Summer (at least on weekends)

Finally consistent warm weather in New England. This is the time that i think everyone can exhale out and relax. The stress of the winter and finally proof that the summer is on it's way, weekends are nicer when it's nice out. i have high hopes for this summer, things are different from before, i am working and won't have a full summer to blow off. This may actually be better. It's exciting to see the summer coming, like a new beginning because you never can tell where a summer day will take you and what new stories you are going to have afterwards.

Thinking back to the past, one summer in particular, my friends and I just got out of our junior year in high school (this was LONG AGO). My friends where all people I really just got to know over the past 3 months, and as we entered the summer we all where together all the time. Some of us had relationships, others where working on relationships, and even others where ending relationships. The core of our friends where never shaken by others coming in and out. There is no specific moments from that summer that stand out, just one long memory of friends hanging out, doing what we wanted to do and always having fun.

I still have that core of friends but we are all in different locations now, the summers after that where still fun but we always had something else on our minds, money, school, and relationships. The trouble was we had to plan our time together, plan what we where going to do, plan around our other life issues. And now, with us all having jobs, our old entire summer has turned into weekends. Weekends that have to be planned out to maximize the fun before Monday comes back to haunt us. People say that is growing up, and people say that is being responsible.

I guess people are right, but I plan on jamming as much fun into my weekends and holidays as possible. When Monday comes and i am tired, sore, and most likely hung over, i will take my penance (with some Advil) and push through for Friday afternoon. And do it all over again.