Autumn meant trick or treating with your parents? Putting on a costume and pretending for a night that you weren't really you. The one night out of the year that it was okay not to be yourself; you even got rewarded for it. It meant that school had just started and you were just getting back in the routine of pencil sharpeners, and reading for class as well as pleasure. Fall equalled trees ablaze with color, and that instead of playing outside until 9pm, you found yourself coming in to the warmth of your home and family early. That while the world around your died, you made plans to celebrate the most important things in life.
This weekend we got our of the house and into real life again. We piled into the car and braved the LA traffic to see an early screening of Flight, had the best tacos of my life at a little hole in the wall place in LA (seriously, better than the ones I had IN Mexico), walked outside our front door to the annual pumpkin festival, and saw the Perks Of Being A Wallflower, which had me in tears by the end (I told Jimmy that every time Emma Watson came on screen, I felt like a mother watching her child on stage...insanely proud, but so nervous that something would go wrong). We ended the weekend by cuddling up on the couch and watching Sleepy Hollow (a tad disappointing when you realize instead of being scary, it's Tim Burton running around doing whatever he wants).
Overall, this weekend was just what I needed to get my heart and soul back on track.
around here, it's beginning to look a lot like Fall.
This past week my dad and I hopped on a plane to NYC. We walked through Central Park, saw shows, ate amazing food, and enjoyed each other's company. Despite all the rain, the leaves had yet to change to the colors of Autumn, but the weather was full of clouds and and hope for a new season. Once stole my heart with it's music based on 2007 movie of the same title, and the voices of Swell Season singers, Marketa and Glen. A heartbreaking story about two people dumed to love the wrong people. Before the show, guests were invited onto the 'Irish Pub' like stage and poured pints of beer while listening to good ol' fashioned Celtic music; I was in my element.
The moment was almost topped by being offerred twenty dollar a piece tickets to Nice Work If You Can Get It with Kelli O'hara and Matthew Broderick whilst standing in line at TKTS. Needless to say, we jumped on them!
I was so grateful to spend time with my dad in one of my favorite cities in the world.
The moment was almost topped by being offerred twenty dollar a piece tickets to Nice Work If You Can Get It with Kelli O'hara and Matthew Broderick whilst standing in line at TKTS. Needless to say, we jumped on them!
I was so grateful to spend time with my dad in one of my favorite cities in the world.