The List

Okay, so here's how this all started. My friend was doing a project with her elementary school students. The idea was to find out from as many people as they could what were some things they wanted to accomplish in their life, and then they were going to pool the data and find the top five answers. (The project taught the kids about research).

Anyway, I made a list of about 10 things I wanted to do for her.

Then I started thinking, well there's got to be more than 10 things I want to do! So, the list started and grew. I decided then that this would be a list of things to do before I turn 30. Not because I think 30 is old, or because my life is going to end there, but because I thought giving myself 7 years to finish the list would be a good goal. If it takes me longer, great, if I somehow finish everything before then - I will make a new list!

I realize I might not actually finish everything on this list, and this list doesn't incorporate things I've already done (get a tattoo, live abroad, travel Europe, go to college, meet great friends, join a sorority, etc), but its a basic list of things from simple to ambitious that if accomplished would make for some amazing experiences.

As I complete things on the list, I'll update and post all about the experience.

SO without further ado, here's the list:

1. Actually go to jury duty

2. Buy my own house/apartment

3. Drive cross country

4. Fall in love

5. Find a job that I love

6. Get down to my goal weight

7. Get my master’s degree

8. Go on a hot air balloon

9. Go on vacation alone

10. Go scuba diving

11. Go to a huge festival somewhere outside the U.S.

12. Go to a psychic

13. Go to Greece

14. Go to New Orleans for Mardi Gras

15. Go to the Kentucky Derby and wear a big hat

16. Go to the Olympics

17. Go whale watching

18. Learn to change a flat tire

19. Put a message in a bottle

20. Run a marathon (half-marathon would be good too)

21. See Aurora Borealis

22. Sing karaoke in public

23. Skydive

24. Snorkel at the Great Barrier Reef

25. Surf

26. Swim naked

27. Visit all 7 Continents

28. Visit the Taj Mahal

29. Walk on the Great Wall of China

30. Win a contest

I am really excited about starting this, and I decided I needed to post the list somewhere public - so that I could be held accountable for it, and so that I wouldn't forget that I wanted to do these things!