My Favorite Season is here! :-D

It's FALL!  My favorite season: football, leaves changing into gorgeous colors, not sweating 24/7, apple everything and pumpkin everything... the list could go on and on. What's not to love?!  :-)  This past weekend, we went to visit my fiance's family and picked a ton of apples (probably a couple hundred).  It was so much fun!

I'm taking one last undergrad class this semester (exercise physiology) and working a lot of hours with Outdoor Pursuits.  Our challenge course has actually been super busy, which has been awesome!  Not only do I love my job but I really need the hours: I need to keep making a bunch of money to save up for the wedding, race registrations, grad school application fees, and needing to get pretty much all my re-certifications done at once in the early spring of 2014. Yikes!  :-/

I also got a second job!  I'll be starting next Friday (the 27th) as the enrichment coordinator for a program called Kids on Campus at a local middle school.  I'll be planning and doing a variety of hands on activities with 12-15 year-olds in an after-school program.  I was offered the job on the spot at my interview last week!  I am super excited to start!  And I'm also excited to have a way to make a decent amount of money in the winter when Outdoor Pursuits hours are nearly impossible to get.

Now, even though I'm too short on cash to get signed up for any major races this fall, I really need to get back into training!  Maybe I'll use this time to do other things I don't normally get to do as much (because I burn all my energy running, biking and swimming), like climbing, hiking, and martial arts. If anyone has any other suggestions, let me know!  :-)

Happy fall y'all!  :-)