& that's the way life goes

When is the last time you laughed like this?

Thanks to these two ladies: Jenni & LP,

I almost died from laughter.  Best way to die, just fyi.

There were a couple crazy nights at the local bar.  One night included a creepy guy that wouldn’t leave poor Jenni alone.  But she’s hot and awesome so I guess I can’t blame him.  But dang…he was gross.  We are all Beaver Certified. If you care to know, it’s called a beaver for two reasons: It has fur & because it eats wood.

The tubing adventure was all about A LOT of beer, new friends, Jenni getting stuck in the tube and no one actually helping untangle her, branches smacking people me in the head, Jenni getting a bruise from her awesome waterproof box, jello-jars, sex talk and most of all FUN.

There was a lot of noming and cheek kissing going on

Shotgunning beer FAIL

I can’t wait to do it all again next year!

xoxo

This past weekend was and will be my longest vacation of the summer.  The weather couldn’t have been any better.  Sunshine, blue skies and warm temperatures.  Mother Nature must have been trying to make up for the chilly summer we had last year.

I’ll just tell you that there was a lot of:

• † Laughing
• † Beer
• † Sun
• † Boating
• † New Friends
• † Jell-O Shots

There wasn’t a lot of time for

• † Cleaning
• † Arguing
• † Cooking
• † Reading
• † Sleeping

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It was a pretty great weekend.  Definitely a 4th of July to remember.

Thank you for all your comments in my last post.  I went to the new school with my dad yesterday and I’m 90% sure he’s not going to get the keys on Friday.  He has to have a final inspection done and I think they only do them 2 days a week and it looks like there is still at least 5 days of work left for the contractors to finish.  I’ll know for sure tomorrow.

I never finished telling you about the rest of my trip with LP.  I guess all I can say is that I shotgunned my first beer ever.  Yeah, you read that right, I think I’m a bit behind.  Pretty sure most of us have done that already.  But at least now  I can cross it off my list.

And I’m not really sure about the last one I just thought it was hysterical.

Can you believe that next weekend is already Labor Day?  This has been the coldest summer ever and it makes me sad.  We took the boat out 3 times.  3.   I know most people do fun things Labor Day weekend but C and I have agreed we need to get the Man Shack finished and the back bedroom painted.  It is a must!

And OMG I start my class on the 14th.  I don’t know how I feel about that.  It’s on Monday’s from 6-10pm.  Can we say hella long day?  I get up at 6:30am to go to work.  Yeah.  Pretty sure I’m not looking forward to that.

So how are you doing?  Any good plans for September?

I”ve been in a bit of a funk.  Pretty much wondering when the last time I was genuinely happy.  I know boofuckinghoo right?  It’s ridiculous really.  I have so much to be grateful for.  I had some Filipino food with my dad in his temporary school (you know since they couldn’t get his building done in time, theyonlyhad2monthstodoit) and got some good sleep last night so I think I can stop feeling sorry for myself now.

I also got some clothes from Misplace Momma that I adore and I cracked up when she gave me back a pair of pants and a long sleeve shirt I gave her years ago.  Obviously we don’t clean our closets out much   And I got to hang out with her daughter AMC (I’ll need to think of something else to call her) for a little bit Monday night.  Um I don’t think M has put any pics of AMC up but she should because everyone would adore the babyface.

Anyhow this weekend was perfect.  Seriously the weather was picturesque for up north.  Few clouds, lots of sun and warmth.  Lord how I love the warmth.   We did everything we said we would: paddleboat, ride bikes, canoe and relax at the beach.  Of course we had drinks too.  But surprisingly we didn’t overindulge in the alcohol.  Booorrrriinnnggg.

LP has a hard time relaxing but we’ll stick with the positives, shall we?

where we stayed

the first night. um no we didn't eat all 63 that night though

Enjoying the last of the sunshine after a day of canoeing

LP’s pictures are all nice in the fading sunlight. I’m rocking the paddleboat and making a really funny face in the bottom left corner. For no reason at all except that felt like the right face to make.

pizza is delicious and even better with miller lite. can i say we had jello shots and half a 5th of rum canoeing?

Have you had Dragonberry Rum?  It’s delicious in Lemonade.  I can’t get the 2 canoeing pictures off my phone right now and it’s kind of pissing me off. I should mention that we rode our bikes to the canoe place that was approximately 2 miles away. Carrying an 18 can cooler and a backpack stuffed with other things we would need (sandwiches, towels, water camera, etc. I’m an overpacker ok? I can’t help it). LP almost hit a pole on the sidewalk while riding to the beach afterwards. Fun times.

More tomorrow, this has taken me longer than I thought!

Foote Pond Overlook - one of my fav places

I fell in love all over again.  With the  little northern town I talk about way too much.  If it was up to me I wouldn’t have come back.  I haven’t watched tv since Wednesday.  I haven’t been on the internetz since Thursday.

Instead I canoed down the clear water of the AuSable.  Dipped my feet into and swam in the transparent waves of Lake Huron.  Watched people and dogs share a beach.

I’ve been many places in Michigan.  On both coasts and central cities.  None of them make me feel like I did this weekend. Rested, relaxed and at home.

I’m pretty sure LP had a good time too