Happy Summer!

We are down at the Anderson's beach house for the month. Josh had some offers to work this summer, but we decided that a benefit of his teaching career is enjoying some time off so that's what we decided to do. It feels really nice to have a prolonged stay at the beach. I miss having constant access to the sand and salt air.

It's going to be an interesting couple of days coming up. Lauren decided she wants to spend the long holiday weekend at the beach with her boyfriend (still Patrick...), and since this house belongs to the family, we had to agree to let them come. Josh has slowly gotten used to Patrick being around but 5 days of togetherness is a lot. On top of that, Josh had invited Keith to come down for the weekend. Keith asked if he could bring his girlfriend and we were okay with that, but then we found out his girlfriend is Laura - the Laura that followed Josh to England and tried to make me think they were together. So we've got my ex and Josh's biggest fan from 2007 coming to spend the weekend. Should be interesting...

The last time I saw Laura I kind of lied to her. It was the week after Thanksgiving in 2013 and Josh and I had just kissed at Natalie's party during a Jenga game. He had asked me to go look at the Christmas lights at a place near our house. We were walking around looking at lights and doing some window shopping. He was looking at something and I ran into Laura. She saw that I was with Josh and made a comment about us as a couple and I didn't correct her. I guess I didn't technically lie, but I let her believe that Josh and I were together. I hope that doesn't come up!

The last time I saw Lauren and Patrick, there was also some drama. It was Father's Day and we were at the Anderson's house. I ended up in the kitchen after dinner with the two of them and they were trying to get me to convince Josh that their relationship was a good thing. I've been really supportive of them, even to the point in getting in a couple fights with Josh, and I had decided I wasn't going to do it anymore. I politely asked them to back off but Lauren kept pushing and I lost it. I told her that if the three of them insisted on making me take sides, I'd have to pick Josh's side because I am always on Josh's side. That stopped her from pushing but the rest of the night was strained and I was annoyed.

And then there is Keith...Josh's college roommate that has never been super warm and friendly to me.

Yeah, should be a great weekend! :)