so the fourth in boston was pretty sweet. had a couple good friends save spots for us (while getting ridiculously sunburned) from dawn til dusk until me and another...friend... showed up to join them. right on the charles, with half a million people surrounding us (literally). we heard neil diamond perform sweet caroline live (bum bum bummm) and no, taylor swift was not there (adrieanna!). the fireworks were beautiful, and we were so close that we all got debris in our eyes, true story. but no biggie.

melissa's moonbounce party was the next day, which was an adventure. serious full court basketball in the moonbounce almost resulted in a handful of teens dying by suffocation being crushed by a collapsed moonbounce, but we all survived and had some laughs over that. worcester fireworks had nothing on boston's... but were still a good time.

by far the highlight my of summer thus far was the other night when chewy and i hung out. we were going to just go to the movies but that fell through. so after a long day at work, we met up around 7, and decided on a whim to go watch the sunset at horseneck beach. sporting sundresses on one of the only nice nights of summer thus far, we set out on the road. but... come to the horseneck beach exit.. the road was mysteriously cut off. literally CUT off. just gone, haha. so we just drove. and whaddya know, we ended up crossing the big bridge (which chewy thought was a ferris wheel, haha) into newport! where we have been saying we'd go since our birthdays in april. destiny, much? so we walked around, had this adorable couple take our picture and give us a lecture on how to be good but enjoy the bars (haha). best of all we had a romantic date by the harbor with bena nd jerry... jerry was mine ;o) even though we were there for just an hour, it felt like so much longer and was so refreshing and fun. i love newport, i lvoe summer, i love ice cream, and i love friends.

but now i'm a working girl, making paper. i've been dog sitting the past weekend and babysitting morning-night on the daily, on top of getting hours at old navy, being called in for favors already even though i'm still only on day #3 of actual work. example: yesterday i babysat 8-12, worked 12-8. twelve hour day overall, cool. it's all good though, everyone's nice so far and i actually don't mind working at all. sadly i've been buying stuff with my killer discount at gap/bananarepublic/oldnavy which prob amounts to more than my first paycheck will but oh well. i dont work again til saturday, but i'm still babysitting 8-5 today and tomorrow, sweet. but the kid is cute and so is his dog so it's chill getting paid to play t-ball and watch cartoons and color.