Lethargic Labor Day!

There are few days slower than a beautiful, sunny Labor Day at the mall. All the non-working Clevelanders are at Bourke Lakefront Airport or sunning on Edgewater Beach enjoying the heart pounding excitement of the annual air show. While I don't get to see it firsthand this year, I at least got to watch them practice flying circles around the city while I drive across the city on my way to work. What a cool site that was: Blue Angels cutting across a bright blue cloudless sky over the city on one side and the lake on the other. Plus, when I saw it in the early afternoon there was no traffic, which always makes the drive more exciting. Anyway, the mall is slow today, but Saks is even more beautiful when it's not in an uproar over a sale or promotion because I can see clear across the store, soft music playing, every piece of elegant, luxurious merchandise neatly in its place. It's like enjoying a perfectly organized millionairess' closet all day long. Plus, I can stroll out to Starbucks for a leisurely PSL pick-me-up because it's that time of year! I had my first one yesterday, and felt instantly swaddled in cozy boots, a soft sweater, and a warm, snuggle scarf, even though it was in the mid 80s outside and I was instead squashed into my usual structured, restrictive dress clothes. To add to my beginning-of-fall festivities, I went on an adventure to Yankee Candle to use my coupons and stock up on autumnal candles, so now my apartment smells like an elegant home in New England instead of a litter box in Clevleland. But I'm not totally ready to surrender summer just yet! On my day off tomorrow I'm planning one last Edgewater Beach excursion! Weekdays are the best because there's hardly anyone there except me and the seagulls,specially after Labor Day. I'll download some kind of sensationalist Victorian novel on my audiobook app and enjoy one last day of sun! Living by the beach, even if it is in Ohio never fails to make me feel quite luxurious!