Hi.
I don't care what anyone says- I think it's weird when men sit on the roof of my dorm building with a boom-box blaring some form of Hispanic music that I don't understand. That's especially weird because this is an all women's school- so we hardly ever see men.
Oh but when we do see them... they're on the roof with a boom-box and singing in Spanish.
Awesome.
I'm happy to announce that Raleigh is finally getting the "Fall/Autumn" memo and temperatures have been rapidly dropping! And by rapidly I mean slowly (but surely!), and by dropping I mean it's no longer 100 degrees all the time.
We're talking low 70's to low 80's for the past week.
Ah... Fall. Makes me want to light a candle or snuggle up in a fuzzy blanket with fuzzy socks while drinking a pumpkin beverage.
To be fair though, the mornings here have been quite brisk. Having tennis at 9:30 in the morning is definitely making me question the whole sweatshirt thing. But I refuse to give in until at least October!
Stay strong Caitlyn... stay strong.
This was our tennis morning. I will never get over the skies of Carolina.
I can't wait until the leaves are finally changing colors- then it'll be all golds and reds against that bright blue.
My toes are curling I'm SO EXCITED for Fall.
Just a side note- I'm listening to Frank Sinatra's Christmas album as I'm typing.
Noel, noel.
I also got my first Pumpkin Spice Latte of the season.
Notice how I capitalized the name because in my mind, PSL is a proper noun.
It was just as delicious as I remembered! I can't believe they make this a seasonal drink.
Give me Pumpkin Spice or give me death!
Drama.
But isn't it just so pretty in that little cup? Such beauty.
Mom also randomly texted me this picture yesterday. She obviously took it while she was driving- I'm assuming she was driving herself since she no longer has a chauffeur and Daddy would have been at work...
So mom risked her life to text me a picture of a buggy in Lancaster.
Thank you mother, for risking your life while you were driving 10 mph on this road that you drive every day to give me the gift of Lancaster.
Thank you.
Pretty blue-skied in Lancaster that day too. I'm impressed.
And the corn is all gone. It was getting pretty stressful to pull out at some places because the corn was so high and I couldn't see around it. Good to see that they've fixed that and the next time I'm home I won't have to wreck my neck trying to be safe.
Rhyming.
Lynda and Carter also hosted Skye and I for our usual spaghetti night last week. We had fun- eating spaghetti and doing nothing else.
Just kidding we did lots else.
We went to a little coffee shop where I got yet another PSL and was in love all over again.
Everybody got in on the picture taking at Sola.
Then I volunteered with Lynda and Carter at the Food Bank's 24 hour telethon.
We stayed all 24 hours.
That's a complete lie. We didn't do that at all.
We volunteered Friday night for their "Social Media Mixer"!
Lynda and I worked the Plinko board and let me just say, we were rock stars.
We came up with numerous slogans to represent and market our product.
My favorite was, "There's no losers- only winners in Plinko!"
We would also shout, "Pa-linko!"
We were the loudest ones in the warehouse and we raised a bunch of money.
That's just how we do things.
The Durham Bulls mascot, Wool E. Bull was also there for a few hours, and he liked Plinko.
We're practically BFF's now.
Between Plinko players and cheese-squares Lynda and I both found time to get our faces painted. The woman was INCREDIBLE.
"So how long have you been a professional artist?"-me
"Oh I never had any professional training, I just like painting."-Mrs. Incredible (with a paintbrush)
She blew me away.
I didn't know what I wanted, so I told her to let her creative freedom run wild on my face.
A scary thought, but she did so well.
Pumpkins??
LIKE OH MY WORD WOMAN, COULD YOU KNOW ME ANY BETTER?
So this is our semi-awkward "let's show the world our face-paint" photo.
Pumpkins and a butterfly. What do you think?
Then after our job was done with the Plinko board, we started to get really creative. There were these cans just sitting around, you see. So what else would we do but put them on and prance around the warehouse pausing and posing for the occasional photo.
We learned later that we were actually being filmed most of the time we were in the cans. There was a live webcast going on and we definitely watched ourselves later that night. We had no idea.
Yeah well- who else can say that there is a video of them on the internet where they are walking around in a soup can?
That's right.
I'm owning that one!
The cans were pretty awesome though. Lots of kids were really into them (ha- literally in them as well as liked them) and of course Lynda and I thought they were a blast and a half.
Last weekend was fun- lots of random events that kind of flew by. Then this week- um... hello Thursday? What are you doing here so soon?
Not that I'm complaining... but Thursday are we serious?
I've officially listened to the entire Frank Sinatra Christmas album.
Word.
Next thing we know it'll be Christmas and the malls will be decorated and then it'll be spring and I'll be finished with another year of school and then I'll graduate and then I'll get a job and then I'll be married and then I'll be a grandma.
Is anyone else feeling overwhelmed?
I wore a scarf for the first time yesterday. It was finally "cold enough". Maybe I should say it was finally not hot.
Either way, I wore a scarf.
That's me in my scarf. I cut off my head- oops.
Tonight I have a date with some pretty cool girls to watch Sweet Home Alabama. It will be a fun time, I'm sure of it.
Also, I just went and got myself a Pumpkin Spice Latte.
I should've made it decaf, but hey- yolo.
I might regret that decision later, but I'm definitely enjoying it right now.
What is life if we don't live in the moment?
Also, I realize that my music is no longer playing on the page. That is super weird and I apologize. If I had a single tech-savvy bone in my body I would fix that ASAP. But I don't, so I won't.
It makes me crazy sad that it won't play.
Now I'm listening to Zac Brown because I have to memorize all of their music before October 19th.
They have lots of songs.
Southern Ground Music and Food Festival- look it up. I'm going to be there =D
"Life is like a ride on a party bus- turn the radio up and sing along with it."
Enjoy your dayyyyyy.
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