Here's to summer 2024...

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I started this blog in 2018.

Wow, where has the time gone? 

We have now arrived at summer 2024, so we're talking about nearly seven years ago.

Summer 2018 was probably the best of my life, other than 2019 when I traveled to London, Italy and the Netherlands. I was still in my 20's, always on the go and always looking for the next adventure or something to get excited about. I did it well. 

And I knew it was going to be a good one. I had plans but I was also open to whatever it filled in for me.

Times have changed a bit. There was a pandemic, I switched jobs around a few times, moved out on my own, then moved back home a few years later, lost most of the friends I had those adventures with...You get the idea. Life is different.

Either way, I came up with a bucket list of ways to make it a great summer, and keep finding ways to add to it...Here it is: 
  • Disneyland 
  • Trip to Nobu in Malibu with my Team Swelce girlies
  • Solo beach trip [Oceanside/Long Beach area]
  • Trip to a new coffee shop and beach in LA area with Trinity
  • Color Me Mine day
  • Hollywood Bowl for the 4th of July celebration
  • Have a "treat yourself" Friday with manicure or pedicure
  • Focus on more diamond art painting projects
  • Italian lessons with Duolingo app
  • Sara Bareilles concert at the Hollywood Bowl (bought my tickets, so it's official at least)
  • Read all the books I want
  • Plan a trip to Texas in the fall to visit friends who just moved there
  • Cover my first wedding as a content creator for a friend's big day
  • Go to Warner Bros. Studio Tour Hollywood (because it seems to be tradition, and they have a new tour, along with the exhibit celebrating 30 years of "Friends")
  • A day of thrifting and museums downtown
  • Create a stage photo shoot 
  • Watch a sunrise or two
  • Go to Catalina - Take a boat ride
  • Visit my cousin in Vegas
  • ...and probably more as we go
One thing I've noticed about being in my 30's... While I'm still young, I do feel a difference in my body. Migraines feel worse, stomach issues feel worse...Everything is amplified and remains me to slow down more. In your 20's, you can get by with putting health episodes off more and pushing it to get through work or whatever big events you have planned. Now, you know there's more at stake to "pushing it" and you need to take care of yourself on another level. Therefore, I do have follow up appointments I need to take care of, like the fun annual female check-ins, blood pressure follow-up (that I canceled once this spring, but never rescheduled...Oops!) It also gives you more time for taking care of those personal projects you want to get done - organizing that closet, taking that extra certification program online to help you get further in your career. 

Oh, the joys of adulting and responsibility. 

So, come along for this year's adventures as we go.

--Shelby

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