Spring has finally sprung!

Dude! The weather outside is beautiful today, and it's about dayum time! I was beginning to think the snow was never gonna go away. Today was the highest temperature yet of the year. We got up to 69 degrees and I'm crunk about it! I passed the tennis courts today and my mouth started watering. My first thought was "do I need another tennis racquet or will my old one do?!". I am so ready.

I realize that here in Minnesota you gotta make the most out of your outdoor season, cause there's not much of it! I saw a guy today with the top down on his car and it really started to sink in that finally we got some outside weather going on. I didn't really cherish the time I had sitting on the patio last year after I first moved here; sitting out there, reading my book and smoking my cigarettes (that is, when I smoked). Man, I am gonna appreciate it so much more now that I know it's only a fraction of the year that we get to sit out and marinate in the sunshine.

I plan to go for walks, definitely play some tennis and maybe get a bike and do some riding around the neighborhood. Last summer we got together with some friends and played some volleyball on the 4th of July. Oh, man. I can hardly wait! The grilling and the basking in the sunshine! Auss!! I am so gonna go to a waterpark this summer, too. Last year I didn't really make it a priority cause I was still getting over my excitement at being in a new state. But this year, I'm gung-ho to hit the water and frolic like a freak!

I love the outdoors, although I sweat like a beast in the summer. It's all good, though. I like sweating. And I guess in the summer heat, you lose the winter pounds, hunh? I'm counting on that. The more active, the better and there's not much chance to be active in winter, unless of course you join a gym. I was thinking about that at one point, but I think I'll pass for now. Me and my videos and tennis and everything will be enough. I need to start recruiting tennis players right now!! Anybody out there wanna play with me, holla!! I'd like to start playing this weekend if at all possible.

Found out more good news today! My mom called and said that she had planned to come for my birthday, too, but couldn't make it then. But she is gonna come two weeks later!!! I'm gagging! I was so happy when she told me that. I had no idea she'd been planning to come at all. And she's gonna spend the whole week with us. I'm stoked beyond the height of stok-osity! She'll get to meet all of my great friends and to see JJ again. It's gonna be frikkin' great. Ok, I'm calming down. Gimme a minute......

OK, aaaand scene. I'm back. As I sit here and write, I'm looking out my patio door and the sunlight is so incredibly attractive. I'd like to just take the weather outside and just make love to it, I'm so happy. LOL. I'm a loon. This, I know. But I can look out and see the sunshine pouring through the trees and see the lake in the back of our place rippling peacefully. Incredibly bad-ass! And our crazy ass cat keeps going through the hole she's made in the screen door back and forth outside. She's even mesmerized by the beauty of the day.

I'm so thankful for this weather after 6 frikkin months of ice and cold. But dayum, it's coming back in about 5 months, isn't it? I'm gonna get out and enjoy it while I can! So my goals this summer in a nutshell are.....

*Grill out at least once every two weeks.
*Play tennis at least every other weekend. (hopefully much more)
*Go camping once or twice.
*Hit at least one water park.
*Hit at least one amusement park.
*Do some walking around lakes.
*Do some swimming.
*Play some volleyball (hey, maybe I'll buy a badminton set!)
*Enjoy the hell outta the wonderful temperatures!

Well, my love letter to the weather has come to an end. Hurray for tank tops and shorts!!! I need to go dig that stuff out and put my sweaters and jackets away and live this springtime life! Holla!

Thought for today: When life gives you lemons, look at the bright side: you can scratch that off your grocery list!