30 Things to Do Before I'm 30

It's make promises you have no intention of keeping New Year Resolution time. This year, I'm pretty sure I'm not going to be setting too many goals for myself - I hate feeling guilty. That's a good resolution - stop feeling guilty. Step one? No more resolutions.

2007 is going to be an exciting year for me. I'm in a steady relationship, I'll be finishing up my B.Ed degree and starting my first job teaching high school. I'll be moving again, and really making the final step towards becoming an 'adult' - supporting myself on a full-time, salary with benefits pay cheque. That's the pinnacle for me. I've put myself entirely through university, but it's not until I have a good income, a financial plan and a way to get out of debt that I'm really going to feel like I've made it. I can't wait. Living like a student is SO overrated.

Anyway, that's not what this post is supposed to be about (I love to talk about myself, I know, but I'm getting to the point). I want to make a long term list of 30 things to do before I turn 30. It's like a New Year's Resolution list, but with more scope (like a commercial, "now with MORE aspirations! Greater depth!) I'm 23 right now, which gives me until July 15, 2013 to finish my list.

Here We Go. Hopefully this is all feasable:

1. Take a painting class
2. Purchase a home
3. Climb a volcano in Hawaii
4. Visit New York City at Christmas time
5. Get into the best shape of my life
6. Coach a soccer team
7. Pay off all my students debts
8. Get married
9. Learn how to garden and grow my own vegetables
10. Buy a piece of art
11. Hike the west coast trail on Vancouver Island
12. Be an extra in a movie
13. Attend the Olympics in 2010
14. Be someone's mentor
15. Establish a daily creative ritual
16. Get my Masters degree (make people call me master)
17. Start a family (at one point in my life, I assumed I would be married at 24, start a family at 25 and have all my kids before I was 30.... wrong!)
18. Learn to identify the constellations
19. Learn how to dance
20. Get braces or veneers to fix my one crooked tooth
21. Write down my grandparents' stories
22. Bake a pie
23. Live simply
24. Go to Paris with Steve
25. Buy an expensive SLR camera and learn how to use it
26. Teach in a private school
27. Learn to play chess
28. Find a 'forever' friend
29. Climb a (small) mountain
30. Take snowboarding lessons (just so that I can wear those awesome outfits!)
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