Will Johnston: Fill your life with lazy

We all have awesome summer memories. Some are of pashing chicks (I'm a guy, my mind naturally went there first), some involve the water, some involve nakedness in the water. I reckon that we spend too much time remembering and not enough time creating. We can be forgiven though, we have the destroyer of potentially great memories on our back every day; stress!

But when we finally shake that off and do get away, we sometimes even waste that time doing stuff we don't really want to do; looking after the kids, making food for guests/annoying family who decided that now would be the best time to just turn up, unannounced. With their dog, that's unresponsive to any command. I digress. We waste our holidays.

Not me (well, not this one, anyway). I've just spent the best part of a week at my partner's family bach on Lake Taupo (yup, lucked in there)! There is so much to do there. List of planned activities and apparatus taken:
• New mountain bike
• Golf clubs
• Fly fishing gear
• Life jacket for kayaking
• Rabbit
• Gin

List of things I used over the whole week:
• Gin

Relaxing 101: Plan lots, do none of it. But have it there as an option should the whim tickle you. I made a point of sleeping in past when my radio show finishes each day. If I woke before that (once), I played stupid games on my phone like a defiant child until 9am ticked over.

Some might see this as a waste. Wrong. A waste of time is filling your life with stuff you don't want to do. I wanted to do bugger-all. I aced doing bugger all. So much so, on the last day I got up at 10am, had breakfast, did part of a puzzle, watched a replay of the Black Caps grabbing defeat from the jaws of victory and went back to bed at 12.15pm for a two-hour snooze. If that's not the definition of acing bugger-all, then I've got more than one large abdominal muscle. I don't, all you need is one ab.

The most stressful thing I did on my holiday was put bikes (unused), back on to a bike rack. I remember feeling hard done by while doing it too. That's when I knew it was a good thing I was coming back to normality, I could turn in to a pampered, lazy princess pretty easily.

On a side note, I love puzzles. Who knew that they could actually ruin and make your life better all at the same time? We did one of those 'Wasjig' ones, where you don't actually know what it looks like until you've done it. Whoever created that form of torture/entertainment was sick/brilliant (or maybe just schizophrenic).

Whatever you did on your holidays, I hope you got to create some lazy memories. You can't deny that you'll look back in a couple of months, when the reality of work and life is back upon you and wish you done jack-all, more often, when you had the chance!
It is nice to be back in the Bay though, the bach is like a comfy old pair of slippers, the Bay is like a perfectly worn-in pair of jandals. You need both in your life, I reckon.

(Will Johnston is the host of Will and Bridget in the Morning-Classic Hits 95FM Breakfast Show in the Bay of Plenty. Listen every weekday from 6-9am).