The Summertime Meme
1.) What first tells you that Summer is here? Forget the calendar. For me, it's summer when I can get away with sandals and don't have to deal with socks.
2.) Name your five of your favorite distinctively Summer habits or customs. Maintained pedicure, sandals, beer, visit to Wrigley Field, frozen yogurt at the local stand
3.) What is your favorite smell of Summer? Barbecue
4.) What is your favorite taste of Summer? Barbecue
5.) Favorite Summer memory? I have so many that revolve around Wrigley Field.
6.) Extreme heat or extreme cold? Which would you choose and why? I hate hot weather. Because I hate it, that's why. (Hot weather makes me grumpy. Don't fuck with me.)
7.) What books do you plan to read for the season? Right now I'm reading The Lost Husband. Next up is Bad Dog: A Love Story.
8.) What is your favorite part of summer? Singing "Go, Cubs, Go."
9.) What's your favorite quintessentially summer food? Least favorite? Favorite: barbecue. Least favorite: cantaloupe.
10.) Best beverage to beat the summer heat: Beer
11.) Least favorite/most annoying thing related to summer? Hot weather. Really, anything over 85ยบ is excessive and in extremely bad taste.
12.) Pick one: the lake /the beach. I don't understand this question, in that I've never been to a lake that was surrounded by pavement. When you have a lake, you have a beach, don't you?
13.) Most amusing summer vacation trip you've ever taken? I don't travel over the summer. I visit friends in FL at Christmastime and take off by myself in the spring.
14.) Most ridiculous/cringe-inducing/blush-provoking summer outfit you have seen? (Bonus points if you yourself were wearing it!) Nothing specific comes to mind, although the thing that makes me cringe and look away is when people with white, cracked heels and thick, yellow nails insist on wearing sandals. Put a sock on it!
15.) Your absolute dream summer afternoon would be Sitting behind home plate at Wrigley Field.
16.) If you could go anywhere on summer vacation where would you go? I think it would be great fun to experience my hometown of Chicago like a tourist. Hit a museum or two, people watch at Navy Pier, stroll Oak Street at dusk and collapse into a really nice hotel, like the Whitehall, for a shower and then room service while wearing a nice, fluffy robe. Sigh. The only thing that keeps me from doing it right now is $$$. Maybe next year.SHOUT OUT TO KATHY W: I do read your entries every week and you always make me smile. However, Google Plus or Google Chrome or whatever won't let me log in so I can't comment. Sorry. (And sorry about "the incident" on the boat.)
I didn't get the beach/lake question either because a lake is a beach, right? Your answer to heat or cold cracked me up!
ReplyDeleteThere is never a time that I don't LOVE your posts! BBQ, now I'm hungry!!
ReplyDeleteWe definitely think alike with regard to hot weather. We are in the midst of a triple digit stretch of about a week here and I am cocooning.
ReplyDeleteI'm so right there with you about socks. And cantaloupe.
ReplyDeleteI actually AM spending next weekend as a tourist on the Mag Mile for my anniversary. Thanks for the tips on what to do! :-)
I agree with the hot weather. Hate it.
ReplyDeleteI'm actually going back to Chicago as a tourist this summer. It'll be a whole new view for me.
ReplyDeleteis it summer? i hate hot weather also.
ReplyDelete#6 I agree... I HATE HATE HATE the idea of getting dressed up...only to walk outside and break out in a FULL BODY SWEAT 30 seconds later... sucks trying to do your hair ... wear make up... and don't EVEN get me started on butt sweat
ReplyDeleteah, good answers. I considered doing this one but got bogged in too many of the questions.
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