30 before 30...turns into 40 before 40.

30 before 30? Probably not going to happen since I am turning 30 in a few days. That doesn't mean however, that these goals can't be turned into a 35 before 35 or 40 before 40 though right? 
Wow. Typing "40 before 40" just gave me chest pains. Why am I so afraid of getting older? 40 is the new 30 right? So...30 is the new 20? I have heard that 30's are much better than your 20's. I guess we will find out. Am I too old to blog? You're never too old to blog right? Yep. Typing "40" made all those random thoughts run through my head at about 100 miles per hour. Yikes.
Okay, let's turn this into a "40 Before 40" list. Eek. I wonder if I can get my husband to make one too? Of course, I have 10 years to complete mine, he will have only 2 years. I have a weird comfort in that - ha. Love you bade. Okay, here we go:

Me, on my 30th birthday

Weight Loss/Health Goals: 1. Lose 50-100 lbs 2. Run a 5K 3. Run the Color Run or Warrier Dash (a second 5k) 4. Buy a bicycle  5. Find a gym routine that works (i.e. go 3x's a week)
Finance Goals 6. Pay off 1/2 our debt 7. Have $10,000 in savings
Travel Goals 8. Go on a honeymoon 9. Visit Las Vegas 10. Travel to Italy 11. Road trip across America 12. Go on a cruise
Home Goals 13. Remodel our bathroom 14. Remodel our kitchen 15. Landscape the front yard 16. Landscape the backyard/build a deck 17. Take a cooking class 18. Plant a vegetable garden 19. Cook my way through an entire cookbook (channel my inner "Julie and Julia") 20. Learn a new hobby 21. Sell my house and buy or build my dream house
Career Goals 22. Finish Grad School  23. Find a teaching job 24. Attend a nursing conference out of state 25. Take a travel nurse assignment with my husband 26. Obtain a degree in something other than nursing
Random Goals 27. Re-vamp an old piece of furniture 28. Take a photography class 29. Own a DSLR camera 30. Learn to french braid 31. Get another tattoo 32. Buy an expensive purse 33. Buy a piece of jewelry from Tiffany's 34. Learn another language 35. Have a boudoir photo session 36. Hug a Koala bear 37. Take a dance class 38. Swim with dolphins 39. Buy a saxophone and re-learn how to play 40. Watch a Tigers game at another MLB stadium 41. Re-open my Etsy store/sell items at a craft show

30 Before 30 (Revamped List)

I turned 29 in March. Twenty-friggin-nine. Which means I will be turning the dirty 30 next year. I'm really not excited about this. I have read multiple articles and books where women discuss their thirties being the best years- you have your life together more so than in your twenties. I mean, I would like to think in less than year I will have my crap together more so than I do now but I'm not so sure. Anyways, I made a "30 before 30" list (see the blog post here) last March. It needs a little revising however, as some of my goals have changed. Here's the list with the changed goals in bold next to the old one:
1. Lose 100 lbs (unrealistic with less than a year to do this...) Lose 50 lbs 2. Run a 5K 3. Pay off 1/2 our debt (unrealistic...student loans...yikes) Pay off 1/2 our credit debt 4. Have $10,000 in savings (Might be unrealistic...going to try to get as close as possible!) 5. Finish Grad School (Yeah, I won't be graduating until December 2015...so I will be 30...It just won't be before I turn 30) 6. Find a teaching job 7. Go on a honeymoon 8. Finish our bathroom 9. Learn to cook (Better) (I've learned one new recipe...does that count?) 10. Run a successful home (what does this mean?) Revamp a piece of old furniture 11. Write a book (kind over this...writing books...not my thing) Do the color run (5k) 12. Take a sewing class Landscape the front yard 13. Take a photography class 14. Visit Las Vegas 15. Own a DSLR camera 16. Buy a bicycle 17. Learn to french braid 18. Attend a blogging conference (Don't care to anymore...) Attend a nursing conference out of state 19. Gym...3x's/week habit 20. Get another tattoo 21. Get pregnant (discussed with the husband...going to wait to try until he is done with nursing school so, before I'm 32?) Landscape the backyard...or at least pull out all the dead trees and shrubs! 22. Have family pictures taken 23. Sell 100 items on Etsy (Closed my Etsy shop...so nope!) Get a new front door. Mine is ugly. 24. Learn new make-up techniques 25. Buy an expensive purse 26. Take a 2 week vacation 27. Have a boudoir picture session 28. Learn another language 29. Buy a piece of jewelry from Tiffany's 30. Be happy and comfortable!

Day #230: 30 Before 30

I have seen a lot of bloggers post lists of 30 things they want to accomplish before they turn 30. Since my 28th birthday is looming (March 26...eeek!) I figured it would be a good time to do the same thing. I figure 2 years is long enough to accomplish most, if not all of the list?
Here is my 30 Things Before 30 list:

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