Summer's Salute!

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This year, summer was emotional, unexpected, beautiful, and terrifying. Through the good, bad and sweaty, summer kept me on my toes, so here's a little tribute to summer '18. 


The season started by taking all the plans I had made, and flipping them upside down. Not only, was I supposed to spend a MONTH on vacation with my closest friends and family, but I wasn't going to work, possibly go to Disney and spend 31 days with my toes in the sand. It was supposed to be THE summer of ALL summers. But then it wasn't. Some mix up at the office meant my parents couldn't take the time off, and there was no hope for me to take off on my own, so I cried and said adios to my dream summer and aloha to NOTHING. Too late to take hours at work, plan another vacation or make any plans remotely close to a month on the beach. So there I was, mid may, knowing exactly 5 things:

1. I was not going on vacation.
2. I was now signed up to 3 summer courses at school.
3. My boyfriend was going to Europe for 7 weeks.
4. My best friend was going to Greece for 3 weeks.
5. Summer was going to suck.

I'd love to pull a bold 'BUT THEN' twist here but sorry to disappoint all of those things really did happen, for a while. At the end of June, as my best friend was coming back from Greece and my summer courses were ending, I made a choice. The weather was beautiful, I had tones of time because I wasn’t working and my friends got home.... I was going to make this sucky summer, one to remember.


I had a summer bucket list, restaurants, clubs, beaches, new activities and adventures to discover, etc. And that's when my summer, started falling into place. 
We tried the cutest restaurants which I still crave daily, the junkiest food, spent our time tanning, reading, gossiping, exploring our city and shopping (refer to previous post), and it was amazing. 

Not only did I discover the amazing things that my city has to offer, but I really discovered how amazing it could be to be forced into making the best out of a situation. Don't get me wrong May was awful, and so was most of June but then my dream summer finally came through.


I should probably insert here that as much as I loved it, there were some tough times, seeing the Instagram pics I should've been in, my boyfriend being away, my sisters working fulltime, me not having paychecks coming in, etc. But this summer really pushed me out of my comfort zone, and it was something I didn’t realize I needed so bad.

I'm a constant planner. My meals? Planned. My outfits? Always planned. Future kids names? Picked. 
This summer was the breath of fresh-hot-air that I needed.

So thank you summer of 2018, for being the suckiest, but most amazing summer.

You'll be missed.
xx

T






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