Now that would bring me intense joy but it is not going to be happening. Instead I will spend April in Birmingham. Similar, yes? Well only similar in that Birmingham does have the world's largest iron statue. Impressed? Me either! I need to go there one day soon and take a photo of his bare butt, the inspiration for the local song "Moon Over Homewood" which it one of the abutting (no pun intended) suburban cities.
April! I am truly wondering what joy I am going to find this month. As I sit here trying to think of joyful things to do I am coming up with zilch.
1. Continue expanding my horizons
a. Try a new recipe each week
b. Try a new food each week
c. Read articles from 4 magazines I do not usually read
d. Wear a color I never wear (orange or yellow, which mean buyings something since I have none)
e. Try a different hair color (I am thinking one that does not grow in nature, teal maybe?)
f. Listen to an opera, symphony, spoken word, and lecture. completely and totally uninterrupted.
2. Go to a museum
3. Go to a craft fair or art show
4. Have Mom up to eat weekly
5. Send a thinking of you card to someone
6. Take food to someone having a hard time
7. Visit with relatives I have not seen lately.
8. Do something for someone expecting nothing in return (anonymous is best)
9. Visit some small town nearby and find something unique about the place.
10. Create something besides food 2 times this month
11.Go to the lake and spend the weekend
12. Read a traditional mystery, preferably with a gumshoe detective (I am not a big mystery fan)
13. More than half ass learn a new song on the piano
14. Try something I have never tried before (action or trade)
15. Whistle
16. Draw, paint or charcoal sketch
17. Volunteer
18. Meet Son3 for lunch (will require traveling on my part)
19. Sit in the sun and listen to the birds sing (early morning is best)
20. Listen to and watch small kids playing (I can only do this in my neighborhood without looking like some kind of creep, so this is subject to my small neighbors playing outside)
21. Buy lemonade from a kid lemonade stand.
22. See a play or concert
23. Find and enjoy some free live music
24. Go to Vulcan and take a picture of his bare butt (now it sounds like fun)
25. Have a small dinner party
26. Bake cookies and brownies and invite neighbors for a snack
27. Plant whatever veggies we intend to grow this year.
28. Plant zinnias and marigolds
29. Take flowers to someone
30. Practice kindness
31. Listen actively to TheHub when he talks to me.
32. Facetime weekly with the most beautiful girl in my world
33. Get in touch with someone I have neglected or "forgotten"
34. Keep a list of unexpected joys
April unexpected joys
1. Wonderful NBC live performance of Jesus Christ Superstar
2. BIL found he was extremely dehydrated (of all the possibilities that were mentioned this was great)
Teal huh? I want your mom's reaction to that:)
ReplyDeleteI have decided life is short and nothing is permanent (especially hair color)
DeleteShe would probably like teal more than she liked the gray/silver I tried this month. She hated it!
great list!!! There is a lady near here that does people's colors. And after consulting with you, she comes up with a color wheel that best suits you and then you only make/buy clothes in those colors as they'll look the best on you. I haven't gotten around to getting my colors done, so I'm a modge podge pretty regularly...
ReplyDeleteI know what colors look best on me and wear them pretty regularly. This new Loreal Colorista one day hair color is fantastic for experimenting, though it is a little pricy. I am trying to decide if I want to try lilac or teal. It is going to be one or the other.
ReplyDeleteI can remember reading murder mysteries which featured Vulcan's butt. And would love to see it for myself.
ReplyDeleteAnd I say, go for teal. I have been thinking similar thoughts myself. But may wimp out.
An Anne George mystery perhaps? She usually set hers in Birmingham.
DeleteThe loreal product is a one day thing that just sprays in so I can see what I think before committing.
It was indeed. The very cosiest of cosy mysteries.
DeleteEC,
DeleteI have had pink and purple hair colors in the past. It's a bit of fun and they wash out so fast you don't have much time for regret
Just wait! Vulcan's butt will be an April joy item.
ReplyDeleteWhen my sister-in-law lost her hair to cancer treatments, she got a bright blue/teal wig. That wig looked great on her, better than her normal black hair. She probably wouldn't have tried it otherwise, but enjoyed it when she did.
ReplyDeleteI remember seeing pictures of her in the wig on a post you did about her. I probably will not have it more than a day or two, but by crackie I will have it for a bit!
DeleteWhen I started to get grey, my family would urge me to color my hair and I always threatened to color it purple! In fact, when I lost my hair due to my chemo treatments, daughter wanted to get me a purple wig! My hair has grown out now and it is not as grey as it was before! I still haven't colored it, though.
ReplyDeleteWonderful list of April joys!
I am ready to give myself a temporary boost with the hair color. I don't think I would like it all the time but I do like options. I color my hair often and have been every natural color at one time or another.
DeleteAnne, you put so many things on your to do list! I would forget most before i started.
ReplyDeleteI don't whistle well, it takes a lot of effort to get a sound so it's nearly impossible to form an actual melody but I like to hear people whistle, it's such a happy sound. There is so much portable music now that nobody bothers making their own
I am not a great whistler but I like to do it. I catch myself at the grocery store sometimes subconsciously whistling along with the Muzak.
DeleteI really like your 22, 23, and 25. I'll skip the Vulcan, but withthe success of my Easter, I think I can host a grown up dinner-at 52.
ReplyDeleteI like small dinners better than large ones, though I have had them in my home for 30 people before.
ReplyDeleteTeal sounds like a winner to me! So many cool fun things on your list, and I would love to "more than half ass learn a new song on the piano" also!
ReplyDeleteLast month I kind of learned one. This month I want to master a different song.
DeleteI meant to say, I have been looking at older women with colored hair and sort of like the pink hair. I just wish I had the nerve to try it.
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