list 30 things I want to do before I turn 30...and DO them!

Career
• Become a nurse

Creativity
• Grow and eat some vegetables
• Create an index of excellent vegan recipes
• Make myself a dress and wear it
• Make a patchwork quilt

Health and beauty
• Get my teeth fixed
• Run a sub-30 minute 5K
• Run a 10K
• Run a half marathon
• Run a marathon
• Go vegan
• Get and maintain BMI between 20 and 25
• Have a sugar-free diet

Experience
• Visit all the cathedrals in England
• Live on £1 a day for a month
• See more concerts

Knowledge/ skills
• Pass Italian CILS level 4
• Take music lessons again (either flute or piano)

Money
• Give 10% of my income to charity/ church
• Save 10% of my income in a savings account
• Make a budget and stick to it

Reading
• Read the whole Bible
• Read a book by each of the winners of the Nobel prize for literature

Self-knowledge
• Understand the causes of my depression and know how to stop myself from getting really low
• Stop emotional eating

Social responsibility/ friendships
• Talk to my nephew and niece every week on the phone and send them thoughtful Christmas and birthday presents
• Write a letter to a friend every week for a year
• Make a concerted effort to encourage people I know who are going through a hard time
• Volunteer part-time on an ongoing basis
• Become the kind of friend who doesn’t expect her buddies to knock, and routinely finds a friend snatching food out of her fridge when she gets home from work.

I turn 27 in January so I have a little over 3 years to work on these goals. What a challenge!

So, I’m turning 29 in two month’s time, and 30 suddenly doesn’t seem too far off. I’ve still got lots of things I want to achieve before I reach the big 3-0 – writing goals, family goals, fitness goals, learning goals and so on – so here I am, starting another list. While I’m going to start working on some of the goals straight away, I’ll give myself till the end of the year to edit and finalise the list.

I just checked, and I’ve already accidentally done two of the items on my list since I wrote it. “Own a piano” (got it unsolicited from my cousin) and “get a massage” (B-day present from Brother #2).

If only the rest of my items would be this easy!

1.See the aurora borealis
2.See the salvador dali museum in spain
3.Work in a job related to TG (favourite subject)
4.Go on a round the world trip
5.Live in a foreign country for at least a year
6.Spend the night in an igloo
7.Spend new years eve in new york
8.Spend st.patricks day in new york
9.Go on every ride in disney world
10.Learn to drift
11.Drive a speed boat
12.Do that thing with the parachute on the end of a speed boat
13.Scuba dive in the great barrier reef and take photos
14.Go to a basketball match in madison square garden
15.Go to an ice hockey match in america
16.Go to the super bowl

I have 10 months before I turn 30. It’s time to make my list.

Right now I have:

1. Reach my goal weight = DONE
2. Hike Half Dome in Yosemite = to be done in June
3. Be happy with my life in the moment = sort of done
4. Figure out my finances
5. Make a budget and begin the process of learning to follow it!

more to be decided…. I need to look at everyone’s lists!

is kind of hard! I have a draft already on my Lists of Bests but the stuff after #22 is kind of iffy. I’d like to add an accomplishment relating to making a positive impact on the environment, but I’m not sure what an interesting, quantifiable goal on that front would be.

I was thinking about doing the “101 things in 1001 days” challenge, which would put me almost to my 30th birthday. But I decided to do this instead – it’ll allow me to focus on fewer, larger projects. Which is probably a good idea since soon I’ll have my hands full with Baby!

Now I just have to figure out what goes on this list. I’ll probably take some things from my Things to do before I die list.

I have now worked under my own employ, only to discover I don’t like it much.

But I tried it, and I know how it feels, and I may revisit it when my children are old enough to understand that just ‘cause mama’s at her dest at HOME, doesn’t mean she’s not working.

still thinking about it…will post soon

11. I want to take better care of my teeth.
12. Quit smoking.
13. Drink more water. At least 64 oz a day.
14. I need to read more and watch less T.V.
15. I would like to make a list of 30 things I would like to do and teach my son Valo.