Tuesday, September 7, 2010

are a'changin'

Miss Sarah Jeanne Noah is getting married. In two weeks from today, she will no longer be Sarahnoah-all-one-word, instead she will be Sarahnoahbradshaw, which is almost equally as fun to say three times fast.

Several weeks ago, we "showered" Trey and Sarah in South Austin, then ventured to San Antonio for a bachelorette party full of dancing to amazing nineties music, burritos as big as our heads, and trying to keep members of our group from falling into the murky waters of the Riverwalk. All in all, I'd say the weekend was a successful tribute to the end of Sarah's "single" life, and a grand sendoff into the world of old married people. Welcome aboard, Miss-Noah-Soon-To-Be-Mrs-Bradshaw, it's a wild and delightful ride!














in real life

Hurricane Hermine is rearing her swirly head above us right now, which I am absolutely okay with. I love an occasional string of stormy gray days, days that allow you to guiltlessly hole up inside the warmth and comfort of home.

Today, I allowed myself to believe in Autumn. It's been far too oppressively hot to even fathom the change of season, but as it poured on and on, I lit my Leaves candle, put on some comfy pants, and threw myself into making a beef and butternut squash stew.

And I thought, as I allowed myself to fall deeper and deeper (get it? Fall? Bahahaha!), that I would finish up tonight with a last hoorah to summer, and ventured into my first and final raspberry and blackberry cobbler of the season.

Now I know that next week, the temperatures in Austin will soar, and I'll be sweating profusely on my way from the car to the apartment, but for the next few days, I will allow myself to believe that leaves will turn and pumpkins will be carved and football will be played and we will huddle around mugs of cider as the wind and rain howl outside.

Thursday, September 2, 2010

folding chair next to mine

This is a post for Kate LePree Green, soon-to-be-officially-christened "Kate LePree Green, RN." Way to freakin' go, girl. Your accomplishment, even if it hasn't been posted yet through the Board of Nursing, is cause for one crazy celebration! I know I speak for the rest of the amazing group of people that we work with when we say:

CONGRATULATIONS!


WITH the exclamation point. :)