Where did fall go?

Remember that post not to long ago named paranoia? It was about my irrational fear of winter in Korea. Well, it turns out I wasn't so irrational after all. The day we came back from the Philippines, someday at the end of September, summer faded away into a fog of wintery icicle land! So there isn't really ice, but the temperatures did drop a good 30 degrees. It went from mid 80's one day to 50 degrees the next. I busted out those moldy winter clothes and currently shiver anytime I see a picture of myself where skimpy clothing.

It's true last weekend was nothing short of fabulous in terms of temperature. At one point, I even wore a skirt WITHOUT leggings, but alas, it looks like those warm days are gone. Gone, gone gone. They vanished into the night and now can be seen among the stars in the twinkling sky. My summer clothes packed in bags, I have accepted the oncoming cold months as a reality.

The one benefit of fall are the bright colors embellishing the trees, but even that is just a sign of death (or hibernation).

Here are some Korea fall pictures.

What's happened this week

- I was REALLY REALLY good and starting writing again on my "project." I haven't written since my computer died and I was nervous I wouldn't remember anything without my notes, but I did. REally it was just an excuse.

- I worked overtime in the evening.

- We made Salmon corn chowder and it was DELICIOUS!!

- I didn't blog. I just forgot.

- Didn't work out enough and my stomach is showing it after this weekend of gluttony.

- Found an outlet mall in Korea. We felt like we were walking into America except for the excessive amount of Asians walking around. It was surreal. I felt like we could just get in the car and drive back home. It was a little sad when reality hit that we would have to drive over an ocean or two to get home home.

- Didn't make our traditional Saturday breakfast of either breakfast tacos or pancakes. I love BREAKFAST! We were in too much of a rush.

- Went to Seoul and celebrated our friends birthday. It was lots of fun.

- Made a birthday cake. It turned out OKAY, not great, but man it was nice to have cake!

-Came home and watched an old episode of the Daily Show because they are off air preparing for the "Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear".

-Checked my bank account and realized that the money I sent home hadn't reached my bank a week and a half later. I had a little freak out. It was a lot of money.

- Kyle called the bank and figured out, that there was sometime of number error. The money hasn't disappeared into someone else's account. Thank GOD!

-It was a good week. Saturday and Sunday were warm and beautiful. Today is sweater weather, and tomorrow will freeze. Have I mentioned that I hate winter?

Welcome to the first day of fall!

How very unlike Texas to celebrate the first day of fall with "cool" weather. The drumming of steady rain filled my eardrums this morning as I rose from my slumber. Our summer has been bone-shatteringly dry and fire-roasting hot. It was so blistering hot this summer that we were two days short of beating the all time record of the hottest summer on record made in 1925. And not only that Texas, typically does not feel fall weather, does not acknowledge a change in the season until around Halloween, and even then we only receive a drop of 10-15 degrees. Texas prefers it's weather to remain sizzling torrid as it feels the need to maintain it's reputation as the kid on the block no one dares to mess with.

When I walked outside this morning amidst the cool breeze, grey sky, the nearly smiling plants and the musky scent of fresh rain, my first thought was, "Am I in a different part of the country? Did I somehow teleport to the North West. Am I actually in Seattle at this moment? Isn't Texas brown and dead with no hope of rain for another decade?" It is 3:00 pm and 68 degrees. Sixty-eight degrees! I don't know that we have gotten below 70 degrees the entire summer, even at the dead of night and here in Texas September is still summer- no matter what the equinox says.

So to celebrate this unexpected yet welcome change in our weather, we decided to make chili. Chili is the perfect meal for any "cold" rainy evening. It is currently stewing on the stove and as we LOVE food, we are finding it increasingly difficult to pass by without tasting it each and every time.

P.s. On a follow up note to the previous posts, we are on the road to recovery. We have not fully humanized from our snotty zombie states, but we are much more recognizable as human beings at this point.