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Day One Hundred Five:  Oh.

I’m behind on posts and that’s because I am now on summer vacation and I have too many things on my mind to do before I go home tomorrow morning that I just didn’t have any time last night, atleast that’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it.  As for this evening I have a few moments between packing and spending some time with Judith to write a few things down. 

Let me begin by saying I am so grateful that I have such a fantastic, supportive, and fun support team.  The people who routinely stop my gloomy moods by making sure I’m fed, watered, and well rested on a daily basis who also manage to bring a smile to my drained face really and truly are the reason I got through this sily exam period.  How lucky am I?  I say that a lot, that I am a lucky girl, I just really do not take the people in my life for granted.  Why should I?  They’re fabulous to me and to them I thank heavily for their support these past few weeks, and for putting up with me, you deserve medals.

I think I began my summer vacation the right way:  on a patio drinking a coffee in a dress.  Patio living is how we spent our two weeks backpacking through France Germany and Belgium, and it is how I will always remember the first time I enjoyed a cuppacino in Paris, my first enjoyable dark beer in Hermany, and a very sugary chocolate-smothered waffle in Belgium among many other memories but most of all the patios full of food, people, and freedom.  I don’t think I’ve ever laughed so hard than the moment we realised that on the twenty-ninth ish of August on a patio at dinner time in Brussels that Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas is You” was playing.  Well, Belgium, you’re off by a few months but we appreciate your enthusiasm.

The thing about enjoying a meal and company on a patio is that it is in all of its entirety freeing.  Freeing from the indoor capacity of the watching waiter’s eye while inside a restaurant, and I feel less pressured to leave and not take up space when I’m outside.  There’s nothing like a cold beer on a sunny Friday afternoon on a patio, or cocktails with the girls at the Heuther or Jane Bond’s patio’s.  How lucky are we to have entered the wather of outdoor dining, thank heavens it happened sometime!

To those who still have to finish their exams I bid you luck and good fortune on all of those finals that have you muddled and confused.  To those on vacation, we are the luckier ones, but most exams end by May which sparks the true beginning to patio weather, beers, and all around good times.  To everyone else, I hope that life’s been treating you well, cheers.

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