Last day

Tomorrow (my birthday) is officially the first day of autumn (random fact: the new season doesn't start til 10pm tomorrow!). My parents considered naming me Autumn, but then decided to go on a Biblical naming-streak, and named all 8 of us after characters in the Bible. Plus my mom's name is Gail Ann, and said she always wanted a "full name" growing up, so I got to be Abigail Ann. I'm officially rambling already.

As it turns out, I am apparently hosting thanksgiving at our new house this year. The first potential problem I can see is that we don't even have a table. Yup, not even barstools for the breakfast counter. Secondly I am used to cooking for two, so cooking for 6+ is already making me slightly uneasy. I guess that's still relatively far off so maybe I should stop worrying and assume its all going to take care of itself! Or maybe I should invite my mother as well and hope that she helps me make sense of the mayhem.

Next month my friend Sammone is coming up from St. Louis with our friend Meghan (aka Richard, cause yeah, she's a dick), and I'm seriously so excited. I saw them when I was in St. Louis over Labor Day weekend, and we went out for some martinis and I laughed so hard I almost peed my pants at the bar. I'm also excited that Sammone is bringing me some of her gorgeous paintings!! When I was at her house she had some abstract ones with liquid silver paint that were stunning, and she's making me some look-alikes! Above are a few of her sold paintings that I ripped off facebook. :) I really dig the purple lips. Purple is just my ultimate favorite color. In high school she did an amazing black and white portrait of me that my grandma keeps at her house now. She is so friggin' talented.

So coming around full circle, I've decided that although I'm going to ignore the fact that tomorrow is my official birth date, I am going to hold off until the girls get here and celebrate with them instead of waiting until next year, again. Sammone and I were both preggo on our 21st birthday's so we need to make up for that finally! Richard is still single and racking up mountains of student loans in art school, but our celebration couldn't be complete without her madness.

Glad I've given myself something to look forward to; it colors everything differently in the present went you have something in the future to be excited about.