This past weekend I was in New York with some very special people (see the first thing on my Happy List!), so I decided to spend another weekend away from the laptop, which means you’ll either be hearing about my weekend in a post of itself or tacked onto next week’s Happy List. This isn’t any news to you if you’re following along on Twitter, and you’ll have seen snapshots of my weekend if you’re following along on Snapchat!

@ my Philly friends: Do you listen to James Vincent McMorrow?! (but also @ my non-Philly friends because it’s always fun finding people who have the same taste in music as you.) Because he’s just announced his Philly concert, which will be on Thursday November 11, and I’m trying to find someone to go with me before I buy tickets! Only $20!! Also lemme know if any of you listen to Tom Odell because I’m going to his Philly concert on Monday October 3. Also only $20!!

Happy Fourth of July! Normally I draft these posts on Thurs/Fri then add to the list as the weekend goes on, but I’m away this weekend and have left my laptop behind, so I’ve scheduled this post to publish as normally scheduled, which means that I won’t have any updates about my Fourth of July weekend. I’ll be spending it staycationing at Jennifer’s apartment again, and this time with even more friends over! (Check out this post from when I staycationed at her place for Memorial Day Weekend!) Maybe I’ll share about it in a blog post of itself, or maybe I’ll cram it into my weekly Happy List. Hope everyone is having fun, because I have no doubt that I will be!

Time is always a funny thing when I’m on break. Is it Monday? Is it Saturday? Who cares! It’s summer! Looking back on my week and trying to account for my days, it feels like I’m not doing much. Is it problematic that the majority of my List seems to consist of food? I don’t have very many updates except that my watch of this week has been Pirates of the Caribbean. (Last week was Harry Potter.) (Maybe this week I’ll go for Lord of the Rings.) It’s scary to have the days go by and having it seem like you’ve done nothing with that time. I mean, I have been doing stuff, but nothing that feels worth reporting on. I’ve been working 9-5; I’ve been working on my blog; those two things are basically my whole summer. I’ve fallen into a routine and there doesn’t seem to be much to update you on except that I’ve made more progress with my web design for work and I’ve edited more photos and drafted more posts for my blog, both of which excite me and are fulfilling, but aren’t as exciting to talk about as they are to show. Nevertheless, let it be known that I am content 🙂

I’ve been loving Mondays. Mondays over summer break mean that I have a whole week ahead of me to do awesome things. Fridays over summer break mean, oh gosh, we’re getting closer to the end of summer break, and I am not ready for that yet! Mondays during the school year meant that I had a whole week I needed to get through. Fridays during the school year meant freedom at last. Once school starts again, I hope that I’m able to keep up my summer attitude. But we’re getting ahead of ourselves; there’s still summer break ahead of us! In other news, I’ve finished Seasons 1-5 of Downton Abbey and I need to figure out how to obtain Season 6.

I’m starting to warm up to my summer apartment. The bathroom is still a mess, but everything else isn’t too bad. The living room is a little empty, which is only emphasized by the floor-to-ceiling sliding door/window to the balcony, but I kind of like the empty space. It’s just begging for a night of sitting on the ground eating pizza even though I have a perfectly good dining table the next room over. Also, the acoustics are great, and how magical is it to strum away on the guitar right before a huge window in an apartment I have all to myself? This week has been low key.