NE Portland Findings » reading http://www.neportlandfindings.com A glimpse of my world in NE Portland Thu, 02 Sep 2010 03:45:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 30 Things by 30 http://www.neportlandfindings.com/2009/01/13/30-things-by-30/ http://www.neportlandfindings.com/2009/01/13/30-things-by-30/#comments Wed, 14 Jan 2009 01:43:06 +0000 Kim Toomey http://www.neportlandfindings.com/?p=24 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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