29 Things to do before I turn 30

Today I turn 29.  I've been thinking about this for a while now, about how this is the last year of my twenties. I'm not sure why this feels like such a huge milestone for me. I guess because like everyone, there are goals I had secretly made while I was younger that I would do. Now, as an adult I still have not done many of these things.  Life does complicate things.  Some goals are not as easy to accomplish once married & having children, however not impossible.  So I decided to take a closer look at some of these things I had hoped to have done by now. What is it that has kept me from trying new things & achieving new goals? Is it really because of being married & then having children? No not really. The biggest reasons have been that I just haven't made an effort to do these things or that I was afraid I'd fail at them.  In making a new effort, I decided to make a list of 29 things to do before I turn 30.  Here it is:

1.  Travel to Tibet

2.  Adopt an active lifestyle as my own

3.  Give more than I receive

4.  Stop saying "I want to be..." and start saying "I am..."

5.  Go snowboarding

6.  Read at least 2 novels that I didn't read in high school.

7.  Learn to live a more sustainable life

8.  Do volunteer work as a family

9.  Test drive an extremely pricey car

10.  Shoot a gun

11.  Go skinny dipping with my husband

12.  Eat something I've never tried before (yak butter tea maybe?)

13.  Go to a rock concert

14.  Get a tattoo

15.  Travel by train

16.  Donate blood 

17.  Learn to ballroom dance

18.  Create my family tree

19.  Go to a drive in movie theater

20.  Treat myself to a spa day

21.  Learn to effectively start a fire

22. Master changing a tire

23.  Learn to chop wood

24.  Complete a self portrait

25.  Begin Letterboxing with our family

26.  Write a knitting pattern that is published in a knitting magazine

27.  Make journals for Nona & Jacob about their lives growing up

28.  Reconnect with the friends I had as a teenager.

29.  Become a better organized multi-tasker