So I turned 30...


it was kind of horrible really because I was still overcoming the effects of labyrinthitus which I had been suffering with since February (still have some weirdness going on, headaches etc), which has contributed to me having some depression and possibly having some kind of weird 30's crisis, plus more weight gain because I couldn't exercise and just wanted to eat cake...


BUT I've managed to make a start on some of the things on the list - I had to leave the 10k alone for now - pretty hard to train when you have vertigo, things look like they are swirling, you are fainting and suffering nausea. I will run though, I WILL! 

General Stuff which didn’t fit in anywhere else:

1.       Learn to drive


2.       Give blood – start and continue
Made an appointment but wasn't better from being ill, so I've made a start in as much that I have registered with them


3.       Marry Tom (if I am lucky enough)


4.       Kiss Tom passionately at the top of the eiffel tower
We did visit Paris but visibility was so poor we didn't go up the eiffel tower sadly, oh well I guess we'll just have to go back


5.       Stay quitted (smoking)


6.       Host a charity event


7.       Keep eating carbs
We have a love hate relationship


8.       Avoid having a baby!!!!
Hell yeah


9.       Set myself a certain number of ‘no spend days per month and stick with it
Need to work on this one


10.     Wear EXACTLY what I want when I want irrespective of appropriateness
Mostly

Travel to:

11.   Paris (Booked)
Loved it


12.   India (Planning stages Jan 2013)
Made progress - Flights booked, fly out on Jan 9th 2013


13.   Portugal (spending time in Lisbon) (Booked Sept 2012)


14.   Japan
There has been talk of this for 2014 with some lovely friends of ours


15.   Australia


16.   New York


17.   Berlin in the summer
Planning a trip for my Birthday next year, which isn't quite summer


18.   Trek Kilimanjaro


19.   Explore more of Northern Ireland (ongoing)


20.   Edinburgh for the comedy festival


21.   As many places in the UK as we can – York and Newcastle for starters (York is booked)


22.   Go on safari (this might be one for the ‘before I die’ list)


23.   Take my mum on holiday

Fitness/sport

24.   Run 10k
Suspended training while I was poorly - something to start up again


25.   Run a half marathon


26.   Run a marathon (erm maybe?????)


27.   Do a 30 day bikram/hot yoga challenge
Am going to start with 10 days at the Hot Yoga Centre in Liverpool, just need to find a space in the diary to fit it in


28.   Learn how to do a pull up and do five in a row (I can’t even do one!)

Extreme stuff

29.   Do a sky dive


30.   Do a bungee jump


31.   Go zorbing

Leisure

32.   Join a book club
There is one at leaf monthly and it keeps clashing with something else - more research and/or commitment required


33.   Rekindle rambling, link back up with the group and get out in the countryside again
I keep looking at the rambles and sadly at the moment they clash with everything else, I've got some free weekends coming up in July so I'm going to book one in


34.   Complete a 365 challenge with Tom
He doesn't want to do this with me :o(


35.   Take an open bus tour in London


36.   See a Fleetwood Mac tribute band – or the real deal if ever lucky enough that they tour


37.   See a Pink Floyd tribute band


38.   Go to at least one overseas festival


39.   Go to at least one festival a year (One planned for this year)
Second one planned and booked for this year


40.   Host a murder mystery dinner party


41.   Attend an organised murder mystery event


42.   Learn a language – not sure which yet!


43.   Take a tour of the Houses of Parliament
There is talk of this...


44.   Sit in the viewing gallery at the Old Bailey


45.   Learn to knit


46.   Read the top 10 classics


47.   Find a cause to passionately protest and demonstrate about


48.   Attend a summer solstice celebration


49.   Go to an electro swing night
Does speakeasy count? I think it does :o)


50.   Take a lindyhop dance lesson
I have now been to 4 plus a day workshop and I am LOVING IT




51.   Do an evening college course

Cookery/Food

52.   Master baking bread
I would say I am mastered it but I am have made some decent bread over the recent months


53.   Eat in a Michelin star restaurant


54.   Be a veggie for 30 days


55.   Bake something new every month


56.   Grow a herb garden


57.   Create a vegetable patch
I'm growing tomatoes, not a full blown veggie patch but a start


58.   Write a cookbook – not necessarily to be published


59.   Organise my recipes in the beautiful folder Hayley bought me for Christmas!
It is now June and I shamefully haven't done this yet


60.   Go to Pudding Club


61.   Eat kangaroo


62.   Cook with rabbit


63.   Try a posh restaurants tasting menu

Outside Me

64.   Own a pair of Christian Louboutins


65.   Own a designer handbag – Mulberry you WILL be mine


66.   Buy nothing unnecessary for 365 days – clothes shoes etc – separate challenge


67.   Learn to straighten my hair


68.   Get a spiral perm


69.   Have dirty ash blonde hair – yes I know it’ll trash it but I want it so badly


70.   Get eyelash extensions at least once


71.   Get my tattoo removed


72.   Get a new tattoo

Inside Me

73.   Identify 100 things that make me happy
ongoing


74.   Learn that failure is part of success and that no one can ever be perfect


75.   Learn how to take a compliment


76.   Acquire patience


77.   Develop an attitude of gratitude – write gratitude lists


78.   Forgive myself and give myself a break


79.   Find a meditation practice that works for me and stick with it


80.   Go on a meditation retreat


81.   Stop worrying about things that might not happen, have happened, will never happen

No more to add to the list just yet...a couple of things I toying with like learning to spray graffiti, owning an ipad, getting another sewing machine and making stuff again...


some travel to add - we are going to Madrid for a long weekend in October - my 30th Birthday pressie from Tom (thank you thank you thank you) and I'd like to go to Berlin again for New year but I think that will remain a dream


Ta Ta for now

Number 24 – Run 10k

I watched my boyfriend and friends run the half marathon today I feel spurred on to start on the fitness challenges on this list starting with the Mersey tunnel 10k, 10^th June 2012. http://runliverpooltunnel10k.co.uk/

Well done guys and thanks for encouraging me to work towards my goals - I'm going to register when I get paid

Time to download a couch to 10k app for my iphone and get training again (did you know I’ve got an iphone?)

The List

I’m turning 30 in 31 days! I can’t quite believe it but facts are facts. There are so many things I wish I had done up to this point that I haven’t but alas water under the bridge. To make sure I do LOTS of things before I am 35 I have started this blog

The things on this list are in no particular order of importance or in the order that I want to achieve them; they are just listed this way because they are. Some of the things are planned already, some have been discussed and some are purely audacious and who knows whether I’ll achieve them all or only some of them but life is for living and I’m going to bloody well live it. I spent far too much of my 20’s worrying and being overly serious about life, it was small and suffocating. At 29 I was set FREE and started to really LIVE, maybe for the first time in my life I gave myself permission to let go a little and begin to care less about all those things which really don’t matter.... I have come up with 80+ things so far...the list will expand and grow...BRING IT ON :o)

General Stuff which didn’t fit in anywhere else:

1.       Learn to drive
2.       Give blood – start and continue
3.       Marry Tom (if I am lucky enough)
4.       Kiss Tom passionately at the top of the eiffel tower
5.       Stay quitted (smoking)
6.       Host a charity event
7.       Keep eating carbs and hope my body repairs itself after years of abuse
8.       Avoid having a baby!!!!
9.       Set myself a certain number of ‘no spend days per month and stick with it
10.     Wear EXACTLY what I want when I want irrespective of appropriateness

Travel to:

11.   Paris (Booked)
12.   India (Planning stages Jan 2013)
13.   Portugal (spending time in Lisbon) (Booked Sept 2012)
14.   Japan
15.   Australia
16.   New York
17.   Berlin in the summer
18.   Trek Kilimanjaro
19.   Explore more of Northern Ireland (ongoing)
20.   Edinburgh for the comedy festival
21.   As many places in the UK as we can – York and Newcastle for starters (York is booked)
22.   Go on safari (this might be one for the ‘before I die’ list)
23.   Take my mum on holiday

Fitness/sport

24.   Run 10k
25.   Run a half marathon
26.   Run a marathon (erm maybe?????)
27.   Do a 30 day bikram/hot yoga challenge
28.   Learn how to do a pull up and do five in a row (I can’t even do one!)

Extreme stuff

29.   Do a sky dive
30.   Do a bungee jump
31.   Go zorbing

Leisure

32.   Join a book club
33.   Rekindle rambling, link back up with the group and get out in the countryside again
34.   Complete a 365 challenge with Tom
35.   Take an open bus tour in London
36.   See a Fleetwood Mac tribute band – or the real deal if ever lucky enough that they tour
37.   See a Pink Floyd tribute band
38.   Go to at least one overseas festival
39.   Go to at least one festival a year (One planned for this year)
40.   Host a murder mystery dinner party
41.   Attend an organised murder mystery event
42.   Learn a language – not sure which yet!
43.   Take a tour of the Houses of Parliament
44.    Sit in the viewing gallery at the Old Bailey
45.   Learn to knit
46.   Read the top 10 classics
47.   Find a cause to passionately protest and demonstrate about
48.   Attend a summer solstice celebration
49.   Go to an electro swing night
50.   Take a lindyhop dance lesson
51.   Do an evening college course

Cookery/Food

52.   Master baking bread
53.   Eat in a Michelin star restaurant
54.   Be a veggie for 30 days
55.   Bake something new every month
56.   Grow a herb garden
57.   Create a vegetable patch
58.   Write a cookbook – not necessarily to be published
59.   Organise my recipes in the beautiful folder Hayley bought me for Christmas!
60.   Go to Pudding Club
61.   Eat kangaroo
62.   Cook with rabbit
63.   Try a posh restaurants tasting menu

Outside Me

64.   Own a pair of Christian Louboutins
65.   Own a designer handbag – Mulberry you WILL be mine
66.   Buy nothing unnecessary for 365 days – clothes shoes etc – separate challenge
67.   Learn to straighten my hair
68.   Get a spiral perm
69.   Have dirty ash blonde hair – yes I know it’ll trash it but I want it so badly
70.   Get eyelash extensions at least once
71.   Get my tattoo removed
72.   Get a new tattoo

Inside Me

73.   Identify 100 things that make me happy
74.   Learn that failure is part of success and that no one can ever be perfect
75.   Learn how to take a compliment
76.   Acquire patience
77.   Develop an attitude of gratitude – write gratitude lists
78.   Forgive myself and give myself a break
79.   Find a meditation practice that works for me and stick with it
80.   Go on a meditation retreat
81.   Stop worrying about things that might not happen, have happened, will never happen
82.   Overcome my biggest and longest personal life battle (ongoing)

So there we have it, a work in progress....I wonder how I’ll get on tres exciting