I have been having a blast!! I love summer.....I have never every before spent so much time outside, just soaking up the sun. It's beginning to get to the point where just sitting there, will cause you to sweat.. I guess that's not much for many places in the world, but for Vancouver that's pretty damn hot.

Mark and I had a bottle of water in the car yesterday and at one point we reached to drink it and DUDE...it was HOT. I mean the water. It was not WARM. It was bloody HOT WATER...I mean I could have cooked instant noodles with this water man.

I'm still on a feel-good high. I am so bloody content with waking up at six to eight o'clock each morning and making some goodies, -- yesterday it was blueberry muffins, the day before that it was hazelnut-chocolate creme brulee -- After baking I head off to the gym for a class or some cardio, then it's out to wherever: Oakridge, Richmond for tire shopping, Starbucks, lunch with family friends, lunch with relatives, and then an afternoon of window shopping or grocery shopping or taking in Stanley Park or the aquarium, then back home and then staying in or going out for dinner.

It's grand.

I've also been taking long walks with my cousin each night. We talk and gossip about my brother's hideous girlfriend and the family and whatever damn things that come to mind. After a midnight movie, I walk a block back home....

My baby is going to Kelowna for a family reunion next week. His family is seriously a clan of about 400 people...it's crazy. I'm going to be feeding our fisheys and his cat while he's gone.

He's such a good person. One thing that does make me sad is that bad things still happen to good people. I'm really emotional this week so lately I've been sitting alone in rooms, teary-eyed at this fact. I wished that things could be easier for him. I wish I could make things easier for him. He has so much going on in his head, and he's surrounded by some really ugly people with strange intentions and negativity, but he's always always trying to bring people up. I love that about him because he is always so selfless...but I hate that it always has to be that way.

Why CAN'T he have a bad day, just because, and why CAN'T he be smiley? I wished I could take some of his stress from him and lighten his load.

~9:00a.m.