summer bucket list, belated

It's the middle of summer . . . sounds a lot better than halfway through summer, doesn't it? (I'm in denial about the swift passage of time, okay.) Usually if people talk about their summer bucket lists, they do so at the beginning of the season, but I don't follow crowds, so here's my middle-of-the-summer list.


It's half wishful thinking, a quarter to-do list, and two-thirds "this will keep my feet on the ground and head in the clouds and sanity intact."*


*And that was not a normal whole number, but we're all about living life to the fullest, so if my fractions add up to more than the number one,** that's the way it should be.


**Which I'm fully aware they do. (Wow. A footnote of a footnote. Just when I thought I couldn't get stranger.)


Anyway, with the season being in full swing, and my schedule feeling as full as ever, I've been longing for time off, time away, a drop of real summertime, a holiday of any sort, etc. Hence this post.

have a picnic

bike to a park and do devotions & journaling there

color in my coloring book

paint a picture (I have an idea in mind to use lyrics

from this song--go have a listen; it's amazing)

take an afternoon to read a stack of children's books

go to bed earlier

arrange a guest post with someone (you know who you are!)

plan at least two month's worth of post ideas for

when college busyness hits

win the 100-for-100 challenge (we're a third

of the way there . . . we can do thissss)

go swimming at least once

do at least two sessions of The Creative Way each month

finish going through the agent listings in the book I bought

send out first batch of queries (!!!) (this may be

the wishful thinking part)

watch Mockingjay Part 2

bask in the sun

paint my toenails because the current pink polish is half gone

read Peter Pan for the first time

actually use my people watching journal . . .

. . . and my quotes journal

take a few days off work to just chill

remember first drafts are messy

remember to have fun

remember to find joy

~*~

Besides the to-do items, it looks like I'm longing for the summers of my childhood. I can't recreate them, but maybe I can rediscover some of the simple things I used to have time for. It'll be interesting to come back to this list in a couple months and hold it up to what reality actually brings.

What are you doing this summer? What's on your to-do list, or longings-of-the-heart list? Are you going anywhere or staying home? If you could return to a childhood summer memory, what would it be and why?

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