30 Things to Do Before I Turn 30

It’s T Minus 2 days until I “officially” launch this project – by which I mean, I will post my list and there will be no turning back. I currently have 29 things on it… naturally I feel like #30 has to be a good one. It will probably be something lame. I still have a day to figure it out.

Here is what I am NOT going to include: things like “getting married” or “have a baby” and such. For starters, I don’t know if I even want kids, ever, let alone *rightnow* – also, that’s kind of Serious for my purposes. As far as getting married? I’d love to be settled down by 30, but that includes a whole slew of variables, including finding somebody that I actually want to commit to for the rest of my life. To me, you can’t put a timeline on that. So I won’t.

Other things I’ve excluded are things I’ve already done, that might have otherwise been on my list. (Visit a foreign country? Check. Try sushi? Check.) If I did it before I even started this list, it doesn’t count. Meanwhile, if I started the list, and happened to have the opportunity to do it… eh, well, I’m counting it. It’s not cheating… it’s just me getting ahead of myself.

Primarily, these are fun and happy things that I want to do, not a checklist of grownup-ly things that I should do. These are things I want to do. Hopefully soon. Then, when I check them all off? I can make a new list of things I want to do. Hopefully by then, I will have more money, and I can start putting things on there that will someday be more financially feasible. : )

So… check back on Wednesday, I will OFFICIALLY OFFICIALLY post the list, and we’ll see where this little experiment takes me. If anyone gets inspired to do their own list, let me know – I’ll link to it over yonder on the side.

Cheers!
K.

In case anyone stumbles onto this page before I do anything else with it (unlikely), I just thought I’d write an obligatory introduction post and explain what the hell this blog is all about. I have other blogs, my main one being a dumping ground where I bitch and moan and whine about my life as an angsty twentysomething in the middle of America. I would also like to add a disclaimer of being completely web-illiterate and this is my second attempt at using WordPress, and we’ll see how long it lasts until (a) I get scared and run back to Blogger or (b) someone teaches me what the hell to do.

I got rather inspired this evening, reading some fabulousy sassy blogs (some, I suppose, might fall near the realm of the ubiquitous “mommy blogging” but I have no interest in children beyond a morbid curiosity of that alternate lifestyle, not to say I won’t ever end up there, but I’m way too damn selfish to even think about it right now.) And it made me wish I had a blog of some sort of substance. Not to say anyone will read this except for the few friends I eventually point in this direction, but, whatever.

I am turning 25 next month. Which means I’ll have to fully face the fact that I’m a grownup and I’m going to get old and while this isn’t necessarily a bad thing, I don’t want to look back on my youth and feel like I missed out. I’ve been saying that I’m going to make a list, of things to accomplish, and 30 seems like a good milemarker. Why 30 things? Because the alliteration sounds nice, mostly. Some will be big, some will be small. Some will be thoughtful and some will be silly. I haven’t actually written the list yet, but I know that I want to chronicle it somewhere. Will I maintain this for five years? Unless I magically grow an attention span, I doubt it. Although my blogging record has been long and prolific, this probably makes blog #5 in as many years. Also: the first one with a purpose.

So, my future friends, I am going to make a list of thirty things that I would like to do in the next few years, and I am going to report back on my progress. Even if it’s merely a “yay I did it!” then I still think it will inspire a sense of accomplishment, and that counts for something too. And maybe I’ll pick up one or two readers, and they (you, if you’re reading this) can cheer me on. Maybe make a list of your own.

I will get as many things crossed off the list as I can. The ones I don’t? Well, I suppose I can always add ten more and do a “40 before 40″ now can’t I? ; )

(Item #31 will, of course, be to learn how to use this site… I’m not even kidding.)