Ready, Set, Celebrate! July's Fun-Filled Holidays


Hello Reader,

It's a shorty today!

If you haven't already, you should subscribe to my Google Calendar of Holidays.

Here are some holidays coming up....

July is:

  • National Ice Cream Month
  • National Picnic Month
  • National Hemp Month

Here are a few holidays in the month:

  • July 1 - National Postal Worker Day
  • July 5 - National Bikini Day
  • July 6 - National Fried Chicken Day
  • July 8 - National Video Game Day
  • July 10 - National Kitten Day
  • July 16 - World Snake Day
  • July 17 - World Emoji Day
  • July 19 - National Hot Dog Day
  • July 21 - National Ice Cream Day
  • July 26 - Aunt and Uncle Day
  • July 29 - Lipstick Day
  • July 31 - National Orgasm Day

What could you create or curate for these dates? Send a postcard to your customers? Send an email with a holiday theme?

Bonus: Throw these into an AI like ChatGPT or Gemini.ai and see what they come up with for you.

Bits and Pieces

  • Paramount just purged 25 years of MTV News and Comedy Central content off the internet. Talk about gatekeeping, but it's old stuff!
  • "Junk" nails - They should be called "Everything but the kitchen sink" nails. These are pretty wild.
  • Take this CNN quiz and find out what your texting style is. I'm mostly Millenial with some Gen X.
  • I love Slate's ICYMI podcast! They are looking for a new co-host!

Canva's settings are a little wonky. I recorded several trainings and there was no sound. I ended up recording my trainings on Zoom and uploading them as unlisted videos on Youtube. Has this ever happened to you?

This month is my kid's birthday month, which means a YES day and busy work days to clear my calendar. Next week, there will not be a newsletter. I will be offline for a few days.

Then we'll round back to our regularly scheduled programming.

See you in a couple weeks!

Chris

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