Fading Summer

Ah, as summer fades I find myself rejoycing! This is the last day of heat and I'm jumping for joy.

For the time being we have a lovely backyard with lots of trees and grass and shrubbery and I'm excited as can be to watch those trees drop their leaves and to get that smell of Fall in the air.

Can you tell I hate summer? I would much rather have a rainy overcast day to a sunny one (even if the temperature isn't "surface of the sun"). Sadly, I have chosen to settle where we get few rainy days and mostly sunny days...

I'm also very excited for this year's NaNoWriMo. I've got my plot starter stirring away in my mind. And with just over a month until the starting shot is fired I'm pumped! We got moved in to our temp housing and I'm ready to do two things: whip out my sewing machine and work on my quilts; and start writing this years novel!

On the sad news front I am missing out on one of my dearest obsessions. You see: my car and my iPod have decided not to play nice. Ever since the latest update to the iPod Touch (the new iPhone 3.0 software) they have become no longer compatible. This leaves me with an empty spot in my commute where Keith and the Girl used to sit. I really miss them...I have come up with a temp solution, however, (until I collect enough funds to buy myself an iPod Classic) which is to plug in a headphone into one ear. I figure people with Bluetooth do it all the time, why not my iPod?! It is nicer, though, to have the integrated technology so that if I get a phone call the car will automatically pause my iPod....but hopefully one day I can get that working again. *Sigh*