I like July. I can go as far to say its probably my favorite month of the year. There is so many different ways to enjoy the month. The way you can walk outside at any time of the day and never feel cold. The way you can have your car window rolled down at 3 A.M just take in the mild summer air. The way the rain smells after it hits the warm pavement. The way the wind moves around your body instead of cutting through it like winter air. The way you can almost always smell fireworks in the distance for most of the month. The way you can always hear little kids laughing and screaming enjoying themselves. So many ways. Looking at little kids have fun this time of year kind of makes you appreciate your own childhood. How much easier it was then. The only thing you had to worry about was avoiding chores all day. Other than that, your best friend was typically the one with the personality closest to yours and with the cooler toys and video games than yours. You didn't have to worry about getting a job or what the opposite sex thought of you. (ewwww cooties) July was that magical time of the year that you lived up because in August you were doing back to school shopping. I guess now if you're in college you do relatively the same thing. 4th of July always seems to get better too. The one day of the year where you can blow shit up, get drunk, eat ridiculous amounts of greesy foods, while possibly having heat stroke at the same time. New years can't compete! New Years, you get drunk while freezing off valuable body parts. And if you're lucky you're the one lighting off illegal fireworks when it strikes 12 instead of watching them from a distance while you're asshole neighber bangs pots and pans in your ears. Is there anything July can't do?
If you live in Utah you get to celebrate the 24th of July. The 24th of July basically celebrates the day Utah was admitted to the union as part of the United States. Its a second 4th of July with a slightly different reason. Does anybody ever think of that when they celebrate the 24th? At least once during the 4th of July you think of something semi-patriotic. Maybe George Washington, the revolutionary war. And yes even Uncle Same counts. I don't think I have once celebrated the 24th of July and thought
"Woo Hoo for Utah! Lets all drink beer and get hydrated!"
or
"That Brigham Young was on to something when he founded this place and made sure that the state closed down completely on Sunday and at 9pm on the weekends! Thank you!"
or even
"To Utah! May your winter seasons be unforgivingly cold, your summers unforgettably hot and your women completely untouchable!"
I could go on.............
But that would be wrong of me since I do like to celebrate the 24th of July. I see it as a second chance to do all the shit I didn' get to do on the 4th. Redemption if you will.
I'm sure you're wondering by this point if this blog is going to go anywhere.......the answer is no. But to be hoenst, I tried writing this blog once before. My sister scared the crap out of me and I accidentally clicked out of the blog. It was a lot like this but better. So I thought I should try to recreate it. There was very little success. In any case, I'm done wasting your time. The next one will be filled with a little more meaning. Which I'm sure I will be writing almost directly after this one.
Enjoy.
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