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10 Ways To Connect With Your Inner Autumn

A guide to rediscovering the season of fall in September.

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Sep 28, 2018

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Orange, red, yellow, the colors of the turning leaves, the plump pumpkins, macintosh apples, pumpkin bread, the sunsets, a crackling fire. These are some of the best things that resurface each September. With the passing of summer, we welcome the next season of fall which brings with it many new things: the start of school, beginnings of new jobs, new responsibilities and new friends. Fall can also be broken down to its roots, where we find the things that resonate with our feelings most and are portrayed throughout our culture – almost as a way to advertise the season of fall. A few of my absolute favorite things regarding fall are the following activities, comfort foods, and holidays!

1. The scent of pumpkin spice or apple cider candles

Because who doesn't want to pregame balsam & cedar Christmas candles with pumpkin and apple cider ones.

2. Attending a football game

Grab your family, some friends, bundle up and head down to your school's football field for a Friday night under the lights or a Saturday afternoon game in the brisk fall air. Maybe even grab a cup of hot chocolate to keep your hands warm!

3. Carving a pumpkin

You can never be to old to enjoy carving pumpkins. As you may get more skilled as you get older, it is a fun way to celebrate fall with your friends and prep for halloween.

4. Apple picking

This is one of my favorites. I think family, pumpkins, plaids, riding boots, hayrides, trying each kind of apple while picking them, straw mazes and even some farm animals.

5. Relaxing to the first fire of the season while watching your favorite Halloween movie

The crackling of the burning fire with popcorn in your lap while Halloweentown is playing...? Does it get any better?

6. Caramel Apples, Soups, Cider Donuts, Pies, Pumpkin Bread, Warm Apple Cider

You just gotta get passed the fact that you'll have to floss after and dive into the apple - it's worth every single bite. Comfort foods are an amazing feature of fall - they taste so good!!

7. Restocking your wardrobe with endless sweaters, jeans and boots

One of the best feelings is coming home with new comfy, over-sized sweaters and worn riding boots on a fall day after shopping with your mom!

8. Going on a family trip somewhere in the mountains and seeing the foliage

My family used to travel to New Hampshire for a weekend every October and I will never forget the beautiful array of bright reds, oranges and burnt yellows that covered the trees.

9. Attending a fair! Most likely an Octoberfest of some sort

In New Hampshire we'd attend an Octoberfest fair! Filled with kettle corn, little homemade knick knacks, knit scarves and games the fair was something I always looked forward to.

10. Celebrating giving back with the family through Thanksgiving!

Ah, Thanksgiving. I think it is as much about the food as it is the giving back. Get together with your families, dress up for dinner, cook all day and night, play games, run through traditions and laugh a lot. Stuffing your face with turkey, cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes and corn is implied by the word Thanksgiving.

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Cool Off with These 8 Beers!

North Carolina State University

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Summer is hot and humid, and it's almost like summer was made specifically to drink the refreshing, cold, crisp wonderful, delicious, nutritious nectar of the gods. Which is none other than beer; wonderful cold beer. With summer playing peek-a-boo around the corner while we finish up this semester, it's time to discuss the only important part of summer. And if you haven't already guessed, it's beer. There are few things I take more seriously than my beer, in order are: sports... and beer. Here are my favorite summer brews:

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10 Ways To Connect With Your Inner Autumn

A guide to rediscovering the season of fall in September.

1. The scent of pumpkin spice or apple cider candles

2. Attending a football game

3. Carving a pumpkin

4. Apple picking

5. Relaxing to the first fire of the season while watching your favorite Halloween movie

6. Caramel Apples, Soups, Cider Donuts, Pies, Pumpkin Bread, Warm Apple Cider

7. Restocking your wardrobe with endless sweaters, jeans and boots

8. Going on a family trip somewhere in the mountains and seeing the foliage

9. Attending a fair! Most likely an Octoberfest of some sort

10. Celebrating giving back with the family through Thanksgiving!

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Appreciation for some of life's most discredited pleasures.

1. Sun showers

2. Smiles

3. Tight hugs

4. Discovering new foods you like.

5. Laying in bed after a long day.

6. And being completely relaxed

7. "This reminded me of you"

8. Breakfast foods

9. Over-sized clothes

10. Contagious laughs

11. Car rides with that one person

12. Random (I miss you/ I love you) texts

13. The city at night

14. Surprises

15. Blanket cocoons

16. Good hair days

17. Really good coffee

18. Days where you're in a good mood naturally and for no particular reason

19. Conquering a fear

20. When they give you a lot of guac at Chipotle

21. Being so comfortable with someone that you can literally talk about anything

22. Home-cooked meals

23. Tattoo stories

24. Leaves changing color in fall

25. Butterflies in your stomach

26. Peanut butter & jelly sandwiches

27. When you can't stop laughing

Cool Off with These 8 Beers!

Coors Light Summer Brew:

Leinenkugel Summer Shandy

Leinenkugel Sunset Wheat

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Sam Adams Summer Ale

Hell or High Watermelon

Blue Moon Summer Honey

LandShark Lager

Corona

75 degrees and sunny, plus, no humidity. I mean do I really need to say more?

Perfect Weather

You'll get an effortless tan

You can exercise with a view

You don't have to worry about bug bites

In n Out all day, every day

We have outdoor concerts

We live where people vacation

Because let's be honest, we all use lyrics.

1. “Don’t get too close, it’s dark inside. It's where my demons hide.”

2. “Tonight, we are young.”

3. “Cuz I may be bad, but I’m perfectly good at it.”

4. “Tell me how they got that pretty little face on that pretty little frame.”

5. “I can’t wait to fall in love with you, you can’t wait to fall in love with me.”

6. “Sweatpants, hair tied, chillin with no makeup on.”

7. “Why you so obsessed with me?”

8. “We ain’t ever getting older.”

9. “I didn’t know that I was starving until I tasted you.”

10. “Didn’t they tell you I’m a savage?"

11. “I’m gonna make you miss me.”

12. "Cheers to the freakin weekend.”

13. “Love’s a game. Wanna play?”

14. “You don’t know about me, but I bet you want to.”

15. “Let’s set each other’s lonely nights, Be each other’s paradise.”

16. “Trippin’ on skies, sippin’ waterfalls."

17. “Wish we could turn back time, to the good old days.”

18. “But you will remember me for centuries.”

19. “Something about you makes me feel like a dangerous woman."

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1. "Talk about a dream
Try to make it real
You wake up in the night
With a fear so real
Spend your life waiting
For a moment that just don't come
Well don't waste your time waiting." (Badlands)