free time

Be careful what you wish for! Here I am with nothing but time and I can't get a thing done.

What you didn't know when you were a kid was that teachers were looking forward to summer vacation just as much as you were, maybe more; and for the very same reasons: no homework, more time to relax, family vacations, and sunshine. And here it is. Now what?

Give me a long list, a deadline, or a back-to-back schedule and I'm in the zone. Some days like that I sit back at the end of it and am just a little awestruck at what I have accomplished. But give me nothing but time on my hands and I'm a mess. I bounce around from this to that and do a whole lot of nothing. At the end of the day and really can't believe how I've managed to do so little.

So I'm contemplating a radical summer idea: Implementing a rigorous summer schedule for myself to accomplish a long list of to-dos: Cleaning out, systematic sorting, untackled projects, and planning for the future. Just the exact thing I have been wishing away for the past nine months.

I'll just be sure to include a few of the following items on the daily schedule:

1. Long walks

2. Sitting on the porch

3. Writing for fun

4. Gardening

5. Reality TV

6. Sleeping in

7. Napping

8. Lengthy conversations with people I love

9. Poolside reading

10. Baking

Can't wait to get busy!