lets get happy!

today milwaukee experienced its first full day of uninterrupted summer sun and heat since the week long inception of bizarro monsoon weather. while pouring rain and whirling winds can be pleasant and at times exciting, they're not very conducive to summertime fun (unless you're josh ellis and face the beast head on, i.e. ride your bike through the mayhem). needless to say, i'm thrilled mother nature is back on course.

my partner in daytime leisure, sarah, and myself celebrated this beautiful phenomena by heading to the scrubby lakeside we call a beach. we roasted for a good couple hours, morphing our genes or whatever weird biological stuff that takes place under the surface of our glowing brown skin and listened to morrissey to make up for last night's lack thereof. we followed the soaking of the sun with the next appropriate thing to do on such a glorious summer day and got smoothies. ran into friends whilst walking around bay view sipping our berry burts, hung out in my balcony trying to steal internet for a bit, were blessed by mike's presence which resulted in some hearty laughter on my behalf thanks to sarah's success in giving him a taste of his own 'tude (i've never seen him without a smart ass retort- sarah had him stumped!), and shortly after, realized how doing a whole lot of nothing on a perfect summer day causes hunger sensations the size of a blue whale. sarah's superior mental reflexes then suggested chipotle to go. burritos the size of our heads coupled with outdoor eating on brady street (my new favorite summer time people watching spot) followed. to end our heavy day of maxin and relaxin, we walked over to comet for a cold one even though sarah's not drinking til friday.

i leave for la in a day and the thought of interrupting my life of leisure is quite bothersome, but alas, family beckons.