Summer
Fall is here. I know that it doesn’t “officially” start for a few more days, but starting Monday, there was the definite change in the air signaling that summer would really not last forever. It makes me sad. I’m sure I’ve mentioned before that I hate the fall. I don’t know what it is about fall, but overall I just don’t like it at all. Of course this year will be different, and I feel a bit lost going into this season knowing my evenings are as wide open and they are in the summer. At the same time I find myself missing school. It’s strange because I didn’t think I would.
All in all it was a good summer. Here are some highlights I’d like to remember about this summer:
~ Chris and I have discovered Sushi. This is something I never thought in a million years that we would do. Neither of us was big on the whole “raw fish” idea. I tried Sushi once years ago. It was store bought California rolls from Albertsons, and I was trying to have an open mind about it, but it tasted funny and that was it for me. Then a couple of years ago, while on our honeymoon, Chris and I ordered Seared Ahi Tuna, unaware that it was mostly raw, until it arrived. At the time we were feeling rather adventurous, having just taken the big plunge less than 24 hours earlier and in a really expensive restaurant, tried it and discovered that it was the best stuff on earth. So whenever we were out to a restaurant that offered it as an appetizer, we were all over it. So this summer, when my brother came home from Iraq, his first food request was for Sushi. My parents had already found a Sushi place that they were eating at weekly (this in itself is pretty shocking, more because my mom eats sushi, my dad has eaten it for years, having frequently traveled to Japan), and since my brother had just come off the plane, we couldn’t not go, so we went and ordered what little cooked food they offered. But then through lots of coaching and teasing we tried it and it was yummy. So yummy in fact that I crave it for weeks afterwards when we have it. We don’t go weekly like my parents, but we do go every few weeks, and it really is so good.
~We started looking for a house. We had planned to do this when I finished school. And it has been one wild ride so far. We have walked through dozens and dozens of houses, placed about 17 offers and still we wait and see. I’m sure I’ll still talk a lot about this in further posts, so let me just talk about this from another angle. As hard and stressful and annoying as this all has been, I feel it has really brought Chris and I closer. We are opposites in so many respects, and so often we do our own thing and occasionally the other will tag along in support, but this is the first real big thing that we’ve done together as a team. I know that may sound strange. But what has been so cool about it is how well we work together as a team. I found that we are more alike and think more alike than I had realized. Chris has just been such an amazing partner and we’ve been on the same page throughout all of this, so far, which is so awesome. People warned me that we’d disagree and fight, and its true there have been minor discussions over stuff so little I can’t remember, or usually over a miscommunication, but I overall Chris has been the only part of the process that I’m enjoying.
~TV! Suddenly having my evenings open has allowed me to watch TV again. We spent most of it watching the SyFy channel, because we’re geeks. Warehouse 13 and Eureka became the main entertainment for the summer and of course I happily caught up on The Office episodes I missed, because I love that show so much. J And our most favorite sow, the one we can’t miss, Wipeout. We just can’t get enough of watching people fall flat on their faces time and time again. Seriously one of the best shows ever to be on TV. I’m gonna miss it in the off season.
So, it has been a good summer. As we head into another season hopefully we’ll come out of this next one with a house. I need to do some purging and get rid of a bunch of crap I don’t want moving with us, so I believe a yard sale is in our near future. I’m going to spend it enjoying the time off. I’m excited that I’ll be able to do things like bake without waiting for Christmas break.
So long to another summer.