Your June to-do list
Fresh month, long days, plenty of time to do all the things you need to/want to do. Here’s a few to get you started:
1. Enter my monthly chocolate drawing. NOW. I cannot adequately describe to you how happy you’ll be when the delivery person pulls up to your door and hands you the huge tower of chocolate you’ll receive just for being you (and for entering and winning the drawing). I live to make you happy, but you have to meet me halfway.
2. In keeping with our 50-novel challenge, treat yourself to 3 or 4 good books this month. YES, YOU CAN. We all have time–we just need to decide how best to spend it. I was just at the dentist for an hour, enjoying a good book. When I stand in line anywhere, I’m enjoying a good book. Figure out where your pockets of time are and fill them with something other than impatience. If you’re looking for a few good book recommendations, start here and then go here.
3. Relive your carefree youth (or pretend you had one) by taking yourself to at least two Saturday (or Friday, if you manage it) matinees this month. It’s best if you go by yourself so you can fully savor the indulgence. Smuggle in a pbj or make popcorn your lunch, and sit there for the next two hours and forget everything but the story on the screen. Ahhhh . . . I’ll be seeing X-Men 3 tomorrow to get my own summer program rolling. I secretly wish I were Jean Grey.
4. Stop eating dinner. You know it’s too hot. You know all you really want is a lap-load of salty tortilla chips at about 2:00, then maybe some frozen yogurt around 8:00. Eat your real food in the morning when it’s cool, then stick to water and a little junk the rest of the day. You have my permission. I’m technically a doctor. (Juris doctor, but still.)
5. Come out of hibernation. When I was in Iceland a few years ago, it was during the summer when the sun barely starts graying until around 3:00 in the morning. Those people were INSANE. I was insane. You don’t want to go to bed. You just want to work and play and be up. I saw people golfing in the pouring rain at 11:00 at night. It’s light out–why not? Our bodies like this time of year. They like to be awake and out of the dark. So go with it. Get up when the first bird starts yelling and go see what early morning is like. Take a walk. Take a swim. There’s a whole other life you can lead before it’s time to get ready for work. Then in the evening skip dinner, go out for frozen yogurt, sit on a bench and savor the second-best time of the day. Go home, pass out as soon as it’s really dark, and sleep better than you know how. Start again the next day, rinse, repeat.
That should get you started. When you’ve done all these, let me know and we’ll add to the list.
Technorati Tags: Summer Reading, Reading, Books, Book Recommendations, Book Lists, Free Chocolate, Iceland, Health
Another one to put on that reading list, though it might be a challenge since the copyright is 1997– The Runaway, by Terry Kay. I haven’t finished it yet but I was already in love with it on the first page. The first two words are “Conjure Woman” and you can’t tell me that doesn’t wanna make you read more.
Not only is it a ripping good story, but it’s also centered around a very interesting premise– that desegregation in the South was inevitable after WWII and that Freedom Marchers and Martin Luther King were the results of that, and not the catalysts. Why? Because the white Southern US soldiers experienced not only other folks from other cultures outside their own, but also witnessed the atrocities of Nazi Germany, and, as a result, had to distance themselves mentally from that behavior. Very thought provoking.