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When It Feels Like You've Done Everything There Is To Do In Your Hometown

Here are a few ways to help you find some excitement.

Rachel Cotter

Jun 26, 2018

Auburn University

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I've lived in the same town for 18 years. While I longed to get out of it, for the time being, I had to make the best of it. When you put a little effort in, you'll discover that your hometown has so much more to offer than you thought.

1. Make Yelp your best friend.

Seriously, Yelp is the place to go when it comes to finding out about places you didn't know existed. I discovered another coffee shop and a total hole-in-the-wall tea shop through the app, as well as other places I wouldn't have ever known about.

2. Revisit your favorite pastimes.

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When I was a kid, the skating rink used to be the place to go every weekend. I haven't been back in years. Sometimes taking a trip down memory lane (or skating down it) is the way to remember all the fun times you've had in the town that raised you.

3. Explore some uncharted territories.

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As kids in my town grow up and outgrow their skates, abandoned ship ports and houses become the new spot to hang out. Am I endorsing trespassing for the sake of new experiences? Slightly. Will it be worth it? Yes.

4. Visit surrounding towns.

I know this is about enjoying your hometown, but sometimes it helps to push the borders a little bit and see the towns around you. Sometimes fun can be right around the corner in a neighborhood city.

5. Find events going on in town.

A lot of restaurants and coffee shops have live music on the weekends or might have concerts and events going on downtown! Nowadays, all it takes is a quick google or facebook search to discover events going on near you.

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Cool Off with These 8 Beers!

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Summer is hot and humid, and it's almost like summer was made specifically to drink the refreshing, cold, crisp wonderful, delicious, nutritious nectar of the gods. Which is none other than beer; wonderful cold beer. With summer playing peek-a-boo around the corner while we finish up this semester, it's time to discuss the only important part of summer. And if you haven't already guessed, it's beer. There are few things I take more seriously than my beer, in order are: sports... and beer. Here are my favorite summer brews:

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When It Feels Like You've Done Everything There Is To Do In Your Hometown

Here are a few ways to help you find some excitement.

1. Make Yelp your best friend.

2. Revisit your favorite pastimes.

3. Explore some uncharted territories.

4. Visit surrounding towns.

5. Find events going on in town.

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Appreciation for some of life's most discredited pleasures.

1. Sun showers

2. Smiles

3. Tight hugs

4. Discovering new foods you like.

5. Laying in bed after a long day.

6. And being completely relaxed

7. "This reminded me of you"

8. Breakfast foods

9. Over-sized clothes

10. Contagious laughs

11. Car rides with that one person

12. Random (I miss you/ I love you) texts

13. The city at night

14. Surprises

15. Blanket cocoons

16. Good hair days

17. Really good coffee

18. Days where you're in a good mood naturally and for no particular reason

19. Conquering a fear

20. When they give you a lot of guac at Chipotle

21. Being so comfortable with someone that you can literally talk about anything

22. Home-cooked meals

23. Tattoo stories

24. Leaves changing color in fall

25. Butterflies in your stomach

26. Peanut butter & jelly sandwiches

27. When you can't stop laughing

Cool Off with These 8 Beers!

Coors Light Summer Brew:

Leinenkugel Summer Shandy

Leinenkugel Sunset Wheat

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Sam Adams Summer Ale

Hell or High Watermelon

Blue Moon Summer Honey

LandShark Lager

Corona

75 degrees and sunny, plus, no humidity. I mean do I really need to say more?

Perfect Weather

You'll get an effortless tan

You can exercise with a view

You don't have to worry about bug bites

In n Out all day, every day

We have outdoor concerts

We live where people vacation

Because let's be honest, we all use lyrics.

1. “Don’t get too close, it’s dark inside. It's where my demons hide.”

2. “Tonight, we are young.”

3. “Cuz I may be bad, but I’m perfectly good at it.”

4. “Tell me how they got that pretty little face on that pretty little frame.”

5. “I can’t wait to fall in love with you, you can’t wait to fall in love with me.”

6. “Sweatpants, hair tied, chillin with no makeup on.”

7. “Why you so obsessed with me?”

8. “We ain’t ever getting older.”

9. “I didn’t know that I was starving until I tasted you.”

10. “Didn’t they tell you I’m a savage?"

11. “I’m gonna make you miss me.”

12. "Cheers to the freakin weekend.”

13. “Love’s a game. Wanna play?”

14. “You don’t know about me, but I bet you want to.”

15. “Let’s set each other’s lonely nights, Be each other’s paradise.”

16. “Trippin’ on skies, sippin’ waterfalls."

17. “Wish we could turn back time, to the good old days.”

18. “But you will remember me for centuries.”

19. “Something about you makes me feel like a dangerous woman."

20. “Don’t act like it’s a bad thing to fall in love with me.”

21. “Darling, I’m a nightmare dressed like a daydream.”

22. “Find me where the wild things are.”

23. “I’m high on lovin’ you.”

24. “If you’re gonna be somebody’s heartbreak, somebody’s mistake, if you’re gonna be somebody’s first time, somebody’s last time, be mine.”

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1. "Talk about a dream
Try to make it real
You wake up in the night
With a fear so real
Spend your life waiting
For a moment that just don't come
Well don't waste your time waiting." (Badlands)