Author: The Jody

So it was only about 50 degrees and super windy today. Still, if you only went by the following photo (taken at lunch where I work) and you ignored the leaves in the foreground and the random bare trees, you might think this picture was taken in late spring. (Speaking of the wind…yes, that was a strip of shingles from the roof lying on the driveway when I got home.)

This picture is glorious full size (It’s reduced to about 15% for this picture). It is in my top three favorite pictures I’ve ever taken, and right now it’s my desktop background image. See, fall can be beautiful, even without pretty red and orange leaves!

Okay, this past week and weekend we finally had our peak foliage, in my humble opinion. Not that I hate stretching out fall, by any means, but I was just so delighted to actually see some actual color.

Let the house at about 8:15 this morning and didn’t get home until around 5 pm. Oy, somehow I misplaced the whole day! Spent some money though, which is always fun. Oh, and you’ll be shocked to hear that only $29 of it was at Target. I can’t believe I only spend $29. Well, it would have been more but it turns out that I havn’t been paying close enough attantion and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory isn’t out until Tuesday. All I noticed was the commercials showing every 15 seconds on Nickelodeon.

So now it’s almost 7 and I haven’t done today’s words on my Nano novel, never mind bank a few in case next week is a rough one. I promise I will be good and for the next hour I will do nothing but type. I’ll even put on my iPod instead of watching whatever is on tv. But if I have my 1666 words by 8pm, I have earned the right to sit with my family on the couch, right? We have this week’s Mythbusters in the warming tray of the TiVo…

Okay, I have a song stuck in my head that most of you have probably never heard. But, through the power of the internet, I am going to tell you how you can download the song from the artist’s website to enjoy in your very own ears.

The song is called Skullcrusher Mountain, and it’s by a brilliant singer/songwriter named Jonathan Coulton. Got to his site at http://www.jonathancoulton.com to download this and other fantastic songs for free…then toss him a few bucks if you like what you hear. His stuff is excellent for listening to on the drive home, let me tell you.

You have to trust me when I tell you that coming anywhere near seventy degrees in November in Massachusetts is a gift from Heaven. I love it. Adore it. But damned if it isn’t either giving me a cold or an allergy attack. The change in temperature from freezing cold to 70 in the span of a week just makes my sinuses go “Well, that was fun, we think we’ll just boost production of post-nasal drip. Have a nice day.”

Gah. So I’ll go for a walk at lunch today to enjoy the pretty leaves and stuff, and then I’ll come back inside and take more Sudafed.