summer? is that you?

Chicago finally flipped the switch to summer (who needs spring?!) and I'm loving it like I a fat kid loves cake!

Summer in Chicago means:

• ring game on the deck...don't forget to check in on foursquare
• biking on the lake path
• 3 out of 9 seedlings surviving - praise baby Jesus, we might get a sprig of cilantro by the time this is all said and done!
• lightning bugs
• PRIDE
• Bossypants
• visitors! if Brad had stayed one more minute my diaphragm would've caved from too much laughing
• the Cubs
• Thirsty Thursdays at work (4 p.m. themed happy hour, did I pick it right or what)
• using our masterfully-manipulated-grill from the neighbors
• leaving the windows open
• beach volleyball

Still on the summer to-do list:

• making a friend with a boat
• swimming
• being hot enough to swim
• camping
• leaving work before 7 not that I'm complaining about being gainfully employed
• securing a 30% seedling-to-plant turnover rate

Let's please also have a moment of silence for Austin summers, which involved leaving work every day at 5, at least one happy hour with friends a week, the CoPo, and it being too hot to even think about growing something.

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Now, back to awesomeness here.