Originally this post was going to be about the World Cup finale and Peel Play Olé Olé (my body is still fighting off the sodium bloat, embarrassingly enough), but a very one-sided conversation about cherishing opportunity (and not being money-driven) with my very Asian parents will be taking the limelight today.

I've started numerous crochet and knitting projects recently (Catherine and I have been crochet buddies as we binge watch Once Upon A Time), in an effort to use up the ridiculous amount of yarn I've somehow accumulated these past two years. A lot of these projects are for the home, since my friends Caitlin and Emma and I will be moving to an apartment next year and I thought this especially could be a cute addition.

This past weekend was pretty calm and uneventful, especially for being Fourth of July - my friend, Andrei, invited me to have dinner with his host family (bison burgers!), I had a picnic with Julie, Stephen, and Elaine on the Commons on Saturday, and I grabbed lunch with Andrei on Sunday (Cinderella's!) - and when the week started, I got switched to the Audi Project at work.

As I mentioned in the last Coffee Buzz, I went to New York last weekend and took a bunch of photos of the tourist destinations we went to, so for this week's Whim of the Week I thought I could focus on my photo editing!

I left off last week's Coffee Buzz saying that I was in the Big Apple, so obviously this week I'm focusing on that vacation!

Since it's the end of the month (or the beginning of the next, since these posts go up on Tuesdays), I thought it would be fitting to begin a sub-series within the Whims: Monthly Favorites! So here goes nothing....