Tag: summer bucket list

Oh hello, Fall. You beautiful, sexy, amazing, perfect, gorgeous piece of the year. I’ve missed you so. (I know we’re 4 days away. I know.)

Today I’m putting the end cap on my spring & summer bucket list before divulging my fall list. I’ll share my new list on Thursday, so stick around 🙂 Until then, let’s evaluate my summer…

• Go to a major or minor league baseball game (Indian’s game with cousin & friends)
• Visit the farmers market at least twice
• Go on anniversary trip to Gettysburg
• Go to country summer concert with friends (Kenny Chesney)
• Go to summer concert with K (Jimmy Eat World)
• Finish cleaning stuff out of M&D’s basement
  Making progress!
• Finish purging unnecessary stuff (This is never done but it’s “done” for now.)
• Have a garage sale at new house!
• Go to the outdoor rootbeer stand (Fundays)
• Go swimming!
• Go to Trumpet in the Land (outdoor play)
• Follow 5 new blogs
• Set up home office
• Set up basement workout space
• Scrapbook & finish year 3
• Summer vacation (Darlington, SC)
• Paint the bedroom
• MAKE SOME DAMN ICE CREAM

Not bad… not bad…

As far as things I did not do…
We more or less nixed the idea of a basement workout space for now.
Our plan is to paint many rooms at once (and hire someone to do it). Putting it on the fall list.
I made a lot of progress on my home office/craft room, but it’s not done by any means so I don’t want to completely cross it off my list.

I don’t know that I necessarily started following 5 new bloggers, but I started frequenting and visiting the sites of multiple blog-acquaintances in hopes of becoming blog-friends. Does that make sense?

I know you summer-lovers are dreading the next 4 months (5 months? 6 months? …who knows), but I am very happy to see this new season. Come back in two days for my fall bucket list!

If you’ll recall, I combined my spring and summer goals and bucket list items into one post. I don’t like these warm seasons but having some fun stuff to look forward to helps me keep a good attitude. (Full disclosure: I did NOT have a good attitude about the +90 degree days in June.)

So anyway, since Thursday was the first day of summer, I figured a check-in was smart.

• Go to a major or minor league baseball game
  I haven’t done this yet BUT it’s physically on the calendar for July!
• Visit the farmers market at least twice
• Go on anniversary trip to Gettysburg
• Go to country summer concert with friends
• Go to summer concert with K (Jimmy Eat World)
  Also already on the calendar for July!
• Finish cleaning stuff out of M&D’s basement
  Making progress!
• Finish purging unnecessary stuff
  It will be sold at the garage sale or donated by the end of the week!
• Have a garage sale at new house!
  Happening this coming weekend!
• Go to the outdoor rootbeer stand (Fundays)
• Go swimming!
• Go to Trumpet in the Land (outdoor play)
• Follow 5 new blogs
• Set up home office
• Set up basement workout space
• Scrapbook & finish year 3
• Summer vacation?
• Paint the bedroom
• MAKE SOME DAMN ICE CREAM

I’m actually doing better than I thought I was. Yay for putting things on the list that I already had scheduled. Hahaha. Let’s bring me down a notch and revisit the goals for 2018 that I set…

Drink 64 oz. of water a day.
NOPE. I’m aiming for 32 oz. right now. Although on the day of Pride & the outdoor concert I drank over 96 ounces of water!

Read 50 books in 2018. And complete one of Erin’s Challenges.
I’m working on it… I’ve read 17 books and Erin’s next challenge start in July.

Start exercising.
Hahahahahahahaha. Nah.

Keep up with meal planning.
This has mostly been a bust. We haven’t gone out to dinner much, but dinners are either thrown together, tossed on the grill, or ordered off a takeout menu. Summer threw me off.

Practice kindness, patience, grace, and peace.
I actually think I’ve made some progress with this goal. I’ve taken steps to controlling my emotions. I’m trying to be a better, more supportive, loving friend. Obviously there’s always room for improvement. I know I’m never done improving.

Not doing so great with the yearlong goals. Lol

I’ve got one more season to knock these out so fingers crossed! I’m not sure if the painting, scrapbooking, or workout space are going to happen… but I’ll try 😉

Today is my Friday & I’m not mad about it. I hope you’re getting some time off this weekend, too!

I like keeping my seasonal goals separated, but I’m going to combined bucket list items for spring and summer because these two season are very bleh to me and melt together in my head anyway.

Here’s my list for spring and summer:

• Go to a major or minor league baseball game
• Visit the farmers market at least twice
• Go on anniversary trip to Gettysburg*
• Go to country summer concert with friends (K.Chesney, Old Dominion, T. Rhett)
• Go to summer concert with K (Jimmy Eat World)
• Finish cleaning stuff out of M&D’s basement
• Finish purging unnecessary stuff
• Have a garage sale at new house!
• Go to the outdoor rootbeer stand (Fundays)
• Go swimming!
• Go to Trumpet in the Land (outdoor play)*
• Follow 5 new blogs
• Set up home office
• Set up basement workout space
• Scrapbook & finish year 3*
• Summer vacation?
• Paint the bedroom
• MAKE SOME DAMN ICE CREAM

Seriously, though. I need to make some flipping ice cream or give it all up and sell the machine. (#pathetic) The asterisks denote items on my 30×30 list. Some of these are guaranteed like Gettysburg and the concerts.

All of these are doable & hopefully I can check off some tasks that have been on the list for a while. What are your plans for the warm weather months?

Hope you have a great weekend and a Happy Easter!