Top 10 Reasons I Love Fall (in no particular order):
1) The annual festival in my hometown that features the best apple fritters EVAH. People wait in line for extremely long amounts of time for these little nuggets of supreme joy. They must be eaten warm for maximum pleasure. In fact, I love all festival food, and luckily, there are lots of fall festivals in my area.
2) The fact that I live in New England. This is the only season where my area of the country rules.
3) The crunchy, colorful leaves. Is there anything more satisfying than marching over a crispy pile of leaves?
4) Not having to apply sunscreen to Jane every day. For those who have to do this with a toddler, you know what a reprieve the colder months are.
5) The impending holidays. Commercialism or not, I love the October-December holiday season.
6) Halloween. Specifically, the candy. We have a whole trick-or-treating extravaganza at my workplace every year where full-grown professional-ish adults dress in costumes and run from office to office to fill up big bags of candy. I work in a very candy-centric office, which is obviously awesome. So we totally bring it for Halloween.
7) Candy corn. (This does deserve its own entry.) My favorite favorite favorite candy. If anyone wants to purchase me a bag, I will be your best friend for the day.
8) That first-day-of-school feeling that September brings, even if you're not in school. I always feel the urge to stock up on notebooks and a new Trapper Keeper (remember those?). It feels like a new year, even more so than the actual New Year does.
9) Hello - my BIRTHDAY. I will never be ashamed at how much I love my birthday, and how much I love everyone's birthday. Particularly if it means I get some cake.
10) Getting to break out the jeans and sweaters (the fall sweaters, not the big bulky winter sweaters) and scarves and having an excuse to go replenish my wardrobe a little bit. Even I, who adore wearing flip-flops and shorts so very much, gets sick of wearing them by the end of September. I'm clearly no fashionista, but I like one or two new things every now and then. Having to buy Jane an entire new wardrobe every season is a little bit daunting and expensive, but as it turns out, these kids - they grow. A lot, in fact!
And my very LEAST favorite thing about fall:
The fact that it means winter is coming.
What's YOUR favorite thing about fall?
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I haven't decided if I am going to dress up for your annual work Halloween vomit-thon, but if I do, my costume is going to rock your world.
I'm with you on the candy corn. I can't buy it because if it's in the house, I will eat it until I get sick.
I love Fall because the cooler weather is a good excuse to make soup everyday. Soup in the summer is just offensive, not so much in the fall.
I also love that you called your coworkers "professional-ish". Heh.
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