A Summer To-Do List.

Last year, I made a summer bucket list, and failed pretty miserably at it. So we're just not going to talk about that one. Why it never occurred to this obsessive list maker to make it a summer to-do list instead of a bucket list (ps, why do we like that so much? isn't it things you're supposed to do before you die, aka kick the bucket? we're such an odd group.) Instead, I've put together a list of things I want to do this summer!

• hike Tallulah Gorge. I'd be lying if I didn't say it was about 95% because of Karen's pictures.
• finish the Peachtree Road Race in under an hour. (I am going to put this on my goal list until I do it. I have done it faster + faster each year. So, here's hoping right?)
• explore Oakland Cemetery. I have a weird thing for historical cemeteries. 
• maybe hit Tunes From The Tombs this weekend?
• hike Stone Mountain
• COCKTAILS AT THE ZOO.
• MEET THE ELEPHANTS.  GUYS I FEEL LIKE THIS IS CHEATING SINCE I KNOW I GET TO DO IT. I AM SO EXCITED I COULD JUST DIE. D. I. E. I TELL YOU

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• Martinis + IMAX at Fernbank
• What The Tuck at the W Hotel (because you knew with a name like that I'd definitely be going.)
• DO NOT BUY ANY MORE BATHING SUITS. guys. I have a problem.
• Read new books. I have a tendency to stick with #nonewbooks because sometimes when I love something so much, I just want to read it over + over + over + over. Take that copy of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn up there for example. 
• Complete Jen's #project3mile (I can't start until this weekend because I didn't pack my running shoes for my week of puppy sitting.)
• Finish the awesome collage/wall thing I have imagined for my bedroom. 
• UNPLUG. I've been pretty good at this, relatively. I'll volunteer my phone for the tunes + since it's on silent, I only know if someone is calling me. so I guess I get unplug with an asterisk... 

I have a pretty good suspicion this list will grow + change. I'm even PUTTING IT IN THE BULLET JOURNAL. So it's all official + such. What are you doing this summer? Want to join me on any of these adventures?! What should I add to my list?

Can We Have Class Outside?

I don't have an explanation for why this week seems so weird. I thought yesterday was Wednesday and that today is Thursday for about most of this morning until I realized we have to do payroll today. Anyways, since it is, in fact, Wednesday today, I have some confessions! (I think that might have been a few spliced commas there, sorry grammar friends.)

I have my credit cards all set up on automatic payments because I forget when they're due like on a monthly basis. #forgetfulfrancie This is set up through them, not even through my bank. So they know the payment is coming. Okay? So one of them has their system set up to where you can't pick the day it's autodrafted, it's the day the payment is due. It's a little dumb if you ask me. THEY ALSO call me about four hundred times on the day that it's due saying that I haven't made a payment. It makes me hashtag crazy pants.

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I'm not sure I want to watch tonight's Nashville. Based on the previews, something bad is going to happen. I swear if ABC kills of Derek Shepherd + Deacon in the same month, I won't ever watch anything on ABC ever again. Maybe give up TV all together. I just can't take it, do you hear me ABC? #thatsanemptythreat #pleasedontthough

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It is 80 degrees and sunny outside all the time now and all I want to do is lay by the pool and read books and drink margaritas. I feel like we all deserve some kind of award for being even remotely productive during the summer. Especially those of you in Florida, I don't know how you do it.

I Have A-D... something

Our apartment is somewhere between a disaster and really pathetic and empty. We've taken everything off the walls, but all of the nails are still there. It honestly looks like the Grinch swung by last weekend. It's bumming me out man. I'm ready to be in our new apartment, but this purgatory period is killin' me. #movinonup #toadeluxapartment #inabasement #notthesky

shut up shut up shut UPPPPPPPPP

People have been such JERKS on the road lately. I don't know if you're aware, but it is physically impossible for me to go any faster than the car in front of me, but you know, if you get really close to my bumper, it's totally going to change the laws of physics. #onefingersalute #roadrage #atlantadriversaretheworst

That's all folks. What do you have to confess today? It's 2015, why don't we have flying cars that drive themselves yet?