Well, in the spirit of new years resolutions and overall life achievements I have decided to actually write down 30 things I want to accomplish by the time I’m thirty. I’m giving myself 6 1/2 years become some are pretty ambitious and time consuming, and I’m a pretty busy gal. Here they are.

1. Read every work of fiction that has won the Pulitzer Prize
2. Run a marathon
3. Go to Europe
4. Pay off student loans
5. Learn to speak another language  – enough to hold a basic conversation with a native speaker
6. Have a poem published
7. Drink a REALLY expensive bottle of wine to see if its worth it
8. “Finish” our house projects (is it ever really done though?)
9. Plant Dahlias and get them to grow/bloom
10. Read the bible
11. Finish a crossword puzzle on my own – on a hard day
12. Have a well trained dog (please, oh please)
13. Take a train
14. Learn to surf
15. Find my signature drink that makes me look cool/sophisticated/classy
16. Learn to snowboard
17. Learn to confidently drive a car with a manual transmission
18. Splurge on an expensive piece of jewelry for myself
19. Camp in a yurt
20. Go to Hawaii
21. Make a quilt for someone
22. Grow a vegetable garden
23. Re-learn how to play the piano
24. Go to an NCAA basketball tournament game
25. Make a good profit selling our first house
26. Own real furniture (as in furniture not from Ikea)
27. Upgrade to a king size bed (I like my space)
28. Go to South American (lots of travel, I know)
29. See a great concert in awesome seats
30. Host Thanksgiving dinner for all our family

Just a few things to do. I know that if you write all these things down you are 100x more likely to accomplish them, so there we go.

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