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It's a glorious day today! The is coming up, the leaves are turning their brilliant colors and it's chilly! A perfect fall today. I am feeling much better today than I was yesterday.
Today is a Piper, Pumpkin and Puppy Day! Hubby is taking today to frolic (don't tell him that, a serious hunter! ) in the woods and I'm taking variation on a Pipers Kitty Day.
I'm off to upstate NY for a craft festival with an old friend. We are then going visit her sister who has 3 jack russell terriors and 5 mini dauchs! What a blast! Then we are running off to the Pumpkin Patch and Williams Sonoma for the best pumpkin butter on the face of the earth. We will take our time and enjoy the day, stop for lunch at one of favorite spots. Can't go looking for the Great Pumpkin on an empty stomach! I get home when I get home. I'm even treating myself to a glass of wine.
It's been a long time since I've been up Syracuse. I use to go there on a weekly basis in the fall for football lunches and Christmas shopping. I haven't been there in 3 years since hubby's rehab and all the other stuff. It was sooo much fun. Never had a bad day even if the weather was horrible.
I wasn't going to go today. I don't have the money, and I was feeling a bit guilty about spending any. But sober hubby reminds me, the bills will wait (like they are going to cut the electricity off if I pay it one day late! Never been late in my life!) and life is far too short. Who knows what January will bring with his surgery. So why not grab the pumpkin by the middle and have a blast? Truthfully I'm still a bit uptight about going. But that will subside when I get in the car and enjoy the ride. My friend and I haven't done this in ages. Mainly because of me when I was so sick with my disease and not realizing how important "Piper Days" are to our recovery. I don't like the way I've been reacting to people at work nor the customers. I can tell I need a break and this will help me get over the hump until I have my vacation at the end of October.
Before I go, I will do my meeting and throw a load of clothes in. Hubby will be exhausted when he comes home, so that's the least I can do. Dinner is in the fridge for him and he can have the day to himself. You should have heard him and the cat at 3:30am playing with each other.
So I will get my pumpkin sweater out (I collect pumpkins), put on a bit of makeup (rare for me), kiss Pipers Kitty goodbye and hit the road. Because I am so ready for today!
So it may be Friday the 13th! But it will be lucky day for me. Make the most of it today family. Life is too short. May your day be filled with Pumpkins, Pipers Kittyies, and Puppies or some variation of that! Thanks for making me see how important "Piper Days" are!
Love and blessings to you all!
Live strong,
Karilynn & Pipers Kitty
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You are right...life is too short to wait to do anything. My 63 year old SIL is laying in her bed at home right now waiting to die. The hospice nurse said it will probably be this weekend or the beginning of next week. It is so sad.
Go and have a wonderful day and buy lots of pumpkins for your collection.
Sounds like a great time is waiting for you.Let the guilt go, you deserve this! All the other stuff will still be there when you get back,they will not shut off the electric.
This is part of recovery and an important part.Laughter is the beginning of healing (that's what it says on David62's sig so it must be true!)
You make me smile just reading about the day you are going to have! You so deserve this day of fun! Good for you, taking care of YOU! I am inspired to do something fun this weekend, myself. I'll have to think of what that might be.......hey, half the fun can be in the planning!
Please post and let us know how many pumpkins you got for your collection on your wonderful adventure! I am so excited to hear about it all!
How Joyous you sound!!! It is contagious just reading it!!! Thanks for brightening all of our days with your descriptions. It sounds beautiful where you are going! Good for you!
I, too was a little worried about money for my weekend away this weekend but I will eat out of a cooler and don't need much gas to get where I am going, cheap room. You know, God makes it work for you if you need a break....
I am so glad you are hanging out with a good friend too! That makes it all the more fun. Life IS too short, the years go by way too quick and it is precious. Have a wonderful trip with your friend and lots of love and glory on this wonderous day!!!!
I love Williams Sonoma stuff. There is no shop near me at the moment. Have you tried the bundt cake mix. Phenomenal stuff. I do think they are good!
I am glad that you are taking a mental break. I know your job is pretty hard. I have times at work when I have to work on detaching. I know work is a huge issue for me in my codependence and I am so glad that I get to work on that these days. I am no longer just stuck in a funk around it.
(((Kari!)))) Good for you! Hope you have a great time, and I know you will. I am excited for you, just by reading your post. It is so very important to take care of ourselves. Nothing is gained by running ourselves into the ground. HP gave us each our glorious lives for some purpose....it is up to us to find out what that is on this journey of life.
I am taking a ME day Monday. Partly because I GET to go the hand specialist, finally, been waiting over a month. But that is at 7 AM! After that, who knows what trouble I'll be getting into, and what $$$ I'll spend that I don't have either! I'm gonna enjoy it anyway!
What a lovely post...I hope your day was filled with wonderful things.....you are so right about life being short....we are only here for a short while and we should enjoy every moment we have on this wonderful earth....
I had a ball! I didn't find as much as I had hoped. But I did get my Williams Sonoma fix, and resisted the tempation to bring home the entire store (new Cranberry Lemon Curd - yum!). But I most certainly picked up my pumpkin butter and bread mix. Stopped at Lindt for dark chocolate truffles for hubby and I.
The craft fair was fun - way too little time and lots to look at. Oh for the want of a cabin in the woods. How much fun I could have decorating it. I did find a couple of Christmas ornaments (a black cat too) and a hunting history book for hubby.
Decided to wait on the pumpkins, but did get my favorite Crispin apples, and a ton of sage for sage pesto. Had a great dinner at one of our old spots. By the time we got there I was famished. I could have eaten a cow.
The drive up was stunning. We laughed from the moment we got in the car. The puppies were exhausting! Holy puppies! I need to harnese their energy. No energy crisis there. It was so good to spend time with friends and be free with the day. I got a bit uptight once or twice, but settled right down.
Came home, hubby was snoozing and Piper started smelling the dogs on me. If you could have seen the look on her face! How dare I be with other animals beside her? She started licking my face and sweater from where I got kisses from "the enemies"!
I got up at 4am to spend time with my mighty hunter this morning. I went back to bed, before the other mighty hunter decided it was her turn to go out! So I'm going back to bed for a nap before work.
I know now how important these "Piper Days" are for my mental health. When I looked at the checkbook this morning, everything is fine. (Back to Williams Sonoma? heheh ) Happy Fall Weekend!
Love and blessings to you all! Make sure to get in your "Piper Days". May the Great Pumpkin be good to you!
Live strong,
Karilynn, Pipers Kitty & the Great Pumpkin
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It's your life. Take no prisoners. You will have it your way.
Well it is Sunday here in Australia day time and I have just read your post. It sounded like so much fun. Can't wait for you to fill us all in on what a wonderful time you had. Luv Leo xxx
is coming up, the leaves are turning their brilliant colors and it's chilly! A perfect fall today. I am feeling much better today than I was yesterday.
) in the woods and I'm taking variation on a Pipers Kitty Day. 
Can't go looking for the Great Pumpkin on an empty stomach! I get home when I get home. I'm even treating myself to a glass of wine. 
You should have heard him and the cat at 3:30am playing with each other. 
