You know that point you reach when you have been on holidays for far too long and you realize you wasted a good month or so of your life on Facebook or playing Word Bubbles? The point is usually woefully close to the return of uni/work and is undoubtedly accompanied by the feelings of guilt and gluttony (my second favourite of the deadly seven, after Sloth...)
I reached that point about two days ago. To cure my feelings of guilt and gluttony (The post-holiday GGs as I would now like to call them) I made myself a Bucket List, or as I am calling it, My August Rush.
My August Rush is a list of all the things I would like to accomplish by the end of the month (The August month, obviously. Not the July month...) Why am i sharing this with you, the people? You the internet?* Because this GG has got to go, from my bedroom, from my life, and from yours too! There's lessons to be had! Fun to share, time better used than on Facebook!
So I challenge y'all (yeah, I said 'y'all...jealous?) to jump on this bendy little bandwagon with me and make your own August Rush!
Right...enough soapboxing (I would like to think that 'soapboxing' is a bit of a mixture of lecturing, dropping the soap and punching, all at once), here it is...
My August Rush
A list of 31 things to do in 31 days
1. Walk 100kms (not all at once! yikes!)
2. Have a dinner party
3. Write four poems (hopefully lewd and not the least bit publishable)
4. Write a song
5. Write four narrative-related somethings
6. Eat no fast food (with an exception of the 24 hours surrounding Sleazeball)
7. Read a book on the BBC Classics List
8. Listen to a new show
9. Learn to make lasagne
10. Go on a hiking/walking/Jane adventure (note: Jane will accompany me on said adventure. jane herself is not the adventure...or...)
11. Make someone a care package
12. Randomly give balloons to someone
13. Bake a loaf of Gluten Free bread
14. Send at least 5 letters
15. Visit a friend in Melbourne
16. Clean my room every week
17. Get up before 8am every day for a week
18. Read a Marvel Comic
19. Learn 100 words in Auslan
20. Make a bet for money
21. Have a bath every week (for relaxation purposes. Not for hygiene)
22. Have a tea party
23. Have a craftanoon
24. Change the lyrics to a song in 'Nine' (hopefully to something lewd and unpublishable)
25. Read at least 5 plays
26. Go to a yoga class
27. Go to a pilates class
28. Watch a film in another language
29. Learn Pi to 50 digits (because I'm just that cool!)
30. Walk to uni
31. Blog about this list (Ha! Already started that one! bazinga!)
So there you go! This is my Uptempo Bandwagon (It's not really...I'm looking for that word that means doing things by your own steam...but 'uptempo' is the only word popping into my brain...curse you, malapropisms!!
Go ahead, make your own! (you can make my day while you're at it, if you like!)
:-)
*I'm so sorry. But I had to...
