women of a certain age.

i'm starting to become convinced that mother nature is menopausal. we had an extreme winter that lingered well into spring and the last few days have been scorching hot. and when there isn't extreme cold or extreme hot, there is a lot of rain. and not just showers. ridiculous storms that take down power. i know in the mitten we have been pretty lucky. we've missed all of the wild storms, like the tornadoes that struck the south and massachusetts and the wildfires, like the one ripping across arizona. considering that this is the state of our weather lately, i'm pretty sure my conclusion is reasonable. or that al gore and science are right; global warming is real. mother nature going through "the change" is a more amusing thought for me though.

at work, we recently had a new crop of interns start with us. this takes the usually pretty empty first floor and fills it up with a bunch of law students from the end of may til the mid august. i usually enjoy having them down here. except now i can't just yell from my office to paul's without fear of disrupting their work and i sometimes worry that my 90s pandora stations might be so loud that they are actually distracting so i spend a lot of time with my door shut these days. my coworker maggie and i have been discussing their fashion choices for the last week and decided this afternoon to fill them in on this game we've been playing by telling one of the interns that he wins "best dressed intern of the day" award. now we just have to figure out how to make it seem more official. they are super competitive so they are already taking this a little seriously. i'm thinking that this should add a little fun to their work place experience and a little wacky. i think every work place needs some of that.

for the first time in a long time (two years) all of the girls are going to be together next week. jen, katie, n, d and i will all be in the same place at the same time. the last time this happened was june of 2009 when we threw katie a baby shower. it was great to be together but we didn't get to do anything super exciting, mostly because katie was pregnant. i'm very excited that everyone is going to be around at one time. the problem is, because katie is never home, she doesn't have much time to hang around. and she's bringing her whole family with her so her husband and two kids doesn't leave much time for girlfriending. it seems to be a plight of my age again. while n and d are talking about wanting to get married and have houses to decorate and babies, katie is ahead of the curve. she's already gotten herself a husband, a step daughter and had a son. i'm still trying to figure out what we are going to do with her kids so that we can have a dinner without them. i'm certainly not the type of person you want influencing your eight year old. and it's supposed to be a girlfriend night, everything i've ever seen on tv and movies says to me that means no children.

my point today wasn't actually to complain about katie having her whole family here while she's visiting. it certainly isn't what i would call ideal but it is something. what i was going to talk about was nkotbsb coming to the palace of auburn hills next week and how very exciting that is. i got a new coworker this week and she is also going to the concert. this got me thinking that everyone in my peer group gets equally as geeked about nkotbsb and i hope that this is something that will stick with us for a while. it is definitely something that brings us all together; no matter what kind of adult you have grown up to be.

alright, that's all i have for today. i'm becoming increasingly groggy at work and coffee seems to be letting me down.

from the girl who is kind of really addicted to angry birds.

until next time...