Where has time gone?
It feels like just yesterday I started my internship and summer seemed like it would have endless possibilities. Now, I have just three days until I finish with my internship and summer is basically over.
The funny thing about it is, I didn't come up with any big goals or plans for the summer. I just wanted to relax this summer, since I never had a moment to relax when I had worked at Cedar Point last year.
The number one goal for the summer: plant a garden. I love working outside in the sunshine and being able to go out and see my flowers each day brings a sense of pride and relaxation for me. So, as soon as I recovered from my first ever bout of strep throat at the very beginning of the summer, I went out and started pulling weeds to plant my beautiful garden.
I wanted some tomatoes for my garden because I love eating them, but I didn't plan on choosing these unnaturally large tomato plants that overtook my garden. They were lovely at first, growing slowly and straight. Then, I walked outside and the tomato plants must have doubled in size over night! They had started covering flowers in the row in front of them and they sprouted out in every direction, showing the round tomato cages I had placed around them just in time that they didn't care what way I wanted them to grow.
I thought I might save my flowers from the shadow of the gargantuan tomato plants by moving them out front, but that only caused more harm because they definitely had no chance after I took them out of the ground. Oops!
I was doing really well all summer. I watered my garden every night and they all looked relatively healthy, besides the unnatural growth of the tomato plants that I'm not sure is healthy, but at least they were green with red tomatoes, which is more than I can say now.
One weekend away from my beautiful garden has doomed it. All my plants are brown and now I see no hope at recovering them. At least, I planted a garden this summer, I never said it had to last all summer.
From there, my goals went on to involve preparing for school (sending transcripts, filling out scholarship applications), nothing to strenuous, but still productive. Easily, I fulfilled all my goals except one, one that I am still trying to accomplish in my four days left at home. I need to transfer my iTunes library on to my laptop from my home computer!
Sure, it could be easy to do, if I had purchased most of music from iTunes and had put them on CDs just in case they don't transfer correctly. Of course, I had not put half my music on CDs and unfortunately most of my music has not been purchased on iTunes.
My wide range of music tastes had caused me to put all my CDs from my childhood on my iPod and the plethora of CDs I have asked for since. I could speed up the process and leave those off, but I still like listening to Backstreet Boys and Spice Girls when I work out, or more likely feel like reliving my 90s' "let's make a dance to every song" days.
Then I also have a handful of CDs that I borrowed from friends to put on my iPod. I wouldn't want to lose those songs either, so I now need to put those songs on my laptop by hand also.
For a person who loves music, the thought of losing any of my music absolutely pains me! So of my long list of five goals this summer, I still haven't managed to accomplish one.
Even if I don't get around to finishing that last goal, I am still ready for the end of summer. The cool temperatures of late have made me dream of fall and the return to football! I am so ready to sit around on Sundays in front of my TV and watch every game I have access to, and I may actually be able to watch the Cowboys win a couple this season without having to run off to a dining hall with TVs since I don't have a stupid roommate who turns of the TV when I am clearly watching it! (I know Arielle will be sitting right beside me probably laughing her butt of at me when I start talking to the players, yes I do that.)
And while I can't wait to start at my new school, I know that I will miss my forest at Miami and being on campus during the fall at its most beautiful time during the fall. I'm sure BG will bring plenty for me to look at though, if I have a chance to look around if I ever figure out my way around a new campus.
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