Ho hum, the blahs of summer are upon us...

Yes, that's right, the blahs...everything is just sort of blah right now, so I'm trying to have as much fun and smile and laugh until the blahs are gone and the YAYS! return ... for awhile I had the Chicago trip to look forward to and future plans keep you going but then when I got back - NADA! So I finalized my California beach August plans, complete with pricey airfare ticket purchase so now I'm set for 10 days on the Central Coast - thank god. I can manage to keep alive until then. And then I had a whole Memorial Day weekend with not a whole lot to do - yet somehow I kept quite busy and it passed way too quickly and was over before I knew it. Saturday was a "just stuff" day - not that exciting - but Sunday was brunching in the East Village, shopping, walking around and enjoying the sunny weather, have a Tasti-Delight in the park while enduring the chaos of Taiwan Day - don't ask, it was a lot of noise and a lot of people and we just wanted a bench to sit on to get some sun, we didn't even try to participate.

But Monday, Ly hosted us again for some BBQ-ing and more Settlers Cup action - can I tell you his hamburgers rank among the greatest? He used honey, pressed garlic, chopped onions, sugar, salt, and some fish sauce, mixed that in with the meat to make the patties, let them marinate overnight and the smell on the grill was OUT OF THIS WORLD. Plus, he also grilled veggies, drumsticks, and Floating Head brought the hot dogs plus fixins and I brought two bottles of wine. I'm leaving it to you to do the math:

1. Two full bottles of wine at 11 am.
2. Floating Head and I are the only ones who drink.
3. We left at 6pm. Bottles are empty.
4. So who did all the drinking?


Plus we made plans for more summertime adventures (i.e. more reasons to keep on going through the blahs) - Baltimore trip for crabs, Fire Island Day, maybe Maine, Mamma Mia - since ABBA is the official theme music for our circle... so yay for us!

Oh and yes I know, my Mets aren't doing so well...I'm not too worried, they are only 5 out of first place and I have a feeling they will turn around at some point...I'm not guaranteeing they will make the playoffs but I don't think they'll have a rotten year..and I'm not into firing Willie - you just need someone to stop paying top dollar for too-old and too-injured players - get some new youngbloods in there who are hungry and all will be well. Enough said. Now get to work!