The General Rules of Summer.

As summer has been and gone for this year, I thought I should make some rules to remember for next time.
Just so I can improve at life as my summers pass each year :)

Rules:

1. No matter where you are going, no matter who you are seeing, or how long you plan to be away for, BRING TOGS (/swimmers/whatever you choose to call them) because YOU WILL NEED THEM.
Okay so you think that's so easy and you've got that down but repeat after me, TAKE YOUR TOGS. Wearing boys underpants and your own bra, does not constitute as appropriate swimwear, unless you're on top of a mountain, swimming in rapids with only 15 or so other male members the morning after a mate's eighteenth - actually no scrap that. ( Especially when people start joking that you've made it into the pants of the person whom you'd borrowed them off.)

2. The second general rule of summer, and probably the one that will apply to the most amount of people goes like so: you think you will be away for about an hour, you will come back after about 3. You think you're only going out for a night, it's almost guaranteed you'll be gone for two, so plan you need to plan for this accordingly.

3. Because of rule two, while your so obediently packing your togs, you will need a toothbrush as well. DO NOT FORGET THIS. No one likes someone with furry teeth and bad breath :]

4. Sunburn looks lame on even the best of people. I know sun cream is greasy and disgusting and you 'wanna hav a fully sick tan 4 summa brahh' but honestly, you look like a lobster and people who look like lobsters are not very attractive.
So I've devised a simple formula for you to remember:
YOU + FUN TIMES IN THE SUN - UNATTRACTIVE SUNBURN = SUN CREAM.
Easy, yes?

5. To all the lovely princess's I have as friends, this is for you. (Actually, it's really for me more than anything ;) ) Straightened hair, perfect foundation, smoky eyes and really expensive mascara looks good during any other time of the year but LOOKS SO STUPID IN SUMMER. The humidity will melt your perfectly constructed face downwards like the ski fields in spring and cause your hair to spring up in crazy half straightened half dead ratty ringlets..
If you MUST wear something to keep you from feeling naked and exposed, waterproof mascara and concealer will do just fine. Apply sparingly :)

6. Sleeping on trampolines seems like a really sweet and lovely idea, especially when you're with someone that you quite like but really, don't bother. You'll awake shivering and freezing, and the dew will attack you with it's moist terror in the early hours of the morning. Tents work fine :)

7. A night of sobriety, watching Sydney's fireworks on TV, and playing Mario Cart on Nintendo Wii, just doesn't quite cut it for New Years celebrations. On any other evening it would be cool but it just doesn't quite get high enough on the awesome scale for the supposed biggest night out of the year.

8. Sleep is for the weak. Unless it's from about 4 in the morning onwards, or unless you have a good reason for having to awake the next morning. Otherwise, cherish the fact you don't have to attend school/work/other season's commitments in a few days time, and have fun during your night times. They are fun when you make them be :)

9. No one keeps resolutions. Especially at New Years. This is a lame tradition that from now should be conveniently ignored. Why waste the 5 seconds it took for you to think of things you've known the whole previous year, but chose to ignore at the time?

10. While summer is a perfect time for meeting people and making friends that ''make you feel alive ect. ect., summer is also meant for your already made and perfected relationships that you share with your best friends. Keep them in your plans or you'll end up never seeing them and then miss them all summer long.

11. Summer music festivals are awesome - if you actually attended. So when you come home from one, you may have one whole conversation about who you saw, how they played and if you liked the event, or even post one Facebook status update, so like-minded festival goers can comment with smiley faces and 'OOH yeah that was awesome' BUT other than this, shhhhhhh, no body really cares that much.
(this also counts for the countdown before the event)

So that's me done, I think I've covered everything I promised I'd remember for next year :)
Bring on winter with it's cold weather, warm doonas and soft socks!