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