What...is...fall?

Dear Fall-like temperatures,

It's high time you made your presence known.  These early morning teasers and late evening stunts you keep pulling?  Not. Cool.  Get it?  Got it?  Good.

Sincerely,
Me

I woke up sometime around 3:00 this morning, wondering why it was so hot in my room.  Since my room faces south, it stays consistently 5-10 degrees hotter than the rest of the house...great in the dead of "winter," but not so much for the other 11.5 months of the year.  I kicked my way out from under my cocoon of pillows and sheets and forced myself back to sleep.  I woke up again around 9:00 and got started on my homework.  Just as I was getting ready to post my assignment, the power flickered...not enough to lose power, but something was up.  That was when I looked at the microwave and noticed it was "0" o'clock...and THEN the power went off for real. 

I sat there, working on my assignments without posting them, saving them as a document until my laptop battery started running out of juice.  Time?  11:00.  I called my mom to tell her I was coming over to shower, and spent the next half an hour trying to find things in the dark.  Why didn't I open the blinds or windows you ask?  Because it was already warm in the apartment, and the southern exposure would've made it boiling in 3.5 seconds.  I fumbled around, grabbed what I needed, and took off. 

I spent several hours at my mom's house this afternoon, showering and hanging out, working on homework, and eating a super-early dinner before I headed off to babysit two of my favorite kiddos...two, soon(ish) to be three!  Their mom told me tonight that they've been cleared to adopt a baby girl from China, and they are so excited!!!  It came about in a totally funny way, too...she was rushing through the kitchen, looking for her checkbook.  Her husband said, "This one?" and she said, "No.  That's the adoption checkbook.  Oh yeah, by the way, we're adopting a baby!  Waaaaaah!"

This family is just too cute, y'all.  I love them to pieces, and I'm so excited to watch their family grow.  I've been taking care of C since she was 6 months old, and now she's in Kindergarten.  They moved before I did, so I didn't get to see much of J when he was a baby, but he told me I'm the bestest Aubby in the whole wide world and his favorite babysitter.  C echoed his sentiments, telling me Lauren is her favorite beach babysitter, but I'm her favorite all the time babysitter...and they both stare at me, wide-eyed, when I tell them how long I've known C.  I can't wait to meet this new little one when she's chosen and brought home!

On my way home, I stopped by to see a friend of mine...I haven't seen him in a while, and it was nice to catch up/charge my phone before heading home to an apartment that may or may not have power.  I text my neighbor, and she said it had been on and off all day, that right now it was on, but it had just come back on after being off for a couple of hours.  I stayed over there way longer than I intended to, but my phone got a decent charge.  When I walked into my apartment, the air conditioner was humming away, and everything in the freezer still seemed to be mostly frozen.

I call that a successful day with intermittent power.

Aubs