I love this time of year. While I love the summer months and wished they’d never end, I also love the change in seasons. The weather begins to cool down, leaves start to change color, it gets darker earlier. I also love it because I haven’t had to run the air conditioner in at least a week, saving on my energy costs. Woo hoo!

In fact, it’s raining right now and I’ve been sipping on some warm apple cider, listening to Ray Charles with the windows open. It’s probably one of my favorite things in the world… okay, I’m over exaggerating, but it is pretty sweet.

Some other things I like about fall? Halloween, haunted houses, watching movies, football… oh the list could go on.

In other news, I’ve slowly been making the switch at work from a PC laptop to a MacBook. Overall I like the MacBook because it’s faster than my work laptop, I can switch around programs easier, and it’s just easier on the eyes. I finally got Office 2008 and have been using Entourage, which was one of my biggest “ties” to my PC. I don’t think my boss planned on me keeping it as my primary machine, but I think it’s going to work out beautifully.

Work is going okay, I really need to decorate my office after being there a year, but have been too busy doing other things to really spend the time to take care of that… hopefully I’ll find a paint scheme that I like and just get it over with.

Well, I suppose I should go to bed for now. Have a small conference tomorrow morning, our IT man and our production director will be talking about the technologies we use at Grace. Fortunately I don’t have to speak, but I’m hoping that by this time next year, we can have a new website in place that we can brag about. I hope all of you are enjoying this beautiful fall weather!

What was really cool was leaving for work today and seeing half the park next to my apartment flooded! There was even a duck floating around there, it was pretty sweet. So here are pictures of “The Great Flood” of Carmel.

Ahhh, the beach. My Spring Break officially started after class today at 11:30 a.m. and I’m stuck in Indiana. Yep, that happens when you’re spontaneous and you normally make travel plans at the last minute. So for now, I am looking at beach scenes and wishing I was there.

It’s been a fairly exciting week, as I have been apartment hunting! Needless to say it’s been fairly successful and I think I may have found a place in Carmel… yup… Carmel. For all the trash talking I’ve done towards Carmel in my four years at North Central, I have decided that Carmel has grown on me.

I have plenty of money saved up to buy the essentials for the kitchen and bathroom and will probably look around places for used furniture (hello flea markets, Craig’s List, and Goodwill!). After I go on my shopping spree at Target, I think I’ll have a lot of what I need, I just won’t have any living room furniture, which isn’t a big deal to me. Why? Because summer time means that I’ll be outside a lot and there will be Tiki Time at Noah’s house!

Which by the way, reminds me that I need to find a bike to go on the Monon… I’ve been using my Dad’s bike for years, but I don’t think he likes the idea of me taking his bike with me.

So overall, I’m pretty content with life. I’m excited about the near future, the upcoming warm weather, a new place… I think everything is starting to come together.

I have to thank God the most for helping me through over the past several months. I’ve slipped up a few times, but I think I’m finally in a good place: at school, at home, and at work. Woo hoo! Well, that’s all for now. I’ll keep you posted on apartment updates!