a change gonna come

i actually updated my space today. new layout, photos, text. crazy. i like to do a little rehaul now and then. comes with the changing seasons. new wall colors, new haircut, new jeans (a size smaller!), new myspace, new clinique products, new candles on the mantle, new shampoo, new lease on life.

i feel like i JUST made all these major life changes at the beginning of the summer. new jobs, new apartment, new city, new new new. i DID JUST make all these changes. it's like everything before june 1st was some alternate life i once lead. and i'm happy with the way my life is going. it's just still not quite complete. i spend too much time curled up in a leather chair watching tv. there are people and experiences waiting for me all over chicago (and all over the world!) and i just need to figure out how to find myself in this big city. there's just so much, sometimes it makes me feel so little.

(i didn't intend to get all philosophical and weird. i feel like my last few posts have ended far from where i intended. i really just meant to say... i updated my space.)

bleacher seats... $37.75
old style... $5.50
jumbo hot dog... $3.75
biking to and from wrigley field... priceless

all summer my kitchen has been ungodly hot when compared to my living room. the window is busted, so i have a crate holding it open. leaving the back door open seems to help a bit, but there is a window pane in the screen door, so it doesn't really let in much air unless i open that too, but then bugs get in. i have a fan in here, but it's super powerful and loud, so i don't use it unless it's in the 90's and i might pass out.

today, as i was sitting on the porch eating lunch, i noticed a reflection off the open kitchen window. oh wait, it wasn't actually open. there is a storm window pane AND a screen, and the pane had been shut all along. after much struggle with the screens and the broken window, i managed to raise the pane halfway, put the screen back down, and prop the window with the crate. now there is a breeze. what a concept.

things i like about autumn

sleeping with the windows open... hooded sweatshirts... the smell of burning wood... scarves... sleeping with the covers on... boots... hot chai tea... waking up to a cool breeze and trees outside my bedside window... curling up in my leather recliner with blankets... shades of brown and orange and olive... pumpkins and apples... puffy vests... the first colored leaves...