And it's SUMMER!

Uhhh ok, I could be a bit late on this post. BUT with the heat wave that's hitting the city as of 3 hours prior to the 1st of September, I call SUMMER SUCKAHS!

Blackberry Pie I made!

 It's been a rather glorious summer, since in all technicalities it's been like a 9 month long summer with perhaps a wee 2 month spring in there. According to weather Canada Toronto as seen HIGHER than average rainfall, but we didn't notice. Know why? Cause the rain here is SMART- it falls at night time. Or it does 1/3 of the month in one day. This is something I can handle. Because the rest of the time, it was glorious, glorious sunshine.

This is where I break into that song "Sunnny days, taking the clouds away..." because while it is summer I am perpetually 6. And this summer was the most indulgent summer I've had since I was a wee pup of oooh 25, when I last had a summer off. That's right, I retired for the summer.

You may, or may not (I would suspect may if you are my wonderful parents who helped me out in such a kind fashion, or their friends who probably had to listen to tales of my ineptness from them) that I have been "underemployed" this past summer. Although, in my mind is there such thing as underemployed? I mean really? I like to take a line from a really racist joke: the only good job is a dead job.

While I'd prefer to say- "currently retired" rather than unemployed, the main thing is I've been a slacker bum this summer. And I really enjoyed it. I mean REALLY. If it's possible to do, summer is the time to do it. The living is cheap and easy.
Bored? Go outside, ride your bike, reorganize your apartment several times, pester friends and relatives online and in person, the possibilities are endless.

Things that I did this summer (in Toronto, I think we've covered the South Pacific summer well enough, it's sooo early 2010) include: perfect some rather fantastic tan lines, open a new bank account with no fees, pay off my BCSL(clearly it wasn't giant), write letters to my Nanny, go to a COTTAGE for the first time (more on that later), go to the CNE for the first time, have backyard bbq's, chill with my super fantastical friends Gwen Styles and Heavy Me, go to the Dentist (seems trivial but it had been far too long), go to a movie in the middle of the day by myself, meet a few new people (most of them crazy), hear my friends band ROCK IT numerous times and eat a corn dog.

I'll be summing up individual excitements such as COTTAGING!!!! and my summer styles in separate posts- which I will get done shortly. I hope!

Travel has been, obviously, kept to a minimum, I think the only time I was out of the city (besides brief excursions to Scarberia and Miserysauga- it's ok I made it back alright) was up to Wasaga Beach. But there are plenty of beaches in and about Toronto that help to satisfy the beach bum in me. Although, I'll give you shout outs west coast- I miss a summer time beach fire on the ocean.

So what's the moral? It's been a fun, restful, sunny, did I mention fun? Summer. But it's closing out and it'll be back to the grind. I think I realized at one point this could be my last hurrah, that years will stretch out in front of me of being overemployed (errr employed at all) where my Summers would be spent sitting wistfully in an office staring out at all those jerkfaces who get to be outside. So this Summer, I WAS that jerkface.

And Summer in Toronto is where it is at, especially if you have a backyard, a big park nearby, a bike that works, and some kick-ass friends to spend time with. So thanks everyone and all for making this Summer so great!