June 20th, 2012
summer summer summer
“Summer summer summer tiiiime! / time to sit back and unwind”
—Will Smith…what would this ‘blog’ be without a little Will Smith, I ask
“Well, you know what they say about a song you remember…(pause)…it’s a memorable song!”
—Jeff, 7/23/06
OMG summer! Summer, glorious summer! It struck me just last weekend…ahhhh yes. It is Here (and today, officially, but, whatever, June is June is summer).
Despite my ‘blog’ being unfocused, random, and full of mostly inappropriate things, I still scoff a little bit at those who are all ‘10 years of blogging woohoo!‘ Because pallie, I’ve been at this since 1998. Possibly 1997.
No, seriously. Year 15 b*tches.
Anyway.
Speaking of 1998, as I’ve been doing a little more thinking (yes this is the charmed life) on ‘what will summer 2012 be about?’, I’ve decided it should be more or less like summer 1998 (which I sort of detailed weirdly here, yes I remember writing this – anyway). Here are things summer 1998 was about:
-Doing gymnastics…a lot
-Teaching gymnastics, and mostly by MYSELF (holla Turners where I had the KEY whoa!)
-Diving…badly
-Driving around blasting music with the windows down! YEAH license-having
-Working on my website
-Sometimes seeing a limited pool of friends (but not TOO often) only when I felt like it
-waterballet…yes I know
-Sheryl Crow and Jock Jams…yes I know x2
-Obsessing over watching gymnastics (Goodwill Games 1998/Domi-Vanessa domination, yo!)
-reading for FUN not school (pre-AP/summer homework crap)
And that was about it. (Not to be confused with summer 1999/2011, which were about THE SOCIAL LIFE, among other things. Pieow!) It was a great summer. I feel this summer deserves a similar sort of treatment. So here’s what I expect it to be about:
-Working out/being more FIERCE about it, anyway…I’m tired of being lazy/flab-seeking
-Teaching gymnastics…of course!…and mostly by myself, since Diana is traveling
-SWIMMING…ideally this will involve not just lap swimming at UMN, but also chilling at the Richfield pool when I can and/or lake(?) swimming (semi-afraid)
-Driving around blasting music with the windows down! This persists 😉
-Working on websites (ummmmm my job)/freelance (w/ my Dad this time haha!)
-Sometimes but rarely seeing a VERY limited pool of friends ONLY when I feel like it
-no waterballet, sorry…heh heh heh
-??? music I don’t know yet? Payphone? 1998 jamZ? Ha
-Obsessing over watching gymnastics (OLYMPICS/Gabby!!! duh)
-reading…for fun…but also trying to read a bunch of books I’ve been meaning to read for forever…we’ll see if this happens. I am too scared to write the List since I will probably Fail haha. But we’ll see.
So! That is that. Happy summer, all.