16 Great Things about Autumn!

Today is September 22, the first day of Fall, my absolute favorite season. In honor of that, I have compiled a list of 16 reasons why I love it. I was going to make it 31 for obvious holiday obsession-related reasons, but that's a lot, so I settled for just about half. Besides, it's the age I'm going to be this fall.

1. Halloween candy
2. The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
3. Getting a pumpkin at the pumpkin patch, watching all the little kids' excitement as they run around looking for the biggest one they can find. Once they find it, watching them try to pick up that pumpkin that's bigger than them. Remembering when that was you.
4. Apple cider. Maybe not even drinking it, just the concept. Maybe not the concept, just the way it sounds when you say it.
5. How all the stores smell like fall.
6. Down here in the tropics, that rare cold front that makes me excited to do homework just because I get to sit outside in the "cold."
7. Pumpkin pie. The food, the concept, and the words.
8. The decorations that people have all over their houses to make it more fun for the trick-or-treaters.
9. Taking little kids trick-or-treating, watching them in their little Spiderman and princess costumes run from house to house. Remembering when that was you.
10. Carving pumpkins and separating the seeds so you can bake them, listening to "Thriller" in the background. Hey, it's festive.
11. Those sweet potato things with all the marshmallows on top at Thanksgiving. Actually, all Thanksgiving food. Actually, all of Thanksgiving.
12. "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!" I've only watched it once or twice, but it's the concept and the words, I think.
13. Pumpkin everything, from pancakes to lip gloss.
14. Those cinnamon brooms that all the stores sell that makes everything smell cinnamon-y.
15. Halloween costumes, getting dressed up.
16. Halloween!!

Much of this is Halloween-related, but what can I say? I'm obsessed. ^^

Happy Autumn!!!

Happy Fall!

Today really sucked. I hate crying in front of people, though I'm sure no one noticed. I could flop over my desk dead and no one would notice except maybe the people who were copying my homework. My dead body would be covering the answers.

I realized that all my friends and I ever do anymore is bitch and complain about our problems, and it's nothing like back in middle school when my old friends and I would do all this fun stuff like making lists similar to the one I'm about to post. I'll do it in a different post so it's not pessimized (not a word, but I was going for "brought down by pessimism") by my minor ranting.

Oh wow, I just looked it up and pessimized is a word. Cool!

Okay, I have a list coming next...
31 great things about autumn.

GHOUL-AID.

X-E is having a Halloween art contest: Do something artistic featuring Jason Voorhees dancing. I'd enter, but I have no artistic talent, I'm not familiar enough with Jason Voorhees, and entries are due in 30 minutes.

The point here is that the winner gets 5 packets of circa late-90's Ghoul-Aid. This seriously awesome-looking "Scary Blackberry" flavored Kool-Aid that, now that I know it exists, I can't stop thinking about. I don't even drink Kool-Aid, but my attraction to it is actually quite simple:
A. It doesn't exist anymore
B. It's from the late 90's
C. It's Halloween-themed, and
D. It's a prize for winning a contest

This is like last Halloween season where Matt wrote about Ghost Dots. I made it my mission to find them but never did. And I actually do like Dots.

Matt did say in a blog post once that he forgot to send last year's contest winners their prize Ghoul-Aid. That makes me feel a little better. I'm gonna find some Halloween stuff of my own to write about. My obsession with the X-E Halloween is getting ridiculous.

Halloween and other creepy stuff

Did you know Galileo's finger is on display at the "Museo di Storia del Scienza" in Italy?! A lock of George Washington's hair is also in some museum in Maine. Weird but kinda cool.

So X-Entertainment started their Halloween season!

I admire Matt's work for successfully taking pictures of a Magic 8 Ball and getting the words to show up clearly. s'never worked for me, but I know nothing about photography.

Anyway...X-E's Halloween season is always fun to read. Matt's a talented writer.