The List: 30 Before 31
Tara Posted on Tuesday, October 7, 2008 at 6:00AM I love this idea from Joslyn of Simple Lovely of creating a list of things you want to do before your next birthday. It is fairly timely for me as my birthday was not too long ago and we are in a state of developing healthy habits in our newlywed house... so here it goes!
30 Before 31:
1. Finish my MS program
2. Try a new recipe at least 4 times a month
3. Train for and run a half marathon
4. Bake the desserts that my husband loves more often... maybe once a month?
5. Join a book club again
6. Rent books from the library (unless they rate on my scale as having literary value and I want them in my collection then I will buy them)
7. Redesign blog layout
8. Fill out the life binder
9. Make curtains for my bedroom
10. Keep my half of the closet organized
11. Buy a bicycle
12. Host a baby shower
13. Practice yoga at home weekly, regularly
14. Do all 60 hikes in the 60 Hikes in Chicago book
15. Drink water in the evening instead of caffeinated soda
16. Establish a new family tradition
17. Create and have our honeymoon album printed
18. Buy all holiday gifts before Thanksgiving
19. Go to Ravinia with a picnic
20. Go to a movie in the park evening
21. Grow an herb container garden
22. Go on a low-key camping trip
23. Be fiscally frugal and have savings grow to reflect the effort
24. Leave my husband little love notes every now and then to surprise him
25. Plan our 2008 Annual Holiday Cultural Outing to be a free one in the community (refer to number 23)
26. Eat dinner together at the table more often than not each week
27. Go on a picnic and hang out long enough to lay on the blanket and look at the stars
28. Reformat my resume to highlight accomplishments
29. Start a Move to X savings fund
30. Add at least 4 earth-friendly living practices
So I better get busy working on this list as 10.75 months can go pretty quickly! I am going to add this list to the side column and cross things off as I finish them... Anyone else creating a list? I like publishing this list of manageable things I am saying I want to do, maybe it will make me more accountable now that I have shared it...
Photos from the gorgeous collection by Janne Peters
Reader Comments (7)
Oh.....this is such a great idea! Today just happens to be my 31st bday and I think I'll do something of the same!!! :)
That's a great list. Very doable!
Great list! What are the favorite desserts? :)
this is a good list. i've got 9 months to 30 ...
as for your #3 -- there is a winter warriors program at chicago endurance sport. crazy, running in the winter, i know. but i might just be crazy. if you're crazy, too, let me know.
i love your list! so much i want to make my own... thanks!
Hey!! - I did one of these for my 27th birthday back in August!!!
it is kind of fun to make these list... especially the crossing things off part.
Devon- I am thinking about that running in the snow idea... I haven't run outside in the winter since my early twenties (back when I hard core!!) so I might wimp out!!