ikes, it's already september!

How is it already September?! The summer flew by faster than usual this year. Ikes!

I've made it back to the midwest safe and sound. I spent the last week with Alissa and Matt in Baltimore, hanging out in my old hood with my old dog. Apparently Lucy still sleeps up in my old room despite the fact that I moved out 2 years ago. :)

Anyhoozle, Bmore was fun. I worked from the house most days and then hung out with Alissa and Matt in the evenings. Pretty chill, but after this summer of constant moving and especially after the craziness of NYC, it was nice to have a "home" for more than 2 or 3 days. I did go with Alissa to work one day because she works in the building that houses the School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins, which was one of the programs that I was interested in. I quickly realized after visiting that I am incredibly under qualified. Sigh. Maybe in a few years after I have more experience on my resume.

My parents and Paul came out to Baltimore on...Wednesday I think? We were all there because Lauren was getting married in Virginia, so it seemed like a good opportunity to hang out as a fam minus Mark because he was being lame-o. The parents and Paul drove down to VA on Friday morning (Paul was an usher and had to be at the rehearsal on Friday night) and the rest of us drove down on Saturday morning. Lynchburg, turns out, is much like Jacksonville in that there is just NOTHING there. The wedding was a total of 17 minutes long and then we had 2 hours to kill before the reception so my fam, Rick, Donna and Riley all headed to the TGI Fridays to get some adult beverages. Eventually we made it to the reception where, like a bad girl at a high school prom, I spiked all of my family's peach punch with vodka out of a Sprite bottle which I had stashed in my purse. Us McIntee's, we are trouble makers. Anybooze, it wasn't really my style (I prefer dancing and boozing at receptions...go figure), but Lauren and Dustin seemed to have a good time so it worked.

After the wedding, my family drove back to Alissa and Matt's house for Labor Day and then I drove back to Michigan with the parents. It was weird cause it kinda felt like a family vacation, which we haven't taken since I was like, 14 or 15. The 10 hour drive home brought back some bad memories of the summer I was 11 and my parents decided it would be a good idea to pack me, my 2 brothers and my sister into 1 van and drive the scenic route all the way to California and back. I wore my All 4 One cassette tape out on that trip. Not cool...

It's now back to normal life for me. By normal life, I mean car rentals, long drives, countless hotels, too much fast food and college campus after college campus. I'm tired just thinking about the weeks to come. Sigh. I'm getting closer and closer to breaking down and moving back...getting a dog (I really want a dog..Karen called me a pet-o-file the last time we hung out in Detroit because I kept lusting after all the dogs walking by us). I also decided that the next apartment that I have has to have a dishwasher. For all of the houses and apartments that I've lived in since moving out of my parents' house at 18, I have always had to wash my dishes by hand. And now I want a dishwasher because that's fancy. Honestly, I think if I wasn't moving to a place where I could surf every weekend, I'd totally bail and move back to Chicago. The possibility of surfing on a regular basis is the only thing keeping me going...

I'm beat. Night all. Happy Tuesday.