Let's Go Shopping!!!

I think I am a seasonal shopper...I love certain things in the fall.  New boots and a new bag and some comfy tees and sweaters, black tights, scarves, a hat or two.

I switch lipsticks and glosses to whatever new reddish shade is shown and I am a happy camper.

I am in love with Nars stuff...shadows, liptints and glosses.  I love Clinique's chubby lip crayons...rich and moisture filled and you can apply them without a mirror.  They don't even need to be sharpened.  You wind them.  I love love love Beauty.com. It is better than actually going to a store.  Free samples no shipping charges and a speedy delivery.  Plus you build up bonus money every time you shop. And it comes off of your orders.

Plus always a free great gift.

Sundance Catalog...the best bags, shoes, gloves and jewelry. 

Garnett Hill...sweaters and soft dresses.

Free People...almost everything is amazing.

Wildfox Couture...the best hang around the house tees and jerseys.

Marshalls...my go to place for men's sweats...there is nothing better than oversized men's sweats to wear around the house when you are lounging.

Philosophy...they have a new cream called 27 Wishes...it softens anything...heels hands elbows...it is amazing.

  I need these, too. 
 Measuring cups.
From Anthropoligie.  I adore Anthropologie.

The house must be seasonalized too...a change out of quilts and throws and pillows.  Warmer deeper colors that sing to me when it is cold outside.
And baby it gets cold outside.

Foods get more seasonal, too.  Pumpkins and squashes and green green veggies.  Apples and cider and sharper cheeses.
I don't even mind that it gets darker earlier. I love these crisp fall days.
Hot cider...yum...cold cider...yum.
A stack of amazing books to read.
Chili.

I just ordered Lucy two of these.
I think she needs them.
You can get them at Amazon.
She can't wait.

Do seasons rule any of your life? 

Where Did These Books Come From?

See...here is the thing...I preorder them...it seems as though they are staggered and not going to come for months and months...

and then...

the notices that they are on my Kindle begin to trickle torrential downpour in!!!

Even Lucy looks on in wonder as my Kindle sizzles!!!

But how can I not want to read...

I just love virtual bookshelved!!!

Now I just need to get to them!!!

Sunday...Sunday...I Love This Day...

Sunday includes the following...

A special breakfast made at home...today we had country fresh eggs and ham and cinnamon rolls...just the pop out of the can ones. 
Still good. 
Every Sunday we make great plans to go out for breakfast and every Sunday we I back out...so much nicer to stay in...relax...unwind.

Hours with the New York Times...love the Style and Book Review sections.

After the papers I read...and listen to Dennis sleep.
Then...
Football.
Lunch.
Football.
Popcorn.
More football.
And the dreaded Red Zone.

But this is the gift I give to my husband.
I sit with him...in the same room...while all of this football drones on.
And on...
My husband is a man of many teams.
I think it is because we have lived in so many different places.
He grew up in Colorado and adores the Broncos.
I grew up in Ohio and never watched football.
Does Ohio even have a football team?
And now he loves the Philadelphia Eagles and yesterday it was
Penn State and I think his college team played.
Actually I guess I give him 2 days of football.
He actually points things out to me and asks me to look at the TV.
Awkward.
Annoying.
I will never get it. But I think that I look every once in a while...
Just for him.
And sometimes I even ask a question like...are those arrows on the field fake or real or why do they wear those towels tucked into their pants and look at Palomanu's hair...it is so long!!!
Important stuff like that.
By the time we get to the end of this festive day...we usually cancel dinner.
Or we let ourselves have a treat for dinner.
Cereal.
Pumpkin pie last week.
I think tonight we are having ice cream.
So much fun.
Football...it would not be fall without it...
not in this house...lol...

How did you spend your Sunday?

Why I Love This Saturday by Patty...

There is no paint involved in any way.

We all slept in.

Laundry is all done.

  There is really nothing that has to be accomplished today.

College football is on and while I don't love to watch it...I like it on in the background while I do other things.

This was lunch.

If you do not live in this area...this probably looks amazingly awful to you.

It is a sandwich called Italian Roast Pork.

Ours comes from a shop called The Country Butcher.

It is roasted pork that is seasoned in secret ways.  Very secret ways.

Danny, our friend, owns this shop and does this every Saturday.

I don't know when he starts roasting but the pork is done by noon.

You have to have the pork on a beautiful roll with a slice or two of provolone cheese, pan juices and sauteed broccoli rabe.

When we first heard about these we got them plain and thought we should put Dijon mustard on them.

We were foolish.

Then we started to get them with the broccoli rabe on the side.

Again...foolish.

Now we let them do them for us the right way.

Roll, juice, broccoli rabe, pork.

Drip drip drip.

We eat them with juices dripping everywhere.

We try to just share one but it is just not possible.

It is an amazing sandwich.

Trust me.

We try to resist but by the time Saturday morning rolls around we are crazed.

We say to each other...let's just have fruit for breakfast and then we can have one of Danny's sandwiches.

Close to noon we get a little bit scared that this is the only Saturday in the history of Italian Roast Pork Sandwiches that Danny slept in and forgot to make them.

God forbid.

Today was our lucky day.

We are full, sated, gratified.

Now...

thoughts are on dinner.

Lol.

Danny's store and lunch is in one direction while dinner is in another direction.

Tonight we are having pizzas.

And salad.

They are small and beautiful so we will get two.

Who does not love cold pizza the next day?

Scoff...scoff...scoff.

Don't laugh until you have tried it and a twirl of cold pasta, too.

Breakfast Of Champions...

I digress.

Dinner will be a roasted butternut squash pizza with bacon, gorgonzola cheese, arugula and a drizzle of organic honey.

Den will have housemade meatball pizza or salume or something or other.

See why I adore this Saturday?

I love a well executed plan.

Saturday is our meat eating day...in our quest to become vegetarians...we give it up on Saturday!!!

Today...

Today I chose a book but did not start to read it.

I collected all of my yarn squares together but did not stitch them into my quilt.

I put all of the things I needed for my Halloween Banner together but did not begin to stitch it.

I made a list of things I should be doing but I did not do any of them.

I added to my list of things to do but did not do those things either.

I redid my list of things to do and still did not do any of them.

I looked at a huge basket of laundry...just the darks...and ignored them.

Hmmm...

I did eat pumpkin pie for breakfast.

And chips and hummus for lunch.

I did stomp through leaves.

I did let the wind blow my newly keratined hair all over the place.

I did get my nails painted a viscious fiery red.

I did make a dinner reservation.

I did flop on the sofa covered in a comfy quilt to watch Work Of Art and The Rachel Zoe Project.

I did take a yummy bubble bath in the middle of the day!!!

I did have a lovely birthday.

Oh...I still have presents to open when my husband comes home from work.

Hurray!!!

I will show you those tomorrow!!!

I wish I could share my birthday cake with you!!!