50 activities

[vaneramos]

From Smackdowns For Your Inner Critic: make a list of fifty things you love to do. Right now. Then do one of them today.

1. Read novels.
2. Bake cookies and eat them.
3. Go for a walk.
4. Take photographs.
5. Write poetry.
6. Knit.
7. Go to the movies.
8. Listen to music in the car.
9. Draw.
10. Clear the kitchen table.
11. Play piano.
12. Hang out with friends.
13. Go camping with Marian and Brenna.
14. Sit and watch dusk fall over Lake Fletcher.
15. Stand and watch the Eramosa River.
16. Take a bath with fragrant oils.
17. Light candles.
18. Dine out.
19. Travel somewhere new.
20. Go to an art gallery.
21. Go to a museum.
22. Call Danny.
23. Have a glass of red wine in the evening.
24. Eat cheese.
25. Garden.
26. Order seeds in the winter.
27. See morning sunshine through the bedroom curtain.
28. Hike the Bruce Trail.
29. Go birdwatching.
30. Play Settlers of Catan and the various expansions with my friends.
31. Meet Sarah for a writing session in the evening.
32. Have a cup of hot chocolate at The Cornerstone.
33. Browse at The Bookshelf.
34. Share potluck dinner with Denise and Robyn on our evening shift at Out On The Shelf.
35. Make maps of imaginary places.
36. Watch DVDs at home.
37. Make jam or chutney.
38. Shop for art supplies.
39. Make paper.
40. Identify an unfamiliar wildflower.
41. Walk barefoot on soft grass.
42. Look for fossils on the beach.
43. Build sand castles.
44. Talk to one of my online friends on the phone.
45. Go to the farmers' market.
46. Go for a drive in the country.
47. Go dancing.
48. Make lists of words that sound good.
49. Sex.
50. Smell roses, lilacs or lily-of-the-valley.

Comments

[dakoopst.livejournal.com]

This is a great idea. I love the stuff on your list.

Do let us know which you choose to do...

(I played Settlers for the first time in a long time when I was in Seattle. I had forgotten how much I enjoyed it.)

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Settlers, I'll keep that in mind. ;-)

I have annoying paperwork to do this aft, but will reward myself somehow after it's done, so I'll let you know the outcome.

[blue-by-you.livejournal.com]

I love love love this, Van! Do you mind if I do it?

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Please do, Lisa! When I saw that blog post I was going to write the list in my morning pages, but decided to post it instead, in hope of inspiring someone else. Have fun!

[rsc.livejournal.com]

Well, #10 was a bit of a surprise.

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

LOL, I'm very, very bad about neglecting housework, but when I finally get around to it, I don't mind it. And few things satisfy me as deeply as achieving a clear surface in my apartment.

[bezigebij.livejournal.com]

Lovely list. I'm biased, though, because I have the feeling that if you replaced a few proper nouns that I could have written it.

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

I guess most of these things are universal. I should have tried to think of more eccentric pleasures, but it was first thing in the morning!