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DIANA ADMIRE's avatar

Just got back from Vacation... and read my snail mail from you. Glad you are having a wonderful summer. 2/3s left good way to think of it. I don't know how we did it without AC as kids.

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Megan Lee's avatar

Awwe yay!!! I hope you had the bestest time! Here’s to soaking up all of summer! ♥️♥️ And, being thankful for AC lol

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Rachel Simpson's avatar

I relate to the crotch sweat. I’m also adding humidititties and swamp ass. This season conspires with the bugs and lack of temperature control to keep me indoors… but I absolutely love the beach. That is the main thing that will get me outside.

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Megan Lee's avatar

“humidititties and swamp ass”… HAHAHAHA. 😂 The beach is excellent because there’s generally less bugs and swamp ass! 😂

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Sara's avatar

Ahhhh thank you so much for the mention! I feel my music festival days are behind me and my bed rotting days are in front. I’ll live vicariously through you tho. It’s winter here in Australia so I very much enjoyed imagine my crotch sweating! (Less so the ticks) 😃

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Megan Lee's avatar

HAHAHA so glad I could help you through those Australian winters with a wholesome crotch sweating visual!!! 😂 Fuck ticks. You have them in your homeland too???

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Alexander Lovell, PhD's avatar

I absolutely loved this line from the "Notes to my younger self" article: "You will not be able to see healing and growth taking place as it happens. It is tiny and incremental and frustratingly slow. But one day you will look back over three decades and recognise how far you have come." This resonates so deeply with my own journey. We often look for grand, instantaneous transformations, but true growth is almost imperceptible in the moment. It's only in retrospect, when we allow ourselves the grace of looking back, that we can truly appreciate the quiet, persistent work our spirits have been doing. It's a powerful reminder to trust the process, even when the path feels slow and unclear.

Thanks for sharing, my friend. 🩵

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Megan Lee's avatar

YES YES YES, that part really stood out to me too. ♥️🙏 I’m so glad it spoke to you as well. 🙌 Here’s to remember that the now is actually the future. #woah lol ✨

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kaylen alexandra's avatar

Jesus Garfunkel 😂🎉 that is all.

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Megan Lee's avatar

YASSSSS. So glad that brought joy. 😂😂😂😂

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L V M Lewis's avatar

CANNOT believe that you didn't mention the horror which is the under-boob sweat... 🤣

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Megan Lee's avatar

😂😂 I’ve got tiny titties so cannot really relate 🤣🤣🤣 BUT STERNUM SWEAT? Yeah it’s a swamp. Hahahah

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Danusia Malina-Derben's avatar

I snorted so hard at “orgy oven casserole” I nearly dislocated something. Honestly, this is the kind of seasonal recap I want tattooed on my inner thigh for emergency serotonin. You’re basically the horniest meteorologist on Substack, and I mean that as the highest praise. Now pass the anti-chafe stick and let’s ride this skirt bitch summer into oblivion.

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Megan Lee's avatar

😂😂😂 this is the kind of highest praise I did not know I needed in my life!!!! If plan A doesn’t work out, my back up plan F is absolutely “Horny Meteorologist”. I’d slayyyyyy. 💅🥵😏 Thank you so much for your kind words… Day = Made ♥️

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Danusia Malina-Derben's avatar

Whatever Plan A-E are you’ll crack them. At least, now you know though…Plan F is infamous and moist. What’s not to manifest, is my thought…happy days!

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Dr Vicki Connop's avatar

Thanks so much for sharing my piece here Megan. I'm a fellow June baby, but sadly I now live in the Southern Hemisphere, which means it's mid-winter.... It's all wrong, I was a summer baby!! ☀️

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Megan Lee's avatar

You’re so welcome!! I love you’re a June baby too!! You have to represent in your winter hemisphere 😅🥶☀️

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Shelly Stallard's avatar

Everything sweats. Especially if I’m at work, which is outside in the hotter than Satan’s taint. Also my sieves are metal and I have to remember to keep them in my backpack at all times unless using. Same with my hammer. The grip is not metal, but I’m not into branded hammer prints from bumping into it.

What about a water container, I need a good no spill one and the only Stanley Cup I want to see is the one my favorite team brings home (goddamn it!!!!!)

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Megan Lee's avatar

Hahaha oh em gee you need a personal assistant to follow you around with ice cubes and misting devices if you work outside in this HEAT!!!!! Bless you! 😂🙏

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Shelly Stallard's avatar

My hubby has suggested I get one of those UV umbrellas. It’s not a terrible idea, BUT I can’t hold it and all my other shit, too. Maybe I could figure some way to secure it in my backpack.

I have certainly frozen the neck gel things and worn those, but they melt after the first site.

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VinylJunkieChris's avatar

You can have summer.

I hate it.

Too damn hot. I'm hot blooded AF so it's absolutely miserable.

Give me fall and winter anytime.

And I'm in the plains in pretty much the middle of the US, so......😁😆🤣

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Rachel Simpson's avatar

I used to live in Chicago for 2-1/2 years, and would fly in the midwest often. That weather has no chill… you’re either cooking or stuffed in a blast freezer. I, like you, don’t like summer. Now added are the flashbacks from my past job because of how busy this time of year is for that industry.

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VinylJunkieChris's avatar

Yep. There's literally no in between. 😁😆🤣

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Rachel Simpson's avatar

Maybe a week and a half between winter and summer, then between summer and winter… so maybe 3 weeks of bearable temperatures. While I do like winter, I found Chicago winter to be disrespectful to humanity. It lived up to its reputation.

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VinylJunkieChris's avatar

Yeah, i have a college buddy that's from there and went back home after.

He tells me about those Chicago winters.

No thanks. 😆🤣

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Joseph Noland's avatar

Summer rocks!

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