Echoes.

Thirty Things to Do While (and maybe slightly before) I’m Thirty.

1. Go on a REAL honeymoon. That means more than a weekend.
2. Exercise to the point where I can run a 5k without stopping.
3. Volunteer during the holidays.
4. Pay off my school loans.
5. Learn to ride a bike on busy city streets.
6. Start – and hopefully finish! A Real Career search. Find out what it takes to get there. Start.
7. Go camping with my family.
8. Become comfortable cooking on a gas stove.
9. Cook more vegetarian meals.
10. DRASTICALLY cut down on cooking/eating with unhealthy materials or in unhealthy ways.
11. Convert the house to majority recyclable materials… AND RECYCLE THEM.
12. Have a regular family night every week.
13. Go on at least one date with my husband every month.
14. Finish making a blanket of my own.
15. Train the dogs to be better-behaved.
16. Encourage my daughter to find and keep a hobby outside of school that doesn’t involve social time on the computer or cell phone.
17. Take cooking classes.
18. Finish Christmas shopping before my dad’s birthday.
19. Learn to make Granny’s cornbread dressing.
20. Try one thing a month that my husband suggests without arguing.
21. Make 3 wedding albums – one for us, two for our parents.
22. Print out and make picture albums of the photos I love from Flickr and the photos I already have stored – organized and fun albums!
23. Go to another big drum corps show.
24. Keep my house totally organized so that my family can be relaxed in their space.
25. See Nick play softball at least once.
26. Make at least 1 good new friend in Minneapolis.
27. Eat an entire apple without getting sick.
28. Get up every morning ON TIME for at least one week without hating everyone on principle.
29. Make my bed every morning.
30. Send one handwritten letter/note a week.