The Shadow of the TARDIS

Happy Fall, everybody! To celebrate my favorite season Ryan and I decorated pumpkins. I say decorated because he carved and I painted. It was pretty brilliant. Ryan carved a TARDIS (from Doctor Who, just fyi) and I painted the four elements from the Avatar the Last Airbender series on a mini pumpkin.  We totally geeked out when we first lit the pumpkin and the shadow of the TARDIS covered our entire ceiling. Really though, there was a lot of squealing and hand-waving when I saw it....I think this is a sign that everything we own, do, and make will always be a delightfully nerdy reference to some book or show. Heck yes.

As further proof of this prediction (that all we make are allusions...couldn't resist that pun), Ryan and I were Captain America and Agent Peggy Carter for Halloween. This is all thanks to crocheting, more painting, and of course raiding Goodwill stores nearby :). We went out to dinner and a movie like this on Halloween night, because what else do we live for but to entertain our waiters?

Fun fact: I now finally own my own curling iron...which my old roommates will marvel at.

More importantly, Ryan's boots are for his new work. They are super intense, electricity-safe ones so that when they go visit a power sub-station they are designing they can walk around protected from the massive amounts of electricity running through the equipment! Ryan got to go on his first one of these site visits to Texas last week, which was pretty exciting.

The weather here is slowly getting colder, and the leaves are changing now! I'm hunting out people and places to teach at and tutor. Ryan and I still are reveling in this whole lack-of-homework/graduated-college feeling. We routinely feel like there is some assignment, test, or paper that should be taking up our free evenings. But there isn't! And it is so lovely! I now have plenty of time to read novels and crochet that perhaps someday I will actually exhaust my supply of yarn and books. ;) All our love from under the Shadow of the TARDIS.