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5 Ways To Get Through The Summer Repeat Blues

You know what I'm talking about... when all of your days just starting blurring together and seem so repitive with work, class, or other activities.

Jun 27, 2018

5 Ways To Get Through The Summer Repeat Blues

Summer is meant for fun, sun, and trying all kinds of good food and drinks that just aren't in season or the right time when it comes to the remainder of the year. But if your summer vacation from school or even just summer in general isn't all too exciting... there are small ways or things you can do to mix that up a bit. Because mixing it up a little bit never hurt anyone really. So what are you waiting for... go mix up the routine. Because I know sticking to the same stuff can't be all that fun; but who knows maybe it is?

1. Try something different but not hugely different.

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It doesn't matter if that means reading a new book or hiking a different trail then you did last week. But that small change might make a HUGE difference in your routine.

2. Watch a Netflix movie and TV series you wouldn't normally watch

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Trust me on this one... if you have the time for a Netflix binge & honestly who doesn't 24/7 if we're being real... you might actually become obsessed with it but not even know it because you wouldn't have normally tried it. Plus the Netflix original movies are pretty damn good.

3. Find a new hobby

I know this might seem very weird and scary but it can be actually pretty easy. And it is a good way to get out of the little funk that is occurring during this overly repetitive summer vacation. It doesn't even matter what the hobby is unless you don't enjoy it, because then we have a problem. But it could be listening to audiobooks, knitting, skateboarding, vision boards, etc. Pick your poison!

4. Meet (& make) new friends

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Disclaimer: Not everyone person in the world is nice and compassionate so of course do this with caution when it comes to people you are just meeting for the first time like at a bar or on a street walking through downtown you know? But making new work friends, or yoga friends... can be cool new doorways to amazing times or fun future stories to tell.

5. Self reflection!

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I know this doesn't seem fun or exciting as just doing cool stuff with friends or family or even by yourself but self-reflection is not only important for personal growth but also just realizing what you do and don't like in the world, in the people close to you, or even with yourself. Self-reflection can help you work to be not only a better version of yourself but a more "true to you" version of yourself!

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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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Recommended for you

5 Ways To Get Through The Summer Repeat Blues

You know what I'm talking about... when all of your days just starting blurring together and seem so repitive with work, class, or other activities.

1. Try something different but not hugely different.

2. Watch a Netflix movie and TV series you wouldn't normally watch

3. Find a new hobby

4. Meet (& make) new friends

5. Self reflection!

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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

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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)