#dream

#dream

In the morning the sun painted war on her skin and she stalked the young stag who left tracks on her land.

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I woke up this morning and played on my phone for awhile. My lock screen is set to the PL365 prompts and so I remembered that today's word was #dream. At that moment, I didn't see the connection between the word and the fact that today is MLK Jr. Day. I figured I would do something later. I opened the blinds and got up to begin the day and happened to walk into the banded sunlight. I've always been obsessed with the banded sunlight in my room... makes normal objects look dreamlike and surreal. The imprint of my desk chair wheel looked remarkably like a deer track. 

The words above are a slightly different from my Instagram version. 

The beginning of fall.

We woke up the other day to find that it was chilly outside... I guess fall has found us. 

I love fall. I think I love it more than spring. Winter, on the other hand - not a big fan - but I don't let that take the fun out of fall. I love the open windows and the long-sleeves + shorts or tanks + jeans. I love eating fall-ish food, like stew. I love going outside and knowing that it will be gorgeous in every way and that I won't sweat. 

And what I love most of all? Sleeping under three blankets while cold air comes in my open window. That is what I love the best. (Possibly more than anything else, at all, ever.)

Excessive dressing of the babies is fun at first too. We didn't have any warm clothes for Lucy to wear, since the chill came out of nowhere, so we dressed her in Henry's old sweater, a hat I made her earlier this year (from Christina's scrap yarns) and a pair of socks I had tried knitting myself, but were much too small. :)

And on to today's pictures... I cut Quinn's hair right before everyone came for Dad's birthday tonight. It was so amazingly gorgeous out in the yard, so we trimmed in the grass. :)

Photo by Quinn, while I was snapping with Sara's camera!

Photo by Quinn!

I am tempted to put up a large picture of Erin's face, but I think she would cease talking to me. ;) Tonight was lovely! Now for studying tomorrow... Biology test on Tuesday morning at the crack of dawn (literally), and our first geology test on Wednesday. It's going to be some science-y studying tomorrow. Also, I handed in my first English paper Thursday... We'll see how that turns out!

September always inspires me (and October; they are glorious months), so with a little determination, you will be seeing more posts from me in the near future. :)

Au revoir! 

- caroline

six exams to go

Today was windy again - 15-25 mph winds, according to the weather app. It was so nice to have my window open for the morning and afternoon, the wind blowing in, rustling my exam pages.  

I painted this a few weeks ago. I painted it with watercolors, straight onto the glass of the frame - I don't think I'll keep it forever, or anything, it was just an experiment. I remembered that quote for Marilyn Monroe that I really love: "I don't care about making money, I just want to be wonderful." What do you think of the glass painting? I couldn't decide if she looked too sloppy. Ah well. :)

I've been re-reading Crown Duel. It's this book that I loved when I was a tween. See the creases in the spine? :) It's a fantasy novel, I suppose, set in a world of kingdoms and magic things like Fire Sticks and Summons Stones and a royal court with all the trimmings. I love the cheesiness of it all, it makes me smile.

A pic of a sketch I drew while listening to Economics 101 lectures on YouTube. That was awhile ago, but I really liked it... the drawing and the lectures. And obviously, the other pic was today's lunch. It struck me as really pretty, so I snapped a shot.

So, I have six exams to go now. Five, after I finish what I'm working on tonight. This is really exciting for me!! =) So close.