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Day One Hundred Three:  Fruity-Loops

This summer I am determined to become one of those people who voluntarily is okay with waking up relatively early (maybe seven) every day to get some yoga and water treatment in and maybe a run?  Does anyone have faith that I can do this?  I think if I really truly try I could, but it’s putting that effort in that’s the kicker.  I want to be that person, but sometimes I like my bed just too much! 

Everyone!  It’s going to be the end of school so soon, and that means summer soon, which means the beach!  Remember the beach?  Days spent sitting in the sand and feeling the warmth on your skin and reading and hearing the waves hit the beach?  Swimming in the cold water and jumping frolicking through the waves?  Walking downtown to get ice cream and chips and shop around a little and play at the arcade?  Then finish at Lobby’s, the restaurant on the shore and get pitchers of beer and watch the sunset over dinner, and laugh a lot and smile and realise that it is the perfect life those days spent at the beach.  Walk home with a milkshake as the lack of sun cools down the hot concrete and after a short shower get into sweats and sit around a campfire just talking well into the night. 

Campfires really don’t need anything but time.  You don’t even need anyone to really sit with you on occasion, just time to look at the flames and the grass and the stars, the shadows, smile and say Hello politely to those walking by.  I usually have a water bottle and roast marshies and talk with my dad, and those are some of the best nights of the summer.  The next morning waking up, washing my face and grabbing a glass of oj and a book and sitting on the porch with him, reading together silently, sometimes looking up at the pit with the chairs all around it from the night before, water bottles littering the grass, those are the lazy summer days I am looking forward to.  Oh, summer at the camp.

This year I am sticking to my goals, and making concrete plans, and changing things and actually going to get out of the house and do fun things and go out and be social and enjoy the summer.  That is another pledge, but above all I just want to live.  I want to do things I like and laugh tons and just, yeah, live.  What else is there to do?  I’m sure I’ll figure out graduate school and life plans in there at some point, those things usually just jump out at me.  I have the faith in my own abilities.  Gosh, I am actually so excited.  It officially starts (it being summer) Monday at five pm.  I am going for beers and then taking the night to organise and relax.  I am one lucky girl, my friends, to have such exciting summer plans.

xo