Time For A Slow Down

This morning while I was outside with Marni, the wind picked up, stirring all the dirt and leaves around.  Across the road from the back of my apartment is an old house with a huge tree in the front yard.  A ton of leaves started flowing off of it, in the prettiest steady pattern.  Then I could hear the clock tower chiming from the university.  It was one of those moments where you just stop and take it in.  I love when that happens.  When something catches your total attention and makes you forget about the rest of the world, even if it's just for 30 seconds. 

After working so many days in a row and not making time for life, it was a nice reminder, a Godwink perhaps.

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Looks I Love: Fall's a Coming Edition:

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Wake Me Up When September Ends

I can't believe it's already October!  I also can't believe how cold I am!  It's so chilly outside.  I even went out and bought a space heater because I'm a total cold weather wimp.  I love this time of year, but it's a reminder that winter is on it's way and I reeeally don't like winter.  But this year I'm not going to dread it coming.  You never know when winter might bring something marvelous.  Fall might, too.

Hair Envy

My hair is at the stage where it just won't grow, but I don't want to cut it.  I long for hair that I could just tousle and go and it look good.  Here are some of my faves:

Rachel Zoe

Jessie Baylin

Kate Hudson

The Smoky Mountains Really Are Great

“You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book… or you take a trip… and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating. The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness. The second symptom (when hibernating becomes dangerous and might degenerate into death): absence of pleasure. That is all. It appears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, boredom, death. Millions live like this (or die like this) without knowing it. They work in offices. They drive a car. They picnic with their families. They raise children. And then some shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song, and it awakens them and saves them from death. Some never awaken.”


Anaïs Nin

Gotta Gettaway

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Mom and I are heading to the Smoky Mountains early tomorrow morning.  I mean early.  I'm getting up at 4:30 to try to make it to her house by 6.  We'll see how that goes.  Can I just say that I LOVE the Smokies.  I mean LOVE them.  I love being down there and shopping in Pigeon Forge and walking around Gatlinburg and going up to the Chimney Tops and having a picnic.  Ahhh.  Hopefully I'll find some of the mind I lost over the past couple of months while I'm there.  Yay!