Fact: today is August 1st and while this date doesn’t really mean much (except to those who were born or married or died this day) I want it to matter. It’s like a third quarter resolution that I’m deciding to make. It is, after all, halfway through summer now. And summer, as we all know, is the best season on earth. The sun barfs happiness all over us, and you can’t help but feel a little peppier.

With my new life of mom, employee, commuter (commuter taking up on average 12 hours of my week) & wife, I find myself longing to do things I used to take for granted (like writing this blog). I also find myself longing for things that I just want to do, but I’m just too damn tired to get done. I know that a lot of this is part and parcel of my new life, however some if it is because I haven’t scheduled time to do things just for me. I’ve also come to the realization that if I don’t write these things down, I won’t have a plan to action them. They will always be dreams that I’m longing to do, vs. checking them off my list. And, I’m not just talking big dreams, I’m mostly talking about the small stuff that are mostly just for me.

So, here goes it:

• In the next 12 months I want to go bowling. I want to drink dirty draft beer, eat a questionable hotdog or pizza or both, who knows?! Things could get wild. I also will keep bowling on that day until i get a strike.
• Begin teaching my daughter how to do the running man, so she can start to win dance offs at an early age.
• Save enough money to take the family to Disney World in the fall of 2019. This sounds like it’s for my daughter, but it’s probably 20% for her, 35% for me, and 45% for my husband.
• Have a full weekend with just the hubby.
• Spend more time with my Mom friends so that I can get a good hang out in and my girl can make friends for life.
• Go to a Karaoke night and sing my butt off. Have no shame. Go for the questionable high notes and pretend I’m Freddie Mercury.
• Go on a spa retreat for two nights. Not one, but TWO nights! Mama needs a break!
• Time for this girl to make a vision board. I work with a lady who made one two years ago, and everything she put on there came true. Actually.
• Do stand-up again. I flopped hard the last time I did it. But that doesn’t mean I should quit. What comic hasn’t heard crickets before? But I’m convinced I could recreate this: 
• Go for mani/pedi with just my mom.
• Go for a mani/pedi with my sister-in-laws.
• Get my hair coloured. I haven’t been able to find the time to get my hair coloured since last October. That was 10 months ago. When I got my hair cut (at the 9 month mark) they referred to my hair colour as “mombre”. Haha.
• Have a university style girls party night. You know those nights, where you start off doing vodka shots and end up eating an entire pizza with your girlfriends. You can remember 90% of what happened – like harassing the DJ to play 2008 Usher, and the other 10%  you need to be reminded about – like how you walked home in your undies because it was too hot. That kind of night.
• Have at least three facials done and find an awesome eye cream that will make all my eye wrinkles disappear.
• Start a basement fund. Our basement needs to be refinished. I want it done in 2019/2020.
• Create a wedding album AND PRINT it! We got married nearly three years ago, had a wonderful photographer and only have two images printed. Two. What’s that all about?
• Go skating. But not public skating. I want to rent the ice and have it mostly to myself. I just want to feel the ice again. I think I need new skates too.
• Write a minimum of once per month.
• At least once per quarter, go for a childless girls’ dinner, where we can actually visit and catch up.
• Visit a psychic. How else can one get through life?
• Get my daughter really into the movie Enchanted. Amy Adams FTW.

I really don’t think the above list is that impossible to complete. So, on July 31st 2019, I’m going to revisit this list and see how I did. I’m hoping that I nailed it!