May 22, 2015 Memorial Day Weekend
It is a beauty outside today. I'm obligated to run the lakes at least once today. Yes. Yes, I am. It wasn't too many years ago that I made it home from California for this very weekend, Memorial Day weekend. It turns out it was raining the Friday I got in, and it eventually lead me to Kieran's Irish Pub on Block E where I formally played the role of a night lord when it was known as Bellanote. LOL. People have a tendency to return to places they know and are familiar with when looking for relief. The rest of that story you know because it was there that I sat next to two gals our for a birthday dinner--one of them was Missy, the Minnesota nurse and the character from my first blog story, This Unbelievable Life. That's not me shamelessly plugging my blog story but rather the segway into why I posted the picture I did above--rooftops in Minneapolis. You Shook Me All Night Long by AC/DC
One thing you as a Minneapolis person will notice is that if the sun is out everyone is out. And they usually do this on a rooftop or a patio if needed! The number of rooftop areas that have sprung up over the last three years is indicative that we want to be out and up as high as we can go so we can see what we can see. We even wait in line to do so; this part hasn't changed any. Whatever it takes just to be up high, free to see what we can see, while we drink, eat, and laugh. This is what Spring and sunny days are about. We want to see our friends, enjoy the sun together, and not freeze our asses off buried underneath all those layers of clothes. I think this is why people do hot yoga..so they can actually see and remember what people look like in the Spring and Summer months as motivation to stay in shape, to keep a positive attitude, and smile. "It's gonna be over soon." LOL.
I guess the number of months of not being able to freely be outside builds up in you a need to be out. We call this "cabin fever" but I never really understood what that meant as a kid considering I grew up in the projects a significant part of my earlier years and in the hood the rest. Eventually you get that people have a second home somewhere they have to drive to on the few or couple of days they have off. And in those days, they usually spend maintaining it so that by the time they get to the 4th of July, it might be ready to enjoy for a few more weekends before they have to pack it up again....for Winter. Yes. We love this ritual. We love the sweating. We might even say we enjoy the mosquito bites!!! Just kidding. Maybe if it were called, "taco truck' fever or "corn on the cob" fever because this is when it starts..the Spring, I would've understood it to be the time that people can go outside and not turn blue! People love it though. I love it, and having lived in a place where it's nice out all of the time, you can see coming back to it, how much the sun and the weather affects a peoples' mentality, their conversation, activities, and health. That's the new from Minneapolis today, "..where all the women are strong, all the men are good looking, and the children are above average." Keillor.
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