Good Riddance Summer

Not going to lie, I am SO excited for September 1st. I wish to redact all kind words that I had to say about summertime, I know come tomorrow I will say not necessarily all of them, but for now I am bitter and against all things summer. Summers can be cruel and life changing and very unfun. Yes they can be quite the opposite, but for two years running, my summer falls into this category where some of the very worst things I have ever gone through are plagued by summertime woe. I was tempted to decorate for fall a week early to escape the darkness that the course of summer brought with it, but I decided against such actions for fear of tainting my favorite season with summer's memories.
Tomorrow I break out all the fake fall colored leaves, sunflowers, warm hued decorations and my Spiced Orange Harvest scentsy bar. I will bask in the beauty of autumn as I recover from the events of bygone days of the previous season. I will enjoy the cooler evenings and crispy mornings. Harvest salivation will be an every day occurence with peaches, and tomatoes, and corn, and all such delicious produce. I will wear long sleeved shirts and sweaters and hoodies. Colorful photos of changing leaves and delightful crunching of fallen leaves beneath my feet will bring a constant smile to my face.
Goodbye summer, you really stink.

And the winner is....

So Monday morning at 6:15 AM the alarm went off signaling the necessity to roll out of bed and head to the starting line of the Old Glory Days Riverdale 5K. JD has never participated in such an event and was less than enthused over the whole event upon hearing the alarm. We like to joke about our differences when it comes to sleep case in point: Natalie: light sleeper JD: sleeps like a log

Natalie: early bird JD: night owl

Natalie: light switch JD: sunrise

This taken into account, the 5K was an interesting event all around. It was a beautiful course going along the river parkway for part of it (which I love). The day was nice, we had awesome friends to do it with and even a mascot practicing what JD would like to have been doing (Team Spencer!). We finished the walk and went straight to our car after saying goodbye to Megan and Scott. Turns out that both JD and I ended up placing. Go figure. Don't ask which is which because we don't know. JD's coworker accepted our ribbons for us or we wouldn't have had a clue that we even placed. Hopefully this makes it so this won't be JD's first and last 5k? :)

Happy Fourth of July

Fun day: Riverdale 5K, Miner Barbeque, and Fireworks. Happy Independence Day!

Sorry this isn't of the highest quality, but it is what makes me think of July 4th. I just hope one day I am in an old school neighborhood that sets up booths and food in the street.

Beluga

It is one of my dreams to one day swim with Belugas.....just sayin.

Summertime

Lights Out

Saturday was a fun day. Nothing super exciting happened except that I didn't have to work. I got to the clinic and all of the lights were out. I found this to be rather strange but proceded to enter. I tried flipping on the light and a thrill coursed through me....nothing was happening! Come to find out the entire grid in the area was out and would not be fixed any earlier than 2:00.....we close at 1:00. After making a cute sign to inform angry patients about our 'misfortune' we all skipped out of the building to enjoy a beautiful sunny day. I don't remember the last time I had a Saturday off just for the heck of it and not for an impending event or vacation or in last year's case a month of illness. I always work Saturdays and have done so since I was 14. Some of the events that preoccupied my entire day off included: deep cleaned the house, ran some errands, went to a reception, decorated some summer blocks that I have been meaning to get to forever, lunch and shopping with my sister, spending time with JD. My deep clean probably should have included the lightbulb in the picture, but the dust did give a fun textured effect to the photo don't you think? I have to admit I kind of like having Saturdays off.

Sprummer?