Mini-Bucket

You know what the best thing about today is, I realized when I woke up this morning?  I am only halfway through vacation!  I still have one week left!!  

Since this seems to be becoming a theme on all of my breaks from school this year, and since there are still so many things I want to do during this time off, I thought I would make another Mini-Bucket list for this week.  Here it goes!

1. Finish Unbroken.  (Y'all... if you read only one book this year... seriously.)

2. See Les Miserables.  Bonus movies: Hitchcock, Life of Pi, Silver Linings Playbook.

3. Get all caught up on my favorite shows: Modern Family, New Girl, The Mindy Project, 30 Rock.

4. Get started on some new shows!  Downton Abbey and Walking Dead.  (What??  I never said this bucket list was going to be some sort of noble or impressive endeavor... I do think it is totally legitimate, though.  Vacation, baby!!)

5. Yoga and run (very short distances) every single day.

6. Master Just Dance 4.

7. Make my sister to teach me how to use her cool new camera.

8. Do some craft projects!!  All my Pinterest fantasies come to life!  (Or probably like two of them.)

9. Read my new, signed copy of Loren Cordain's latest Paleo book, courtesy of my friend Lindsay.

10. Do a little extracurricular writin', maybe get some stuff all lined up for this here blog so that I have something to publish when I go back to my medicine rotation and don't have any time for this sort o' nonsense.  :) 

~ Happy Saturday, friends!! ~

Mini-Bucket

My final exam for psych is tomorrow morning... and I have really loved psych... but man am I so over studying for it.  Way too excited about what follows: a week of vacation!!  Since it's all I can think about right now, I decided to make another mini-bucket list for some sweet days off.  Here we go!

Photo courtesy of my latest app obsession: Glaze. Makes your pics look like paintings!

1. Spend every one of my short 34 hours in Seattle catching up with my awesome friend Tommy, whom I haven't seen almost since our adventuras españolas over two years ago!!

2. Stuff my face with as much delicious Indian food as humanly possible at our friend Katie K's wedding.

3. Finally make it up to Asheville for the first time since I have lived in the south and visit my childhood friend Jay and his wife after promising them I would for about two years now.

4. Finish reading Middlesex and read at least one other novel on my Kindle.

5. Call three friends to whom I owe pathetically overdue catch-up sessions.  (Arshia, Liv, Casey... this is your warning.)

6. See the new Bourne movie.

7. Get Izzy to go into the ocean with me.  I am determined that she will learn to like swimming!

8. Have at least one really good game night with friends.  Obviously the bowl game is imperative.

9. Use my actual camera instead of just Instagramming everything on my phone.

10. Break a sweat, somehow, every single day: runs, yoga, long walks on the beach, dancing my butt off... who knows?

Bonuses: learn to paddleboard, sleep in, do some writing.  The countdown has begun.... :)

Mini-Bucket List

Inspired by one of my favorite blogs, here is this week's Mini-Bucket List:

1. take yoga classes at my best friend's brand-new studio

2. visit my friend Morgan and meet her brand-new baby

3. go hiking with my mama

4. watch the movie Water for Elephants since I just read the book (I am mad at myself for flying through it so fast because it was sooo good and now I'm sad it's over)

5. finish piecing together my quilt

6. take lots of naps

7. make several phone calls to friends I haven't spoken to in way too long

8. have coffee with my Jean-o

9. eat a lot of delicious food (ha, this is never really a problem for me)

10. PR in the Houska Houska with my mom and sis on Memorial Day

(In case you didn't gather, I am currently on one glorious week of vacation, and home sweet home in the great state of Colorado.  There are no words for how good it feels and how much I needed this little break.)