The Summer of Spontaneity

Andrew and I have declared this the Summer of Spontaneity.  Actually, I have declared it such, Andrew has asked to rename it the Summer of George.  We’ll get back to you on the final name.  I always want to be spontaneous and fun and not care about staying out later than I should or getting into a little bit of trouble.  But I never end up being that way.  I can’t help it.  I like schedules, and I like knowing what time it is, and sometimes it seems like my life is a series of small countdowns to the next thing I have to do.  I just arrived home from work, and have 5 hours till I need to go to bed.  I just left the studio—7 seven days till I have to go back.  It is kind of depressing and annoying and I want to be different and more fun!  Thus, the Summer of Spontaneity.

We are starting off well.  It’s not even technically summer, and I have 5 epic weekends planned.  Ok, well 1 already happened and 4 are planned (I know planning isn’t spontaneity, but just listen a minute, ok?).  The first was last weekend which was totally epic and spontaneous because Andrew and I decided on Thursday night to go to Maryland on Friday for another awesome MacDonald party.  That deserves its own post, because it was definitely the most successful party anyone in my family has had.  I’m an awful party thrower.  So you’ll hear more about JMac’s Grad Party later (that’s how I had it marked on my calendar, even though I wasn’t planning to go till the last minute).

This weekend is Memorial Day weekend, which means an extra day off work, shopping at the outlets and going out to the North Fork of Long Island where Andrew’s aunt has a beach complex.  I say “complex” because it’s a bunch of houses on the same property, not because she has some issue with the beach.  Hopefully we don’t get those intermittent thunderstorms the weather channel is talking about, because as I mentioned in my last post, I really need to “practice” for Hawaii.

Next weekend is Hawaii, so…duh.

The weekend after that we come back from Hawaii, which is slightly less epic, but then my awesome cousin Megan is coming to visit with her husband (of over one year, what??) and an Italian exchange student, which sounds random, but trust me, it makes sense.  Kind of.

Then the next weekend is the fun. concert with Megan Shook (hopefully, if she still comes, because I asked if she was coming on Facebook and she hasn’t responded yet, which is concerning, and Megan if you’re reading this you had better still come.)

So those are the next few weekends for me, and they are all before summer even officially kicks off!  So I can safely say this will probably be the most awesome summer anyone has ever had in the whole world ever.  Because I am also hopefully going to Cleveland, and I’ve made a whole list of things I want to do this summer which I will post later and which includes a lot of stuff like baseball games and concerts and—obviously—ice cream trucks.