The Most Wonderful Time of the Year.

As I type this, it is already towards the end of the third week in September. Which means Autumn is properly upon us. There's a popular meme out there that if you say Pumpkin Spiced Latte three times in a mirror, a white girl wearing yoga pants will appear and tell you her favorite things about fall. While I am white, I'm also a dude. And if you try and put me in yoga pants, there will be words exchanged. Since I've been inadvertently summoned, here's some things I love about my favorite season.

•Halloween. For as long as I can remember, it's always been my favorite holiday. Even above Christmas. And it's everything about it that I love about it. Always have and always will. I'm weird like that and it's who I am.

I look forward to it every year. If/when I ever get married, it will be, without a doubt, happen on October 31st. I just hope that my future partner (whomever she may be) is cool with that.

• Pumpkin spiced latte. Actually, a pumpkin spiced dirty chai. That's both coffee and chai, with pumpkin flavoring. I used to work at Starbucks, so I'm allowed to be picky like that.

•Pumkin beer and pumpkin pie. One you can get year round. The other I'm really picky about (we've all had that pumpkin beer that we regretted as soon as we've tasted it).

•Football. This one is new. I never was much of a sports fan before moving to Texas. Since returning and the utter destruction that the Seahawks did upon the Broncos, I've become a fervent football fan. That, and let's be honest-I've always been a fan of the cheerleaders. It hels when some of your closest friends growing up are cheerleaders. I just never got into football before now.

•The changing of the leaves. What? When I was in Texas, seasons didn't happen.it was something I missed dearly about the PNW. That earthy smell and th fact that the trees were a fire of leaves. It was, and is, utterly gorgeous to me.

•Lower temps. Not cold. I still have issues with the cold. My joints hurt and I'm a pretty miserable sod come winter. Fall provides me with warm temperatures dieting the day, but cool temps during the night to help me sleep and recharge my soul.

So, there's my list. I could include Thanksgiving, but it's on the verge of winter, so I don't personally count it.