Slowing down for Fall

I haven't been keeping up here again...  I know.

Fall happened again and try as I might, I just can't seem to like the season.  And I know it has much to recommend it - especially here in the northwest:  crisp air, golden colors, crunchy leaves to walk in.  But the days get shorter too and all my glorious summer flowers die off and the rain picks up... and I don't really like to be cold.  Yuck, really.  I just find it depressing.

And I got a cold, of course.  That doesn't help.

We've had some ups and downs and a few big changes this fall as well, adding to the overall 'unsettled' feeling that current events - as in politics and world financial markets - are already creating.  It's just not a good time.  If Mark hadn't just changed jobs and I wasn't getting increasingly paranoid about my generation's general financial outlook, it would be a good time to go on vacation.  But he did, and I am... so we're not.

I'm settling for a pot of chicken soup and some pumpkin pie - and a stack of books. I even washed some windows this morning to get a little more of the dazzling fall light into the house.  Maybe I should get out a jigsaw puzzle. 

(I KNOW I should stop eating leftover Halloween chocolate.) 

It's Fall.  Oh dear.