1. Evites
2. Late Sunday mornings
3. Side patios
4. Customer reward cards
5. The Sunday New York Times Magazine
6. Evite reminders
7. Unwrapped presents for daughter’s friend’s birthday party
8. Cicada tourism
9. Backyard cookouts as kids’ Birthday Parties where parents are also invited
10. Summer ale
11. Dead cicadas
12. Recycle bins remaining in the cul-de-sac four days after pick-up day
13. Mason jars as regular drinking mugs
14. A text from Marty asking if I got the evite reminder to bring the bocce ball set
15. Magazine subscription form from that customer reward card to be used for Marty’s kid’s birthday present
16. God, we should move two towns over
17. A ten-hour slog before tonight’s Mad Men ep with the expectation that, before then, someone (I won’t name names) will once again crack wise about who’s leaving recycle bins out all week and “undermining the integrity of our charming neighborhood” during a brief aside from grill-side chit-chat about his Tumblr
18. Dejection soaked in a mason jar of Sunday morning summer ale
19. Daft Punk stealth marketing analyses
Meh List: 4, 8, 19
Things I’m staring at: 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 18
Both: 1, 10, 13, 17