july

Design for Mankind, a stunning and inspiring blog, has just started publishing Mankind Mag, which I discovered ... via another blog that I read, uncertain which! Anyway, the mag includes 101 ideas to have a creative July. Some were doable (I moo'ed) and some were not (I don't have a way to walk through an attic in July!)... But the one I got out my notebook and wrote down was "Journal 83 things you love about July, and 83 things you hate about it." (those were two separate things) ... try as I might, I can't come up with 83 things I love about this sticky month... but here's as many as i could muster:

1. My sister's birthday!!!
2. swimming pools
3. frigid air conditioning
4. painted toe nails
5. ice cream
6. movie theaters - relief from the heat
7. ice cold diet coke
8. fireworks, generally
   
9. BBQs/general 4th of July celebrations
10. patriotic crochet
11. watermelon
12. seed spitting contests
13. the hum of lawn mowers (not that i hear that here!)
14. warm sand
15. whir of the AC
16. shade trees
17. sunglasses - big like Jackie O
18. sparklers, specifically
19. soft, fluffy beach towels
20. summer white sales!
21. cute clothes -- on others :)
22. more time to read
    
23. more time to blog
24. shorter haircuts
25. ponytails seem appropriate
26. hawaiian shaved ices
27. with cream!
28. street festivals in NYC
29. summer reading club! (wait that's june, but i think it's july here in NYC)
    
30. visits from family - Owen takes Manhattan!
    
31. concerts in the park
32. popsicles
    
33. Broadway play discounts from NYU
34. outdoor cafes
35. flowers on display in bodegas - temptation!!!
36. funnel cakes at street festivals
37. kids playing in the parks - they're so happy
38. sprinklers and slip-n-slides (back in the day at least)
39. thunderstorms - the louder the better
40. making lists of fun things to do in Manhattan with the fam
41. going to the gym to work out in a/c'ed rooms
42. the number seven in the seventh month!
43. New York State joined the Union July 26, 1788
44. Pi Approximation Day is the same day as Beth's B'day (22/7 is approximately equal to π)
45. Ice Cold Water - guzzle guzzle
46. iced coffee
47. a trip to the beach
48. the rolling waves, that i can actually hear on this trip

The things I dislike/hate about July could go on forever... But I won't.

~Mari.