How was the Summer of 2017 for you?

Overall, it was pretty good. I did a lot of fun things.

One of my college roommates vacationed at Disney with her family, and I met up with them. I know the whole family, it was great seeing them.

My husband and I have been getting along better, more like our normal, after a few years of high stress. Unfortunately, he is getting restless about the business we bought, he wants to go back to corporate.

I met a woman whom I really like. We are practicing to do a zumba class together.

The real damper is my aunt went into hospice last Monday late at night. I flew into NY Tuesday morning to be with her and fir my sister who has been the primary person dealing with her while she has been sick the last several years. I do all of her bills, but my sister lives in NY and was visiting her ever couple of weeks. The whole thing sucks. My aunt is miserable, she wants to die faster. I have very mixed feelings and guilt. I wish I had taken her to live with me years ago. It’s a very long story.

Meh. Not the worst, not the best.

I like Fall,

A July / August see-saw of great times and mystery ailments.

I couldn’t dance to it, but still must give it a 7

It was good and bad. Weather – BAD. Rained about 70% of the time. Made even cutting the grass difficult. Got to see some relations we haven’t seen in a while – Good. Daughter’s car bit the dust – Bad. Found her a really nice, cheap replacement – Good. Step daughter wrecked her car – Bad. She is borrowing my wife’s truck – BAD. Work is doing all sorts of efficiency changes – Bad. I still have a job – Good.

It was the first summer that didn’t come with the usual “summer break”. Everyday from now on is both school day and vacation for me. It was a really weird feeling initially, as I had never experienced something like that before.

I graduated and found a job, the end of fun and innocence and the beginning of solitude and responsibility. It became harder to gather friends around to have fun like in college, and I just couldn’t start a good relationship with my collegues, as they are too shallow and calculating. A shock, I know, and I think I’m learning to enjoy being alone and work for myself.

I started to encounter face-to-face with all my ambition and I got even more serious than I ever was. Will I do it? Will it fail miserably? How much time do I have left? These questions have been bothering me since I left college, since this summer.

This summer pushed so many changes into my life. It’s like I have taken a major turn on the life road. So many new things, and also so much uncertainty. Hope and disappointment in everything came hand in hand. I was, and still am, constantly on a roller coaster. I almost had a nervous breakdown once. My world is seeing some big change. I feel like a swimmer in the vast ocean unsure whether I can reach an island or be consumed by the water.

One of my best friends was elected and is now my boss, which is great. She was my boss before the previous boss, so it’s not like working for her is a new experience. She is great for the organization that I work for and she’s a fair boss so it was a happy time for me when she got elected.

I didn’t go on any vacations until recently. Two weeks ago I traveled to visit my friend (the boss’s) sister in another state for the weekend for a party. That was a fun little adventure. My daughter came too. It was about an 8 hour ride and we all got along for the long trip, so that was good.

This past week I went to a resort about two hours away. I always go there. It’s in the Berkshires, not far from Gail’s house. I love it up there. There’s an indoor/outdoor pool, crafts, and you can be as active or inactive as you’d like.

This weekend we’re supposed to go to the county fair (again, Gail territory). We’re going tomorrow but it may rain in the morning. We always go in the late afternoon when it’s less hot and there’s better parking. “Hot” won’t be an issue this year. It is supposed to be cool.

I’ve really been enjoying that this summer hasn’t been too hot. It’s more like October weather than August. I remember last summer it was hotter in September than it was in August. This year it will be interesting to see if that happens again.

Still waiting for it to start. Other than some heat warnings, summer hasn’t hit me yet.

Meh. Had a falling out with a couple of people I considered close friends which limited some of my social activities.

It started out fine, then the heat started and forest fires began, and our town was evacuated for two weeks, luckily no damage to our house or property, but then highway closures began that made work a bitch,and thick smoke that hung around like a bad fog for weeks making breathing a chore,and to top it off our local golf course lost so much revenue due to all this they were forced to close for the rest of the season.
.The fires are still burning North of us, and some communities are still evacuated.
For the first time in over twenty years I am really looking forward to winter,maybe the snow and ice will get these fires out and get all the smoke to finally clear.

I am ready for Winter. I hate Summer, with heat waves and humidity and people everywhere. Not that we’ve had a very hot Summer this year. Mostly rain and too much moisture, it felt like I was inside a giant vagina at all times.

Hot and boring.

Brutally hot, the hottest in years, days and days of consecutive 100+ temps. It is 98 degrees right now at 11:am, going for 106–7 today, 106 yesterday, 101–2 tomorrow with no relief until mid-week next. Surrounded by 5 wildfires with a serious air quality advisory in effect. It’s been a long, hot, shitty summer for me and it has really effected my mood.

Being hot all the time and dripping with sweat within 10 minutes of doing any outdoor activity is enraging. Every day is a 3 shower day.
I am going to the beach for a few days the 1st of Oct. if I live that long. Bah Humbug.

@Berserker LOl..inside a giant Vagina, what a visual. haha
Me too..I fucking HATE summer!

I live in tropical climate so it’s basically summer all year round. Hot, sweaty, crowded. So, basically nothing special happen due to the single season. Gosh, I’m so jealous of people who live in four seasons countries. After summer they’ll have autumn will all those beautiful falling leaves, food harvest, and comforting temperature.

It has been a very nice summer for me, cool and beautiful.

@Coloma I don’t like being in vaginas. What am I man, some kind of dick?

Hot. ‘Nuff said.

My baseball team is doing well, but other than that it’s been a mess.

My husband and I just bought our first house this summer, so it’s been wonderfully chaotic and busy, but good all around :-)