summer 09.

oh summerrr.

i didn't think it would go by so fast.

it seems like it just started, you know? like school was just ending. or i was just at field hockey camp, or in maine, or singing in disney world.

It's funny how one summer can change everything. It must be something about the heat and the smell of chlorine, fresh-cut grass and honeysuckle, asphalt sizzling after late-day thunderstorms, the steam rising while everything drips around it. Something about long, lazy days and whirring air conditioners and bright plastic flip-flops from the drugstore thwacking down the street. Something about fall being so close; another year, another Christmas, another beginning. So much in one summer, stirring up like the storms that crest at the end of each day, blowing out all the heat and dirt to leave everything gasping and cool. Everyone can reach back to one summer and lay a finger to it, finding the exact point when everything changes.
~Sarah Dessen, That Summer

that quote really couldn't be more true.

things did change this summer. for me, for you, for everyone.

i think that's how everyone can come back to school no matter how much they don't want to-

because things have changed, they have changed, and they want to see how everyone else has too. thats true for me at least, i like to try to predict what'll happen in the upcoming year,

but let's be honest,

everything changes during the summer.

hearts soar, or they break. friendships grow stronger, or they dissolve.

things fall apart or they fall together.

i think somehow, in all the crazyness that was my summer, things fell together.

i'm not sure how. and i'm not sure i'll know how, for a while, or maybe ever.

all i know is that something feels right. this summer felt right.

this summer felt like i was where i was supposed to be, finally. with the people i was supposed to be with.

it's like i spent last year searching for a place and for people, and i found them and thats what my summer was made up of.

i couldn't have asked for a better summer.

i did some amazing things in these almost-three months.

and i have no regrets.

and as for that first graphic? i love the saying at the top. memories are just gah amazing. i made some really amazingg memories this year and a lot of the best ones have been with you maggie. boysboysboys! ;p but even better than that, is that i know how many memories we're going to make in the future. california and the killers. we are going to have the best time. ever. i can't wait.

so to closee, i hope you had an amazing summer my love. i'm pretty sure you did.

here's to summer 09, best summer of my life.