so summer. it's here, i guess. i'm struggling to recognize it. after finals, which were umm... lovely as usual, i packed everything i own into my car and headed north to michigan to visit family for a few days. it was a blast. lara and i hiked along the black river, found beautiful waterfalls, climbed walls of rock and felt very dare-develish, layed in the sunshine on the shore of lake superior talking for a long time and then went back that night to climb the giant clay/sand cliffs and have a bon fire on the beach with some other friends. it was truly a wonderful day. i don't remember what else we did, but it was very nice to see everyone. sunday morning i headed back to point for brendon's graduation. that was mostly painless but unpleasant nonetheless. my head got sunburned where i part my hair (i burned it more on monday.. it hurts now). we didn't get home till 9:30 that night, i made an appearance at a graduation party but i was exhausted beyond reason and lasted 45 minutes. monday morning bright and early i started work. that day was miserable: 8 hours of cpr training. tuesday and today contained more misery in the form of first aid training. and what'd'ya know... more first aid tomorrow! the 6am business starts next week. oh how i'm going to love leaving my house at 5:30am.

the weather has been lovely. it has been my reminder that it is indeed summer. my face and arms are a deep lovely golden color right now because we sat outside for some of training and i was outside doing some landscaping yesterday. monday afternoon i hopped on my horse and let him wander around his pasture. i was of course saddle and bridleless and wearing flip flops, so i pretty much just let him wander. he's a good sport, age has made him quite mild mannered, so he lets me do whatever. he's my project this summer. he's never been officially trained and i don't expect that he ever really will be since i never use a bridle anymore and don't honestly know how i'd do it, but if he just gets a little more clued into my directions we'll be good. i pointed at his shoulder yesterday and told him to backup and he did... i was impressed.

my room is a disaster zone. i have no time or motivation to unpack and clean things up. sadly allison is probably in a car somewhere in southern illinois headed my direction which means that since she's sleeping in my room i have tonight and tonight only to clean since i work till 4:30 tomorrow, but i have a meeting to go to tonight. gahh... oh well. it won't happen entirely. maybe i'll just keep my clothes in a bag until i wear them all and they get washed. that'd work. and this is all i have time for now. ta ta till who knows when.