Wednesday, June 5, 2013

30 Before 30

With inspiration from my friend Caitlyn, I have created a 30 things I would like to do before I am 30... which is 3 years away.  Here is my list and I plan to blogged any of these when they are achieved! 

  1. Take a photography class to improve my skills

  2. Take a baking or cooking class

  3. Get to my goal weight

  4. Run a 5K (hopefully the Princess one at Disney World )

  5. Celebrate Kendal’s 21st birthday

  6. Get a cat or dog of my own

  7. Go to Le Mans, France (and hopefully Lourdes as well)

  8. Meet Adriana Trigiani

  9. Read 15-20 books (I want to be uber ambitious and say 10 books for each year but let’s be real.  Life is busy)
    1. Micro 
    2. The Storyteller
    3. Keeper of the Bride 
    4. Accidents Happen
    5. The Spectacular Now
    6. The Light Between the Oceans
    7. Don't Breathe a Word  
    8. Silver Linings Playbook
    9. Dick Van Dyke: My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business
    10. The Divergent Trilogy
    11. The Fault In Our Stars 
    12. The Maze Runner Trilogy
    13. Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)
    14. Defending Jacob 
    15. Big Stone Gap (re-read)
    16. The Giver Quartet (re-read two of them and read two of them for the first time)
    17. Gone Girl
    18. Sharp Objects

  10. At least make one attempt at a children’s book (I already have a title and an idea, but to sit down and write it)

  11. Visit SMC again

  12. Start a Seattle SMC Alum Club (or resurrect it. I am unsure what its actual status is.)

  13. Go to at least one ND football game (I really want to say more but I am trying to say realistic here)

  14. Celebrate Megan Gill’s wedding in 2014

  15. Meet Michael Gilbert Jr.

  16. Find a church in Washington that is "my church"

  17. Buy a car

  18. Have an extremely healthy savings account

  19. Do something creative that I am proud of (I don’t find myself creative at all!)

  20. Go to the water front after dark when there is no one around

  21. Complete 5 different Pinterest projects

  22. Finally watch the Office episode where Michael leaves and the finale despite knowing how much they will make me cry

  23. Go to St. Louis for a Cardinals game with Kendal.  Update: Now is a Boston Red Sox Game

  24. Go back to New York City

  25. Throw away past journals

  26. Complete watching all Shirley Temple movies

  27. See three more concerts but by artists I haven’t seen perform yet (i.e. Fun. Or Mumford & Sons)
    1. Fun
    2. Steely Dan
    3. James Taylor

  28. Organize my pictures

  29. Go on a small boat on Lake Washington and take a turn steering

  30. Feel at home in Washington