A Late Summer Bucket List, 2024
a handful of last minute intentions
Hello, sweet friends, happy Thursday! I hope this post finds you with some lovely long weekend plans a-brewing. Ours is shaping up nicely and the countdown to three full days of relaxation is officially on. But first! I thought I’d stop by with just the briefest of posts: A Late Summer Bucket List, 2024! We’ve been down the summer bucket list road together before - 2023 / 2021 / 2020 - but I think this is the latest I’ve ever managed to wrangle myself into gear. Better late than never, no? Catch my list of intentions below!
a late summer bucket list, 2024
let my greys grow wild and free
Contrary to what most young ladies in their early thirties are leaning towards, I’m planning to embrace my hair’s natural aging1. My dark brown/almost-black head of hair is very pleasantly streaked with more than a couple of silver friends and I actually think they’re pretty cool? The only semi-annoying thing is that I’m developing some strange orange/brassy tones as the colour fades out - but apparently blue shampoo can help? Hopefully I won’t end up looking like a Smurf!
Also: get a summer haircut!
hustle after work
The evenings stretch so far and I want to, too! Even though I’m usually DED tired after work, it’s high time I embrace these longer summer evenings. Perhaps for after-dinner walks with Husband, or an impromptu drink out?
Also, a sub-bucket-list-item within this: be more spontaneous.
celebrate a friendiversary
One of my BFFs and I will have known each other for 19-years this coming September, and that blows! my! mind! We’re celebrating by sneaking off for one girly night in Glasgow next month and I can barely wait! I’m hopeful we’ll have wine and delicious food aplenty :)
more photos & videos of actual people
It would seem that I put this on my bucket list almost every single summer, but I want more photos and videos of my loved ones. I’d also like to break out of my own head and start posting more of these moments to my Instagram, but that’s a whole other story.
Related reading: A Major Regret in My Life: My Camera Roll.
eat more ice-cream
I say this every year, and every year I always feel I didn’t eat enough. Having said that, I do feel that my overall yearly intake of ice-cream has actually gone up. Regardless, the goal is more. If you’d like to join me in my ice-cream quest, my grandmother’s mantra might help you stay on track: come rain or come shine, ice-cream time!
beach day!
This is something we did last year on the August bank holiday weekend and it was so lovely. We packed a little beach lunch - which I believe consisted of: sandwiches, homemade lemonade, and maybe a chocolate bar? - into our cooler, grabbed our picnic blanket and our togs, and spent a few glorious hours relaxing before the rain came. It was one of our sweetest dates ever and I’m hopeful we can recreate even a portion of the joy we felt that day <3
plan our next asia trip
Eeep, this is so exciting! I want to make a little date of it - make it fun, you know? Pull out all the guidebooks - of which, naturally, I have many! - study the map, and just enjoy it! I’m even thinking we could maybe make some local foodstuff and listen to music from the country? I just love a cheesy good time!
And there we have it: our 2024 summer bucket list! Are you making a bucket list of intentions for your summer? Hit me up with any thoughts, comments or additions using the comment box below!
Vicki xo
PS, the sprinkle heavy ice-cream photographed above is one I devoured in Oslo! It has lived rent free in my happy memories ever since.
related posts
Summer Bucket List, 2023
Summer Bucket List, 2021
Summer Bucket List, 2020
I reserve the right to change my mind on this in the future if I so please! As a woman, it is my prerogative, after all ;)