Monday, February 1, 2010

February (1/3 of the project is completed!)

FEBRUARY IS:

Number: 5
Letters: JK
Shape: Octagon
Color: Purple
Music: Jazz
Medium: Paper
Location: Art Institute
Habit: Mail One Card, Note or Letter Every Day

Some initial thoughts:

There are some things I'm excited about this month. Leave me with a Jar of Modge Podge and a pile of paper and I am a happy girl. Also, the Art Institute is one of my favorite places in this city of mine. It's a place I spent a great deal of time in during my teen years and I'm looking forward to reaquainting myself (and max) with it. (And FINALLY getting to see the new Modern Wing!).

Today we got off to our usual start. I scoured my itunes for relevant music and came up with an initial play list (Ella and Billie? Be still my heart!) I changed into a Purple T-shirt. I wrote a card to my mother. (I however didn't mail it. How was I to know they m oved the mailbox at the end of the block?!?!)

Then I realized that Max has no purple clothes, save a tie-dye t-shirt with a TINY bit of purple in it. You see, girls have taken over the market on purple clothes. I've not been too successful in finding stuff for Max. So, short of dressing him in girls clothes (and promptly saving for years worth of therapy bills), I think he's mostly going to have a pass this month. However, if I do come across some purple stuff (even just a plain dark purple t-shirt), I'll add it to his clothing roster.

This week we will be hitting both Chinatown (last week was just too cold to attempt it) and I will be attending the Free Night at the Art Institute on Thursday.

I really wanted to end this post by sharing some of my favorite purple themed songs with you.  Sadly, I can not force the web gods to allow me to do as I please.  Perhaps if I appease them, they will soon allow me to share the goodness that is purple themed songs.

The end (for now).

Feeling Orange but Sometimes Blue (A January Recap)

As I mentioned before, January's activities was a lovely expression of this project. I really liked the orange. I really liked the Hip Hop (although I noticed that the music made me feel a bit more "bad ass" and slightly more aggressive). Max liked Hip Hop. (WE LOVED THE DANCING!) He has a lot of orange clothes. However, he's completely confused when it comes to the letters. He pretty much thinks every letter is "B". ;)

I tried to go back to the roots of the project and right an entry about each category. However, I just couldn't come up with anything clever to write about rectangles. So, rectangles were largely overlooked. Which is a shame, because I never had any against rectangles.

Finally, I realized that I'm consistently awful with the new habits. I was drinking SO much water (probably well over the 8 cups a day), until it was what I was SUPPOSED to do. I'm going to explore this much more in the coming months.

This month got a bit off track due to a little unexpected trauma. In contrast to the last few months, I'm hoping February will be calm.