The fireflies are out and about. So are the baby gooses. Time to enjoy summer before it gets too ungodly hot outside.

I realized that the body lotion I've been using for two weeks is actually volumizing conditioner. No wonder it lathered a little when I rubbed it on my legs.

Quite a Year

The past year has been a pretty big one for me. In the last twelve months I have:

• Moved into my very first house
• Traveled by plane for the first time
• Left the country for the first time
• Attended weddings of two of my friends
• Started my blog
• Cooked new things for the first time: tacos, egg salad, clam sauce
  
• Taken a self-defense class
• Had the first out of my group of close friends become engaged
• Started a book club
• Joined the world of text messaging
  

I hope that every year will be so full of new things.

Gloucester

One of my new favorite websites for the study of all things nautical is about Gloucester, Massachusetts. The picture above shows a fishing boat called the Evelyn G. Sears sitting in Gloucester Harbor.