Blog Swap Summer 2011 - summer memories...

You can find me posting over at  LOLASANGRIA  and today, you will be reading a post from LOLASANGRIA'S writer Dominique. Enjoy!

The truth is, i can't say i'm one for the unstructured wildness we associate with the heat. it always made me a little too crazy.

what i crave is the order. newness and freshness and starting all over and the chance to keep everything together this time.

(i haven't always been good at keeping everything together)

so in august, what excites me, what always excited me - that now, i miss something fierce - is the preparation.  the acquiring of new clothes that you won't wear for 3 months until the weather cools down, brand new notebooks that smell like perfect fresh paper, labeling your things and piling them away neatly.

i was never sad to see summer go.

and then a week or so before we hit the reset button yet again, my mom would tell me i should start setting my alarm so i could get used to waking up earlier - that never worked.  and the nerves before day one, the sheer enormous chances presented, they always kept me up late too.  it didn't matter - adrenaline always gets you through day one.

now i walk through drugstores and i see all the supplies laid out, and i know it would be silly to buy them for myself, i have no need.  i contemplate taking a class of some sort, but it's a lot of money for something you're not sure of.  so i think back and i miss this, this yearly chance to do it right.  and i think perhaps, now, (as with so many other things), we've just got to make it for ourselves