top ten list of things you should do in the first official month of your gap year

 

1. Preorder a book! Like a mother-fluffing billionaire with time to read for leisure. 
• Full disclosure: I used a coupon AND a giftcard.
2. Buy a really nice day planner! For years I promised myself that one day I would purchase a beautiful day planner and that day has come! It came with tabs, weekly sheets with enough room to write a novel about my day-to-day activities.

   

   Mine is the one lacking a floral accent... it's not that I have anything against floral... I just like the idea of seeming like I have a plan

3. Buy more than one vegetable at a time at the grocery store. You guys, I spent $40 at once at the grocery store the other day and let me tell you, it was an absolute thrill. I spent $50 a month on groceries maximum during my degree and supplement my poor diet with the multivitamins my parents gave me every year at Christmas time.
4. Ya Mama. Maybe send her a card or splurge on her birthday. 
5. Work with some puff pastry. Because why not? Do you want to feel like a world-class chef for an hour? Of course you do.

   

   These are delicious lemon poppyseed pretzels that weren't burnt nor were they prepared in the microwave.

6. Learn a trade! Of course by a trade I mean, learn how to crochet. Crochet is love. Crochet is life. 
   
7. Sleep. Oh my goodness gracious, can we all just get some sleep? I realize given the insomnia cooking show I host on my SnapChat story at least twice a week you might think this is not an accurate description of my life. Since finishing my degree my sleep has gone up approximately 400% according to a recent study that I have no desire to cite because I've clearly made it up for comedic purposes.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
8. Watch all the Netflix! I have watched more netflix this past month that I have during my entire degree.
9. Look at the timer you normally set when you're doing a fun activity so that you go back to studying and then laugh and laugh and laugh. This timer holds no power here.
10. Go support your local community theatre group! I didn't actually do this but had there been opportunity I would've donned a beret and golf-clapped so appropriately.