Thirty Before Thirty List

Ed. Note: This is a living, breathing document (just like the Constitution). Subject to change.

Gettin’ Physical, Physical

1. Lose 20 pounds
2. Go soda free for three months
3. Eat breakfast at home for two weeks
4. Finish C25K
5. Go swimming for exercise, not fun
6. Spend a week not eating after 7pm
7. Stop drinking from plastic water bottles at work

I Am Not A Robot

8. Visit the new dermatologist with the new insurance before July 1
9. Go in for a regular physical not an OB/GYN appointment and make sure my shots are up to date

Be a Grown-up

10. Get out of bed before 8am on weekdays and get to work before 10 (yes, I know)
11. Leave the house with dry hair, always
12. Go to an open house in DC with Josh to look at local real estate
13. Pay off at 1/4 of my student loan with money that is solely mine and not combination Mc/Johnson
14. Combine all McJohnson financial accounts, including investments, in Mint.com
15. Go to one quarterly meeting for my union
16. Work, at work, and not use it as a headquarters for my volunteering activities
17. Start implementing a career plan

Disposed Income

18. Buy underwear that fits and toss the old that was purchased on sale at Victoria’s Secret during college
19. Get a blowout at Drybar
20. Redesign this blog

Rumbly In My Tumbly

21. Make a monthly meal plan with 30 dinners that aren’t BLTs and fresh tacos
22. Make definitive plans to dine at a restaurant that requires advanced reservations and funds for my 30th birthday: Minibar, Inn at Little Washington, etc.
23. Eat at Little Serow

For Something Completely Different

24. Write a piece and submit it to the Hairpin/Awl/Billfold
25. Keep a gratitude journal for a month and write one thing I was grateful for that day

Visitors & Travel

26. Get Dad (and Mum, but mostly Dad) to come to a Supreme Court oral argument
27. Go to Europe with Josh, go to Europe with Josh, GO TO EUROPE WITH JOSH

Wait, Why Did This Get All Serious?

28. Find a life coach/therapist that doesn’t start a session with “I want to talk about how something you said last session upset me personally” and talk about all my feelings at least four times
29. Stop doing things I no longer want to be doing and have no desire to be doing just because I have some sort of death-wish or guilt complex that I can’t even identify the source of

Youth, My Youth

30. Go to one concert and enjoy myself like it’s 2003