Summer
Summer is nice. Granted I'm not so big into sweating into and through multiple undershirts, sweating instantaneously as I step outside, and being eaten alive by carnivorious mosquitos. Just this weekend I've been bitten over 60 times in the oddest of places. Sukebe mosquitos. But I like summer a lot.Things I like about summer:
- I get tan. A friend once told me brown fat looks better than regular and I tend to agree.
- Ain't nothing better than swimming outside when it's hooot.
- In summer, ice cream is widely accepted as a remedy to the heat and not a indulgent obsession.
- I like the sound of secadas at night.
- I like the thunder and lighting storms.
- I don't have to go to work sometimes.
- Festivals and fireworks. Old ladies in spandex partying in the street- if that's not a party I don't know what is.
- BBQs!
- Sleeping in and watching Walker Texas Ranger while eating cookies in the morning. I'm living it up big style.
When I was a kid I remember being taken all over the state because my brothers had soccer tournaments in Seattle or elsewhere. I also remember getting car sick everytime because of the altitude changes and throwing up in plastic ziploc bags because we, "wouldn't get anywhere if we stopped for you to throw-up."
We'd hang-out with my cousins at my grandma's house and swim in the pool. Then we'd play atari or mini-arcade versions of Pac-Man or Donkey Kong, that was the coolest! Anyone remember those? Water fights, my aunt's sun tea, my uncle's bbq and enough tortillas to feed a small country- good times. When we were home we'd have water fights, play in the mud or watch TV. Simpler times that I sometime wish I could go back and visit once in a while. How'd you guys spend your summer?
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