Hot Love in the Summertime

Ahhh. Summer arrived in the Northwest and it has been absolutely glorious. I’ve been doing projects around the house and last weekend I took fourteen teenage girls camping. I have not yet recovered. Yesterday I bought firewood and a miter saw on Craigslist and I’m going to build a firewood storage area on my side yard. Cher asked if she could see my “plans” before I started building it. I didn’t know what she meant. Still don’t.

Last night I took Halsey to see “Eclipse” and it didn’t suck except for the part where the movie theatre must turn the air conditioning off after midnight because I felt as though I could not breathe. Mikayla has been camp counseling this week, which is different from what Halsey told the waitress at a restaurant we where at who asked where Mikayla was. “She’s at Counseling Camp,” she told her. It kind of made it sound as though I’d shipped her off to a sanitarium which wouldn’t make any sense since I’m the one who should probably be shipped off there.

We’re taking the girls camping this weekend for the fourth and Cher and I are going again next weekend with her team so I have a lot of planning ahead. I would like to say that I’ll be sitting in my loungey chair reading magazines but I don’t want to set myself up for any disappointment since one never knows what may happen when one is camping.

Other than the camping, I see a lot of building projects in my future. And spray paint. I adore spray paint and I have discovered that it now comes in a wide array of beautiful colors fit for painting just about anything. I have also discovered power washing and have been power washing everything in sight (and then sometimes spray painting it.) Did you know you can spray paint plastic? Who knew?

I have also discovered the best reality show on television, The Fabulous Beekman Boys. Watch it. You’ll laugh so hard you will cry. I asked Cher if we could buy a small farm but she doesn’t want to hear about it. Imagine how many things I could build and spray paint if I had a small farm . . .

As I was saying.

матрациAbout Summer? It hasn’t come yet. Everyone on Twitter and Facebook and in real life are all complaining about the weather and I get it. The weather totally sucks ass. My garden is getting to look so beautiful but things can not grow without sunshine and we have not had any sunshine to speak of for longer than a day at a time. And it rains all the time and I’m totally sick of it.

It’s useless to complain about the weather because there isn’t a thing one can do about it, but it certainly does make one feel a bit better and I do take some comfort in knowing that a month from now it will be over 100 degrees and my air conditioner will freeze up and I’ll be miserable and hot. I can’t wait.

There’s a lot going on in Portland today. It’s PRIDE weekend of course and that’s always fun. It is also the Rose City Rollers Championship Bout! Cher’s team, the Guns N Rollers will be playing for either third or fourth place, (We’re Number Three!!!) I’m hoping that they will win so that they are not the winners of losers two years in a row, but however it turns out, it will be an incredibly well-fought and well-played game, I’m sure.

I’m helping to put together the new blog for the league and have recruited some very good writers who are contributing some amazing material, check it out, link to it, comment. Please.

Also my latest column came out yesterday in Just Out and it may be interesting to the fellow RSG’s out there. Please let me know what you think.

Finally, my grades came out the other day and I’m happy to report that I completed another term of higher education with a 4.0 GPA. Not bad for a deadbeat I suppose! It is a very good feeling to work hard towards something and know that it is all for a good reason! Life is pretty damn good!!!

Summer

You wouldn’t know it by the weather around here, but Summer Break has arrived! I haven’t had a chance to really enjoy much of it yet, but I’m hoping to soon. This time of the year is tough in the Pacific Northwest and every year I’m aware of it even more. This was the first Winter we didn’t take a vacation somewhere warm so I think it’s been even harder–but I know the sun is coming soon–and I am looking forward to fun times with friends and my girls.

I have a long reading list and a long project list as well. I will also be working on my book proposal for “The Recovering Straight Girl’s Guide to Lesbian Life” coming to a bookstore near you. As soon as I write it that is!

I want to make a list of Summer To-Do’s and was wondering what other people have on theirs. Last Summer I did a lot of things for the first time and I’m looking forward to adding some items this year! What’s on your list? Are you going on vacation? If so, where? What else are you going to do? Let’s chat!