Summertime

Now, I don’t think that I need to remind any of you that New Kids on the Block will be performing on the Today show on Friday and I don’t think that I need to tell you that my 12 year old self is nearly busting with anticipation here. When I went on iTunes this morning to purchase the Duffy cd that came out today I noticed that the NKOTB single Summertime was also for sale. I resisted because I’m sure it will be on the radio the entire summer and that by the end of June I’ll want them to go back into hiding retirement. But the song did get me thinking about Summertime and how you can really recount your life in summers. Here’s mine. What are yours?

There was the summer that I spent a lot of time at Darien Lake amusement park and one day Tiffany and I met hot guys in the water park area and this guy was a hot wrestler and he had a superman tattoo….I got into a lot of trouble with Tiffany, that guy was hot though and I still remember the boy short bikini I had at the time with the stripes in lime green, yellow and orange. Rockin.

There was the summer before senior year of high school where we moved and I spent most of the summer really ramping up an eating disorder that would make me both hated and desired. That whole summer is a blur.  But look at how thin I was….sadly I thought I still had another 15lbs to lose.

There was the summer before college that I spent pretending to work for my father and really it was a lot of time with my then boyfriend and his best friend…lots of pizza hut dinners, camping trips and tears. With that guy there was always a tear segment.

There was the summer after freshmen year in college that I worked on Keuka Lake - that was a fantastic summer. I loved working at restaurants and if I had the chance to run another one I would jump on it. I love the restaurant business - I was in my stride…there was flirting with countless kitchen staff members and waiters, nights where we’d all hang out on the lake really late and jump in. That was a really great summer - that was also the summer my tire fell off my car. Remember that Mike? Here’s a picture to commemorate that summer:

There was the summer before senior year of college that I spent traveling all over the Ohio/Indiana region to see my then boyfriend. He was into baseball and zoo’s so we had a lot of fun - I think out of all my boyfriends that he was the most like me in that he liked to be active and do things. That was also an awful summer as my mom had breast cancer and looking back on it spending all that time with him was a huge escape from dealing with the scary reality of what my mom was going through.

The summer that I moved to Westchester is the biggest blur of all - I had been working on some great projects at a job that I loved and the work was coming to an end and the position was going away and I was talking to the FH all the time and I found a cross roads and decided to jump and move to Westchester. Looking back on it I can’t believe how crazy, stupid and also brave I was to do that. It was my loneliest summer ever, it was full of questioning my life, my decisions, my wants…there was a lot of boxed wine involved.

This summer will be the most eventful of all. This will be the summer that we introduce Lexi. I can’t wait.