Pre-hibernation season

You gotta love the "ber" months. SeptemBER, OctoBER, NovemBER and DecemBER. Not only is it full of holiday spirit and cheer, you also get to hibernate like many of our animal friends. And what's better than sleeping in after a very exhausting but joyous occasion? PRE-HIBERNATION!! It's all about preparing for that cold and lovely winter.

Here's a few of my pre-hibernation rituals (in no necessary order):

1.) Season premieres marathon

Nothing like warming up the old couch (and PVR) by sitting on it after watching back to back season premieres. With How I Met Your Mother on its last season and the return of a few other favorites like Supernatural, Modern Family, The Big Bang Theory, Walking Dead, Game of Thrones and Grey's Anatomy.

2.) Chug-a-thon

If you know me enough, you know I love to drink. Not the alcoholic kind (but it works occasionally). Whether they're soda, pop, milk, juice, coffe, tea, shake, smoothie or good ole water. I've stocked up on my hot chocolate powder mix and tea packets. What about you?

3.) Knitteroo

As if it's not obvious enough from the first picture. I'm still a noob at knitting though. I can only do basic scarves that have 1 solid color or multi-colored stripes. Learning to make a toque is next on the list. Ohh!!! And if someone is kind enough to help me with one slight boo-boo. Whenever I change colors/yarns to do the stripes, the back side of the scarf would get a floating line from the previous yarn color. So it looks pretty neat from the front but the back side gets the weird line in between colors. If some kind soul can share a link on how to fix this, please do. I tried googling the problem but it just teaches me how to change colors/yarns and not so much deal with the actual problem.

4.) Shopaholics meeting

I don't actually do my Christmas shopping last minute. In fact, I do it all year round. If I see something that is perfect for someone, I just buy it. Why? Because whenever I am on a quest to actually find something, I don't find it. But when I'm just strolling around the mall with no intention of spending, I happen to find the things that I do need to buy. However, during pre-hibernation season, I'm just in the mall twice as often than usual. Plus there's the off season sale. Fall fashion is my favorite so I can't wait to buy marked down fall stuff for next year (and even for winter after just layering a  few of them together).

5.) Decorating the Christmas tree

That and of course spending time with the family... and pigging out. Basically, everything about Christmas that makes it awesome! Yes, even that fire log channel.