And for today.....
Here's the vague plan for today, as I finally got up from hanging out listening to music and relaxing with Scout and Artie in bed at around 10:30 this morning.
1. Put in a load of laundry (more on this below)
2. Run errands in town
3. Clean the kitchen/do the dishes
4. Take Scout or Artie on a walk near the lake
5. Hang out with Grace, Franny, Aly, Jessie, Kate, and Al (kids in my neighborhood I used to babysit during high school who think I'm one of the coolest people in the world) and jump on Al's trampoline
6. Eat dinner (with the moms?)
Nighttime plans:
Head to the Gay 90s with Ally, Nissa, Nissa's boyfriend John, and possibly Nissa's friend Gaby for an evening of dancing and watching the AMAZING, attractive drag queens do their show. Rock on, traditional gay anthems! I'm planning to avoid drinking any alcohol tonight (outside from taking a sip of whatever Ally is drinking now and then) because I don't want to get in the habit of drinking. Alcohol is expensive and I like being the driver; clearly I can't drink and then drive. I'm going to have Nissa help me avoid any peer pressure I might come across so I don't do any drinking.
About having to do my own laundry this summer: It's not going to be fun, and I don't like that it takes time out of my summer for doing other things, but I can understand where my mom is coming from about it. I got home, hoping that my mom would keep doing what she's done since I went to St. Olaf. Our previous agreement about laundry was that if I never brought laundry home on the weekend when I was gone at St. Olaf, she'd do all my laundry over the summer. Now my mom has a full-time job, and she's expecting me to do my own laundry. I expected her to say this because she's really busy, but it doesn't make it any less sad that I have to do all my own laundry from now on.
Some of my friends are back in the Twin Cities for the summer, but my best friends aren't yet. Janna's still finishing classes and finals at Carleton and Steffen's still in Madison. I miss both of them, but I also understand how important it is that they're gone right now. Waiting is so hard.
1. Put in a load of laundry (more on this below)
2. Run errands in town
3. Clean the kitchen/do the dishes
4. Take Scout or Artie on a walk near the lake
5. Hang out with Grace, Franny, Aly, Jessie, Kate, and Al (kids in my neighborhood I used to babysit during high school who think I'm one of the coolest people in the world) and jump on Al's trampoline
6. Eat dinner (with the moms?)
Nighttime plans:
Head to the Gay 90s with Ally, Nissa, Nissa's boyfriend John, and possibly Nissa's friend Gaby for an evening of dancing and watching the AMAZING, attractive drag queens do their show. Rock on, traditional gay anthems! I'm planning to avoid drinking any alcohol tonight (outside from taking a sip of whatever Ally is drinking now and then) because I don't want to get in the habit of drinking. Alcohol is expensive and I like being the driver; clearly I can't drink and then drive. I'm going to have Nissa help me avoid any peer pressure I might come across so I don't do any drinking.
About having to do my own laundry this summer: It's not going to be fun, and I don't like that it takes time out of my summer for doing other things, but I can understand where my mom is coming from about it. I got home, hoping that my mom would keep doing what she's done since I went to St. Olaf. Our previous agreement about laundry was that if I never brought laundry home on the weekend when I was gone at St. Olaf, she'd do all my laundry over the summer. Now my mom has a full-time job, and she's expecting me to do my own laundry. I expected her to say this because she's really busy, but it doesn't make it any less sad that I have to do all my own laundry from now on.
Some of my friends are back in the Twin Cities for the summer, but my best friends aren't yet. Janna's still finishing classes and finals at Carleton and Steffen's still in Madison. I miss both of them, but I also understand how important it is that they're gone right now. Waiting is so hard.