Summer Solstice thoughts

We're at the midway point. Plenty of markers for this special day...

Today is the longest day of the year. If you go outside at 9:15 pm tonight, it will still be bright enough for you to get in a good run or walk the dogs.

The first day of summer. This is a big deal to me only because my company observes a policy known as "Employee Summer Fridays" in which everyone leaves by 3pm every Friday during the summer. If you aren't able to leave by 3pm, you get the time back to use for PTO. But more importantly, we also have ice cream parties every other Friday during the summer. Yes, I am 8 years old.

30 days left until the release of "...Deathly Hallows" I've already pre-ordered my copy of the new Harry Potter via Amazon. That means that I have 30 days beginning today to finish "...Half-Blood Prince". I've been waiting to read it because I've heard that the ending is intense, and I didn't want to have to wait forever for Book 7 to come out once I finished.

I wish everyone a pool-hopping, BBQ attending, shorts-wearing, frozen-lemonade drinking, 311-concert crashing, happy, safe summer!! :-)