It’s been a great summer of relaxation, good friends, and a few adventures littered throughout. Though my life could hardly be described as boring, I’ve realized that I’ve found myself in a somewhat comfortable routine. My typical week involves about a nine-hour workday (more or less), catching up with friends at bars, wine-filled girls nights, great meals, nice walks, good fiction, and some gentle yoga and cardio exercise. I intersperse this with some weekends away and vacations a few times a year, but day-to-day, my life is pretty familiar. I’m definitely not complaining — I’m extremely lucky, incredibly grateful, and I know I have a wonderful life.

What I’m missing is a creative outlet. Instead of lusting over other cities to live in and travel to, I’m going to take NYC for all it’s got.

So here’s my plan: starting this week, I’m going to kick off the post-it challenge.

The post-it challenge will entail covering my under-utilized fridge with post-its of fun creative activities: cooking classes, piano lessons, taking up knitting again, writing for pleasure, sketching, and more. Some will be more in-depth endeavors (learn Python) and some will be one-off activities (like sketching with colored pencils in Tompkins Square Park).

My goal is to do at least 2 a week and document my experiences on Tumblr and on Google+.

Here’s where you can help:
1) Suggest some creative activities that one can do without a lot of time, money, or travel in NYC. Example: take a silks class at NY Trapeze School.
2) Join me. Are you interested in partaking in some of my mini-adventures, email me and let me know what you want to do and when you can do it.
3) Challenge yourself. Create your own post-it challenge and with a personalized to-do list of new creative activities and projects.

Here’s a list of a feel initial ideas I have. Share yours!

I’ll post my covered fridge in the next few days. Here’s the before pic