10 Things to do before I turn 30

Well, whoop-de-doo, I'm 25.

Actually, yeah, whoop-de-doo indeed. I'm 25 years old – I have a job I enjoy, confidence, a good education, family and friends I love and great guy beside me. I'm doing ok. I might not be where I wanted to be by the measures of my naïve 15 year old self, but she thought I'd be running my own restaurant and sipping Champagne out of the navels of male models about now. Two things I have no interest in doing any more.

But I am turning 25 and I've never been too happy about getting older. Everyone tells me I'm being silly, that I'm exaggerating. And you know, I think they might be right. This is the first birthday where anything is possible. I'm not mourning what I've left behind but looking forward to what's ahead... and it's exciting. So with that said here's a list of things I want to do before I turn 30. One that, no doubt, I will regret making when I don't get around to any of them.

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   Achievable: Visit New York
   Fantasy: Star as the lead in a Broadway musical
2. Achievable: Move into a bigger place with an actual decent wardrobe
   Fantasy: Said place will not be anywhere out of zone 3
3. Achievable: Write a 6 episode sitcom
   Fantasy: Actually get it on television
4. Achievable: Go on a Fugitives and Refugees tour of Portland

   

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   Fantasy: Actually meet Chuck Palahniuk and get him to sign my arm so I can have it tattooed on.
5. Achievable: Ride in a Gondola
   Fantasy: Not complain about how expensive it is in Europe the whole time I'm there.
   
   
6. Achievable: Exercise more
   Fantasy: Run the London Marathon
7. Achievable: Camp at a festival

   

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   Fantasy: Make it through without having a little weep when the tent won't stay up
8. Achievable: Eat Banh Mi on the streets of Ha Noi
   Fantasy: Only eat one per sitting
   
   
9. Achievable: Find out who Your Mother is
   Fantasy: Feel genuine satisfaction during the grand finale
10. Achievable: Enjoy hot tubing out doors in the Rockies

    

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    Fantasy: Time travel to the eighties.