I Wasn't Going To Go

to the pool this afternoon as i felt draggy and blah and kinda bummed. nothing really happened today, i just felt kinda bleh. but i knew the water would feel good and i was right. and now, with summer slipping by, i have to take every advantage of going to the pool. i love summer. even with the oppressive heat, i love summer. i like the sound of the crickets, locusts, and cicadas.

i love that it's light later. i love the feeling of summer--that time where the days used to be endless. the feeling of getting into the pool when it's hot outside and that instant cooling off. i love how good ice cream tastes in summer. i love slurpies.

and the thing is, especially here, summer is a short season--if we're lucky, we get four months of summer weather. but i need more. and that's why we're eventually moving to florida. i need and want to live where it's eternal summer. and no matter what people say about it being hotter there (it's more humid, idiots), i can't wait to leave cold weather, leaves falling off the trees, brown and gray landscapes, windchill, snow, and ice far behind.

just can't be soon enough. especially with august around the corner. it's that weird time--where school hasn't started and summer hasn't ended, and everyone is just waiting for fall and football and chili and soup and sweaters. and then it will be the frigging holidays. no wonder i'm depressed.