Summer Summer Summer Time

I saw that video by Will Smith and its amazing how that song can really put you in the summer mood. Listen to it and you really feel like your on a hot July day in the old neighborhood trying to look cute for your summer crush, staying outside allllll day until like 8pm ripping and running. Anyway, I had a great time today at my bosses cookout. The invite was as follows...

Johnny and Patrick
invite you to an
Italian-American
4th of July
Celebration!!

Release your inner guido/guidette this 4th of July in Carrol Gardens, the heart of old-school Italian Brooklyn!!

BBQ starts at 2:30-ish and lasts until.....well, fuhgeddaboudit!!!


To Dress the Part:
Ladies: Big hair, big nails, beach baubles
Gents: Wife beaters, gold chains, smelly cigars

I arrived to find my boss donned in multiple silver chains a visor and silver shoes. I had so much fun as he encouraged me to take shots and try the "snausages" as he put it. We chilled for most of the evening, and I chattered with his over the top friends seeing, just how they got down as an Italian troop. When it got dark and I had had two drinks already we retired to the roof top to watch the fireworks which was definitely one of the top things to do on my "Do Before I Die" list. Really beautiful sight to see from that far up, much better than watching them on the television as I normally do in Richmond. After the fireworks I decided it was best I headed home, I didn't want to encounter all the Brooklyn crazies as I walked back to the subway. The train, coming from Coney Island was as the whole of New York seems to be, filled with young couples that effing make me sick. I stood in the middle of all of it and just held on the the pole waiting for Broadway and Lafeyette to arrive. One tear. No work tomorrow so I may just hang around the Palladium or go to the Beach with my boss and his partner. Everyone really should have gay people in their lives, they make it so much more entertaining. Next weekend Grace comes and the weekend after the next one Erica comes! I'm excited to have people I know around, they'll help me to really enjoy my last 5 weeks here. Time is flying by like I don't know what. Its July 4th already, before you know it, it will be August 1 and its all down hill from there. The count down begins and your sitting in somebody's class trying to remember how to write because its been that long. You'll be excessively excited about the (AKA, Alpha, Kappa, DST, Q, ... )Party at (UR, VCU, State, Norfolk State, JMU, UVA, William & Mary...). You'll rush to the nearest cheap clothes store to buy a cute shirt to wear with jeans and pumps and get back into the swing of college life. Next year will be my last year so I'll definitely by trying to milk it for all its worth. After that its the real world for this PrettyFashionista and who knows what else. NY ...for sure, Marriage...who knows, Kids ... well as my favorite Italian would say ,"fuhgeddaboudit"!!!

Peace Yall