September is always such a tease. It gives us a few cool days. A friend whose birthday is in the middle of the month says that Jesus always makes the weather nice for her special day, and I’m inclined to believe her. It always manages to make its way back up to the 90s at some point during the month, though. I could do without that.
Looking forward seemed to be the theme of this month. I am about to start October Unprocessed and 31 Days of Movement, so I have been collecting recipes and ideas for exercise that fits into a busy lifestyle. So I have stacks and stacks of cookbooks and get-your-life-together books all around the apartment.
September was full of friends and food. The DFW Story Feast had fondue night. There is a particularly telling picture of me where I am not at all looking at the camera but rather am focused on the smothered piece of bread at the end of my fork. I do love cheese. We meant to art journal that night, but…cheese.
I tried Hypnotic Donuts and Cultivar Coffee for the first time. They have branched out from Dallas and made their way up to Denton, and I’m so glad that they did. Sonja and I each had a donut and then went back for poutine and a chicken biscuit. And it took me the entire time I was there to realize where I had seen this couch before:
My grandmother had this exact same couch. If you look closely, you can see the pictures of the pheasants. This made me feel oddly at home. It seemed fitting that I should be eating biscuits and drinking really strong coffee near this couch.
That’s right. Getting all my bad habits out of the way before I start an October of eating and doing things that are good for me.
Other than cookbooks, I have only read two books, but I enjoyed them both. Cassandra Clare’s City of Heavenly Fire was a quick read and a nice (albeit very predictable) conclusion to the series. But Jasper Fforde’s The Eyre Affair was my favorite. I feel bad for it, being my favorite in a slow reading month. It’s not hard to be the better of two. But even if I’d read twenty books this month, it probably would still have been my favorite. It was clever cornucopia of literary references, and it made me want to read everything mentioned.
As far as music goes, I have had either Rude or All About That Bass stuck in my head all month. I only find one of them tolerable. It’s been tedious. I would like to say that this is teaching me patience, but I’m pretty sure it’s just fueling my rage.
Micah and Raven both had birthdays this month. They’re getting so big, and I see them so rarely. I might have to make a dash to Fort Worth in October to visit.
So that’s my September. What was your September like?
“but…cheese” is my new life motto.
It’s a grand motto to have. Most of my happiest moments can be summed up in “but…cheese.”
That couch was in my youth group room! Fondue night, yes please. I need to come to one of your story feasts. I think it is officially on my bucket list.
!!! You DO need to come. We would even have a special Abby night if you were in town.
Isn’t the Eyre Affair fantastic?! I marvel over Fforde’s creativity with that series.
I really loved it. I loved the way he weaved all the different books into the story.
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