My 30 Before 30

As I've been reading more blogs lately I've noticed that several of them have a "30 before 30 list" of things they want to do or things they want to make (mostly because I've been reading a lot of cooking blogs looking for recipes). I was intrigued by these lists, I always have so many ideas and things that I want to do, I thought this might be a good way to hold myself accountable and check track of all my ideas of things that I want to do (since I'm usually all over the place). The timing also fit nicely since I'm just under 2 years shy of turning 30, not that 30 is this big scary number or anything, after all Mike is 31 now and he seems to be doing just fine. For me it is also a representation of some things that I want to do for me before we decide to start a family (in 3 years hopefully) and I know my time then will become quite limited for a lot of the extra things and classes I want to do, I'm sure my priorities will change at that point in my life. Some of the things I want to do are classes, many are travel related and places I want to go, and some are just general life things or silly projects of things I want to do. This is my attempt to keep track of and do all kinds of things in my life on my 30 before 30 list:

1. Learn to use my camera in manual 
2. Travel to Napa Valley, California 
3. Go on a trip to Europe once a year 
4. Graduate with my Masters Degree 
5. Run a 5K race 
6. Get a puppy
7. Go on a double decker tour of NYC
8. Go to the Long Island Wineries 
9. Take cooking classes 
10. Learn to speak Italian (better) 
11. Go to Chicago, catch a Cubs game at Wrigley Field
12. Spend a whole day at the spa 
13. Join a tennis league 
14. Take dance classes (like tap or ballet) 
15. Take photography classes
16. Join a book club
17. Cook with more organic & unprocessed foods
18. Go on a romantic date night in the city 
19. Go away on vacation with our friends 
20. Learn to swim (I'm not so good right now) 
21. Go to famous food places in new cities 
22. Have a Guinness at the factory in Dublin (again)
23. Go back to Italy  
24. Make a cookbook of all the women in my life recipes 
25. Learn to make a digital scrapbook 
26. Go out and stay overnight at my brother's in NYC
27. Go on weekend trips to places like New England, DC, Niagara Falls
28. Take a sign language class 
29. Get a "really killer sophisticated city outfit"
30. Host a wine tasting party at our house