"Chasing fireflies makes summer really feel like summer!"

My friend Lineth left the above on her twitter, and I thought it was a true sentiment...although I do believe then that my summer experience has not been fully realized yet. Hopefully by the end of it, I will finally chase those fireflies!

So, I am now making it my goal to take pictures of as many people as possible with bricks. I'll let you know how it goes! I took these three of Lily after she slept over on the fourth of July.

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Fourth of July itself was pretty uneventful...

Someone offered my dad this festive headband, and of course he accepted and wore it with his innate fashion sense,

there were cute dogs,

a pretty moon,

and the good ol' fireworks.

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And some more information about the current going ons (if you just feel like you haven't heard enough already :))

Listening: Turn Me On by Norah Jones

Reading: Just finished Love and Peaches by Jodi Lynn Anderson and reading The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, The Boy Next Door by Meg Cabot (for just about the millionth time), and The American Pageant textbook (oh how I’m loving this AP work…)

Drinking: pomegranate cranberry juice with ice and a straw

Eating: turkey-cran roll up leftover from my lunch with Bex

Wearing: teal Mr. Frosty’s ice cream employee shirt (although I was never an employee) & a flowery skirt my mom salvaged from the high school costume room

Makeup: a smidge of rhubarb colored Burt’s Bees
Bedside table: two disposable cameras, music boxes from Germany, picture of my two friends and I from first grade (they were Robin Hood and Britney Spears, and I was Cinderella before the ball), a mixed CD that Annie made me, a frame that describes what my name means, a lava lamp, batteries, pens, a Volkswagen blue buggy lamp, grapefruit lotion

Watching: The OC season 2 disc 2 (my friends have been lending me the seasons, it’s my first time watching it through and if you’ve never seen, believe me, it gets addictive)

Thinking: Lawn mowing is not my favorite thing to do

Anticipating: Seeing Shakespeare in the Park and going to the Met on Saturday with Chris and possible others

Wanting: To be in Paris, a fruit powered clock

Obsessed with: plums, Morgan Freeman, teapots (perpetual obsession), bike riding, Feltbeats

Mood: Content….and it feels good.