- ✔ Go tubing/kayaking/canoeing.
- Have an outdoor makeout session or–if you can find a really secluded spot–outdoor sex.
- ✔ Wear a ridiculous sunhat and giant sunglasses and let your inner diva out.
- ✔ Read one totally trashy beach novel and one totally cerebral nonfiction book.
- ✔ Take an evening walk and be fully present in the moment–ignore the urge to check your cellphone.
- ✔ Never pass up an opportunity to drink wine outside.
- Try something new with your hair, whether it’s a refreshing short cut or an awesome braided style.
- ✔ Hit up the farmers’ market. Fill your house with fresh flowers and produce.
- ✔ Paint your nails crazy bright colors.
- Go on a friendship bracelet-making binge.
- ✔ Eat an entire watermelon with a spoon and feel kind of sick afterwards but WORTH IT.
- Two words: Roof. Party.
- ✔ Take a road trip, even if it’s just a couple towns over. Make a mix CD of wistful traveling music for the occasion. -- Montauk!
- Find a street that has a fire hydrant open and frolic in the water with all the kids.
- ✔ See a super corny blockbuster. If no one will go with you, go alone.
- Ride your bike everywhere.
- Wear a white dress with turquoise jewelry.
- Make boozy popsicles.
- Get your ass to a waterfall. Even the tiny ones are magical.
- ✔ Check out some new music.
- ✔ Buy an iced coffee and wander around with no itinerary.
- ✔ Bring a blanket and a stack of magazines to the park.
- ✔ Float in the ocean (or the lake, or the kiddie pool in the backyard, whatever).
- Go on an outdoor date.
- Have a water balloon fight. Or maybe…become a human water balloon?
- ✔ Hang out naked when the temperature hits 90 degrees.
- ✔ Have a picnic dinner at sunset.
- ✔ Wear teal eyeshadow during the day.
- ✔ Make friends with someone who owns a boat. Hang out on said boat as often as possible.
- Catch fireflies.
- ✔ Do karaoke. Command the stage like the freakin’ rockstar that you are.
- ✔ Get a burger and a cold beer with a friend.
- ✔ Confess something you’ve been keeping inside. Summer nights encourage forgiveness.
- Have sweaty sex. Shower together afterwards.
- ✔ Rip a lobster limb from limb.
- ✔ DIY some trendy cut-offs.
- Have your friends over for fancy cocktails and vintage boardgames.
- ✔ Learn a ridiculous dance. The Soulja Boy, for example.
- Run in the sprinkler.
- Go to the zoo. Yearn for a baby giraffe.
- ✔ Lay under the stars with your best friend. Discuss the meaning of life.
- Wear a flower in your hair.
- ✔ Go to a foodie festival and try one of everything. Don’t feel bad about it.
- Take a pottery class.
- ✔ Make sangria.
- Rent a paddle boat and paddle until your legs are jelly.
- ✔ Write a letter to someone. Decorate the envelope.
- ✔ Watch the sun rise.
- Ride a rollercoaster.
- Open a bottle of champagne and make a toast to your life, exactly the way it is.
jun 22 2012 ∞
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