I am currently sitting under layers of clothes, blankets, and quilts while fighting the flu. It’s freakin April. The weather and my health have me convinced that we are stuck in the everlasting shitty season of winter. Basically, summer has betrayed us, and today is actually January 108^th.

Am I being dramatic? No. No, I am not. But before I lose my sanity and will to live, I’m going to fall back to my reliable default when I need any kind of comfort: Pinterest. If you’re like me, pinning out of control and letting the hours get away from you is cheaper, easier, and so much more convenient than a therapist. As a result of my latest bitter, fever-induced, and desperate pinning session, I think I’ve found enough summer pictures and quotes to just barely keep us alive through the rest of the eternity that is January 2018.

1. Six-pack Summer

"Uh oh, another six-pack summer comin'
Sing to me, babe; I'll be your dashboard drummer, and
Let's turn the radio up as loud it can go
Got the ultra-ray wraparound sunglass vision
Got the sails up, iced down a cool ambition
Just to relax and let the six-pack summer roll."

Phil Vassar "Six-Pack Summer"

2. Wild + Barefoot + Free = Summer

3. Life begins again with summer

"And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

4. The essence of summer

5. Sweet Summer

"Lookin' underneath the Chrysler in the driveway
Hey, dad what ya doin'
The smell of summer twilight
There's always somebody barbeque'n
Truth or dare with the kids on our road
Hide and seek till your mama called you home.”

Diamond Rio “Sweet Summer”

6. Ocean Soul

7. The magic of summer

"Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June & August."

Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty

8. Summer memories

9. Summer days are never too long

“Those days were never too long
And never too hot
Even though I was out of school
I was learnin' a lot

Sweet summer, yeah I remember that

Sweet summer, let me take you back

There's not a day that I don't

remember

From the end of May to the first of September.”

Diamond Rio “Sweet Summer”

10. Summer apparel

11. Summer forever

“Live in the sunshine, swim the

sea, drink the wild air.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

12. Summer feelings

13. The promises of summer

“Summertime is always the best of what might be.”

Charles Bowden

14. Summer vibes

15. The hum of bees

"At these times, the things that troubled her seemed far away and unimportant: all that mattered was the hum of the bees and the chirp of birdsong, the way the sun gleamed on the edge of a blue wildflower, the distant bleat and clink of grazing goats."

Alison Croggon “The Naming”

16. The scents of summer

17. This is summer

"Green was the silence, wet was the light,

the month of June trembled like a butterfly."

Pablo Neruda “100 Love Sonnets”

18. S U N K I S S E D

19. Everlasting days of summer

"In the summer, the days were long, stretching into each other. Out of school, everything was on pause and yet happening at the same time, this collection of weeks when anything was possible."

Sarah Dessen “Along for the Ride”

20. Just remember y'all

And we're almost there!