Sand castles, and fireworks, and witches, oh my!

You know how it is. It's the third week of July. It's been in the high 90's, for weeks on end. The humidity is disgusting. You've been living in a bathing suit, flip-flops, and not much else. Where else does your mind turn to? Halloween. Of course. Sand castles, fireworks, and spooky witches. Fear not. Acme has you covered. They've got their Halloween candy out.

A week's worth of ice cream

A couple of times every summer, Aunt Cynthia and I would walk down to Sundae Best, in Avalon to get ice cream. And, every time, my uncle would yell at us. and tell us that he could make us ice cream sundaes every night for a week, and it would be cheaper than what we'd spend on just one visit. He was maybe right. But, in the summer, you have to get ice cream from the ice cream place in town. Even if a cone costs the same as a half gallon. Today I took my niece To some self serve Froyo yogurt place, in Westmont And told her she could get whatever she wanted. So she did. And I paid for it. $8.50 EIGHT! DOLLARS! AND! FIFTY! CENTS! For one ice cream mess. That didn't even have a cone. And what did I say? "Oh! My! God! Kelly!!! I could have bought 4 half gallons of ice cream that are on sale at the Acme right now!!!" But it was worth it. Because it's summer. And she was happy. And I want to be the Aunt Cynthia to all my nieces and nephews.

Swimming pool games

I was sound asleep this morning, And I heard a knock on my door So I yelled hello (Of course, I didn't get out of bed) And I didn't hear anything, So I yelled hello again, and asked who it was. And I heard a girl's voice say "Marco" Seriously? Someone wanted to play swimming games with me that early in the morning? So I yelled "Polo" Nothing. So I yelled "Polo" again. And she didn't answer. I don't know. It was weird. So I just went back to sleep. And forgot all about it. When I got up there was an envelope In my door from my friend Christine, at the front office. When she came over later She mentioned that she had papers to return to me. I said, "Oh you already did. They were in my door this morning." She said, "I forgot I had her drop them off. That was my friend Margot."