You know it's your birthday when you wake up to 75 Facebook notifications.
When I peeked my eyes out from the covers this morning, Mr. T asked me if I felt different. He asks a variation of this question every birthday I think, especially because I make such a big deal about my favorite day of the year. But today, staring down the barrel of 30, I got to thinking. Although I joke about "getting old," I'm excited to wrap up another decade. (Decade, whoa.) What do I want to do before it's over?
Following the theme of several bloggers, most recently The Busty Baker (she has delightful recipes!), I'm free-writing 30 things I want to do before I turn 30. Following Busty's style, my items are fairly mundane. There is no sky diving or rushing off to Borneo here... just 30 things I want to do in the next 365 to mark my transition into a new decade (again, whoa). To shoe-horn the list into Thursday 13 format, I've done some grouping.
1. Self-Improvement
- Lower my procrastination level (ha!)
- Continue practicing patience
2. Friends & Fam
- Socialize once a week
- Write one snail mail note a week
3. Health
- Go see the doctor
- Lose my addiction to refined sugar
- Reduce my cholesterol
- Fit in my damn pants again
4. School
- Survive comps!
- Write/pass my prospectus
- Start collecting data for my dissertation
5. Professional Development
- Become a published academic author
6. Yoga
- Finish a class with no breaks
- Be able to do the splits
7. Travel
- Visit Oshkosh (read Mackinac!) again
- Take a real, even miniature, vacation with no homework
8. Cooking
- Make Julia Child's boeuf bourguignon
- Conquer custard
- Try 30 new recipes
9. Reading
- Read 30 non-school books
10. Household
- Choose what color to paint the bedroom
- Hang under cabinet lighting in the kitchen
- Clear out the painting supplies circa 2008 from the spare bathroom
11. Green Thumbs
- Figure out how to grow lettuce without bugs
- Develop a plan for the Back 40
- Plant shade trees in the front yard
12. Random
- Sell/donate the gigantic white dress that lives in the spare bedroom
13. Mr. T
- Help T to meet his flying goals
- Improve my formation flying videography
- Fly to a new destination like Catalina
xoxo,
shawnaLabels: birthdays, Lists, Mr. T, Thursday 13
