Beautiful fall morning
Sep. 14th, 2006 08:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
missroseroseI've actually been somewhat surprised by how much I'm enjoying this fall. Normally it's a time that makes me feel sad that summer's over and yet another year is drawing to a close; today, however, the crisp air with hints of woodsmoke is stirring all sorts of happy, contented feelings. Maybe it's something about the fact that it's a gorgeous clear day - after the month straight of rain we've been having, it's a huge relief to see the blue sky again. Maybe it's the fact that I don't actually have any sort of school starting this year, so I can feel nostalgic about things like new notebooks and rulers and pencils without all the stress of actually having to attend school and the regret of summer vacation being over. Maybe it's that I've finally gotten over my loathing of cold, so I can enjoy the turning of the seasons without dreading the upcoming freezing weather...though I'm not betting too heavily on that last one.
Whatever the reason, though, it's a gorgeous day and every time I catch a whiff of the outside air I can't help but just feel...happy. And anticipatory - Halloween and Thanksgiving are both coming up. Yay for candy and good food!
In somewhat more mundane news, the new update of iTunes is pretty darn skookum (to use one of Brian's favorite words). I can't say as I've ever used their video functionality, so those updates haven't made much difference to me. But the new browse-by-album-art feature is fantastic - especially if you're old-fashioned like me and like to listen to music by album rather than your own uber-customized playlists. It took me a little while to get all the album art uploaded (iTunes will pull some of the covers from its own database but the rest you have to put in yourself), and the feature as a whole is still a bit on the buggy side, but it's so cool to be able to just go flip-flip-flip through the album covers until you find the one that you want.
And on a completely unrelated note, while Brian and I were doing grocery shopping yesterday it struck me that we go through an awful lot of cream in our cooking (pasta with al fredo sauce, hot chocolate, chicken pot pie, etc.). No wonder I haven't been losing much weight, despite my renewed interest in rock climbing...
Whatever the reason, though, it's a gorgeous day and every time I catch a whiff of the outside air I can't help but just feel...happy. And anticipatory - Halloween and Thanksgiving are both coming up. Yay for candy and good food!
In somewhat more mundane news, the new update of iTunes is pretty darn skookum (to use one of Brian's favorite words). I can't say as I've ever used their video functionality, so those updates haven't made much difference to me. But the new browse-by-album-art feature is fantastic - especially if you're old-fashioned like me and like to listen to music by album rather than your own uber-customized playlists. It took me a little while to get all the album art uploaded (iTunes will pull some of the covers from its own database but the rest you have to put in yourself), and the feature as a whole is still a bit on the buggy side, but it's so cool to be able to just go flip-flip-flip through the album covers until you find the one that you want.
And on a completely unrelated note, while Brian and I were doing grocery shopping yesterday it struck me that we go through an awful lot of cream in our cooking (pasta with al fredo sauce, hot chocolate, chicken pot pie, etc.). No wonder I haven't been losing much weight, despite my renewed interest in rock climbing...
