Halloween is starting to pop up in stores and online:
Michael’s has fall stuff and a few Halloween things out
Dollar Tree has some Halloween out
Etsy has been featuring Halloween and autumn collections in their roundup emails
Spirit’s website has 2011 collection up
Grandin Road has Halloween stuff online
Pottery Barn has Halloween items online
Wal Mart has Halloween online
Bath and Body Works has their "Boo-tique" up online
Martha Stewart's website has Halloween in their Holiday Head Start section
Jo Ann Fabric has pumpkins, leaves, and scarecrows out, but nothing Halloween yet
A couple weeks ago here is what I was feeling about summer:
For the most part, surprisingly, I’m still feeling summer right now. I’m longing for the kind of long, hot, sweaty, debaucherous summers of my early 20’s. I’m wearing skirts and dresses, drinking a lot, barely eating, and being generally lazy. I wish there were a little more excitement and activity. I still want to throw a rager party at our house, I want to go out more with Josh and go to shows and parties. I’ve mostly been avoiding TV, other than True Blood, Parks & Rec reruns and the occasional movie, and it’s been nice. I’ve let a lot of responsibility fall by the wayside, which is the way summer should be—I’ve been lazy about meal-planning, grocery shopping, cleaning, we’re eating everything on paper plates so I don’t have to do dishes… I still want to have a reason to put on a bathing suit and get wet sometime, I still want to take Georgia to the zoo. I’m not done with drinking sweaty, cold drinks on the back porch. I’m not done with getting away with almost zero cooking. I’m not done with popsicles and ice cream and fruit and sleeping in cold air conditioning.
Today, here is what I feel about summer:
I think the heat wave this past week has just about done me in for summer. It’s now late July, the first of September is within reach, and I’m ready for this hot weather to end. August has always been the worst of the summer months. It’s usually the hottest (though if it’s hotter than this July, I don’t know what I’ll do), and when you’re a kid you hate it because the end of August means school and you spend the month clinging desperately to your last few weeks/days/hours of freedom, and when you’re an adult you hate it because by the time it rolls around you’re pretty much done with summer and heat and you just want it to cool off already so you can shut the darn money-sucking air conditioner off.
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