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  • Bake delectable little pastries.
  • Create music mixes complementing moods, seasons, events, etc.
  • Make bubble baths and personal "spa days" frequent rituals
  • Build forts from sheets to curl up and read in on rainy nights
  • Pull all-nighters crafting, reading, writing, baking, or watching movie marathons
  • Save change in a jar to spend at vintage shops and flea markets
  • Write private letters to people I wish I'd talked to, confronted, or confessed love to
  • Practice neat (cursive!) penmanship
  • Light candles, turn off the lights, pull the curtains, cozy up in bed
  • Bake a blueberry pie
  • Press flowers in a journal
  • Strum on my guitar and hum little tunes I create
  • Spend a day watching nothing but Turner Classic Movies or period films
  • Watch every Alfred Hitchcock film, or dedicate an evening to a marathon of films featuring a particular Old Hollywood star
  • Sit on benches and people-watch; jot down interesting observations
  • Pass rainy afternoons in the library with books stacked high around me
  • Keep a pocket journal to jot down lists, observations, and musings when I'm on-the-go
  • Make lists of silly things to do in European cities when I visit
  • Practice giving myself a French manicure
  • Cook myself a new recipe and sit down to a nicely-set table for one
  • Watch Jeopardy and keep track of how much I "earn"
  • Model my wardrobe in my own at-home fashion show
  • Take a babble bath with music, candles, and aromatherapeutic soaps
  • Sing lovely melodies to the mirror.
aug 18 2011 ∞
jan 4 2012 +