"I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, & all the friends I want to see."
Brad finds it absurd but I tend to cry each year on my birthday. It's not because I'm vain & having a "I'm SOOOO old!" moment, but rather I see that time is slipping away & I still have SO many things I'd like to do in too little time. As a result, I've put myself on a time crunch. I'm going to tackle a chunk of dreams/goals by age 30 & (hopefully) feel less blue when that day comes. I'm facing it head on as I'm 28 (& 7 months). Therefore, I have roughly a year & a half to tackle these items. I'm hoping posting them here will hold me more accountable. Taking this time frame into mind, I've tried to make this list fun & challenging while keeping in mind my short time limit.
Start date: August 16, 2014
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2) Improve my rusty Spanish skills
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4) Experience a truly beautiful moment in my life that it brings me to tears
5) Learn to cook
6) Ride a horse
7)
Big Girl Panties / What Do You Want to do Before You Die / The Help / One More Thing / On the Road / You're Not Helping / Lies that Chelsea Handler Told Me / Look Me in the Eye / Stiff / The Goldfinch / Tales of a Female Nomad / Not That Kind of Girl / The Hunger Games: Girl on Fire / Brain on Fire / The Hunger Games: Catching Fire / The Maze Runner / Let's Just Say It Wasn't Pretty / If I Stay / The Kill Order / In a Sunburned Country / A Walk in the Woods / When You are Engulfed in Flames / A Fortune Teller Told Me / Yes Please / The Scorch Trials / Harry Potter & the Sorcerer's Stone / Dad is Fat / The Death Cure / The Hunger Games: Mockingjay / Tweak / Marching Powder / Life on Foot / Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets / Where She Went / The Good Dream / Sand in My Bra / Imperfect Justice / The Dirty Life / Gone Girl / Sharp Objects / Farm City / Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban / Confessions of a Bad Beekeeper / Growing Up Amish / The Opposite of Loneliness / Seriously... I'm Kidding / I am Malala / Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire / Dopefiend /
8) Learn to play guitar
9) Learn to sew
10) Rediscover my love for running
11) Get a haircut I really love
12) Grow a garden that can actually feed my family
13) See New England in the fall
14) Be in the best shape of my life
15) Ride in a hot air balloon
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17) Eat a (mostly) clean diet
18) (Re)learn to play piano
19) Start riding a bike again
20) Learn to 'live in the moment'
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*Wyoming - booked June 2015
22) Take a singing lesson
23) Take up yoga
24) Float down the Cahaba River
25) Watch the sunset from Ruffner Mountain
26) Hike through the Sipsey Wilderness
27) Go paddleboarding
28) Support a CSA
29) Go spelunking
30) Stop the tears on birthdays & relish the things I've accomplished
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