YOUR SUGGESTIONS, PLEASE.

(currently listening to this one on repeat – can’t get enough – wish I’d been in Houston for the show last month!)

Tomorrow is the Fourth of July, and, as luck would have it, I am spending this American holiday – which is best spent on a lawn somewhere, with family and friends, free entertainment, good food, and lovely fireworks (and preferably some kind of sing-along) – by myself, in a town where I know approximately five people.  (And, lest you forget, in a country where we just don’t do fireworks…even for our own independence-esque day…unless it’s New Year’s.)

I’ve decided I’m going to celebrate nonetheless, dammit, and I want your contributions!  Here are the plans thus far:

-dress in a patriotic manner (Sarah Jechow, remember when we’d paint our toenails to look like the American flag?  I only had access to red paint, so we’ll have to manage with a monochromatic look for 2009.  I’m sure the world will cope. )
-make a yummy dinner…and I’m not wanting to go to the grocery store, so it’ll have to be chicken wings, sweet potato fries, macaroni and cheese, and tomato slices (for healthfulness…and the red color).  It has been suggested that I track down something blue to drink, and I think this is wise.  Dessert will be cherry ice cream and SMORES, using the graham crackers I brought from America!
-lots of Wii Baseball.  Yes, against the computer.
-tracking down some fireworks on YouTube.
-reading up on some current American issues/happenings.  I was about to write some lame excuse about Michael Jackson hijacking my news radar, but truthfully, I’m not great at keeping up.  Even when I live in America.
-renting and watching some kind of great American movie.  If I can’t find the video rental place, this will mean a double feature of Elizabethtown and The Graduate (the latter of which I have not seen yet).

That’s about it thus far.  Other suggestions include doing a game of hopscotch, participating in one of the American traditions like reciting the pledge of allegiance, and eating apple pie.  That last thing I could do, but with some difficulty…we shall see.

I’m grateful to Manders for posting a fabulous video on her blog (my favorite moment comes at 1:06).  Any other ideas?  I will document and produce proof of my having celebrated our nation’s birth.  And don’t you disappoint me by not doing something great with your family!