My Birthday and Lazy Summer Days

Recently, I celebrated a milestone birthday. It was all rather decadent as the festivities spanned over ten days and were comprised of three different parties! Woo hoo! I had so much fun. Usually I hate being the focal point, or centre of attention, and spend more time worrying about everyone else. Well, this time around I sucked it up and completely revelled in having all of my family and friends celebrate my birthday. I felt so truly lucky and so completely happy!
Shifting gears now, it is now fully summer time! We have had some pretty hot, humid weather this past week, but it has broken now and we are in for a lovely, sunny, long holiday weekend. I will be fortunate to spend some time cottaging this summer and I am really looking forward to that. I always relax so completely at the cottage and also sleep better at the cottage than anywhere else. I can't wait! One cottage is a family cottage that belongs to my grandmother. I am hoping to spend the last ten days of July there. It's my "happy place"! The second cottage is a rental that my girlfriend and I have booked for the first ten days of August. It is going to be so great! Her daughters will be with us and will be going to day camp while we laze around! The husbands will join us on the weekends, so it will be great to all be together like that!
I am busy reading away and have been trying to be more focused with my writing, but I am so distracted by life at the moment. Generally, I am most productive during the summer and plan to churn out a good number of chapters over the next couple of months. My husband has given me a deadline (which actually is not working well for me at all as I hate being told what to do!) at which time he wants to see "something, anything, please!" finished. In fact, he even went so far as to say "it doesn't even have to be good. Just finished!" That kind of cracked me up! So even though I don't resond well to being told what to do, I really don't want to disappoint him, or myself for that matter, if I don't do it!

Here's to hoping people!!! :)

Cheers!