I think they actually do serve breakfast in Hell

Last night, Nick, Peter, Katie and I went to a halloween party dressed as pop tarts and frosted mini-wheats. Nick and Pete spent all week perfecting these costumes.







It was fun at first, but turned into a bit of a disaster.

First of all, it was not very easy to walk in these costumes. They hit our legs at a very weird place. It was especially difficult to walk fast. So, at the end of the night, as we walked home, I fell flat onto the ground, not once, but twice. My entire body is killing me this morning. My hands hurt because I landed on them. My knees are scratched beyond recognition, and my left foot can't hold my weight because it hurts so bad. When I fell, I was like a turtle on my back, I couldn't get back up. And the poptarts weren't much help, because they could barely bend over to pick me back up. It was miserable. Happy Halloween!

Phew!

I am exhausted. Tonight is the first weeknight in over 2 weeks that I will be home. Between my two jobs, I have had so many shifts and extra trainings. I feel like I am never home. Not to mention, I never see my friends! I haven't seen a single person since the first weekend in October. That is not ok! I miss you all. Hopefully i'll see you Chicagoans this weekend!

Backyard Berries

I found these on the back gate to my yard today and was so surprised to see so many weird colors on one vine. I've never seen colors like these before!

New Haircut

So I realize it may seen vain to take and post pictures of myself, but I got my shortest haircut since highschool and I love it.

Sweater Weather

After doing all of my laundry and emptying out my winter bins from the basement, I have discovered that I own 19 sweaters. Just call me Felicity.

To Kill a Mockingbird

Yesterday, I was bored, so I picked up To Kill a Mockingbird off of the bookshelf. I never read it in highschool. When Nick and I started dating and he found out that I had never read it, told me I was crazy, and sent me a copy in the mail when I was in Connecticut. I think I read it in 2 days. Rereading it again, I think I can safely say it is my all-time favorite book. It is so well written and so fun to see the world through the eyes of a very smart and imaginative kid. It also takes places in the deep South, which for some reason facinates me so much as a historically minded person. It deals partly with race relations in the South, which is another thing that I am perpetually interested in and confused by. I also love it because it was one of my mom's favorite books as a kid (well movie, actually) I don't know if any of you are familiar with the story, but there is a scary house on the corner where these kids live and there is a man named Boo Radley who lives inside who never comes out. The kids' imaginations go wild and they try and peek in the windows and all of this stuff. My mom loves to tell a story about her counsins at their lakehouse as a kid (which is actually in the town right next to where Kristin lives in Michigan) At the end of the street, there was this creepy house that was boarded up and they never saw anyone come or go from it. My mom and her cousins used to pretend that it was Boo Radley's house and used to creep around it, leave Boo notes, and peek in the windows. So anyway, I love this book, because when I read it, it has so many dimensions. I haven't read a book for fun for a while and I forgot how much fun a great book can be. (Nerd Alert!)