Compile a list of 'Things To Do Before I'm 30'!

Get married and laid (in that order)
Go out of the country
Get my own apartment
Get a dramatic haircut
Stay in a cabin
Go on a double date
Buy a corset
Watch the sun rise on the beach

By the day before my 30th birthday, I would like to:

-set off on a RTW journey [might change this to early 30s]

-visit 30 countries

-graduate with my 4 year degree from the U of M (goal to graduate in December 2012 at age 29)

-be living on my own in a nice small apartment or condo, hopefully for a few years by then

-be financially independent

-start a retirement fund and make regular contributions to it

-pay off my credit card and premier line debt (by end of age 27)

-have an emergency fund of 6 months living expenses in the bank

-learn to surf

-hang glide

holy monkey this is quite ambitious (and doesn’t even include my “things to do before age 26” list)! Can I really achieve all of this in 4.5 years? We’ll see…

:D

I need them. No, I actually do. My mission for tomorrow, after the dentist, is to get them. Because I simply must.

See, you put stuff out there and it happens.

(!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

Be on a game show.

Eat at a roof-top restaurant, or failing that, eat while sitting on a roof. Not by myself.

I’d like to do something to raise funds for Alzheimer’s research. And possibly some other issues that have touched my life. Not anything people would automically associate me with, but I don’t think anyone would automatically associate me with anything.

Something fun and non-fund raisery-ish. The thing is this. Public fund raising has always, always, always bothered me. Like in a goes-against-everything-I’m-about kind of way. The concept is fine (if handled well) it’s just some methods make me want to turn the air so blue it’s black and get on every soap-box on the planet.

So, something unconventional while still supporting stuff that matters to me. At Uni some friends and I were going to get together and do a sponsored sky-dive/bungee-jump, but that, if you pardon the expression, never got off the ground.

I’ll have to think more about this…

I some semblance of order, kinda:

Go back to Dallas, just to see it and be there while cognizant
Take my Dad on a trip back to NY
Go to Ohio and finally meet my Grandfather’s brother
Go to Italy and Russia
Get my ENTIRE family (original and chosen) in one room
Find somewhere I can make a home
Go to my own book-signing, or two, thank you very much
Thank my 9th Grade English teacher (I did have one, long story) and possibly buy him a coffee or something.
Sing in public again.
Thank Alanis Morissette
Go to Nashville

Those are the ones that jump out, but it will be a long list (is there any other kind? :)