summer solstice my rear end.

Posted on | June 21, 2010 | 25 Comments

monday again? well at least this monday i’m not hugging a toilet bowl for dear life, so i guess i have that going for me.

i have sure been in a funk the last couple of days though. i fully blame the weather, who has decided that summer is unnecessary for people in the pacific northwest. yesterday was 53 and rainy and it made me want to get stabby on a weatherman. i suppose it isn’t their fault…but i need someone to take it out on, why not the people who deliver me the bad news?

today is the first day of summer. my fun family summer list hangs in the kitchen, mocking me, not a single task checked off. a bunch of things i desperately want to go see and do and enjoy with my family, alas it rains. i know what you’re probably thinking – um, hello you live in the SEATTLE area. but for those of you who haven’t had the privilege of living in or visiting the NW, our summers are THE reason we don’t all run screaming to california. our (usually) june through late september weather is gorgeous, perfect and makes us forget the fact that we need special fake windows for our seasonal depression (literally thinking i need one soon). the problem with me and rain is that it makes me legitimately angry. getting rained on, getting my feet wet, my hair wet – all bad. all very, very bad. i can deal during the months in which it is supposed to rain, but once june hits – NO.

last summer we spent every weekend in the kiddie pool, grilled corn and burgers, sipped lemonade and got our daily dose of vitamin d, starting before memorial day weekend. here we are the end of june and all we have to show for “summer” is last weekend. last year around this time, this was happening:

this year i’m wearing a cardigan, SOCKS, and the heat in our downstairs is on. last night we arrived home to our neighbor burning a fire in her fireplace. H is wearing her jammies from christmas time (yes, she still fits in them and they are long sleeved with pants, perfect for you know WINTER WEATHER). there is so many things wrong with this picture. instead of being outside at the park or the zoo or the beach, we are stuck inside.

see how weird it makes us?

post summary: i have anger issues re: weather.

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