It's fall, which can only mean 4 things...

Can you believe it? Summer is finally over! Friday, September 22 officially kicked off the fall season. This can only mean four things:

1. Temperatures are dropping, or are soon to drop. For someone like me who loves cold weather -- and gets very little of it in my hometown of South Florida -- this is certainly a welcome change. Unfortunately, it's warm year-round here with the exception of a few weeks in late winter/early spring. I'll take anything we can get, though, even if it's a mere five-degree "cooldown."

2. New and returning shows. Networks premier a slew of new shows in the fall. Meanwhile, loyal fans of returning shows like Law and Order and Scandal are treated to a new season of never-before-seen episodes. It's a great time to be a boob tube maniac.

3. The holidays are approaching. Most of us immediately associate fall with the changing of the leaves (i.e., yellow, orange, red, and brown), cornucopias, pumpkins, scarecrows, turkeys, and, of course, holidays/special occasions like Halloween and Thanksgiving. And it's these celebrations that help make the last part of the year fly by, which brings me to my final point.

4. The year will end in no time. End-of-year festivities -- both at home and work -- as well as vacations many of us take in the final two months certainly hasten the end of the year. Many would agree that the opposite is true of the very beginning of the year; there isn't much going on after New Year's Day, so the next couple of months typically go by far more slowly. You know what they say: Time flies when you're enjoying yourself.

No matter what you have planned this fall season or what you're most looking forward to -- whether fall foliage or a hearty Thanksgiving dinner -- here's to a great autumn for all of us!

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