to do list

I'm on vacation and I'm pretty stoked about it. OK, fine: I'm positively giddy. This is my first break since December where I don't have some assignment hanging over my head and 60 pounds of nursing textbooks in my bags...I have $1 novels from the clearance shelves at Half Price Books.

I still am approaching this break with a sense of purpose and have created this list of things to accomplish. My goal is to feel that that I have appropriately "breaked" if you know what I mean if you can catch what I'm throwing down if we're speaking the same lingo ...yeah.

• Lay in the sunshine by the lake, if you follow me on IG you knew this one
• Read a minimum of 5 novels
• Drink coffee only in the mornings, unless I want it. My point is that I don't need to drink it to stay awake! 
• Eat Amish crack...twice, but no more. I must set appropriate boundaries. 
• Spend a day in Olin alone with a picnic lunch and no phone
• Kayak before 7am
• Dance until my feet hurt at Christin's wedding 
• Hug and laugh and catch up with my Lifesign Loves
• Purchase my textbooks
• Visit Kate and eat sundaes at DeBrand's
• Shop at ClothesMentor
• Walk most nights
• Watch Star Wars if it's a rainy day
• Bake a tomato pie
• Sew Sarah's wedding present [if I finish it before their one year anniversary, I'm not a terrible friend, right?]
• Eat as much produce as humanly possible
• Go to dinner with a delightful group of people in Goshen [Goshen, are you my future home?]
• Cook for my grandparents
• Wear sunscreen and a swimsuit
• Bathe in the lake
• Peruse the countryside, windows down, music up
• Eat a glazed doughnut from Foltz's 
• CORN!
• Edit pictures
• Read old issues of Food Network Magazine
• Allow all the melanin that's been hibernating within me it's time to shine
• Find a place to pick peaches -- stop telling me they're not ready yet! I'm talking to you, every you pick stand I've looked up!
• Solo adventure to Turkey Run!
• Bake something [or perhaps I should say "some things"]
• Blog if I want to and don't if I don't