Falling into Place

Reading: Okay. New post style…how do I start this. Well, first of all, this week’s read is a typical “girl’s drama” with all the good book elements along with that special twist. The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han is part of a trilogy series that is about a girl named Belly and what took place over her summer; the summer that is supposed to be the best, but somehow, the love triangles, backstabbing among characters, and all the vicissitudes in-between created a summer that wasn’t the best by most coming-of-age 'teenage standards'. Anyway, I thought it would be appropriate to read this book since summer has just ended and October, the month where the leaves change and hoodies are worn more often, brings us the season of fall. Summer was a great time, we all know it. If only we could go back and relive those cool summer nights with all our besties. This book, to me, wasn’t so much about what happened to Belly, but about what summer is to most teens and what that special six letter word means to us. It’s time to stop dwelling on what we did during summer, stayed out past curfew, substituted swimming for a shower, forgot sunscreen and burned, the whole kit and caboodle, it’s time for fall. These next few months are when I really get into the groove of school again, but hey, its senior year, so there IS a light at the end of the tunnel! So, let’s drop the bikinis and girl drama and have fun raking leaves and carving pumpkins. Fall is here, peeps. Time for change.

Watching: I watched the majority of the Ryder Cup this weekend. I can’t believe that the Americans let the Europeans back into it after they’d built a four point lead. But, you gotta give it to those foreigners; it was an awesome comeback on our soil. And more specifically, Chicago time soil…ya got that, McIlroy?

Eating: I went to Cebolla’s on Saturday night. It gave me a food baby, which is the universal sign of a great dinner. And for once my mom didn’t struggle communicating with the waiter because she was pretty much the whitest Hispanic I’ve ever seen work there… haha.