The Ten Commandments of Spring, as told by Christina and Emily at 16

My sweet BFF Claire just sent me a copy of a list Christina and I apparently drafted in 11th grade. I had totally forgotten about it but am thrilled to say that though I may be five years older, I can't say my priorities have changed that much...

"Monday, May 23, 2005:

The Many Commandments of Spring:

Thou shalt run around outside at least once a day.

Thou shalt eat 15% of thy body weight in chocolate at least once a week.

Thou shalt always be thinking of fun things to do with thy friends outside, even if thou don't have enough time to do them.

Thou shalt not work on homework for more than 23.7 consecutive hours per day.

Thou shalt move the decimal place above one space to the left and THEN follow it.

Thou shalt jump on a trampoline every hour on the hour. If no trampoline is available, pretend.

Thou shalt drive with all the windows open.

Thou shalt picnic all the time.

Thou shalt streak after ensuring that all motion sensor light switches have been firmly placed in the off position.

Thou shalt add more comm(andments + ents) [<-- distributive property of equality] to this post..."

(And so thus were added:)

"Thou shalt stuff thy face with as many popsicles as possible. popsicles as possible. popsicles as possible. hahaha." -Claire

"Thou shalt eat strawberry ice cream and do a jig in the rain." -Cait

"Thou shalt do your running around every day with no shoes on! Also the jig shalt not be with shoes! In fact, the less shoes the better, I say." -Danya

"Thou shalt make at least one batch of brownie batter and eat the whole thing raw with a group of loved ones." -Kelly

Pretty much the perfect thing to read and remember on this first REALLY Spring day here in Chicago (mid-70s!!!). I am proud to announce that even before reading this list I had completed six of the commandments today (if doing less than 27.5 hours of homework AND less than 2.75 hours of homework counts as two separate commandments :-)).

I really, really, really love my high school friends...
some of our spring fun over the years:








Now go run around outside barefoot and eat some chocolate!! Happy Spring!!