my december 2011

Went to a tree farm; cut down my own tree. I love Pennsylvanian woods!

I really do recommend Buchanan Farms. Super nice people.

Did my own holiday baking.

Celebrated a coworker's birthday.

Love my coworkers; only thing keeping me to this job as of now.

Also had my own Christmas party with my coworkers. (No pictures available.)

happy halloween!

So finally, it's the big day, my favorite holiday!! Luckily I have the day off so I'm just going to watch scary movies and cook the creepy recipes from the holiday magazines I collected. Usually I have a great weekend along with the holiday, but I suppose everyone's going to have an off year sometime. So I'm going to reminisce about Halloweens past!

There was my first year in college, where I went on a haunted walking tour and won a night in a haunted hotel room by myself!! It was beautiful, but nothing happened.

Another year and I went to Disneyland for their Halloween celebrations.

There was another year where I threw a fantastic Halloween party at my apartment!!

The following year, same place same party. But with way better food and David Bowie!!

Another year found me working in a costume store for Halloween. The best thing about was getting to dress up to work everyday. Fun job.

Then of course last year I was in Korea and it was loads of fun. My kids dressed up, their was a party everyday, and the night out was super fun. Although I was Katy Perry, most Koreans thought I was Lady Gaga haha.

zuul, zuuuuuul

My bakery is awesome, don't get me wrong. But I had to grab one and show you one of our Halloween cupcakes.

It's supposed to be a spider, but my coworker Cleveland said, "Psh, a spider with 6 legs!" I thought it looked more like this:

Haha! The pumpkins and ghosts ones are way cuter, trust me. Also I got my jack-o-lanterns carved. I carved a skull, Ghostbusters logo, and the pumpkin from Plants vs. Zombies.

100 posts!

Oh wow, I didn't realize I've posted 100 times here already!


Too bad nothing special was planned to blog about. Just Halloween decorations around the house! It's getting closer to my favorite holiday! To save on money I just cut out silhouettes out of paper. Also, I missed my Spookytown collection back in Korea. It's so nice to see them again!

driving through 4 counties

Today's my day off, so Mom and I hit the road for a fall scenic drive. We headed towards Amish country to see the leaves and find a pumpkin patch.

(By the way, in elementary school we learned the differences between the Amish, Quakers, and Mennonites. Yes, apparently this was worth knowing as a child. Can I remember the differences now? No. If I was a better blogger I would have googled it before typing up my entry, yet I won't. So go, learn for yourselves! Also, the one thing I remember from those lessons was how to churn butter. Yes! Pennsylvanian education for the win!)

We passed through some cute towns and drove down some lovely windy roads. My favorite stop was a Amish craft town called Volant Mills. Back in the day you would have to buy Beanie Babies here. Remember those days?

goodbye summer

It's a little late and I'm horrible at keeping up with posting. But soon I won't have to share my laptop so it's all good.

So I love autumn. Love, love, loooooooove. It was alright in Korea, I still wish that I had gone to see the leaves change near Seoul. But I loved it here in PA two years ago. I got my cinnamon apple candles burning (that's what I think of when I think of scents that remind me of Fall) and the house is decorated for Halloween. Ha ha, I'm a fiend for this holiday. Wait until I start the Halloween posts!!!! I thought about redoing the layout for my blog for the month... We'll see.

I start my job training tomorrow! Finally, and yet I'm a bit anxious. New coworkers, new employer. Gulp. But it's at a bakery! Cross your fingers for me.

And here is my tribute to summer. My brother-in-law's family has a cabin out in the middle of the state. Very private, very relaxing there. So here are the photos from that! It's not the last thing we did before summer ended, but I didn't take any pictures while we were at Kennywood so next best thing!

We still have no idea how to play this game properly.

Poor Lulu's not feeling well today. I will be sad to leave her tomorrow.

getting on track

So that whole posting more often hasn't happened. Now that I share this one laptop with three people it makes it difficult to get on and do some things that I would like to. Also, I updated the OS X... NOT HAPPY ABOUT IT. AT ALL. Microsoft word was expensive Apple, FFFFFFFF I GOTTA BUY IT AGAIN?!

Also, in other news, I have a new job on the horizon. Will talk about it more once I sign some paperwork. Yea!


Anyway, the other day we made a trip to the Carnegie Museum. Love it! Though, I hate driving to it since the Oakland area is congested as hell with hospital workers and there are TWO different universities located there so all these students are always walking about.

I love how the museum is connected to the Library so that you can just sit and read and stare at dinosaur fossils all at once!

I image Egon Spengler is back there with a whole buncha lab coats and vials and microscopes.

How they installed the exhibits back in the day! The Carnegie Building is old with some awesome architecture. I must go back with a different lens to take photos of it.

Lower jaw of a sperm whale. JEEZ.