Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween!

Snail Mail

Do you know what brings a smile to my face no matter what? Ok, lots of things do, but the answer is hand-written snail mail. There is something so personal about seeing an individual's handwriting. It's nice to get an email, but that's the quick way of just seeing what's up. I like walking in my door after work and seeing an envelope with my name on it in the handwriting of someone special to me! And just as much as receiving letters, I like to write them. I like to sit down and take the time. I think it lets the recipient know that I put thought into a letter just for him/her/them. I don't do that as often as I used to. I think I need to work on my correspondence skills.

Here is the most recent mail I received that brought me sweet wishes and a loving reminder that I have a wonderful family. Thanks, Omi!

I like how my Omi writes her "M"s and "N"s in cursive.

For the record, my mom is the greatest and sending mail and making sure I feel special.

Love Always.

Mid-afternoon Break

Here are some of the accessories for my Halloween costume. Guessed it yet?

I took a walk around the Hill on my lunch hour so that I could snap some pictures of the beautiful Autumn foliage. It's too dark when I get home from work to get any good ones, and the sun shining through the trees on my walk home for lunch was just too good to pass up. 

Good friend Zach is coming to DC today to visit all of us! We miss him out here! It's been almost a year since he finished his internship on the Hill and went back West. He is such fun, and this weekend is going to be sooo fun!

My current read (OK, if you know me, you know that I am always in the middle of 2 or 3 books) is the latest Dan Brown book The Lost Symbol. It is set in DC, and it's amusing to read because unlike his other books with the Robert Langdon character which are set in Europe, I can tell by description where they are in the city before the author reveals the location! And I know the Capitol building so well that I can even see the few flaws in his descriptions of various rooms or corridors. The villain in this one kind of scares me though (alright, everything scares me) so I don't like to read it before I go to bed or when I'm home alone. There is an episode of Friends where Joey reveals that he puts The Shining in the freezer whenever he gets to a scary part. Sometimes I want to put this book in my freezer when the plot gets tense.

That is all of the randomness I have for right now.

Love always.

Orange

These pumpkins were made for carvin'... Mine is modeled after the scary pumpkin from my favorite children's Halloween book The Magic Pumpkin (published in 1984).

Autumn treasures fall into my backyard.

Here I am showing off Autumn.

Love Always.