Summer 2020
So it’s officially summer for me! I finished up my finals on Tuesday and have just been enjoying my time away from a screen without anything due (hence my absence from my blog and Instagram). This has definitely been a weird semester but I completed it with 3 A’s and 2 B’s (although I definitely should’ve failed one of those classes but thank goodness for the curve). I’m honestly just so stoked to have this time to hang out and enjoy life. I was thinking about it while I was writing away in my journal and this is my last summer vacation technically. Next spring I’ll be graduating and then I’m out but this is my last time trying to squeeze everything into a couple of months before school rolls around again. It’s honestly so crazy to me like I’ve spent most of my life in school aside from my first 4 years of life but the past 19 years so far have consisted of school. It’s honestly such a weird thing. I’ve spent years and years just to end it all with a piece of paper with my name on it. Who knows if they’ll even let us walk the stage, I mean it is a year from now maybe things will change but that's really not important to me. It’s just the fact that I’m officially approaching the end to a chapter that I’ve spent so long preparing for and it’s really freaking cool.
Anywho, as I said it's the start of summer vacation and I feel like I have endless possibilities of things to do even though technically a lot of things are still postponed from corona but whatever. I’m really just going to enjoy my time with no school or work and having absolutely nothing I have to do but rather doing things I actually want to do. Here’s a fat list because I like lists:
I’ve had roller skates for a couple of years now. They’re cute little retro looking ones with white leather and purple wheels and laces that I got for $5 at a garage sale. I usually just chase my dog around my house with them but yesterday I put them on with the sole intention to learn to dance in them because why not? Yes, I did fall, but that won’t stop me. Maybe I’ll master them in a month, I don’t know we’ll see. I really just have to learn to stop in them more than anything.
I plan on buying a surfboard sooner than later! I’ve wanted one for a long time and I’ve tried to surf a couple of times but I have yet to stand up. This summer is my time I swear. I want a longboard possibly single fin and it’s going to be pretty and some cool ass color and one day you’ll look out at the ocean and see my board and be like, “Oh shit, that’s Hannah!” and I’ll be freaking hanging ten on my cool ass pretty colored board and it’ll be great. I’ll become deeper into this surf community and Trev and I will take surf trips and instead of me just watching him from the sand I’ll be out there with him.
I’ve been in a cowboy phase where I really want a cowboy hat. I already have boots. They’re cute brown ones from Montana that I got when I was 14 and they’re amazing, but it’s now time for a legitimate hat, not just my ones from the spirit store. I’m hoping I’ll get a badass Stetson one for my birthday but I just want to go on a big fat roadtrip with my hat and live out my adventure cowboy days. Plus my Grandpa had one back in the day and that makes me happy and I want to be just like him so here I am on my hunt for a cowboy hat.
Speaking of road trips, Trev and I are talking about an endless summer one. We’ll drive the coast and surf along the way. We’ll camp and hang and film and really just cherish these times of our youth. It’ll be fun. We can fish and we can make friends in different towns. More than anything I really want friends all over the place.
Some other lowkey things I want to do: hang with friends, paint, ride bikes, read endless amounts of books while basking in the sun, cook things, drink smoothies every day, swim, take a shit ton of film pictures and videos, and go on morning walks. Super minor things, but they’re things I’ll be so happy with doing. I just want to remember these times. That’s why I journal and why I’d advise it to everyone. I want to be able to look back at these times and know what I was feeling and thinking. That’s also why I try to film every day to remember things. One day I’ll look back and these times I’m living in right now will feel so nostalgic and I’d rather have a shit ton of scribbles written in my notebook and too many random videos than nothing to remind me about my early 20’s. I already look back on my youth; my past friendships, where I lived, where I worked, all that good stuff and I miss it. I really wish I didn’t let a majority of my friendships go. There are people I used to be best friends with when I was a lot younger and they were great friendships but then life happened like either they or I moved away or went to different schools, etc and so those friendships kinda just faded. Now I follow them on Instagram and they’ve turned into such cool people and I’d love to be friends with them again but I don’t know how. I honestly don’t even know how I got to this subject. I just started rambling. Either way, don’t let your life slip past you. Acknowledge the moments you’re living in and cherish them. Love your friends, your family, all that good stuff. Maybe I watch too many movies or read too many books causing me to look too deeply into this stuff, but I don’t mind it. Enjoy your summer, I know I will! Hopefully I’ll add more things to the blog like little trips I’ve gone on during the summer. Until then, I hope you enjoyed my random thoughts and goals!