June is WAY over, and July is quickly shutting down. I taught VBS, got tan, lost a good five pounds, took yet another trip to CT, started dating an old friend from college *grin!*, and a bajillion other things that I can't quite think of at the moment.
Let's start at the beginning: I taught VBS. And it was a blasty-blast. Ok, so, I didn't actually teach, I was a helper, but I did teach the kids old favorite songs of mine like The B-I-B-L-E, Inright Outright Upright Downright, Do Your Ears Hang Low, and Father Abraham. And as I was helping with the Kindergarteners, they loved it. Oddly enough, one of the girls in my class is the daughter of a woman who baby-sat me when I was in K, and my mom baby-sat her. Nice long line of babysitters and teachers. One of the other girls in the class has a form of autism, and she was a handful but could be sweet sometimes. The major upside was it made the week go by faster.
After VBS every day I went down to SunnySide and got myself a bought tan. It was worth it.
In order to make my days a little less boring and a lot less lazy I force myself to do something active. My favorite is The Firm workout videos, either Total Body Toner or Total Body Time-Crunch, both of which are ridiculously hard in their own ways and which have helped me tone and strengthen and lose weight, not that I was trying to. When I'm active but still eating correctly I tend to plateau at 123 lbs. So one morning I hopped on the scale for funsies (I don't like to weigh myself, since it's just a number and how you look and feel is really all that matters) and thought as I waited "Ugh, I'll bet I gained back". Then i looked down and saw the scale flash "121.6" in bright red digital numbers. No complaining here! Of course, then i went on vacation and all I was able to do was run on the boardwalk, but as my bum knee protested loudly, I only went once and am currently feeling very out of shape.
Yes, we did go on vacation! I talked Lux into letting me off the hook for a week (no paycheck this Friday... bugger.) and followed my Dad in my car with my little sister and "Angus, Thongs, and Full Frontal Snogging" on CD all the way to Old Lyme, CT. No crazy snow, no horrible car accidents, and, most of all, no memoribilia of either hanging around to remind me. I bought a ton of cheap books, we ate a lot of food, went to Rhode Island to watch the Paw Sox, hung out with relatives, met some of my dad's old high school buddies, went swimming, nursed my poor sad knee, got ice cream, went mini golfing where I got a hole-in-one on the last hole and won a free game, and took my little sister with me to a bar to meet up with my old VZW friends. Earlier in the week I'd gotten together with Neal while my fam did... something else, i have no idea where they went... which was a little strange now that I have my new BF and Neal is seeing someone new as well.
Speaking of which! Happy, Happy news! On June 13th I began dating someone I've known all the way through college and still kept in vague touch with afterwards. His name is Johnny, and he's been there the whole time and yet I never thought twice about him. As my tendency is to date brand new people that I haven't known long it's a little strange to be with an old friend. There is picture proof that he and I were at many of the same events but did not interact for some reason. Our friendship was mostly him telling me his girl problems and seeking advice or going out with a group to Bdubs in Zville for wings. Neither of us knows how we got each other's phone numbers or how we became friends. But no matter. Sometime in May he and I met up to see Iron Man 2 and get some food and we ended up having a world-class time and agreed to get together again soon. We did get together, had another amazing time, nicknamed each other Bonnie and Clyde, began texting a lot, got together again a week later, and decided it wasn't worth it to beat around the bush anymore and took the plunge! Now, a month and a bit later, we still believe this was the best decision we ever made. And apparently we're a hot topic because everyone we're both friends with from college has discussed us at length. :D
Like I said, there have been a million other things (most of them having to do with Johnny, the aforementioned new BF) but I won't bore you with those details.
Ciao!!
