On the eve
I can’t believe I have made it this far — it feels like it’s been no time and forever since I started school. After all this hard work, it ends tomorrow and I could not be more thankful. I’m so excited for the spring and summer that I put together a list of things that I want to try in the next couple of months:
- Go to the Farmer’s Market at least twice a month and pick a new ingredient each time. I love cooking but I always stick to the tried and true; this summer I want to experiment, expand my culinary horizons, and become a foodie snob that makes her own pesto based on a secret recipe from a friend’s Italian grandmother who still uses a mortar and pestle.
- Learn how to garden. Or how to prune. Or at least make my teeny patio look a little presentable and not like a lazy schizophrenic took over.
- Grow my own herbs. Can you just imagine how delicious that would be? I am just salivating in anticipation.
- Throw a mean barbeque.
- Improve my tennis.
- Do yoga on the patio. I’ve wanted to do this since last summer but I never found the motivation. Or, if I find that it is one of those things that sounds much more pleasant in theory than in practice (mosquitoes, bleh) then do yoga while staring at the pond from inside my house, enjoying nature the way its supposed to be enjoyed. With the AC on.
- Make curtains! I have lived curtainless for a year, and let’s just say, it is time. There are lots of things that one cannot do behind closed curtains if, you know, the curtains are missing.
- Hit at least one single per game at my softball games. Well, a girl can dream, can’t she? And I figured I might as well put something in here that would keep me humble and on my toes.
- Go to a field at night in early summer to see the fireflies. This would make me feel ridiculously happy.
