June

1: short waits at the MVD
2: cooking your own green curry
3: when your parents stop by at work
4: "Poor Little Allison"
5: reselling your old video game console at 13% of its original price
6: somehow being alive after two hours of sleep
7: the "interactivity" of working drive-thru
8: chilling and listening to dark, creepy music
9: tidbit writing
10: for-fun summer calculus prep
11: children's fantasy/adventure stories
12: playing on a Minecraft server in creative mode
13: lazy day at work
14: first time handling money
15: being rescued by your parents from biking home in a thunderstorm
16: smoothly, silently, and stealthily ghost-biking through the back aisles of CostCo
17: a Tofurky sandwich with lettuce and tomato
18: Thai Vegan Thursday
19: baby birds hanging out on the porch
20: Super Cooper Sunday vlogs from TmarTn
21: building a table/shelf with Dad on Dad Day
22: plains 'n' meadows driving scenery
23: seeing your favorite childhood musician live in concert
24: The Cabin in the Woods
25: sneaking onto the golf course to play some holes for free
26: hay rides and stone-skipping at the lake
27: Kinda Sarah on Vine and YouTube
28: tossing grapes to the peacocks and chickens
29: driving Colorado top to bottom in six hours
30: when the employee at Home Depot self checkout offers to open your glass bottle of soda

May

1: off to the park with your friend
2: checking out pets and pets checking you out
3: a successful (first) job interview
4: watching a movie and reading a fantasy novel as "study" for an exam
5: staying late to "study"
6: rationing a single tea bag
7: learning and operating the switchboard
8: congratulatory bagels after completing the AP exam
9: mint tea with honey
10: hearing the official "Kona's been adopted"
11: cheerful customers
12: microwave popcorn at school (instead of lunch)
13: watching movies in THREE classes at school
14: a phone reborn
15: last-day-of-school sentimentality combined with cloudy, rainy, and windy weather
16: getting to know & having fun with my coworkers
17: your friend calling you & talking on the phone
18: a snack from your workplace
19: intermittent naps throughout the day
20: waking up early but getting to go back to bed and sleep for five more hours
21: holding a hamster for the first time
22: food from my friend's mom
23: "real-life" birthdays
24: mini wireless mouse
25: serving someone you know in the fast-food drive thru
26: the annual end-of-the-school-year room cleaning
27: waking up early after a long sleeping-past-noon stretch
28: hanging out in the shade on a hot day
29: taking measurements in prep for the hamster
30: successfully riding my bike the whole way home from work
31:weird Minecraft pets

April

1: a good meal after having not eaten for ten hours and arriving "home" after having been away for almost five days
2: conversations with my host mom
3: the random yet deep conversations we had on our last night in Mexico (as exchange students)
4: fond farewells and warm welcomes
5: last lazy day of spring break 2015
6: eating soup and watching the NCAA championship
7: finally doing something in class and waking up/being awake
8: Wow butter
9: unintended plumber puns
10: Bird Man (or the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
11: dinner with my besties at Thai Vegan for anti-anti-anti-anti prom
12: Gordon Lightfoot's A Painter Passing Through and Harmony
13: Expo Scents markers
14: Grandma-funded outings to Walmart
15: having a take-out buffet for lunch at school
16: dark, deep, and disturbing choreography
17: a change of venue/all-access-pass room
18: Fanta fresa
19: a-boy-and-his-dog moments
20: the rebel roly-poly
21: Kona in a more adoption-promoting locale
22: Adventures to Thai Vegan
23: when I listen to an album for the 2nd time and fall head-over-heels
24: weird rainy stormy weather days in NM
25: hangin' at your friend's house
26: playing tug of war with Betty
27: watching videos, looking at pictures, and reading articles and wen forums about hamsters
28: dozing listening to "We Will Rebuild with Smooth Stones"
29: after-school snack: tea with soy creamer and a delicious dairy-free burrito
30: diving back into the job hunt

March

1: full-color canyon landscapes post-black and white February
2: March coming in like a lion with wind gusts and thunderstorms
3: driving west on I-40 for the first time
4: Oreos for dinner
5: eating yourself into oblivion with jelly beans
6: binge-watching Family Guy on a day off from school
7: a box of assorted mini Toblerones
8: an "I love you and am super excited to see you again" scratch from Kona
9: when the neighbor's dogs get into your backyard and you have an awkward meet-cute interaction over it
10: cutesicle things
11: selfie with the circus
12: the subtle changes driving through NM, AZ, and CA
13: revisiting the same beach you first (& last) visited ~5.5 years ago
14: first time to Disneyland
15: traveling on historic Route 66 through modern cities
16: reunions with friends after a trip
17: making spätzle
18: watching Disney's The Little Mermaid
19: when someone compliments you for having the same boots as them
20: delicious Irish treats in class (soda bread & whiskey cake)
21: the overwhelming fear and excitement of being in a foreign country (por primera vez)
22: walking around El Centro de Guadalajara with my host family
23: being swarmed for attention as the new kid
24: taking classes - that are already challenging - in a foreign language
25: charlando y platicando (poco más)
26: laughing far beyond crying into stomach aches and heartburn
27: the people that I met and became friends with in mi salón
28: toes in the ocean and a night sky full of stars above
29: dogs running on the beach and playing in the ocean
30: a night circus show in the plaza
31: seeing animals in their natural habitats

February

1: wearing an eyepatch to the supermarket
2: Imbolc 2015
3: a welcoming email from your future host sister
4: researching & planning for your future job
5: typing a paper to the soothing sounds of a burbling fish tank
6: cozy clinics with a family feel and friendly workers
7: drawing a (cute?) welcome poster for your exchange student
8: my brother's excitement to become a volunteer after his first time at the ranch
9: teacher evaluations (especially the constructive criticism parts)
10: Uggs and shorts
11: learning Patwa (Jamaican) with your friend
12: running into a favorite teacher outside of school
13: your friend (and project partner) cheering you on before presentation time
14: spending Valentine's Day at the mall with your best friends
15: revisiting the playground of my childhood
16: a barefoot bowling afternoon (at least, part of it was barefoot)
17: the groove of some tracks on Balmorhea's album Stranger
18: the totally-worth-it ending of The Handmaid's Tale
19: playing drums in the dark
20: our last day with Steffy
21: cooking with a friend at their house for a class project
22: texting your friend from deep in the pit...
23: audio-chronicling while driving home
24: playing hockey/soccer by kicking around a doorstop in a dark, empty classroom
25: rehearing "Your Love is Forever"
26: a CD you haven't listened to since you were a kid
27: warm drinks from Starbucks and hardcore sledding on a snow day
28: sled races (that include crashing into mud canyons and catapulting through shrubbery)

January

1: New Year's Day soul food
2: The Book of Life
3: when a normally shy dog jumps up on you to say hi
4: watching Netflix on the last day of break
5: when you and your best friend catch up on Vines after winter break
6: "Stubborn Love" by the Lumineers
7: the Trivia Crack craze
8: Awkward Puppets on Vine
9: sharing a song you like with your friend and feeling an aura of complete familiarity and acceptance
10: composing a lengthy, semi-informal email to try and persuade your teacher
11: Selma
12: when a playlist-shuffle plays songs in a specific order
13: the first pit rehearsal of a new show
14: listening to Einaudi's "DNA" while reading about DNA for AP bio
15: calling a sick friend from school during a free period (to gossip)
16: "Pawn Shop Blues" by Lana Del Rey
17: making a mini vlog compilation video
18: Sunday grocery outings
19: doing film shoots for a class presentation at the park
20: growing into a musical solo (over a few years)
21: when your breath freezes in the rain
22: friendly conversations with the librarian
23: course-selection advice from classmates and teachers
24: pawprints in the snow
25: baking cookies & making tiaras
26: 100th day of school randomness
27: Acquiendences.
28: reading a speech as fast as you can and running out of breath afterward
29: the veterinarian presentation at Career Day
30: your parents reminding you to not sleep with your contacts in
31: making a best-in-state ranking on QuizUp

December

1: two unexpected free periods the day back from break
2: a school day watching a movie in a dark theater (basically, free naptime)
3: headstands, handstands, and forearm-stands
4: heavy drizzling rain for six-and-a-half hours
5: being equidistantly flanked in front and behind by cars driving the speed limit
6: pay-as-you-go smartphones
7: sharing in the happiness of a dog who is finally going home
8: when your teacher decides to be straight up
9: "Neon Light" by Blake Shelton
10: when your best friend gives you a nickname for the day
11: in-class Jeopardy games
12: epic high-fives
13: turning the awkward job of bell-ringer into a chance to display your musical talent
14: composing all the pieces of a song and mixing it
15: all-day excitement to get home and IM someone
16: remembering lines of a movie from your childhood
17: upside-down-tree pattern of water streaks on the windshield
18: when a question on the final exam seems to be written just for you
19: 66% accuracy in remembering what you learned of French
20: my uncle's many faces (and hairstyles)
21: playing tug-of-war with a friend's dog
22: tapping into the laundromat Wi-Fi while at the post office
23: when you and your brother are up front while your parents take a ride backseat
24: everyone out at the store on Christmas Eve Day wearing yoga pants and Uggs
25: mp3 armbands (actually, one of the greatest inventions)
26: writing a satirical fiction about Putin
27: driving an automatic car for the first time in over a year
28: listening to a Top Songs of 2014 countdown on the radio
29: The Intouchables
30: the excitement of new gadgets
31: cinnamon hot cocoa with vanilla coffee creamer