Autumn in Georgia = Summer in My Mind

I’m learning that autumn in Georgia is very similar to early or late summer in the Northeast: 60s/70s during the day, 40s/50s at night, and generally lovely outside. I’m also learning that as soon as the weather is nice enough to be outside for long periods of time, and I add a few commitments to my roster, I completely neglect this blog. My apologies, blog, I hope you understand. Here’s a rundown of The Dizzles’ adventures this autumn in Georgia.

Out of Town Trips: In October and November, we traveled to Connecticut for Shaun’s grandfather’s 90th birthday party, to North Carolina for our nephew’s 1st birthday party, and to Boston for the 6th Annual Upside-down Turkey Day (USDTD). We just got back from Boston yesterday, and our visit wouldn’t have been completely without a pilgrimage to our favorite restaurant, Trattoria Toscana. It was a treat to see so many friends, and we are now devising ways to bring Boston and Atlanta closer together. Anyone have any thoughts on adjusting the space-time continuum?

The Moms Invade Atlanta: The weekend before Halloween, both our mom’s came for a visit to Atlanta, and what a lovely weekend it was. The weather cooperated with sun and not-over-the-top warm temperatures, and we went to the High Museum of Art, Mary Mac’s Tea Room, and for lovely walks around the neighborhood, where a total stranger regailed me of the history of our apartment, in which he used to live. Folks sure are friendly down here.

New Job for Mrs. Dizzle: At the end of October, I hung up my keyboard at Ology.com and took up more responsibility at FlexJobs.com instead. Now I write the FlexJobs blogs, descriptions of employers, press releases, and other random scribbles. And of course, more time for work means less time for blogging (at least, this type of blogging where I don’t get paid… ).

Halloween, Atlanta-Style: We decorated, we loaded up with candy, we watched Halloween, and we wound up with about 15 trick-or-treaters altogether. Apparently one of the mansions down the street had trapeze artists and other crazy stuff in their yard, which might explain why people were underwhelmed by our pumpkin carvings and scary skeletons.

Wings Over Atlanta Airshow: Every time I think of going to this airshow, this quote from the movie Girls Just Want to Have Fun comes to mind: “Oh, well my dad made us all go to the airshow. 200 people standing around like this [looks up at the sky shielding her eyes from the sun]. It was a blast.” Except that in our airshow experience, it was more like 500,000 people staring at the sky in 85+ degree heat on the tarmac at Dobbins Air Force Base. The show and exhibits were fascinating, but the rush to the buses at the end was less-so, with three people fainting in our immediate area during the hour+ wait for a bus.

Volleyball Coaching: Over the summer, I started playing in a women’s volleyball league, which continued into the fall. And thanks to that, I’ll now be assistant coaching a 13-year-old girls volleyball team through TCA Atlanta. November was try-outs month, which mean that for two weeks, a lot of my write-a-blog-post-time was taken up by skills and drills nights, tryouts, and meetings. And from December to April, I’ll be at practices two nights a week, and at tournaments every few weekends. What did I get myself into?

Georgia Tech Football Game: We finally made it to our first college football game in Georgia, and college football is kind of a big thing around here. Tailgating in small road-side green spaces in the middle of the city was a site to see, and in my opinion, the best parts of college football are the marching bands. Shaun disagrees.

I know I’m forgetting a bunch of things from the past month and half, and those will probably be covered in a future blog post, hopefully one that doesn’t take me a month and half to write. But in the meantime, knowing that I’m too much of a slacker to post again this week…

HAPPY THANKSGIVING! Reading these blog posts reminds me how much Shaun and I have to be thankful for, and if you’re reading this, you’re on that list of gratitude.

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