The Summer Bucket List

I've always been deadline driven and love a wide variation of types of items on my to do list.  This spring I had a big work goal to accomplish.  I put in a lot of extra hours and worked hard to make happen and it felt wonderful to cross the finish line. Except, now that it has come and gone I feel like my wheels are spinning in no particular direction and smaller deadlines seem to not have the same adrenaline rush as those from spring.    
I'm not sure where this listlessness and de-motivation came creeping in but I just seem tired and that I am running on two speeds either (happy) and turbo charged or (meh) and snail pace.  Signs of burn out and a much needed few days off...probably so.  I find myself on the morning commute being envious of strangers as I round the corner and see the free spirits in the park for their morning strolls, or see the latest twitter feed of someone hanging by the pool.  I'm not naïve though and I know most of these people have just, if not busier, lives then I do the difference is they are making these items priorities. So it's time I give myself a deadline and make a ME list of items I don't want to pass up without taking time to do this summer.

 

The Summer Bucket list (in random order)

• Long walks in the Park
• Read a book, without feeling guilty or falling asleep
• Clean out my closet to purge items that are way past any resemblance of style
• Bury my toes in the sand
• Organize the Craft Closet
• Paint (on canvas not a home improvement project, although I don't mind that either)
• Have a long lunch with my Mom
•  Drink coffee on the deck and watch the birds play
• Laugh with my kids
• Get a Tan
• Spend quality time with my family
• Have the option of sleeping in, (if I want to, probably wont happen but it is so nice to have the choice & amazing how easy it is to get up early when it's your free time at stake)
• Swim in the Lake
• Get a pedicure
• Eat a Snow cone
• Watch the sunset with my fella
• Fix a meal (kudos to my hubby for always having it on the table)
• Visit an old friend
• Go shopping in the city

There it is, a simple list, now I have to go get the (beach) ball rolling I have a deadline to meet!