Thursday, 29 April 2010

Day 6: Whatever tickles your fancy

Well, since it's nearing the end of the month, what tickles my fancy is the fact that there's a new theme approaching! Last May, Bethany (my flatmate) decided she needed to use her imagination more when choosing clothes. She invited me to join this endeavour and named it 'no jeans June'. Since then we've been improving our lives in various ways through the simple medium of alliterative months. We're reaching the end of 'Aquatic April', where we had to drink lots of water and do other aquatic things like swimming, looking at rivers, wearing boat/naval inspired clothes. Sounds awesome, but we failed a little bit because we were both pretty busy this month.

Floral February was probably our most successful month since 'no Jeans June' - we both managed to wear something floral every day (more difficult AND expensive than you might immediately imagine) and our flat was abundant with floral displays. We also gave lots of people flowers, which caused many of them to try and get on board with our theme that month.

Anyway, even though we won't be living together for that much longer, we've decided to continue with our months for as long as we can... This is going to seriously stretch our imaginations/vocabularies! So far for the rest of this year we've come up with:

Musical May (oh yes, watching musicals, listening to the soundtracks... this will be fun.)
Juvenile June (wearing our hair in bunches/pigtails, revisiting childhood dens, reading Enid Blyton - could oust February in my favourites.)
Joyful July (a little vague right now, doing things that bring us/others joy. Culminating in the extreme joy of my wedding on the 31st!)
We're totally stuck on August - any suggestions?
Studious September (I'll hopefully be starting Bible College so that one's easy... Lots of preparation for going back into education!)

That's pretty much as far as we've got. Feel free to join in the fun - it may sound odd, but it really does bring variety to your life!

1 comment:

Eni said...

I am exhilarated to learn that Enid Blyton's books were one your favourites as a child. I too loved reading many Enid Blyton's books. Thus, my affection for Enid Blyton and her books led me into writing and publishing a book on her, titled, The Famous Five: A Personal Anecdotage (www.bbotw.com).
Stephen Isabirye