I’d like to say that the reason that I haven’t posted
anything new is just because I’ve been so ridiculously busy having fun and
making waves in my life that I haven’t had time to think about this blog.
But that would be a lie. I have mainly been unable to write anything that I thought was worth sharing. I could write about being broke, I could write about how I feel like I'm going through some sort of transition in my personal behaviour, I could write about the potential love affair I almost had but that then turned awkward and weird... but all of those things just never felt right to write about or I couldn't wrap my head around them enough to explain what was going on.
Finally, I'm at a point where I have other stuff I want to write about - like sharing with you some of my plans and some of the things I've been ruminating on for the last few weeks. But first, I just want to play a little game of catch-up.
Because it is summer - and I have been having lots of fun. Here are some picture highlights and quick captions
from my last month:
June 22-24: Was a weekend of River! The water was high as hell so we didn't get
to go to some of my favorite places on the boat (because they were underwater)
but we did an all-day/all-night river excursion on Saturday and spent Sunday floating above an island.
We were traveling super fast in this picture so it's all kinds of blurry, but you get the idea! |
Oh the muddy, muddy Mississippi |
The campsite after we'd all been drenched with rain. |
Definitely one of the best pictures ever taken of our rag-tag group (plus, we were right in front of where they were doing the July 4th air show, so there's a pretty sweet airplane in the background) |
My favorite group of party girls |
When he's not busy carrying whole trees on his shoulders, this boy likes to party with the girls (who can blame him, did you see those hotties up there?) |
July 12-14: A huge group of my friends went camping. We drank something like three bottles of whisky/whiskey, 2 bottles of vodka and roughly 390 beers. We went tubing on a nice, non-flooded river and I got to use my solo tent. The weather was perfect so I didn't have to use my rain fly and was able to stare up at the stars all night long.
- The first night was just a huge party where we were all happy to be there and to be with each other.
- After roughly a million hours of drinking, our entire crew took a walk to the river where we stomped around in our non-swimming clothes and giggled a LOT.
- Falling asleep in my tent while admiring the endless stars above me.
- Tubing the next day - water, sunshine (well... a little bit of sunshine), beer and best friends, ahhh nice.
- The second night, sitting by the river at midnight, for hours, talking with some of my closest friends about some intense subjects and counting shooting stars.
And some of my favorite pictures...
My baby tent. All screen = Soo many stars! |
Playing in the river - beer in hand - backpack cooler - flashlight - giggles |
This is what happens when I steal The Boss's camera |
Those are some pasty, highly attractive SOBs |
July 19-21: We went to Chicago to celebrate Han's birthday. We actually stayed in Rosemont on the outskirts of the city, so sadly I didn't actually get to go into the city - but we had a great time! We went to an arcade filled with old school arcade games that were all set to free-play. We played for hours. We swam, went to the zoo and got heat exhaustion, but also saw some dinosaurs, and had a nice dinner at his aunt's house.
Because DINOSAURS |
July 26-29: One of my favorite coworkers/honorary little sisters got married Friday night. It was a beautiful outdoor reception in the countryside. She looked absolutely gorgeous and the weather was perfect. Saturday, Sunday and Monday I spent time with my Swiss cousins who came to town! More on this in a future post! It was the first time I'd met one of them and only the second time I'd met the other. We had a great time together and enjoyed making jokes about weird things - like ice cream trucks driven by child molesters.
Aaaaand - that's about it! So it's been a fun month. I hope you're all having a great summer.
Much love,
Annie Jay
This sounds like you are having a fabulously summer-like summer. :) Glad to have you back posting!
ReplyDeleteIt started out a little slowly and then went crazy for the last month, but I'm back into a less hectic schedule, so there should be more posting soon :-)
DeleteLooks so fun! I just had the baby so I haven't had much of a summer at all. Bummer.
ReplyDeleteYay! So happy you had the baby! I'm sure your life is ALL kinds of hectic right now, but I guarantee you'll get into a new routine soon :-) Can't wait to hear how your first couple of months of mommyhood have been going
DeleteShe's alive! All the camping and outdoors-ing looks super fun. That tent is so cool! Kiiiind of reminds me of a sarcophagus, but way cooler because you're not dead and can see stars without getting bitten. :)
ReplyDeleteHaha yes, the tales of my demise have been greatly exaggerated. I do love my little tent, but yeah I totally see what you mean. But I did find out on that camping trip that I can fit three people in it as long as everyone's willing to snuggle ;-p
Delete