Five months until Graduation!  Hard to believe that in 5 months time I’ll be free from all of this schoolwork, tests, stress. It’s been a super difficult year and a half.  2021 has been exceptionally hard with me working full time as well as school full time – at least until I resolved that issue last month it was.

Now I’m dreaming of what I will do when I only have to work 3 days a week. When I can have freedom from studying, and an actually decent combined income for once in our 19 years of marriage. 6 months until I achieve my second Oola dream in life and find a new level of…well, oola. 🙂

So what do I want to do when I graduate? Oh, there’s plenty.

1. Take a real, honest to goodness, 2 week vacation at Disney/Universal. I want to not be cramped by only so any hours/days that we need to cram every little thing into. I want to chill by the pool, spend some hours at the park, and maybe chill in the room with the family. A trip where we don’t have to plan every minute because we have ALL the minutes. 
2. Get another decent camera and start photography again.  I miss my camera. It’s still here, but it’s ancient…and with all the wildlife I need some better lenses too. Maybe get hubby or one of my kids involved in it, too.
3. Crochet/knit all the things.  While I AM still crocheting while in school with supplies I had around…I have lots of projects saved that I want to work on.
4. Get my Etsy business back up and running again.  I miss the hell out of crafting. I miss making my jewelry and have some more things I want to try doing jewelry-wise.  I can’t wait for the freedom to explore more projects.
5. WRITE. More than my crafts, I miss making words. I miss my fun worlds and characters and hearing them chatter at me in my brain. Right now so much of my brain is vitals and anatomy and pharmacology…I want to revisit Dominion Falls, The Tribe, The Exceptionals, maybe even Lake Point again…and I want to find NEW worlds to create and explore.
6. Beach time.  I moved to Florida for the proximity to the gosh darn beaches…and I have not gone NEARLY enough. I am a water baby and want all the beaches.
7. Travel. I want to see more of Florida, ALL of Florida. I want to pack up my kids and drive wherever. I also moved to Florida for freedom and getting-out…but school and covid and urgh…but my kids are going to virtual school next year and I’ll be working/schooling less. It’s time for us to get on the road.
8. Go back to school. Weird, right?  But I want my BSN. Employers want me to have that BSN. So I want to keep on going on.  Not right away, but I want to start before 2022 is over.
9. Tackle my bucket list(s).  Next week I’m going to revisit and revamp. I’ve done a LOT more of my 50X50 list than I’ve actually managed to get around to marking as done, and some of the things need to be switched around. I also have a Florida bucket list and a Disney bucket list.  I want to get back to checking things off. For a while I was doing 2-3/year on the 50X50, but the past 2 years they’ve been neglected due to moving, work-stress, school, and covid. I have a LOT to catch up on. Only 5 years until I’m 50…
10. Get a personal trainer. I need someone to kick my butt to work it out…because while I plan on some plastic surgery eventually (a few tweaks I wanna make), I also want to get healthy again. I want to feel strong again…and I got that best when I was working out regularly and eating better.

What do you think I should do?  I have other things…but they’re more practical/boring – like paying off credit cards and getting a new car.  These were just about chilling out and being happy again.  What do you think?