Next half of year is up to you

Happy Second Half of the Year Day!

It’s OK that you weren’t organized enough to send cards or gifts. After all, getting organized is what this day is all about.

According to DaysoftheYear.com, “July 1st (the 182nd Day of the Year) marks Second Second Half of the Year Day — a chance to step back, evaluate your year so far with your goals and objectives (never mind the new year’s resolutions which likely didn’t last until February …) and to take action to get back on track if nescessary [sic]. It’s a great opportunity to do some hard thinking over your finances, your diet, your career and other aspects of your life that you might want to improve. Make the second half of the year count!”

DaysoftheYear.com might make some “necessary” changes too — like using spell-check.

Now, if 2018 was a leap year, we’d have until tomorrow — July 2 — to get with the Second Second Half of the Year Day program. But the next leap year isn’t until 2020.

And putting off Second Second Half of the Year Day — the day when we’re supposed to stop putting things off after putting things off for six months — is probably counterproductive.

So let’s look at popular New Year’s resolutions and how we might start making them happen right this very minute. According to online market research firm YouGov, the most common resolutions for 2018 were: eat healthier, get more exercise, save money, selfcare, read more, make new friends, learn a new skill, get a new job and take up a new hobby.

Eat healthier: It’s too hot to grill outside and we don’t want to heat up the house, because saving money is another goal. We can almost all agree that fruit is good for us and ice has no calories.

So we should just eat a snow cone for dinner every night. (Until it gets cold. Then we’re going to need a plan B, as in “brew.” Substitute “coffee shop” and “double-espresso” in snow cone references from October through December.)

Get more exercise: This is going to be no problem at all. Walk to the snow cone stand.

Save money: We’re saving on actual food and on fuel with the nightly trek to the snow cone stand. But why stop there? Instead of the extra large or jumbo, have the small snow cone.

Self-care: In addition to eating healthier and getting more exercise, be sure to take extra care brushing your pearly whites that are now dingy grays from that all those grape/blue raspberry/black cherry snow cones.

Read more: If for no other reason than because the library — on the way to the snow cone stand — is air-conditioned. Summer, with

all its steamy romances, is always a fun time to reacquaint oneself with the written word. You could always check out the best-sellers lists. Or go directly to Goodreads.com’s list of “Popular Smutty Romance

Books.” After you pass all the Fifty Shades books, you’ll find

all sorts of giggly titles: Booty Call, Rusty Nailed, Hard Day’s Knight. Heck, one doesn’t even need a book; just reading this list is quite educational and entertaining.

Make new friends: Be sure to talk to people when you go to the snow cone stand.

Start out with an ice-breaker (ha, get it?) like “Sure is warm out, isn’t it? Hey, do you own a beach condo, lake house, boat and/or a swimming pool? I’m free tomorrow. I’ll buy your snow cone.” (Substitute mountain cabin or ski cabin for fall/ winter months.)

Learn a new skill: Like surfing, water skiing, sailing and swimming, thanks to your snow cone stand friends’ beach condo, lake house, boat and/or a swimming pool. (Substitute hiking, skiing, sitting by a fire for fall/winter months.)

Get a new job: When you meet someone at the snow cone stand who does own a beach condo, lake house, boat and/or a swimming pool, chances are they work for — or heck, own — a great company. Use this — and schmooze this — to your advantage.

Or see if the snow cone stand is hiring. You’re there all the time anyway and might as well get an employee discount.