Why June is the best month of the year

1. The days are the longest and there is more sunshine.  Sunshine=happiness.

2. It is the first respite of snow for the Salt Lake City area of the year 2011.

3. The pool in our complex just opened!

4.  Weather is just cresting 80 degrees on most days!  Warm, but still don't need A/C

5. SHORTS!  I own 4 pairs of short pants.  Khaki, white, slack type, and black.  What can I say?  I have very little opportunity to wear them, what with weather only providing cooperative temperatures from June to September and professional jobs in air conditioned to freezing buildings. 

6. Shaven legs.  this is a subset of shorts, really.  I have an excuse to expose my calves and feel like a silky smooth woman.

7. The weight loss that I am encouraged to continue by wearing aforementioned shorts.  In the seasons we shall not speak of, layers upon layers of thick wool clothing creates the illusion of shapelessness, when in fact, there IS a shape, it is just growing larger and larger.

8. Tanning!  If waving to passers by on the porch is a hobby for people in Kentucky, then Tanning is it's equivalent for me.  I really don't care if I even change color as an effect.  Just laying out in the sun, feeling it's heat, hearing the slap of waves in a pool and children playing, even the smell of sunscreen and chlorine adds to the experience.  Hey, I don't have a beach in Utah, this is the best it gets for me.

9. I finish grad school and my licensure test.  By sunset on June 30th, I will be done with it ALL.

10.  I celebrate the day of my birth in June.  This year I will be 26.  Happy Birthday to me!