A friend of mine asked me in a text today whether I had determined any summer goals yet. I told her that I hadn't, as I am currently wrapping up things at my job. Let me tell you, the working the last 6-weeks in a school year is madness. We've had ups and downs, and flips and flops, and a whole lot of ants in our pants as countdown the days until summer.

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Here's to hoping that my summer holds a little something that looks like this

I think summer is supposed to be kind of a break, and it will be, but the only time it seems I'll get to feel that is in the one week after the school year ends and before I start my summer job. That thought is slightly depressing. No summer goals yet, no summer vacation - what is this life? It's easy to feel a bit bummed out, but then I consider all that I have to be grateful for and excited about in summer.

For starters, my birthday is coming up, and while 23 is not some pivotal age, it another year in my life, and an excuse to celebrate me for a day. I'd say it's providence that my birthday falls around the same time as the Bath & Body Works annual summer sale. As much fun as it is to celebrate one's self for a day, I'm even more excited to see that day hopefully make a difference in the life of someone else as I take part in OneReasonRecordings' One Day, One Year campaign. In the week of my birthday I get to take the next step in an important process that I hope I can share about in due time. I get to continue in the great tradition of volunteering during VBS, which looks interesting and new this year. I'll also start working at my new job (which I signed paperwork for today). All that is just for June. With any luck I may be able to spend a week in Haiti with my mom's side of the family at the end of July. If I am not able to go I'm hoping to maybe go to Socality Live. Whatever adventure big or small that summer holds for me I will embrace it with open arms. That is my only goal right now, and I know that there will surely be more.

If your summer, like mine looks less exciting than all of your Facebook friends', don't be discouraged, just make the most of what you may experience in your own summer.

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Enjoy the simple pleasures, like the return of Dylan O'Brien - I mean the return of Teen Wolf on June 29!

Since last semester I've had one of those ridiculous baseless crushes. You know the kind you blame on hormones, because you can't think of any other excuse for being hung up over someone that you honestly don't know? It's that kind of crush. Somehow I thought that by my age now I would not allow myself to be dealing with this silliness. Anyhow, what can I say? The guy is pretty cute, and he seems pretty bright as well.If my campus was casting for a stage production of Grey's Anatomy, he'd surely get the role of McDreamy. Enough about him.

I'm up at an unrighteous hour for someone who has to get up and go to work in a while, because BuzzFeed videos have this incredible addictive power over me. I came across a video from last year that I feel was absolutely meant for me, so I thought I'd share it with you.

I personally have hit 10 of the action items on this list. Can you guess which ones? What about you - have you done any of these?

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