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Fall Fun List update: I did nearly everything on my list!
- Decorate the house for fall
- Burn fall-scented candles and
diffuse fall scents in my essential oil diffuser
- Bake sourdough bread using my
“mother”
- Write a letter to someone (friend
or relative)
- Play cozy ambience music videos on
YouTube (like this one)
- Enjoy a pumpkin spice latte and
other fall foods and drinks
- Eat pomegranates
- Watch Barbie with a friend
- Choose and order a 2024 planner
- Celebrate Thanksgiving with the
family
- Take a trip to a local nursery and
decide what, if anything, I want to plant for our fall/winter garden
- Attend the first three musicals of
my Broadway series at the Straz Center in Tampa
(The Choir of Man, Beetlejuice, and Funny Girl)
- Sit outside and enjoy cooler
weather—if we get some by Dec. 21
- Change out fall house decorations
for winter (I usually do this around the beginning of December)
I probably won’t manage to make the bread or see Barbie before the 21st, but that’s OK. Both of those things can move on to a Winter Fun List, which I’m still in the process of making. (Fun Lists are slightly different from lists of goals, and are good reminders that life is about more than work and chores and various other responsibilities.)
I realize “winter” in Florida is quite different from winter
in most other locations, so my winter fun list will not look like the winter
fun list of someone who lives in Ohio (Hi, Debbie!) That’s one of the beauties
of fun lists—they reflect your unique situation and personality. As Gretchen
Rubin has pointed out in one of her Secrets of Adulthood, “What’s fun for other people may not be fun for you, and vice versa.”
Maybe take some time this weekend to think about what’s fun
for you. Then make plans to work that fun into your life more often.
