Well, transition time is upon us. The days have officially started to get shorter. The sun is slowly going down sooner each night. The mornings are a little darker when I get ready in the mornings. And on my drive into work, the sun is perfectly centered at my eye level...just below where the visor hits the windshield, so I have to squint really hard, which gives me wrinkles on my forehead. Rahhh!!
The teeny, tiny summer clothes (and I mean TEENY TINY) are on sale at all of the stores making room for fall-attire which is, by far, my favorite season to dress for! I can't tell you how ready I am to see the skanky "jorts" worn by all of the tweens out there put into a closet never to be seen again. I swear shorts have gotten so much shorter than when we were kids. The more of the pocket liner that you can see sticking out of the bottom of the short, the cuter they are these days! It is completely irrational. And the stores are enabling this behavior. Hello stores?! Haven't you heard of inner thighs??? Not all of us can walk around in "junderwear" (jean underwear). Can you please make a pair of shorts with a decent inseam??
We can officially put away our tank tops (my least favorite article of clothing) and bust out the cute cotton sweaters, and of course the sweatshirts. We can start moving the open-toed shoes to the back of the closet and the Ugg boots to the front. We can go back to shaving our legs every couple of days instead of every day because we are no longer expected to wear shorts and skirts (sorry guys). We can stop obsessing about our bikini bods...not that I ever did in the first place. Just avoid bathing suits all together and you've got it made.
Kiddies are heading off to school, which means there is an influx of school buses. But given that we are still in transition from summer to fall, we still have the lawn trucks/trailors on the road too! Oh and don't forget the soccer moms in the over-sized SUVs and their "Baby on Board" suction cupped signs. All in all, this does not bode well for my commute both in the mornings and in the afternoons. My saving grace is that the weather is so phenomenal right now, I can open the windows on my drive and enjoy the fresh air!
But with this transition, comes the realization that summer is ending, our incredibly short fall will be here soon, followed by the never-ending winter months. I am not sure we can do any worse than we did last year, and I sure hope Mother Nature doesn't try to out-do herself. Winters in the midwest are painfully long, and they are made even longer with a losing football team (c'mon Bears...do something for Chicago this year because we certainly don't have any other team to be rooting for at this time). So here's to the last few nights of summer, the amazing fall that lies ahead, and the attrocious winter that stands before us! Our fait accompli is that at least we don't have to look at teeny-bopper butt cheeks for another 9 months! Woop Woop!!
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