Today is the first day I've worn shorts this summer.  It's also the first day this summer that the June gloom we have (and I enjoy so much) in Laguna Niguel burned off before 9:00 a.m.  Which means that it's been fairly warm so far...but not so warm I've turned on the air conditioning.  (Gotta save that for the really hot days with NO breeze.

We had a little celebration of my scan news.  Last night it was a bit of bubbly (just a bit...gotta preserve that liver) and dinner out at a favorite Italian restaurant.  Then this morning the celebration continued with the wild abandon only found in sticky buns.

We had previously been turned on to Trader Joe's sticky buns, but those have mysteriously vanished from the marketplace.  So we're now onto Williams Sonoma sticky buns (pricey, I know, but you get 12 in 3 packages of four).  Not quite as sticky as TJ's but amazingly flakey and so, so good.

By lunchtime, I'd recovered myself and had a macrobiotic lunch at the local vegan place.  We ventured really far from the normal post-chemo agenda (i.e., the couch) and went to see The Hangover.  I laughed harder at that movie than I have in quite some time.  It's like watching a slow motion series of pratfalls, all elegantly crafted, with unexpected twists when you're expecting veers.

Last weekend, Lynne and I saw The Proposal.  More of a chick-flick, it was also funny but in a more dignified, and somewhat more predictable way.  There were times that the plot veered dangerously close to another favorite Sandra Bullock movie, While You Were Sleeping.  But leading man, Ryan Reynolds, and supporting actress, Betty White, both pulled the movie out of romantic comedy predictability with charming performances.

I ask you, what's better than a summer day, wearing shorts, hanging with your honey (or an amazing friend) and laughing out loud at a funny movie?

(I couldn't think of anything either.)

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