May Expectations:

• Catch up on sleep! Eight hours a night!
• Bask in the glory of not having a busy schedule and school work
• Go to the beach and smell that sea air I love oh so much
• Visit my friends in Ireland… Gosh they’re great
• Maybe I’ll go on a tiny road trip
• Finish that story I’ve been working on
• Find Niall Horan in person
• Cook some fancy stuff… mostly pasta
• Continue some of that dynamite research I started during the year
• Finally achieve that flawlessly gorgeous tan that every girl secretly desires
• Exercise with all of that free time I’ll have
• Plan a trip for next year
• Refinish an old dresser and sell it for millions
• Spend a ton of time with my friends who I adore
• Have all of my ducks in a row for grad school… Be so proactive that it hurts! #studious
• Try out some of the little hipster restaurants and coffee shops around

July Reality:

• Work
• I’ve rewatched “Friends,” “Parks and Recreation,” and am currently working on “The Andy Griffith Show”
• Work
• I’ve drank a lot of coffee
• Made excuses to go to stores near Starbucks so I don’t feel guilty about stopping for coffee
• Work
• Drove to Washington D.C. sans coffee to visit friends (I’ll count it as a tiny road trip)
• Drove home from Washington D.C. with coffee
• Looked at pictures of Niall Horan
• Discovered Bob Evans’ microwaveable mac and cheese bowls… conveniently sized for one person!
• Cleaned… a lot
• Awkwardly fell asleep in the pool and woke up with a very uneven back tan, courtesy of my rolled up back fat
• Work
• Thought about exercising, then didn’t
• Looked at pictures of places I want to visit, mainly Iceland and LA
• Sent my friends some snapchats and weird Instagram posts