30 before 30

I don’t know why I was suddenly inspired to create a 30 before 30.  Maybe it was seeing everyone with their goals lined out in front of them (the Myers-Briggs test told me I’m an INTJ so is it part of my personality?).  Maybe it’s because my sister-in-law is having her big 3-0 in 19 days now! Not sure.  Either way.  Here it is, in the order I wrote them down off the top of my head.  In the future if you want to see the list, go to the new tab I’m creating for it!

I found a lot of adorable “30 before 30″ images, but went with this one – I grew up in Dallas.  So…appropriate.

1.  Pay off all debt (credit card AND student loan)
2.  Complete a full Ironman – gulp.
3.  Figure out what I want to do for a living – and start doing it!
4.  Finally replace my ’03 Dell  – maybe with a MacBook Pro (also, learn Photoshop while I’m at it)?
5.  Raise $30,000 for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (currently at over $6k).
6.  Spend all day writing at a coffee shop.
7.  Shave my head – because as much as I want my long locks back, I AM NOT MY HAIR.
8.  Travel to Greece and Israel with my husband.
9.  Cultivate an interest in fashion (I really really hate picking out clothes and am horrible at it).
10.  Work on a presidential campaign.
11.  Start a community blogging project.
12.  Go one month without alcohol (and can’t be because of pregnancy, that’s cheating).
13.  Get my wedding dress cleaned and sealed (it’s been almost 2 years).
14.  Take my sister on a college graduation trip.
15.  Get a Brazilian wax (never have before and well why not?!  TMI?).
16.  Go skydiving.
17.  Learn to like scotch (obviously cannot be during a pregnancy either).
18.  Move from Texas again, possibly abroad – but always come back!
19.  Write 100 Yelp reviews – not all of them bad.
20.  Go on a retreat by myself.
21.  Inspire my parents – I don’t know how or what I want to inspire them to do, but…
22.  Take time to organize and settle into our house (cultivate an interest in decorating??)
23.  Swear off meat for good – fish too.  Damn you birds, you’re just so delicious I keep coming back.
24.  Take a Great American Road Trip – Grand Canyon, Mt. Rushmore, Niagara Falls, etc.
25.  Open an etsy shop selling something creative.
26.  Take a cooking class.
27.  Learn how to quilt – more specifically, learn from my grandmother.
28.  Learn another foreign language – French?  Italian?  GREEK?
29.  Invent a “signature dish” – my mom always makes rigatoni – I need my own!
30.  Sponsor a child from Save the Children in the Appalachians.

I’m also working on a life list.  Some of the goals are the same because I feel like some are big enough to qualify as LIFE goals.  That one is still a work in progress!