HAPPY NEW YEAR!! hopefully you all celebrated in style with someone who makes your heart race, because that's exactly what I did. I wore a sparkly vintage minidress, found the perfect shade of red lipstick, drank champagne cocktails at the Whistler, and kissed the handsomest fella in the room at midnight. 2011 is going to be an amazing year!
oh, and speaking of this year...I've got a milestone birthday on the horizon, so I've decided to take my New Year's resolution to the next level. drumroll please! darlings and dears, in no particular order, I bring you my 30 Before 30 List!
1. start an indoor herb garden
2. read 6 books
3. lose 10 lbs. (and keep 'em off!)
4. cut my hair
5. clean out my closet & storage closet
6. leave the country
7. find the perfect jeans
8. go ice fishing
9. visit the Shedd Aquarium
10. stop drinking soda
11. give up high-fructose corn syrup
12. go back to LA for a visit
13. become a volunteer
14. go morel mushroom hunting
15. top secret I
16. learn to cook Indian food
17. learn to make pasta
18. learn to make bread from scratch
19. learn to knit
20. learn to re-wire a lamp
21. try my hand at reupholstering
22. paint some furniture
23. re-learn to use my grandfather’s camera
24. move & redesign MLA
25. back up my computer
26. develop a better understanding of my finances & create a budget
27. start a retirement account
28. get health insurance
29. pay off 2 debts
30. top secret II
so there ya have it! I'll hit the big 3-0 on June 8th, so I've got just about 6 months to cross 'em all off. I've been concocting this list for a while now, so there are a couple of things that have already been accomplished. I was inspired by Nicole and I hope that I will be just as successful as she was at completing her list...HERE GOES NOTHIN'!
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13 comments:
I highly recommend Mint.com for your finance stuff. I have been using it for a couple years now and it has really helped me understand how I spend my money--and then create a budget that makes sense.
And the Shedd Aquarium is awesome. I didn't make it there until like 3 months before I moved out of Chicago.:(
I wish I had thought to create a list like this for my birthday, only I'm turning 25 and in like 20 days. Oops.
thanks, Allison! I'm signed up with Mint, but haven't really taken the time to really get my budget going. glad to know it gets your thumbs up!
#21 would be on my list too! Saw a gorgeous chair in a second hand store, but it needed to be reupholstered and that's just not in the budget right now. Need to learn how to do it myself! Do share when you learn how!!
LOVE seeing these types of lists! very inspiring indeed!
we share #4, #13, #18 & #22!
good luck, and be sure to keep us all posted! :)
Yay, what a great list! Have fun crossing things off.
what a wonderful list! i turn 30 this year too and have been thinking maybe i should make a 30 before 30 list...maybe I will :)
Oh and maybe i can kinda help with #16 - I'm actually moving to India in just under 2 months (yikes!) to volunteer. I plan on sharing recipes and lots of pics so maybe you can try one out!
happy new year!
Great list! The shedd is on my list this year too.. Where do you plan on going mushroom hunting? I love that idea too!
I don't know!! some of my friends went last year and I've also heard there's good shroomin' to be done in Kentucky...
I wish there was a group of people that did stuff like this together. I share so many of the goals on your list but get overwhelmed at the idea of trying to learn upholstering on my own.
Is second the mint.com recommendation. It has been a huge help to my husband and I. We finally figured out that we can afford a car because of it!
And yes there is great mushroom hunting in Kentucky, I'm from there originally and I have many friends that do it. You should go with an expert at first though, the learning curve for mushroom hunting is very scary.
Flicka and I will take you to the aquarium!
You should totally read 'I Capture the Castle' by Dodie Smith. It's centred around an amazing neglected English Castle, going into the lives of the bohemian family that live there, with warmth and humour abounding.
oooh, i love this idea! i have a week and a half til thirty so not sure i can make such an adventuresome list as yours, but will see what i can whip up for myself. i did create a yoga sequence of thirty poses, held for thirty breaths, that i'm doing for thirty days before my thirtieth :)
In the past year I did #10 and #11 on your list. One thing that I found helped to give me the 'feel' of soda without actually drinking it was to mix cordials with sparkling water..was served it at a restaurant in Dublin and was subsequently hooked!
I highly recommend Belvoir cordials.. { https://www.jollygrub.com/OnLineStore1/index.php?main_page=advanced_search_result&search_in_description=1&zenid=3a27ec0eeadd965d4e3254b2d4e70ab8&keyword=belvoir } elderflower is my fave. Hope that helps!
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