Posts tagged fall
Not Feeling Social
Oct 21st
That’s exactly how I have felt lately, not social.
Maybe it is because I have had my fare share of being social when I don’t want to be lately.
I spent 5 days sick with a fever and worked through it, with no one but my kids to care or make me some hot tea. Sometimes that’s all a girl needs!
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I spent 3 days dispatching with my father at work. I don’t normally do that at work so it was stressful and very busy.
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I stopped posting on Twitter everyday. Did anyone notice? I just didn’t have anything to say.
I still post on Facebook but have kept as much of the drama out.
I haven’t blogged. It’s not because I don’t have anything to blog about. I haven’t wanted it to turn into what todays post is.
I am feeling down. Self pitty.
Maybe it’s because I have been screwed enough reacently to last awhile. Things I haven’t blogged about nor Tweeted or left status on Facebook about.
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My son turned 15 last week. I made dinner and a cake. Okay my oldest daughter was kind enough to bake the cake, I iced it. I don’t think I am upset that my kids are getting older. I was upset that the only family member who showed up was my step-father and only because he forgot to bring my sons gift to work that day. I am glad someone came.
Maybe it’s because I am not being social and using being busy as an excuse. My writing is my outlet weather it be blogging or even Twitter and Facebook. Sometimes I think it’s bad for me to be so open. Sometimes it opens up wounds further. But suppressing everything never helps me.
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Maybe it’s the weather. However the weather made me smile earlier this week. Remember my blogging about my favorite smell in the fall, wet leaves? Monday night I smelled the sweet smell of wet leaves. It was a nice evening but had been raining for awhile. The leaves are finally starting to change color and fall on the ground. I stood in my backyard and just took a few breaths in. Mmmmmm.
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I went to Pittsburgh Penguins Game #4 against the Islanders. The new arena is beautiful! I plan on blogging about that in another post.
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Whatever the cause I hope it is over soon. While I have had good things happen I don’t like the mood I am in. I don’t like feeling helpless. I don’t like feeling that no one cares (maybe they do, maybe they don’t the problem is I have no idea). I don’t like feeling like no one wants to talk to me when I know it’s just me (at least I hope).
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My anxiety could be to blame but it is coming to fruit today as far as realizing it. The downfall to moving downstairs at work is I am not used to being around all the people when I am having anxiety problems. It sucks. You feel like there are people everywhere. You feel like they are staring at you. Anxiety sucks.
Day on the Farm
Oct 4th
We all know I hate any season that isn’t summer. I spend much of my time letting everyone know that. I have to take it back though. I love, love, love summer and the heat. I can tolerate and find great things about other seasons as well.
Fall is here. I haven’t been able to smell the wet leaves yet but a trip to Simmons Farm was a great way to get into the fall fever. Simmons is about 30 minutes south of Pittsburgh. Over the years I have visited many different farms that have hay rides and pumpkin picking but this is my favorite one of them all.
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For $10.75 per person you get:
Hayride to the field
one pumpkin
one ear of indian corn
an apple
small cup of apple cider
100 ft slide
3 acre corn maze
hay maze and smaller corn maze for younger kids
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Depending on weather and how many people are there is also:
concessions
petting zoo
pony rides
apple sling shot
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We choose a great day to go. It was definitely a chilly fall morning which kept many away until later in the afternoon.
Once you pay you walk through a greenhouse like structure where there are pumpking carving examples,
a corn playbox,
and concessions.
At the end of that you will find the area to wait for a tractor to come and pick you up. We didn’t wait long at all before we were on our way. The girls enjoyed the extra leg room.
It’s nice that adults can be just as silly as the kids.
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Once we got to the field the girls wanted to shoot straight for the pumpkins. I reminded them that if we do that first they would have to carry the pumpkins around while they do the activities. I sure wasn’t carrying it. So they headed straight for the 100 ft slide where there was no line. I would have gone on myself but I knew I didn’t want to walk back up the hill and have to walk the pumpkin fields too.
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We had to stop and pose for our pictures. A friend that came on the trip suggested I should be the witch. Hmmmm I didn’t have anything nice to say so I became the scarecrow. Maybe I should have went with the witch?
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Kids aren’t the only ones who behave like kids here. This coming from the same jackass that suggested I be the witch 
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After he was done goofing off we went to the corn maze to play hide and seek with the kids. What the kids didn’t know is that they were playing hide and seek with us. We were running around the maze trying to get out all the while trying to keep them in. What we didn’t know is they were cheating by cutting through the corn instead of going through the path. Guess the joke was on all of us.
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There was a beautiful tree I had to get a picture of. If I wasn’t so tired I might have walked up there to sit under it.
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We walked through the pumpkin patches for what seemed like forever. My shoes were getting wet and muddy and honestly I don’t want to know what else was on my shoes. It was fun chasing the girls all over. They were excited to find the biggest pumpkin they could. Mind you my rule was you had to be able to carry it yourself. I didn’t think kids were that strong but I guess I was wrong.
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At the petting zoo were a few very cute animals. They were relatively young and small enough that they weren’t frighting. Well unless they try to eat your purse, which they did to my friend. Then you have a few who turn around and have the nastiest dingle berries hanging from you know where. Yuck. Lucky for you I don’t have any pictures of that to share with you. Instead we have a goat chewing on another goat.
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We had a great day at Simmons Farm. If your in the Pittsburgh area I recommend going out for a visit. They also have apple picking that I would like to go back and do sometime.
First Day of Autumn
Sep 23rd
If you didn’t already know today is the first day of Autumn. It usually signifies the start of fall. Here in Pittsburgh it gets colder and the leaves start to fall. I am not much for colder weather but one of my favorite things about fall is the smell of wet leaves.
This year in Pittsburgh it is a hot, muggy day that feels nothing like fall.
We often do an annual trip to Cedar Creek Park with my sister and her kids.
Hubby does the cooking. He is the master chef of the grill in my family.
After filling our belly’s we go on a hike.
Doesn’t she look thrilled? I think in her teenage mind she would rather be anywhere than stuck in the woods with her family. That teenage angst makes for great photo opportunities tho.
Other than swimming pools and the beach this is the one time a year we go somewhere that the kids can get wet. We don’t even take clothes to change into. Air dry baby!
Back to Autumn. My daughter. Back in the first grade she came home and told me a story while choking up a bit trying to hold back a few tears. She is just going about her normal day as a 1st grader. She was sitting at her desk minding her own business when the teacher had an announcement to make. ”Today is the first day of Autumn.” That didn’t bother my daughter at first, it was the kids who all turned and pointed their little first grade fingers at her and started to laugh. They weren’t trying to be mean because they didn’t like her but try telling her that.
It’s a joke now. Today I texted her “Happy 1st day ” We shall see if she texts me back today.
She may not talk to me at all.
