i just made a big pot of minestrone, a huge batch of chocolate chip pumpkin muffins, and finally put a loaf of pumpkin pecan bread in the oven. i like fall. :) i like fall foods. :D i wish my mom had remembered to make applesauce for me with the apples that she and my dad picked tho, i don't have time to do it, or know how she does it, so i guess i'll just have to steal some apples and bring them down to portland with some caramel. :D i'd still rather have nice hot spicy applesauce tho but i'll have plenty over the course of the winter, i'm sure. not for at least another week tho, in the morning my family is going to DC for my dad's class reunion. so i probly wont bother to come back here till they get back unless i need to wash clothes. if i wash enough when i get up i doubt i'll have to come back tho.

yesterday when i was driving from Portland i had just gotten onto the highway and the car next to me was all swervy and i wondered why and then i realized there was a giant inflated trash bag in the road and i couldn't get out of the way so i hit it and it exploded HARD on the right side of the hood of my car. it scared the crap out of me, then it got caught on my wheel for a second so i was wondering if it had made me blow a flat or something cuz of the unbalancedness and the dragging sound but it dislodged itself soon and i continued Brunswickwards. then last night my dad comes home from a town meeting or something and tells me theres A HUGE DENT AS WELL AS SCRATCHES on the hood of my car and i hadn't even noticed. today i went out and looked at it and its so small you can't see it without knowing its there, and even then i had trouble seeing it. the scratches are more noticeable than the dent but they're still not bad. and its not like i was gonna keep the car perfect forever, you all know me....i have a small, speedy car and i take advantage of that. :)

someone tell me if they have anything cool going down for Halloween cuz i'm way too busy to arrange anything myself, and i intend to fully enjoy the holiday, even if i'm still not sure what i want to be (yeah, i have all that pirate stuff, but everyone else is going as a pirate this year, so i dunno). the past 2 years i haven't been able to fully enjoy this season, due to mostly self-inflicted personal issues, but i'm a much happier and adjusted person now and i want to celebrate my favorite holiday, damnit. even if the most interesting thing going down is getting drunk in a graveyard, count me in.