A Working Girl's Fall Daydream

The temperature is currently 56 degrees.
Light drizzle is falling.
I am completely over-dressed in long leggings, closed-toe shoes, a long-sleeved shirt
with a wool cover up over, and a knit hat on my head.
Yes, I'm rather toasty right now,
but Fall has arrived and I must dress accordingly so it'll stick around longer!
It's like when that first taste of spring comes,
and your toes have been cramped up all winter,
and you hear it's supposed to be 75 that day, so you whip out your flip-flops
only to freeze your little toesies off in the chill 50-degree morning weather.
But I have this weird thought that if I wear my flip-flops and suffer through,
summer will come quicker.
I have the same odd promptings today;
therefore, I will tough it out in my wool cover up,
and you can thank me when this wonderful Fall weather lingers.

I love how Lubbock people get so excited when it turns a bit chilly outside.
On Sunday, it was going to be in the 60s in the morning but then warm up to the 80s,
and I saw numerous women in tall winter boots and jackets.
Ha! They probably have the same weird superstitions as me...

Well, you enjoy this beautiful Fall weather today even if you
had to wear your hair curly because it's pointless wearing it straight in drizzle.
Go buy yourself a Pumpkin Spice Latte
(I shall indulge in an apple turnover over lunch),
and even if you're sitting at the same desk you sat at when it was 110 outside,
for the next 30 seconds imagine you're in sweat pants,
an over-sized t-shirt, slippers, with hair in a ponytail,
sitting on your couch with your dog curled at your side
watching a marathon of 48 Hours Mystery
 getting scared everytime you hear a starnge noise
convinced it's a crazed murderer barging in on you.
Oh, this only happens to me?
I think not!
You know who you are...

Happy Fall, lovelies!

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