but it was snow. I’m a Minnesota girl, and sure snow makes me think of Christmas and warmth and love, but it’s only OCTOBER!!! And it’s not even late October, it’s October tenth! I think winter is a pretty time, sure, but knowing that it has started this early and will not end practically until May is not an easy thing to digest.

This was the view out of my window today. Look’s like they won’t be playing as much baseball here this weekend. Oh, and it’s our homecoming football game today…

And please tell me, aren’t the trees supposed to have lost their leaves before the first snowfall or at least have changed from green to orange or red? Nope, ninety percent of the trees outside have not even started changing. Why does anyone live here again?

That is the end of my rant. I know plenty of you in the warmer states would love more snow, but trust me, it gets very old. You get sick of crackling skin and runny noses very quickly. Plus, it is a very dangerous time of the year. It’s too soon for me to start thinking of Christmas when it’s not even Halloween, so these negative images are the only thing going through my mind.

To make this post productive I would like to ask how you would make the best out of this situation. Should I start caroling? Have a great weekend everyone, no matter what the weather is like!

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Pretty Pear – An Amazing Find

I few weeks ago, I went to TJ Maxx to find some last-minute items for school. When I walked in, I saw the coolest home accessory I have EVER seen. What was it? A paper mache pear, but it wasn’t just any paper mache pear, it was made out of leaves!! It was so cool, with the perfect shade of green, but I found it to be a tad big (it was about a foot and a half tall by a foot wide) and I did not want to spend twenty dollars on it when I had no idea if it would match anything in my school apartment. I passed it up, but I thought about it for the next two weeks where I scoured online shops and even emailed my favorite Youngsters about it, with no luck. Luckily, I did get some good buys while I was there, which I will share shortly.

So, the pear lingered on in my mind and I gushed on and on about it to my parents, who finally decided we would stop, just to be sure, on our way to move me in to my apartment. I practically sprinted into the store, but they had changed out the display that had the pear weeks before. I quickly walked to the back where the home accessories are and paced back and forth through the aisles. Then, I spotted it, or at least what was very similar to it, shoved in the back of one of the end displays. I threw in a big hooray as I lifted it up to show my mom, and I was extremely happy when I realized that this pear was slightly smaller, but the price was significantly lower at $7.99. Of course, I happily clutched it under my arm and paraded it around the store for everyone to see and be jealous of.

Here is the beautiful pear of my dreams.

Have you found any items that you just couldn’t say no to? Did the ending turn out as good as mine?

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