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"Always remember there was nothing worth sharing like the love that let us share our name."

And the Livin' Is Easy...

Dear Friends,

According to my pretty new planner, Monday was the first official day of autumn. As you may or may not know, autumn is my favorite season of them all!!! I love the way it smells like the first day of school, bonfires, Halloween, Vienna, and piles of leaves all rolled into one, outside. I love that I get to wear all of my favorite jackets and cowboy boots. I love that the colors start to change from greens to all of the unexpecteds. In honor of this, the greatest of all seasons, I think I will make yet another list of things that I NEED to do this fall.

In no order:

1. Go on a hayride and through a corn maze, hopefully one that ends with a big slide!

2. Learn to bake amazing pies from scratch. (Any suggestions would be much appreciated.)

3. Go to a pumpkin patch and carve a jack-o-lantern.

4. Dress up and do something wonderful for Halloween.

5. Go apple picking and make carmel apples.

6. Go to a haunted house and watch scary movies.

7. Huddle around a bonfire with best friends.

8. Go for a hike at Babler and see all of the trees changing colors.

9. Take a train to Chicago for a long weekend of friends and music and Christmas light admiring. (To be fair, I already know that I am doing this.)

10. Roll down Art Hill.

Go listen to Langhorne Slim,
Owl

PS- Please note our award winning jack-o-lanterns in this picture and the fact that my brother is still obsessed with Batman.

Wien, Wien, Wien

There's this line from this great song that goes like this:

I tried to think of bad times
Good Memories are all I have.

mmm... so true. Two years ago I got to live in beautiful Vienna for a few months. I've been thinking about it a lot today because my Cousin Emily arrived in Wien for her Austrian Adventure today and because I did some delicious cupcaking and H&Ming with my Best Vienna Friend Forever Lauren. H&Ming and yummy dessert eating was something we did quite often in Vienna.

Sometimes I worry that I idealize my trip and if I ever went back it would be disappointing. It occurs to me that I glamorize things a bit when I look back lovingly on things like waiting for the strassenbahn and going to Bratislava. I think that's a normal thing to do when you have such a strong experience with anything.

I miss Vienna. It was a great adventure and it makes me sad to think that it was two whole years ago. New adventures are on the horizon though, and someday I'll go back to Wien, not to relive the good times but to have new ones. yes yes yes.

owl