and so summer break begins...
// 2004-06-21
saturday
after biking 55 miles in 80-something degree weather over hot concrete, i got home, pulled the fan up to the sofa, made a nice little pile of food (two scones, a mini cinnamon roll, two slices of day-old pizza, and a tall glass of cold water with emergen-c in it), put my legs up on a large pile of pillows, and laid back on the sofa to alternately watch tv and nap all afternoon. anika called me after i felt sufficiently revived and we went to victrola on 15th to play boggle for 3 hours straight. i beat her by 1 point.
sunday
c and i woke early (the heat! the heat!), i made breakfast (oatmeal with flax meal, blueberries, soy milk, and maple syrup), and we lounged around all morning whilst reading a book. an actual book! we went to see a matinee of saved!, then met up with anika and some of her friends to play croquet in the park. c and i had an early dinner of veggie burgers and fries, and i drank iced tea, which i had just discovered i actually liked the day before and am now obsessed with (seriously, i've had about 10 glasses of iced tea in three days). we came home and watched reruns of last comic standing and lounged some more and i read more of my book.
today
slept in, made the same breakfast as yesterday, lounged around even more, and then c an i got motivated to tidy up our very trashed apartment. we conquered the living room, and have decided that one room per day is more than enough. we called (or rather, c called and i listened while he chatted to) a real estate agent who we are meeting with tomorrow. at last, we'll start looking for a house! i lounged even more, read some magazines, enjoyed more iced tea, and then anika called and we met up yet again at victrola to play boggle. i just returned from three and a half hours of serious boggle playing, with my ass very much beat. she creamed me, with a final score of something like 399 to 340.
i remembered today as i reached for a skirt to put on for going out, that the skirt i grabbed was the same one i was wearing the day i met c, which coincidentally was exactly three years ago today! and it's extra nice that it's also the solstice and thus the longest day of the year. three years is a long time, both for a skirt and a boyfriend! i am very lucky, indeed.
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