"say hello to good times"

Good Grief!

I had been absolutely locked out of my blog for quite some time. I'm glad to be back and able to rant/rave/babble online once again.

Life hasn't changed quite so dramatically since I last updated. It's just been a hazy, warm experience for the last two months with a few spurts of activity worth mentioning. That's pretty much how summers go. Overtly uneventful with rare but memorable occasions that you (if you're anything like me) make sure to capture on your camera or cell and then update them online to your social accounts because you want to make sure the whole world can see what a blast you are having. HAH!

It's been the usual gamut of emotions. All of the fun highs and lows. Oh joy!

But I am overdramatizing. It's been a great summer and I'm sad to see it come to a close so quickly. It truly does not seem so long ago that I was driving down an interstate in April, enjoying a warm sunny day, thinking, "Man. I cannot wait for summer to come." Now, 4 months later, it's almost gone! All of those plans, vacations, trips and hours of work have all come and gone.

Ironically, it's now, as the very last wisps of summer are coming, that the days are finally hot enough to bask in the sun, go swimming and feel as if you were truly in the midst of the season. It had been so cold and rainy for the last few months. Unseasonably so!

I will miss all of the fun and stressful opportunities that summer provided me with but I would be lying if I said I was not looking forward to the fall. I start at a new college and finally, I feel as if I am nearing that much nearer to my goals of finishing my education. It's been a long 4 years and I've got 2 more years to go but it feels attainable now. Not just a fartsy dream.

I remember thinking most of this summer that I was upset to not have anyone in my life, romantically, but now as the fall draws ever close, I am glad I did not meet anyone. I want to have the opportunity to start fresh at college and get to know new people and maybe, if the circumstances call for it, meet someone (whether they be from my past, present or future).

So, let's sit back in our plastic chairs, watch the fireflies blinking in the night sky and raise a chilled toast to the season of summer: You were a good friend and I loved all of our good and bad moments. I will miss you like an old friend, (the kind that you always remember fondly but never too clearly) but here is to the Fall and to a new chapter of this year!