How is your summer going so far?
Thanks. I broke my foot halfway through, the doctor is gonna take my cast off tomorrow afternoon. Apart from that it was pretty good. I still had fun, just no beach for me. It's almost finished where I live, so I'm sad and my kid starts school tomorrow.
Growing up as a ‘90s kid, I feel like a family summer vacation was the norm. My mom was a single parent after my dad up and left but somehow she managed to put enough back so we could all do something together. We’d go camping with my uncle, went to Florida, to Wisconsin. Never anything super extravagant. Well, I feel like such an old bitch at the ripe age of 33 because things have already changed so much. Shit is just so much more expensive, to an insane level. The cost of traveling has probably tripled just in the past few years with the cost of gas and food alone. The price to stay at the campground I went to as a kid has tripled.
And besides money…people just suck so hard now. My oldest is getting to an age where I’d maybe be okay letting her go to summer camp for a few weeks but I just don’t trust people. Plus that’s insanely expensive now too.
I worry about this stuff. I was supposed to be solidly middle class in a middle class career which meant that in a low cost of living area I was supposed to be able to have a decent car, a house, most health care costs covered by my fully employer provided insurance and the rest my fsa, reasonable groceries, a modest hobby or two, a driving vacation every couple of years, a kid with an in home daycare and public schools and low cost extracurricular (but good luck on college kid) and retirement. I knew it wouldn't be easy, but if I was frugal it would be ok, right? Hah! I have the decent car. My insurance and healthcare costs increase each year. Gas has me panicked, groceries have me surprised. Hobbies were taken care of by covid it seems, vacation is not happening anytime soon, and while I have two kids (I was married, so two incomes) one forgot to be the affordable variety and instead has special needs and all sorts of costs. My retirement plan currently includes hoping the pension system is still around, working until nearly 70, and crossing my fingers. All this is mine plus debt up to my hairline. We weren’t vacation kids (broke and 3 under 10 when my parents split) but this is something I think bothers my husband. We can go on a weekend getaway to the beach or the mountains with DD because we’re fortunate that she loves the car and we live smack in the middle of the state 4 hours from each, but they’re not like the vacations his parents took him on. Everything is so different now than it was in 1999, 2000, when me and my DH would’ve been 5 or 6 and able to remember or appreciate a family vacation.
Also- my husband and I are lucky that we can afford to travel, but he gets vacation based on seniority, and he simply doesn’t have enough to get time off during school breaks. It’s honestly a lot cheaper to travel when it’s not major school breaks. We have made peace with pulling our kiddo out of school for a few days per year to have that family time. If it’s more affordable for you to take a long weekend that isn’t tied with school breaks, I say go for it.
When I was growing up, summer vacation meant staying up late, sleeping in, hanging out with friends, playing outside, going to the movies or renting Blockbuster videos, more video games and sleepovers with friends and cousins.
Currently we have no budget for trips or a vacation. I'm still worried my daughter won't get into the public preschool lottery and I'll have to try and scramble to pay for private Pre-K. It will be several years before we can try and even start to plan for a vacation. I had an anxiety attack because of the semester ending! I got so used to a set schedule that this semester, for the first time, I really emotionally struggled when it ended. I’m taking two courses over the summer to complete some gen eds so that’s helping.
I put on a really big performance back home and I really enjoyed it (great for my career too)! On the flip side, being home means my mother can verbally assault me every day and I have to stay sober.
Sleeping, mountain biking, visiting rocky mountain national park, hiking, cooking new things, visiting my girlfriend, working on my PC, reading, video games, building a new enclosure for my gecko, starting my first job out of college.
Taking a math class and an anthropology class to stay on track for a Spring 2023 graduation. Hopefully I'll get outside some and visit family in Vancouver BC at some point, too.
Trying to find a summer job up here that I can carry into next school year (btw if anyone has recommendations, lmk). Probably going to be splitting time between Bham and my hometown. Also trying to enjoy the weather as much as possible!
Wake up around 6-7 am, make coffee. Walk down to the water with my cup of coffee, sit on the pier and watch the sun come up. Go fishing, lay in the sun, swim, read, take a long nap during the worst sunburn times, and then eat a good cooked out dinner, and relax on the pier watching the sun go down. One more swim in the dark, then towel off, hang up my bathing suit and then fall asleep reading a nice fat paperback.
Wake up after a night of great sex, lie in bed for an hour or so, get up make a nice breakfast, go for a walk around the arboretum, meet some friends for coffee, play some video games with said friends, go out to a concert, come home a little tipsy and then have more sex.
Wake up, have sex, take some bong rips, walk over to the cafe across the street for a tasty breakfast of eggs benedict. Go grab my friends, walk around, lay in the park for a while and shoot the shit. Get my paycheck from work, go take some more bong rips, head to my house with my friends and play d&d late into the night.
My summer hasn’t been too good. I have to watch my brother leave for college (one where I won’t even be able to see him until December) in August and all the things we were going to do were cancelled by coronavirus.
Summer of 2006. All I did that summer was work 10-20 hrs a week and smoke tons of weed. I played WoW probably 50-60hrs a week, raided and maintanked for my guild. I was high all the time and when I wasn't playing WoW I was at my parents house by the ocean being high and playing WoW on the laptop and i would go to the beach stoned. I met tons of people and I had just met a girl on WoW I thought was a guy but the guild ended up being from a town 20 minutes from me. I went to a bonfire party they had then my guild leader was all "oh have you met everyone?" and this girl comes up and she's all oh hey AK I'm Mosey and I was like wwwaaaaaaaaaaaat. Then we blew each other and dated for like 4 years.
Honestly, I feel pretty lonely/depressed sometimes but recently met a new group of people I really like. I hope we can hang out more. Besides that, been working and going to the gym consistently. In four weeks, I'll finally get to go home, and relax, and have no responsibilities, no worries, no nothing. I am not going to use my time wisely. No. I am going to wake up at 2pm. I am going to complete the Spyro the Dragon PS1 trilogy for the fiftieth time. I am going to waste my time. And I can't wait to do it.
I know, I used to look forward to summer because of the break from school, now I kind of dread summer because it gets pretty hot and humid. And I still have to work (I usually take my vacations in later in the year).
I don't need to lose any weight, all I want to do is actually be fit, tone up, all that. Maybe I do want to lose a tiny bit of weight, but not even a dress size. I just want to get into a good habit, really. Maybe every single day would be a bit intense. I live about a one minute walk away from my gym and rarely have any plans before 2pm, so I have no excuse not to, though.
Growing up as a ‘90s kid, I feel like a family summer vacation was the norm. My mom was a single parent after my dad up and left but somehow she managed to put enough back so we could all do something together. We’d go camping with my uncle, went to Florida, to Wisconsin. Never anything super extravagant. Well, I feel like such an old bitch at the ripe age of 33 because things have already changed so much. Shit is just so much more expensive, to an insane level. The cost of traveling has probably tripled just in the past few years with the cost of gas and food alone. The price to stay at the campground I went to as a kid has tripled.
And besides money…people just suck so hard now. My oldest is getting to an age where I’d maybe be okay letting her go to summer camp for a few weeks but I just don’t trust people. Plus that’s insanely expensive now too.
I worry about this stuff. I was supposed to be solidly middle class in a middle class career which meant that in a low cost of living area I was supposed to be able to have a decent car, a house, most health care costs covered by my fully employer provided insurance and the rest my fsa, reasonable groceries, a modest hobby or two, a driving vacation every couple of years, a kid with an in home daycare and public schools and low cost extracurricular (but good luck on college kid) and retirement. I knew it wouldn't be easy, but if I was frugal it would be ok, right? Hah! I have the decent car. My insurance and healthcare costs increase each year. Gas has me panicked, groceries have me surprised. Hobbies were taken care of by covid it seems, vacation is not happening anytime soon, and while I have two kids (I was married, so two incomes) one forgot to be the affordable variety and instead has special needs and all sorts of costs. My retirement plan currently includes hoping the pension system is still around, working until nearly 70, and crossing my fingers. All this is mine plus debt up to my hairline. We weren’t vacation kids (broke and 3 under 10 when my parents split) but this is something I think bothers my husband. We can go on a weekend getaway to the beach or the mountains with DD because we’re fortunate that she loves the car and we live smack in the middle of the state 4 hours from each, but they’re not like the vacations his parents took him on. Everything is so different now than it was in 1999, 2000, when me and my DH would’ve been 5 or 6 and able to remember or appreciate a family vacation.
Also- my husband and I are lucky that we can afford to travel, but he gets vacation based on seniority, and he simply doesn’t have enough to get time off during school breaks. It’s honestly a lot cheaper to travel when it’s not major school breaks. We have made peace with pulling our kiddo out of school for a few days per year to have that family time. If it’s more affordable for you to take a long weekend that isn’t tied with school breaks, I say go for it.
When I was growing up, summer vacation meant staying up late, sleeping in, hanging out with friends, playing outside, going to the movies or renting Blockbuster videos, more video games and sleepovers with friends and cousins.
Currently we have no budget for trips or a vacation. I'm still worried my daughter won't get into the public preschool lottery and I'll have to try and scramble to pay for private Pre-K. It will be several years before we can try and even start to plan for a vacation. I had an anxiety attack because of the semester ending! I got so used to a set schedule that this semester, for the first time, I really emotionally struggled when it ended. I’m taking two courses over the summer to complete some gen eds so that’s helping.
I put on a really big performance back home and I really enjoyed it (great for my career too)! On the flip side, being home means my mother can verbally assault me every day and I have to stay sober.
Sleeping, mountain biking, visiting rocky mountain national park, hiking, cooking new things, visiting my girlfriend, working on my PC, reading, video games, building a new enclosure for my gecko, starting my first job out of college.
Taking a math class and an anthropology class to stay on track for a Spring 2023 graduation. Hopefully I'll get outside some and visit family in Vancouver BC at some point, too.
Trying to find a summer job up here that I can carry into next school year (btw if anyone has recommendations, lmk). Probably going to be splitting time between Bham and my hometown. Also trying to enjoy the weather as much as possible!
Wake up around 6-7 am, make coffee. Walk down to the water with my cup of coffee, sit on the pier and watch the sun come up. Go fishing, lay in the sun, swim, read, take a long nap during the worst sunburn times, and then eat a good cooked out dinner, and relax on the pier watching the sun go down. One more swim in the dark, then towel off, hang up my bathing suit and then fall asleep reading a nice fat paperback.
Wake up after a night of great sex, lie in bed for an hour or so, get up make a nice breakfast, go for a walk around the arboretum, meet some friends for coffee, play some video games with said friends, go out to a concert, come home a little tipsy and then have more sex.
Wake up, have sex, take some bong rips, walk over to the cafe across the street for a tasty breakfast of eggs benedict. Go grab my friends, walk around, lay in the park for a while and shoot the shit. Get my paycheck from work, go take some more bong rips, head to my house with my friends and play d&d late into the night.
My summer hasn’t been too good. I have to watch my brother leave for college (one where I won’t even be able to see him until December) in August and all the things we were going to do were cancelled by coronavirus.
Summer of 2006. All I did that summer was work 10-20 hrs a week and smoke tons of weed. I played WoW probably 50-60hrs a week, raided and maintanked for my guild. I was high all the time and when I wasn't playing WoW I was at my parents house by the ocean being high and playing WoW on the laptop and i would go to the beach stoned. I met tons of people and I had just met a girl on WoW I thought was a guy but the guild ended up being from a town 20 minutes from me. I went to a bonfire party they had then my guild leader was all "oh have you met everyone?" and this girl comes up and she's all oh hey AK I'm Mosey and I was like wwwaaaaaaaaaaaat. Then we blew each other and dated for like 4 years.
Honestly, I feel pretty lonely/depressed sometimes but recently met a new group of people I really like. I hope we can hang out more. Besides that, been working and going to the gym consistently. In four weeks, I'll finally get to go home, and relax, and have no responsibilities, no worries, no nothing. I am not going to use my time wisely. No. I am going to wake up at 2pm. I am going to complete the Spyro the Dragon PS1 trilogy for the fiftieth time. I am going to waste my time. And I can't wait to do it.
I know, I used to look forward to summer because of the break from school, now I kind of dread summer because it gets pretty hot and humid. And I still have to work (I usually take my vacations in later in the year).
I don't need to lose any weight, all I want to do is actually be fit, tone up, all that. Maybe I do want to lose a tiny bit of weight, but not even a dress size. I just want to get into a good habit, really. Maybe every single day would be a bit intense. I live about a one minute walk away from my gym and rarely have any plans before 2pm, so I have no excuse not to, though.
