Every now and again I’ve had to test different database settings by requesting comment threads, and in my last one, a few of you asked if these “Hayadoin” posts could be regular features. I love this idea, especially since you help form one of the most welcoming and thoughtful communities online, and I love reading what you have to say.
So, hayadoin? What are you looking forward to this weekend, or this month?
As for me, June is my birthday month, and the end of school and the start of summer, and once the cicadas stop dive-bombing me (or trying to craw up the back of my neck ew ew ew omg ew) I am looking forward to being outside in the sun, reading and sitting and possibly snacking.
I’m also pondering what outlandish dessert I’d like for my birthday. Last year was baked Alaska with homemade mint-chip ice cream and an absolutely mammoth pile of meringue on top (plus a blowtorch). I have to think big and delicious. Any suggestions?
What about you? Anything you’re anticipating happily this month? Please tell us about it!
What a great idea!
I’m looking forward to my daughter coming home today after her first year away at college. We were so lucky that her tiny college had excellent testing protocols and was geographically well located to fend off outbreaks – she was able to be on campus all year and they had only one case of COVID. Now she’ll be arriving home and I can’t wait!
I also have a mudroom full of baby poultry (11 chicks and 3 ducks), and I’m loving watching them grow up and their silly antics. So I look forward to that every day.
And finally, I live in Maine where everything is mostly shut down from October-May, so I’m looking forward to all the fun things happening in June and the summer months. Garage sales, parades, outdoor concerts, and warm weather!
Ooh, you should make the NYT Rainbow Cake recipe! It’s on brand for June (Happy Pride, everyone!) and the video of the baker making it is super fun to watch.
I hope the link works:
https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1020257-rainbow-cake?smid=ck-recipe-iOS-share
Long term? My parents are coming to visit at then end of this month for the first time since before the pandemic. Younger son and I flew out briefly to see them once the adults were vaccinated, but they haven’t see my older son or my husband in probably 18th months.
While they’re visiting, we’re going to have a picnic with my best friend and her family. (My parents call her the other daughter:-))
Short term? I’m taking a nap this afternoon.
I too am a June bunny, and I am lucky enough to be part of Catherine Heloise’s Shakespeare nights, so I’ll be there for that. However, we’re in lockdown (again) so the cocktail night out is postponed. I think I’ll just get something decadent cake-wise and spend the day in bed with the cats and a fresh supply of tea.
Well, I was looking forward to WAYR, since I missed the last one… kidding! kidding! I liked these test bloggy things too, and I think a lot more people participate in these.
I’m looking forward to going swimming this afternoon. And as soon as I’m done with this post and my coffee, I’m going to watch some of The Last Airbender Season 3 with the kids, all of us knitting (as if my free time wasn’t enough filled by reading and quilting, my oldest said he wanted to learn to knit and I joined him in support… prodded by one of your Wednesday link, the one about viewers reverse engeneering the great knits they saw on tv. And now I’m hooked doing JW Anderson Harry Styles cardigan with the sofest yarn you ever touched, and my oldest and I hooked his little brother and now we all knit! It’s awesome.)
For the end of the month, I’m looking forward to the start of a summer of camping. We love-love-love camping. And looking forward to finishing sewing projects.
(Happy birthday Sarah, and all of you June bunnies! –> great moniker Gillian B, I’m gonna use it on my nephew 😉 )
Today is 14 days since my Moderna shot #2. I am looking forward to getting my hair cut!
Also, local berries, homemade ice cream, and resuming my jelly experiments.
School’s out—yay! I have the next two months to read and get some physical therapy for the pinched nerve in my hip. My two youngest daughters (twins) have a birthday next week (23rd) and they’re having a party at a local restaurant (we’re all vaccinated). My husband & I are also supposed to renovate our bathrooms this summer—new vanities, countertops, sinks, and faucets—but I will be acting in a “yeah, that looks right” capacity as opposed to anything hands on.
@Arijo: Someone will correct me if I’m wrong, but, because WAYR appears on the second and fourth Saturdays of the month and May had five Saturdays this year, there is going to be three weeks until the next WAYR (June 12).
Great idea, Sarah! And happy birthday!
My daughter is a June bunny, too, and we are going to surprise her with a day at two Boston museums – Isabella Stewart Gardner and the MFA. Definitely looking forward to that – we’re going for “High Tea” at lunchtime, so the whole day will be an adventure for my little Georgette Heyer fan. Feeling lucky that we’re all vaccinated and we can see some family we’ve been missing, too!
Happy June to everone!
I am looking forward to cooking, un-fucking the house (it’s a messy stress-source right now), and reading lots and lots of books. Good friends are working the Robin Hoode Ren Faire every weekend this month, so we’re hoping to go up tomorrow and cheer them on. Also hanging out with friends in person how that we’re all fully vaccinated (still outside, still distanced, but IN PERSON!)
I’m looking forward to seeing a movie in the movie theater. I already have my tickets to see In the Heights
Just had my second vaccine shot yesterday and am counting the days until I’m no longer a potential death spreader, woo hoo! On a more daily level, every day I look forward to seeing what’s new in my garden. Today the roses burst into full sweet-smelling bloom, tomorrow the chive flowers will be fully open, and in 3 weeks or so there will be raspberries.
I also am a June birthday! So, for my midlife crisis I went back to school and am graduating with a bachelor of science, virtual ceremony a week from today. (Perimenopause during a pandemic and zoom university with people young enough to be my kids was certainly an experience…) I’m taking a gap year to get some lab experience before my graduate program, but before that I’m taking the rest of June OFF and puttering around the house, going for long walks and catching up on the stack of books I’ve been saving. It will be glorious.
I’m making guava sherbet this afternoon, so I’m looking forward to that, and hopefully getting some time to write a fic I’ve been playing around with.
(recipe: https://thetakeout.com/recipe-guava-cream-cheese-sherbet-no-ice-cream-maker-1846881083)
@Penny: achievement unlocked! Congratulations, Graduate of 2021!
A week from today I will fly to visit my parents in another state. I haven’t seen them since right after Christmas of 2019, so I’m very much looking forward to that.
@hng23 thank you!!!
I retired from my nursing job in ICU last Sunday! 32 years and done!! So we’re just waiting for my hubby to get his second jab and then he really needs to get to Florida to see his mum. Hopefully we get rid of the Hotel quarantine (we’re in Canada) before we go.
I too want to sit outside and read. I’m looking forward to summer berry picking and seeing friends I didn’t get to see last summer. I’m also conducting some experiments in germinating native plants from seed, I hope something sprouts!
I’m looking forward to the warm weather, and new KJ Charles at the end of the month! I just re-read Slippery Creatures and The Sugared Game in anticipation of Subtle Blood and I can’t wait.
This thread is so lovely. Congratulations on your graduation Penny, and on your retirement, Kris!
I completely forgot that this weekend my teens receive their second vax dose, and of course I cried. Again. My older child tried to bet Adam $10 that I would, and Adam, not being a goofus, did not take that bet. Masks are rather absorbent for sniffles, I have found.
Thank you for sharing all your optimism! And if you’re a lurker and want to share, please do. The comment settings might flag yours if you haven’t commented before, but I’m watching the thread and will let it through.
Onward and upward to everyone!
58th wedding anniversary on Tuesday! Have a hard time wrapping my head around that!
A lovely thread. I am another June bunny! I’m looking forward to picking up a book today (a belated present to myself) and dinner with friends tonight. Maybe inside a restaurant if I am feeling brave, but the patio will be just as good. It’s amazing to see people again, I feel like my in-person social skills need some brushing up.
I’m looking forward to, hopefully soon, completing a “change-my-life” organization project that I am lucky enough to have my mom helping me with.
Just had to comment – today’s email post stayed in the middle of my phone screen when I turned it sideways (landscape view). I do this because the print gets big enough to read. I’m mentioning this because most days the daily digest stays to one side and stays small. When I enlarge it the one edge (just with the two finger zoom move) gets a little lost.
So today’s digest was just the thing. I don’t know enough about computers to suggest what might be going on (and maybe other folks just aren’t vested in this like I am). But I was thrilled.
Right now I’m counting down the days to Mercedes Lackey’s new Valdemar book is available! Also looking forward to Strawberry Season, and hope the dratted Spanish Slugs don’t get too many this year, since the chicken flock hasn’t been able to properly decimate their numbers. (They have house arrest due to bird flu, unfortunately. No they don’t have it, but a nasty strain of the sickness has been documented in my country, so the current regulations are that backyard flocks aren’t permitted to roam freely. Unfortunately.)
Also looking forward to the stuff I have planted in the kitchen garden – the radishes are starting to be ready to harvest
Also, I have my birthday this month, and I guess there will be a celebration of some sort.
Looking forward to the nice sunny weather, ice cream, and bike rides along the coast!
I’m getting my second shot on the 20th, which means my antibodies will be aligned by the 4th of July. Hello, freedom!
Can’t wait to get my copy of The Menopause Manifesto on 7 June and vacation at the beach in August. The kid finishes 7th grade in a few weeks but I’m also looking forward to a return to in-person school this fall. Is that wrong? The girl needs to be re-socialized.
Visiting my fully vaccinated parents and Galway, for the first time since December 2019. I’ve the first dose of the Pfizer and waiting no 2.
My birthday was last week and I’m on annual leave, due back Tuesday.
I finally finished socks for my husband. My knitting mojo has been sadly absent recently
I had to heart every comment here because you all deserve invisible hugs just because, while at the same time we’re mindful of all we’ve lost.
I’m looking forward to travel, travel, travel, being out in the world. After staring at my husband for 15+ months, we have plans for extended stays in Europe (fingers crossed) to see family. Also having our first overnight guests tomorrow. And I’ll be baking again.
@Alli (#9): I’m totally stealing “un-fucking the house.” After letting everything except the bare minimum go for so long–where you can leave notes to yourself in thick dust–I discovered there is real delight in cleaning when you can see the results. Look! I made a difference, everything is sparkly and I’m not stressed! Wish I’d known this years ago.
I’m still hoping the pool will clean itself. Love to stand in the pool, at the edge with my Kindle. Of course, there are things that I’ve ignored for way too long, mostly general house keeping. I hate it, but there it is! The collection of dust bunnies I’ve been raising are definitely weaned and ready for new homes. As for reading, I usually read in bed before I go to sleep. I trade around romances, murder/serial killer mysteries, and a fair bit of paranormal. I wish I had the energy I imagined I would have when I retired,, so I could magically get all this shit done… LOL
Smitten Kitchen’s tiramisu cake! It’s a project! Happy birthday to all the peeps who came to the planet in June! Looking forward to glorious warm summer days, endless blue skies, fat white clouds, boats bobbing up and down on the river, my husband FINALLY getting his private pilot license (I have been hearing about it for four years!), a music class for my son that I’m looking forward to, good stories (not a lot, but one or two at a time!), slowing down (hubs and I are consciously cutting back on a lot of things we use to unwind/distract ourselves and simply be with ourselves more), meditation and energy work, making delicious food, eating the said food, starting my mornings with an inward focus through journaling, bright green leaves, flowers in the house…. That’s it for now! Wishing all of you so many things to look forward to. That feeling of having something to look forward to, to anticipate, is one of the best feelings in my opinion!
seeing my adult sons and getting to hug them (they live in different states in distant parts of the country)—we are getting together as a family this month
@Kathryn, congratulations on your 58th anniversary!
In medical school and have a big exam monday, so after im looking forward to spending some time outside with my fiance, and doing some wedding planning 🙂
highly recommend a Frasier cake if you like strawberries and creme pat + fiddly bakes
June birthday for me too!! I’m looking forward to finishing getting my garden planted and also the neverending process of, as was geniusly-put in an earlier post, unfucking my house (spoiler alert- it’s never going to happen.)
So happy to see that so many of you are going to see family again, now that it is safer to do so!
Happy birthdays, graduation, anniversary, retirement, gardening, knitting, traveling, and getting together with friends. And reading good books!
Looking forward to enjoying the June weekends by reading, going outside, and fresh fruit. Also, ice cream!
Last year all the things people were missing, all the people they couldn’t see made me cry…this year all the things people are doing and all the people reuniting are making me cry!
@Kris thank you for your service (37 year RN here, retiring in about 6 years) @Penny I finally got my BSN at 57 and my MSN at 58, you’ve got this.
Today we are getting together with friends we haven’t seen since before the pandemic; we’re all vaccinated and going out to a pre Pride Happy Hour.
This summer we’re doubling the size of the wee 900 sq foot 100 year old ranch house we’ve shared for the last year. Like Dolly “I will be acting in a “yeah, that looks right” capacity as opposed to anything hands on.” Thank God, I’ve done the hands on, swore I would never remodel or reno an old house…and welp here I am again.
During the reno I’ll be working from my bestie’s house across the country in Atlanta, it’s going to be a fun month of girlfriend time.
But my favorite event this summer: we’re getting together with our kinky/bi/poly tribe in Palm Springs for our annual five-day hedonistic gab and-whatever-else-happens fest. I missed those freaks and it will be such a celebration to see them after The Great Pause.
To those of you who have lost people to the pandemic or politics…I’m holding you from here. I hope your summer is one of health and healing as we move forward, a little shaky on our post pandemic legs but moving all the same.
Hiya!
Avoiding the cicadas, too. Fully vaccinated. One more week of school for my youngest. Life is good.