According to Wikipedia, June is:
- International People Skills Month
- National Adopt-a-Cat Month
- National Dairy Month
- National Drive-Safe Month
- National Gay Pride Month
- National Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Month
- National Iced Tea Month
- National Rivers Month
- National Rose Month
- National Safety Month
- National Tennis Month
- National Zoo and Aquarium Month
What they don’t mention is that June is, apparently, National Way Too Many Things To Do Month. Or maybe that’s just for me. June, for Mydogischelsea, has been characterized by:
- a 90th birthday party
- a trip home
- getting stuck on an airplane
- three consecutive weekends of frisbee tournaments
- college friends moving to and/or visiting Portland
- deadlines
- procrastination
- frisbee
- deadlines
- procrastination
- frisbee
- deadlines
- procrastination
- frisbee
I mean, really! I haven’t even had time to celebrate National Iced Tea Month:
- 1/2 ounce vodka
- 1/2 ounce gin
- 1/2 ounce rum
- 1/2 ounce Cointreau
- 1 ounce lemon juice
- Top with soda
Actually, Long Island Iced Teas generally lead to disaster for yours truly. There was once a day when I could hold my liquor—that day is LONG (Island) gone. Plus, gin gives me hives. I guess I’ll have a white Russian instead. I don’t much care for Kahlua, but hey, June is National Dairy Month.
13 responses so far ↓
1 TimsHead // Jun 25, 2007 at 4:27 pm
That type of iced tea is one of the few entities from Long Island I don’t mind spending an evening with.
I can definitely get behind the adopt-a-cat month, and could nominate any number of folks who could sure use at least a month to work on their people skills.
2 Boo // Jun 25, 2007 at 4:38 pm
I suppose I can do the drive safe and veggies. Darn.
My recipe never called for a triple sec but did for tequila. In any event it did the job usually. June should be nice light white wine month too.
3 mydogischelsea // Jun 25, 2007 at 4:52 pm
I’ve never actually made the above recipe, I just found it on the internet. An LIT may very well contain tequila, or both tequila and triple sec. Either way, the result is that I get WASTED.
4 thinlizzy // Jun 25, 2007 at 5:00 pm
I learned it as 1/4 shot each of rum, gin, vodka, tequila and triple sec topped with lemon juice and coke. Any way you slice it, it’s a good way to get blasted.
I do like regular (non Long Island) iced tea. I’m even enough of a dork to like sun tea. I also like roses and fruits and vegetables. June seems like a pretty good month.
5 TimsHead // Jun 25, 2007 at 5:25 pm
:: The tile was originally pink. I may drink the occasional froofy umbrella drink, but what kind of self-respecting bachelor (even one who’s not good at being a bachelor) can deal with bright pink bathroom tile. Hurts the eyes, too.
Generally, earth tones make me happy.
6 michael5000 // Jun 25, 2007 at 8:29 pm
The trick to celebrating the month properly is to go for the combos. Like, you drive safely down to a rose garden by the river with your newly-adopteded gay kitten….
7 TimsHead // Jun 25, 2007 at 8:56 pm
:: Oh no, nothing nearly that tastefully retro. As the pic from this entry shows, it was pink, ugly trim and white. I wouldn’t have bothered had it looked nice.
8 rubyblue123 // Jun 26, 2007 at 4:45 am
So do we just say fuck fresh fruit and vegetables the rest of the year? And it seems like a bad idea to celebrate dairy in a month most likely to make it spoil.
Shelter cats are good all year ’round.
9 Lynn // Jun 26, 2007 at 7:51 am
When you said iced tea, I thought you mean just iced tea. None of that doctored stuff for me. I think the last time I drank that it was disaster for me, too.
RYC: Oh, thank you for the incredibly detailed and informative analysis of why Xanga is so dissed in the blog world. As soon as this book tour is over, I’m taking my friend’s advice and doing a WordPress page. Tell me how you linked it to Xanga? Do you two blogs a day (as in, copying one over to a mirror site at Xanga?)?
I’m definitely up for getting a better read blog, but I still love the comments. I tried Blogger and NO ONE has anything to say over there. We considered putting blogging software on my Web site, but then I wouldn’t get the Xanga traffic. Nope, your solution is the best one.
I’d appreciate any help in how to do it.
Lynn
10 corbow // Jun 26, 2007 at 8:29 am
Yeah, I think I’ll drive dangerously the rest of the time.
11 Truly // Jun 26, 2007 at 9:38 am
What about national Shingles month? It’s like “Singles Month,” but instead of sexy people looking for dates, its red, painful bumps! No? Not fun? No. Gay Pride is WAY more fun. Best parades of the year. There are not enough drag queens here in Glasgow, that’s for sure.
12 Natalie B // Jun 26, 2007 at 5:42 pm
oh my! hey, when’s national knitting month? Every month!! (I’m a little nutty right now)
13 fern // Jun 30, 2007 at 9:28 am
LOL! for me its been national get through loss month. July is reported to be national learn how to be on vacation month, though, which i am certainly looking forward to.