With each passing year, I enjoy making this list more and more. My annual "What I Did This Summer" post!
bought a bike - started to commute to work on it - visited Todd & Kate in STL - was a First Thursdays artist (three times!) and sold magnets made from my photos for the first time - rode a 25 mile route from JP to downtown and through Southie and back - went to my 15th college reunion - fell in love with Dexter - watched the first two seasons of Breaking Bad (love!) - took Mom & Dad zipping - did a bikeathon for Bikes Not Bombs (25.75 very hilly very hot miles) - enjoyed another year of CSA - went to an info session and meeting for a MA program at Simmons - rode a 25-mile route along the Charles out to Watertown and back through Newton - suffered through some serious back pain - passed my one-year anniversary at FitCamp - went on a motorcycle date - cared for someone in a lot of pain - spent another awesome 4th at Chez Boss at Cobbetts - visited Christy in NJ - went to the JP Lantern Festival - did a sprint triathlon - found out about Aquabikes, which is like a triathlon without the running part, perfect for me - biked to Deer Island (40 miles round trip!) - realized I have the capacity to really really hate someone - read more young adult novels than I can count - fell in love with Katniss from Hunger Games/Catching Fire/Mockingjay - acted as a reference for a few people doing job searches and helped them get offers! - saw the first two Dragon Tattoo movies at the Coolidge - found out a 'hood friend is happily pregnant - wandered around Cusco, Peru for three days - hiked the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu - spent a week on Long Island, Maine - kayaked Casco Bay Harbor from Peaks around Cushing to Portland Light, along Cape Elizabeth, over to Little Diamond and back to Peaks - saw my first Cirque du Soliel, Ovo - was rejected for the first time from donating double reds because my iron was 2% too low - took iron pills for 2 weeks and went back and happily donated double red blood cells - biked, LLBean style, through the rural hills and coastline of Freeport and Brunswick, ME - learned that LLBean's name was Leon Leonwood Bean - found lots of seaglass on the beach - made a necklace from a piece of blue printed porcelain rubbed smooth by the sea - made an amazing tee-shirt for Sonia after spending a day walking around JP looking for the letters of her name (see photo above) - grew beans, zucchini, basil and cukes - grilled everything you can think of - visited Sonia, Susan and Suneel in Houston - went to a cool Eugene O'Neill & e.e. cummings tour in Forest Hills Cemetery - had great networking lunches with a few people new to me and one or two old to me - made it to one Sox game at the last minute on Labor Day weekend with SRO tickets for the Coke Deck for only 25 bucks - went to the "End of the Summer" Party at Cobbetts & stayed over one more time - had a great, HOT summer.
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1 comment:
love the list! i might give it a try but i don't think it would be as productive as yours :) also, i think sonia's tshirt is awesome! such a cool project.
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