- Maintain correspondence with a pen pal
- Lounge around in the evenings, listening to French music, watching period films, or typing bits of nonsense (or perhaps a real novel!)
- Dance around my apartment by myself to Yann Tiersen!
- Bake delectable little pastries well into the night
- Create music mixes complementing moods, seasons, events, etc.
- Make bubble baths and personal "spa days" frequent rituals
- Craft collages from assorted paper paraphernalia
- Build forts from sheets to curl up and read in on rainy nights
- Stock my bookshelves with battered classics
- Pull all-nighters crafting, reading, writing, baking, or watching movie marathons
- Save change in a jar to spend at vintage shops and flea markets
- Dress up pretty and sit down to a private afternoon tea of egg salad sandwiches, quiche, tea cakes, and mint tea served on mismatched antique china
- classical music wafting in the air
- Write private letters to people I wish I'd talked to, confronted, or confessed feelings to
- Create zines
- Practice neat (cursive!) penmanship
- Light candles, turn off the lights, pull the curtains, cozy up in bed
- Bake a blueberry pie for one
- 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
- Style my hair in various Twentieth-Century era do's
- Run errands dressed as a flapper for the day
- Attempt to create a crossword puzzle
- Start a vinyl collection
- 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
- Read Sylvia Plath and (poorly) attempt poetry in her style
- Make lists of silly things to do in European cities when I visit
- Practice giving myself a French manicure
- Shop for antique brooches and lockets
- Cook myself a new recipe and sit down to a nicely-set table for one
- or take myself out to dinner
- Tidy my apartment
- Watch Jeopardy and keep track of how much I "earn"
- Model my wardrobe in my own at-home fashion show
- Play trivia games by myself
- Take a babble bath with music, candles, and aromatherapeutic soaps
mar 5 2011 ∞
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