I don’t think I ever made a list of 30 Things To Do Before Turning 30. I surely must have made that list at some point, but I went through my old emails and documents, and I can’t find anything saved digitally. I guess I’m showing my age… “When I was a girl, we used to write lists out by hand!” Ha.
Rather than scoring myself on that never-to-be-found-handwritten list (of what I did and did not accomplish by age 30), I will instead list out 30 Things I Did Before 30 – all of which are things I feel like could have been on my list!
- Dance in a ballet
- Sing for my supper
- Get a hole-in-one
- Watch a total lunar eclipse
- Score a goal in a soccer game
- Save a life
- Sing with someone famous
- Get paid to sing
- Shoot a 9mm pistol
- Go white water rafting
- Visit all 50 states
- Graduate Magna Cum Laude
- Earn an EMT certification
- Go on an international mission trip
- Earn an engineering degree
- Travel internationally for work
- Perform with David Copperfield in Vegas
- See a Broadway show in NYC
- Read through the entire bible in a year
- Get paid to photograph a wedding
- Visit Neuchvanstein
- Run a 5k
- Perform an original composition live
- Go on a blind date
- Get copyrighted
- Release an original album on iTunes
- Get paid for artwork
- Give a speech to 1,000+ people
- Share the Gospel with a stranger
- Watch a meteor shower with someone I love
Man. It’s been a good 30 years.
Authentically Aurora
Authentically Aurora 
What fun! It’s a good list. I sailed to Hawaii on the edge of a hurricane and hit a home run in softball once. Those are the highlights I remember best.
Eat your veggies and wear sunscreen! Those are two things I wish people had told me to put on my list. I’m pretty healthy, but the older you get the more apparent it is that that is really good advice. One day unprotected out in the sun eating nothing but junk food and I look like I’ve just spent two weeks out clubbing 24/7 in a foreign country somewhere. 🙂
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Haha. Good advice! I am trying to eat more veggies — recently discovered cauliflower mash (like mashed potatoes but healthier). I have to find ways to get vegetables hidden into my meals!
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I’ve done six of those things. You have certainly had thirty full and wonderful years so far.
Happy Birthday! J.
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Thanks, J! Looking forward to the next thirty, Lord willing.
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Happy Birthday, my favorite bitter 30 year old blogging friend! You are the best and deserve all the good things to happen to you!
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Thanks, my favorite and bitterest Ben in all the land! You are the best and hopefully will have good things coming your way very soon (especially since you still have a backlog of bitter stores to blog about)!
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Yeah, my blog really does depend on my having a job, so I can blog about things happening at work. And I am much more focused when I have work to try to distract me from doing it.
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Exactly!!! I think I will blog a lot less when I am n0t stuck at a computer for 40 hours a week without anything meaningful to do!
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That will stink. But hopefully you will find the time to keep us all updated on things.
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I will do my best to at least keep YOU updated 😀
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Yeah, that is essentially what I was looking for. Who cares about everyone else.
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