1. Write limericks just for fun. Begin each one with “There once was a girl named _______” or “There once was a town called ______”. Go around the dinner table and have each person make up a limerick for themselves or the person next to them.
2. Pick up garbage when you see it on the ground. For example, if you are going for a walk and see a coffee cup in the gutter? Pick it up and throw it away. Every little bit helps to clean up our earth every day.
3. Find all your skirts and dresses, and don´t wear jeans for the rest of the month!
4. Find a poem you like, and memorize it!
5. Go see a musical! And let yourself be drawn into the drama!!! For instance… Miss Saigon!!!
6. Be a Sunday driver. Take a long drive to the next town over…to the country…to nowhere. Stop for lunch (or eat in the car). Make a wrong turn. Find your way back.
7. Make one room in the house super-tidy! And keep it like that for the rest of the month…
8. Sit outside on your steps and watch the world go by. If it’s chilly, throw a blanket around you. Say hi to the neighbors, wave at the people driving by, sip ice tea (or wine) and stay a while. You may even meet your mailman!
9. Doodle on the bottom of your sneakers…you know…like you did when you were in high school. Write your sweeties name. Jot down your best friends phone number. Doodle flowers and faces and lines and spots.
10. Find a vintage crinoline petticoat skirt. Put it on and twirl.
11. If your hair is straight…curl it. If it’s curly…straighten it. If all else fails…wear piggy tails!
13. Throw out your old make-up. It’s old. And if you still have it and it’s old…you don’t use it…so throw it out. Now go on a make-up shopping spree!
14. Play on the playground. Go to the playground. Right now. By yourself. Swing on the swings. Go down the slide. Slide down again.
15. Spend the day exploring. Bring your camera and take black & white photos of everything.
16. Wear a candy necklace all day long. Re-string it if it’s too tight. Eat it if you’re hungry.
17. Scavenge for old picture frames (the chippier – the better). Find them in different sizes (so that one will fit inside the other). Hang them on the wall inside one another or as an arrangement – the frames, themselves, will be art.
20. Take your mom and dad out for lunch. Don’t meet them…pick them up and be their chauffeur. Make sure all talk is “happy” talk. Treat them.
19. Take your best friend to your favorite store. Do lunch and then browse. Indulge. Buy yourself a little “something-something”.
20. Sign up for an art class. Local art stores usually have 3-hour or one-day workshops. Try something new! Go alone and make new friends.
21. Start recycling in a big way. Buy products that are green, save scraps to use in artwork, sort your garbage and recycle as much as possible. Organize a recycling center in your garage or basement…get the whole family involved.
22. Make tacos for dinner! Make sure you have a lot of avocado. They are really good for you!
23. Go through that special drawer in the house, (Everyone has one, either in the kitchen, the hallway, the laundry-room…) where all the odd bits and pieces end up. Find one thing in there, and make something creative with it.
24. Back to school! Go to the office-store or paper-store and buy funky, colorful erasers 
25. Indulge in random acts of kindness. Send a handmade gift to someone (a teacher, a friend, even someone you don’t know). Pay one month’s electric bill for your parents. Give movie tickets and baby-sitting to a friend who could use a break for a date-night. Put your ideas in a bowl and every once in a while, pull one out and do it. Make up random acts of kindness for your children to do, also.
26. Write daily love letters to yourself. Yes, you can do it. Write only good things: “You look great today”, “Exercising was fun, wasn’t it? Eating chocolate in bed was even more fun”. Put them in envelopes covered with stickers. Mail them every day.
27. Make chocolate chip cookies. That can´t be done often enough!
28. Outbid someone on eBay at the last minute. Remember…it’s not about the iterm…it’s about WINNING!
29. Make your own paper. Find a blender at the local Goodwill. Put water in it, then add scraps of paper. Blend until it makes a pulp. Pour onto an old window screen (found at a rebuilding center, hardware store, or your own basement). Press the water out (best done outside or over a plastic bin). Let dry and you will have paper. Press down more for a thinner paper, add bits of dried lavender or grass for texture. Use a ruler to tear it into squares for sending notes or making art on. Google “making paper” on the web and try some other recipes.
30. Wear several watches (each set for a different time zone). Think of the fun Swatch watches. Pick up used watches at a thrift store. Decorate them up and wear them on one arm. When someone asks you what time it is, raise your sleeve a little and say “1 pm here”…then pull your sleeve up a bit more “8pm in Los Angeles”…then pull it up more “3pm in Honolulu”….”7 am in Tokyo”. Or make it more fun! “8pm here”…”5pm at Sally’s house”..
31. Watch an old classic (in black & white). Try Doctor Chivago with Omar Sharif or Gone with the wind with Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh. Oh, and send me a suggestion on how to celebrate September!