Happy halloween !

 Hellooo!! It's been a while since I blogged. Life has been constant the past of couple of months. I am really hoping for a positive change though....for more real adventures and fun in my life.

 Meanwhile, nature has been busy in transforming from summer to winter through fall. Though it's been a short autumn this year, the pretty colors of fall leaves were beautiful. 

We did a lot of 'fall' kind of activities this year, like: handpicking apples from an orchard, decorating the front porch with pumpkins, carving the pumpkins, baking the pumpkin seeds and handing out candies for trick or treat (which I am currently doing). 

Though winter doesn't officially begin until the 21 of December, the cold weather has began, unofficially terminating autumn. Yesterday we had a storm due to which all the leaves of the tree in our front yard blew away. It kind of makes me sad looking at the barren tree, for some reason. 

Bowl of candy for trick or treat.

Pumpkins in the front porch.

Half a bushel of apples from the Orchard.

Carved pumpkins.

Tree with fall leaves.

Barren tree.

Though I wish Autumn lasted a little longer, winter is still my most favorite season of the year. There is a different kind of beauty and charm, in the bitter coldness and sad-lifeless-barren trees of winter.

Have a good time,

Archana

Wall of Art & other random ramblings

Here's a picture of the 'Wall of Art', in our garage! 

This was actually a borrowed idea. One of my friends(name hidden for privacy :P) has a wall of art in their home, which is filled with world-famous paintings. So when I found this wall, empty in our garage, I told my sis-Sru that I would fill it up with (my)art too. She was not really excited when I told her so, as she was not really a big fan of my paintings.

I took some printouts of few photos I clicked before (click here-->yemileduu plog to see these pictures) to use for the wall of art. Sru, sure was surprised when she came home from work to see it but her first question was if the colour cartridge ran out of ink or not. Lol. Probably it's going to run out next week, when I take more print outs. :~P Well, I think it would be a good idea to photo-print these pictures rather than colour-print so that I can save them for later...right! 

Anyways, I love our house and the things that Sru and I get to do in it, to make it a (sweet) home! Nevertheless, I can not wait for getting a real-job and moving to a place of my own, instead of hijacking Sru's. 

And talking about jobs....I have my FINGERS CROSSED on a job interview I attended a week ago. I know I shouldnot be impatient but wait or much better forget all about it, but it just feels so so tough not to.  PATIENCE - I just hope I could buy it for cheap somewhere. :/

I am still volunteering at the hospital and it's going just great. More about it later!

I have my graduation ceremony this May and I am SUPER-DUPER excited! I sometimes wonder if I really did finish my masters! I still remember the dilemma I had less than 3 years ago, wondering if I should stay back in Hyderabad or do my masters. I am glad I gave up the nicer looking choices for the right choices. 

That's all for now. I need to sleep early and wake up early and have a ton of (okay! just a few) things to get done. 

Have a nice time!

Love,

Archana

Random feelings

Sru: Are you not excited?
Me: no :(
Sru: ...but you were all excited to go to Columbus, a different and a new place, right?
Me: yes :/
Sru: and you also managed to stay all alone in Sandusky for so long!
Me: yes :/
Sru: Findlay is your place. You should be happy to be here, right!
Me: hmm
Me: I do not like Findlay. I knew that people in Sandusky and Columbus would treat me differently and I had no issues with it. But, I do not want to be treated differently in Findlay but they do, right? :(

PS: being an international student is not easy.

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