Autumn Thoughts and Rituals

While the wind is blowing and the trees are turning I'm inside mostly with the cat and the throw blanket and something seasonally appropriate on YouTube. I love the LoFi HipHop playlists and the fake fires. It's a time of year I love for a lot of reasons but mostly it's because of my birthday and the transition into winter.

This year is different though, I'm going to play snowbird and go to Florida for ten days in November. Surely it will be snowing by the time I come home to New York. I want to refresh and restart my routine while I'm there. I'm already signed up for some mindful martial arts classes and I may have a nail appointment that will be a review here in the future.

I've been really getting into doing my nails and getting kits diy-ing it on my own. But there is a very profesh salon I want to try. It's ten minutes from where I'm staying and I'm pretty excited. I'm looking for some neat black gel nails. I love black nails but part of me also I love holographic packed pigments. Inside of me there is a war...

Something else I'm getting into is apple cider this year. I love apple cider every year but this year I've been having a craving. Warming it up at home in the slow cooker has been lovely, with anaise and cinnamon and nutmeg. I have the whole house smelling like fall.

I've been very cuddly with the cat recently. He's been having tummy troubles lately and I'm debating whether to take him to the vet. We changed up his food so I think he may need time to adjust. But better safe than sorry. Since he's the only cat left I want him to live forever.