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Tuesday, June 4, 2013

My 100 THING TO DO THIS SUMMER List



1.   Read Game of Thrones
2.   Read Game of Thrones
3.   Read Game of Thrones
4.   Read Game of Thrones
5.   Read Game of Thrones (There are five books in the series.)
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(only 4 shown)

6.   Write George R.R. Martin fan mail/hate mail
7.   Don’t send letter to George R.R. Martin (unless he hurts Jon Snow)
8.   Watch Breaking Bad
9.   Watch Breaking Bad
10. Watch Breaking Bad
11. Watch Breaking Bad
12.  Watch Breaking Bad (There are five seasons.)
13.  Finish the first draft of my next YA novel. Tentatively called “Casualty.”
14.  Blog
15.  Attend a wedding
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16.  Stick to the Special K diet for longer than 48 hours
17.  Find a diet that only lasts 36 hours
18.  Find an exercise plan that shows results in 36 hours
19.  Take the kids to the pool (Repeat)
20.  Put away our winter clothes and boots
21.  Go camping
22.  Eat s’mores
23.  Throw a Frisbee
24.  Cast a line
25.  Watch True Blood
26.  Watch The Killing
27.  Go to the beach
28.  Go to the library
29.  Teach 5-year-old to tie shoes
30.  Visit 2 states I’ve never visited
31.  Dig for dinosaur bones
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32.  Hike
33.  Go to the farmers market
34.  Read 100 picture books that I haven’t read before
35.  Make a marketing plan for Dear Santasaurus
36.  Create a countdown to first day of school
37.  Wear sunblock
38.  Cook on the grill
39.  Clean out attic
40.  Take dogs for a walk (probably more than once)
41.  Actually try a recipe that I’ve Pinned
42.  Bunco Beach Week End!
43.  Write a non-fiction picture book
44.  Complain that it’s too hot
45.  Limit how much Disney TV the kids can watch
46.  See Despicable Me 2
47.  Step away from the computer (and the iPhone)
48.  Visit family
49.  Go to an amusement park
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50.  Cheer at swim meets
51.  Learn how to use all the functions on my camera
52.  Make the girls practice multiplication facts
53.  Teach the kids how to do laundry
54.  Eat out less
55.  Watch Dexter
56.  Watch Dexter
57.  Watch Dexter (I think I’m only 3 seasons behind)
58.  Buy books
59.  Go to church
60.  Keep goldfish alive (how long do they live?)
61.  Try not to feed kids PB&J every day for lunch
62.  Avoid the annual July cold/flu
63.  Pack
64.  Unpack
65.  Laundry
66.  Repeat 63-65
67.  Repeat 66
68.  And repeat 66 one more time
69.  After I drop kids at Girl Scout camp, don’t let them see me do the happy dance as I walk to car
70.  Remember to send care packages to Girl Scout camp
71.  Have a picnic
72.  Go to the park early in the day before the slides get too hot
73.  Make time for date night with hubby
74.  Plan a girls night out
75.  Limit my Mocha Cookie Fraps intake (only 5 per week)
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76.  Limit my Skinny Girl Margarita intake (one 1 per night)
77.  Try not to cry as I miss SCBWI conference in LA
78.  Give dogs a bath
79.  Give van a bath
80.  Arrange playdates (at other people’s houses)
81.  Meet all the new neighbors
82.  Watch new episodes of Phineas and Ferb
83.  Steal a day to write in silence (or at a crowded Starbucks—just out of the house)
84.  Put a few thousand miles on the van
85.  Buy new sunglasses
86.  Celebrate my birthday
87.  Celebrate my anniversary
88.  De-clutter (I’m thinking a drawer, nothing too taxing.)
89.  Maintain my high scores on Just Dance
90.  Stalk my favorite authors on twitter
91.  Go to a baseball game
92.  Watch fireworks
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93.  Run through a sprinkler (in someone else’s yard)
94.  Eat fresh tomatoes
95.  Go Paleo (per husband’s request)
96.  Break in new flip-flops
97.  Finish last summer’s projects
98.  Teach kids that “bored” is a curse word in my world
99.   Eat ice-cream for dinner at least once
100. Enjoy the freedom of a slower schedule

1 comment:

  1. I had several goldfish that lived for 5 years. However, most only lived for a few months.

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