Endless POFibilities -- June 2000

Summer!!! Yay?? UGH??

Summer can be a difficult time to be dealing with POF and not knowing if/when/how you'll have children of your own – your best friend's kids are suddenly home all day, your sister just got married and found out she's pregnant, and your favorite park is suddenly overrun with t-ball and tennis lessons. What's a girl with POF to do? EVERYTHING!

It's all about YOU. Take 15 minutes and think about what you enjoy most about the summer. What have you always wanted to do? Learn? Where have you wanted to go? Then read my list of ideas below and write a "10 Things I WILL do this Summer" contract with yourself! (NOTE: staying indoors, being depressed, or watching television are not acceptable!)

1. Sign up for a gourmet cooking class at the community college
2. Go to a poetry reading at the local bookstore or library
3. Plant veggies in your garden and watch them grow all summer
4. Attend an outdoor concert of your favorite band from your high school days
5. Go for a midnight cruise (if you live near water) with your significant other
6. Make a gourmet meal and surprise your significant other with a late night candlelit dinner on the porch
7. Go camping in the mountains or white water rafting with another couple
8. Take a roadtrip. ANYWHERE
9. Stop cooking indoors for a week. Grill EVERYTHING! Be creative!
10. Pick flowers from your garden for every room in your house
11. Find an adult nudist beach and be free! (if you dare!)
12. Start a walking club and stick with it
13. Make reservations at a fancy outdoor restaurant for the 4th of July
14. Go to an amusement park after dark
15. Lay on the grass under the stars and find the Big Dipper
16. Give yourself a facial
17. Volunteer! For a political cause, a senior center, a literacy program, a soup kitchen
18. Go bowling on a Saturday night with a group of friends
19. Find someone to teach your favorite talent to (singing, playing instruments, rollerblading, etc)
20. Be a tourist for a day in your own town
21. Take your photography seriously! Take at least 5 pictures a week and put together a Summer of 2000 photo album to share on Labor Day
22. Start a journal. For every negative entry, there must be a positive one
23. Share a bottle of wine with a girl friend and talk about your favorite times together
24. Go to a baseball game and actually sing the national anthem
25. Record your deepest thoughts and fears. Lock away til next year
26. Make mix cds for your friends and give them as "just for being you" gifts all summer

What's your TOP 10?

Best wishes for a peaceful and joyous Summer! –Jackie Curtis, jmcurtis99@aol.com

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