Seasonal Shift

[bloodyrosemccoy]

Woo! We have hit critical autumnal light angle!

I don't know why, but somewhere in the last week of August the sun finally hits an angle in the sky that makes my brain hit the Autumn switch. And since I goddamn LOVE autumn, I am totally cool with this. It means I can kick back and watch my mood meter move steadily upward,* enjoy the first blush of fall colors, swear mightily at my own damn allergies (not everything about fall is great), wear fluffy socks, make mulled apple ginger ale, start enjoying soup and Deeper'n'Ever Pie again, wear colors that actually look good on me, and hope that this year everyone shuts the fuck up about Pumpkin Spice-flavored drinks, because that is not a thing to give a shit about.** (The thing to give a shit about is when people fuck up delicious pumpkin cookies with chocolate chips. That's just a CRIME.)

Anyway! Fall is back! I'm gonna go make me a Fall Colors Necklace to celebrate. I only have 125 or so of them at the moment. I need more!


*I have no idea why; this doesn't seem to be linked to anything but seasons. Some kind of reverse-SAD where my overall mood shoots up starting around this time each year.

**Especially if you smugly point out that "It has NO PUMPKINS IN IT!" like you're the grownup in a '90s commercial for Apple Jacks. Dude, I always thought it was called "Pumpkin Spice" because it had the same spices in it you use for pumpkin pie. I guess that was too confusing for you, though?

Comments

[westrider.livejournal.com]

Sounds good to me. Raisins and apples go together pretty well, and like a lot of the same spices.

[ellixis.livejournal.com]

... I suppose this was a trick question. I might like raisins in apple pie if I liked raisins.

[westrider.livejournal.com]

Truth be told, I'm not a huge fan of either. But I'm OK with both, and can't see any particular way they'd clash, unless someone doesn't really like one or the other.

[ellixis.livejournal.com]

On a more objective note than "I don't like raisins," raisins add a slightly different flavor note to the pie, and they are also small nuggets of different texture - they are tougher to the tooth than cooked apple. So I suppose those qualities could be argued to be either a good thing or a bad things, depending on personal taste.

[westrider.livejournal.com]

Oh, it's definitely different. It's just that the differences are still well within the realm of subjective opinion. It's not like we're discussing whether we prefer our apple tarts with or without an hour-long lecture on tax law ;)

[ellixis.livejournal.com]

I suppose you could discuss the effect of taxes and commercialization on the manufacture, sale and consumption of apple pies, but that's probably a fairly specialized area of interest.

[westrider.livejournal.com]

And even then, who wants to listen to that while they're actually eating their pie?

[ellixis.livejournal.com]

Well, I wouldn't mind hearing about it from someone who had a good grasp on what they were talking about, but probably not during the actual pie-eating portion of the program.

[westrider.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's the thing. To be comparable to the raisins, it would have to be part of the same experience.