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Tuesday, June 10, 2008
June is Bustin’ Out All Over
June is here, and that means a few things for me. First of all, my birthday is this month. I’ll be the ripe old age of 23 in a couple of weeks. I’m not really overly excited about it as it’s just another birthday, but I enjoy celebrating it even still. My birthday has always been a good holiday type day for me. I’ll be at work that day, but hopefully it won’t be bad. Johnathan and I are planning to go out to dinner somewhere, but I haven’t figured out where yet. We wanted, originally, to go to The Melting Pot, but given our current finances, that’s a bit out of our price range. I’d like to go somewhere we haven’t been, though, so I’m going to do a little research to find out what’s good around here and what would be a unique experience for my birthday. If anyone around the Cleveland area has any suggestions, I’d be glad to hear them!
June also means that summer is here. It’s summertime, whoo! It means that we’ve been alternating between (or coping simultaneously with) thunderstorms and 90+ degree weather. The humidity some of the days in the last week has been unbelievable. It’s a marked difference, however, from what I was dealing with this past winter, when it came to figuring out how to survive the cold and still have skin that felt human. My skin feels quite normal again and it’s wonderful. I think I’m going to have to decide through the course of the summer, though, whether it’s worth the heat to have the beautiful feeling skin.
Another glorious thing that June has brought to us is the opening of the apartment complex pool. We went for a swim on Sunday and it was wonderful. I was very tired after we got out of the water (likely a side-effect of my treading water – gently – for an hour or so), but my skin felt wonderful, my muscles felt wonderful and I felt that I was exactly in my element. I think, had the pool been a bit less packed, I would have been willing to spend more time in the water. Unfortunately, there were boisterous children and even more boisterous twenty-somethings hanging out about the pool which made it difficult to have peaceful enjoyment. We were constantly getting splashed by a thrashing child or nearly getting hit with a football because the twenty-something guys decided to throw one around, in and out of the pool. However, the pool being open will provide us with some opportunities for low-impact exercise and relief from the heat. It’s also given my skin some color, as we were out in nearly direct sunlight for that hour, in the water. Despite the 55 SPF sunscreen, I did get a little bit of color. I don’t look quite as sallow as I have all winter! 
June also means that we’re starting the apartment hunting process. Our lease is up in a couple of months, so we’ve decided it’s time to move. We’ve already looked at one place and put feelers out at a few others, so we should hopefully be able to narrow down our options by the end of June or early/mid July. I’m excited to look at these places. They’re all going to be easier on our budget, and hopefully we can find one that better suits our immediate needs. I’m getting pretty excited about the move, even though it’s still a couple of months away. It will be a place that we’re able to pick together, rather than the current place we’re in, which was where we ended up out of convenience more than anything else.
At any rate, I’m happy that June is here. Summer isn’t my favorite season, but I’m glad it’s here. The trees are green, the roads are mostly drivable and I’ll be spending more time out-of-doors than I did through the winter.
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