For the past two days, I’ve been starting blog posts and not finishing them. I think I’m feeling a little… rebellious. Not burnt out, or blocked, or anything like that, just in the mood to shirk work and have fun. This mood almost never strikes me. As my regular readers must know by now, I am a structured, organized, hard-working, list-making person who dedicates time every day on working toward her life goals. As an aspiring writer (well, a writer who aspires to be successful), I spend time with all of my writing projects each day. I journal, I work on blog posts, I connect with other bloggers, I interview people for my current article assignment, I edit my novel. Every single day. And I’m happy doing this. I love setting and achieving small goals every day that work toward a single, larger goal. I love the structure of a day planned around work, with moments in between for relaxation and slower living.
But sometimes, a girl’s just gotta have fun.
So this weekend, that’s my goal: focus on the fun.
I’ve already started. Here was/is Friday: Edwin and I went to visit my best friend for the afternoon, and we had a great time. (Love you, Laura!) I also had a deeply wonderful (and also funny) conversation with my sister during the hour-long car ride, and connected with two more friends at home. Nick is out right now getting us takeout for dinner, and after Edwin goes to bed, I’m going out shopping. By myself! For clothes! At night!
Saturday, we plan on a slow morning, with a big weekend-morning breakfast, a long nap for Edwin, and catching up on all the week’s television premieres for me and Nick. In the mid-day we’re going apple picking, and in the evening my in-laws are babysitting so we can have a date night.
Sunday morning I’ll be going to my favorite Step class, and after that we’ve yet to plan, but I’ll make sure it’s packed full of family fun.
Looks like I’ll be crossing off a few things on my Fall Bucket List this weekend-
Wait a minute.
Does that mean I’m having fun AND crossing things off a list?
This weekend just became epic.
Sounds lovely! I am also a generally structured, list-making kind of gal, but sometimes…sometimes I get into the “I don’t wanna” moods about all my must-dos, and I try to give into the feeling and just go with it and have some fun. Funny, I’ve also been feeling like that more lately—must be something in the weather?
Ana, I think it is the weather- it is a gorgeous fall here in the Northeast! I just want to be outside, except when I want to be cooking delicious fall recipes in my kitchen.