Summertime Blues!!

Are you like me? Do you too have a love/hate relationship with summer? Every June, as summer approaches, we all strive and fantasize about what this summer is going to bring. We all want that great summer where we jet set off to exotic lands, or have that fantastic walk along the beach with family or friends or that special someone. Teachers and kids are out of school and wanting to enjoy that summer vacation for as long as they can. We so want to see that latest summer flick playing at the local cineplex or go to our nearest park to have a great family barbeque or that romantic picnic with that close intimate friend. Yes, I too have been guilty of having romantic thoughts of summer. However, let's keep it real! Summer is hot, humid, dry and sweaty! Some of us can't afford to jump on that big jumbo jet and fly away to wonderful cooler destinations. We have to stay home and have our crappy rotating fans to keep us cool only to have it blow hot air back at us. You can't sleep or nap and if you do, you can actually feel the sweat dripping down your forhead. Ugh!! Then, the summer movies suck!! It's either loud, noisy and pointless or cute family sugary dreck. We so want summer to be a big huge party with cute guys, cute chicks, thumping good music and food and drink aplenty. Which in some cases, it can be. However, let's not forget the hot humid muggy feeling we face when out taking a walk, bike ride or running an errand. Look, I'm not knocking summer. I'm just trying to look at summer a little more realistically then television and the movies portray it. I, for one, love the fall. It's cooler, crisper and to me, more calmer. You watch the leaves fall and realize that changes are happening. The end of the year is upon us and time for a new year and new beginnings. That's what I love about fall. Summer  to me is a bad hot sweaty fantasy. Fall is a cool calming thought provoking dream. To those of you who love summer, hey more power to you. However, fall is my time to shine!!