It has finally gotten cold here and I am loving it!  I get to pull out all of my sweaters and scarves and bundle up - delightful!  For the past how many months now I've been wanting it to get cooler because it's so much nicer to run when it's cool.  And now that it is cool, it's frickin' cool - in the 30's early in the  morning and my fingers are FREEZING!  I looked for some battery operated/heated gloves - and I found them alright - for $300!! Not happening here.  So...I will resort to those little heat packets and hope they do the trick.

Over the last couple of weeks I have been out and about and quite frankly I am shocked at all of the Christmas stuff.  It was out before Halloween - seriously?  I was in Kohl's this week and they had Christmas music playing!  I am sorry, but October is too early for Christmas stuff.  I love Christmas and all.  It's fun to decorate and wrap and give gifts, but they're wearing me down - and not in a good way - when they start it all so early. What happened to defined seasons and keeping it closer to the actual holiday?  It really makes me want to stay out of the stores when it starts so early.  I want to enjoy each holiday in its own right.  This is one thing that's wrong with our society.  We are never just enjoying the moment - we're always pushing ahead to the next thing.  If we'd just take a few minutes to enjoy the present, we'd all be so much happier and satisfied.  And that's my two cents.