It’s May. Memorial Day is in a few short weeks. Yesterday, it snowed here in Colorado, which is not entirely different than every day last week. So, while most people are making their summer plans, because it’s warm again and that’s what you do when it’s warm again, some of us are still just trying to get by. And wondering if our furnace will ever get a break.
Another little caveat of this, a First World Problem, if you will, is that getting into “summer shape” is a lot harder when you’re still wearing fifteen layers of clothing to keep warm. No, I cannot imagine dressing for the beach and the pool and the lake when I can still see my breath, thank you. But that is reality– it’s almost time to wear less clothing. Yippee.
I also have another reality I’m going to have to face right now: I’m stuck at home for a while. I’ve just started new work, and it’s a LOT of work (thank ya, Lord!) and I have to spend some time rebuilding the cushion that let me live this imaginary life of leisure for the last six months. I have to work again, and I have other people depending on me to work again. It seems so boring compared to doing whatever I want, doesn’t it?
These things are nothing to complain about. I realize that. And yet, I will.
Because, as usual, all I really want is to be back at the beach.
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Happy friggin’ Monday.
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We’re having August weather already. I’m not ready. I’m just not ready. I can’t even begin to think of squeezing into shorts.
That picture is making me want to run away from my cubicle to the beach.
Nice beach shot! I’m trying to get into summer shape too. Hard when I like me a martini in the evening. My daughter says it’s time for me to be a fat old man. Ha.
I can’t believe I am saying this but I would love snow just about… now!! It is Florida here and I live in Virginia!
Enjoy the snow, prepare for spring, and I hope that the work you have is that which you enjoy!
Amen to that. I was in the mountains all weekend and it snowed Sunday… gross. I just kept thinking, “I do not belong here, I do not belong here…”
J
Snow? Still? It’s hot and humid in NYC, like summer arrived way too early! I hear you on the beach though. I would like to be there too, but well, we gotta do what we gotta do, right? Congrats on the work, it’s always a blessing to have something to do and a steady income
Ha! “Spring” in the Rockies is quite something.
But, honestly, you are way too cute to have to worry about getting into “Summer shape.” Really.