100 Things to Do Before I Turn 30

In no particular order:
* means completed

Me, in Taiwan

  1. Paint my bedroom
  2. Maintain a monogamous romantic relationship for more than 2 weeks
  3. Live in a foreign country*
  4. Finish grad school
  5. Reconnect with a long-lost relative
  6. Buy my own furniture
  7. Go camping without my parents
  8. Get a tattoo (specifically, a Joshua Tree on my upper back)
  9. Attend a Broadway performance in New York City
  10. Learn to make some kind of fancy cocktail
  11. Research my family tree
  12. Keep a houseplant alive for more than a month
  13. Go skinny-dipping
  14. Become a regular at a café
  15. Finish a journal from cover to cover without getting lazy about the last ten pages
  16. Become an R.N.
  17. Join a club a university
  18. Crochet a blanket
  19. Visit the Mütter Museum
  20. Take the Amtrak 'cross country
  21. Spend some quality time with my grandparents
  22. Host a party
  23. Almost become a vegetarian (I will NEVER give up seafood)
  24. Visit the Smithsonian
  25. Learn to play guitar
  26. Learn how to cut my own hair
  27. Assemble a toolbox
  28. Start the habit of calling or writing to my brothers at least once a month
  29. Learn to bake perfect fudge brownies
  30. Kiss a guy and take him by surprise
  31. Give up soda
  32. Read A Confederacy of Dunces (Jim's favorite book)
  33. Get an A in Organic Chemistry
  34. Drink wine in Paris
  35. Have a snake as a pet
  36. Go whale watching
  37. Ask a stranger out for coffee
  38. Go to a casino*
  39. Kiss someone at midnight on New Year's Eve
  40. Find a Little Black Dress
  41. Visit a winery
  42. Write a short story.  Send it in to be published.  Frame the rejection letter.
  43. Live in an apartment or house (that isn't my parents') for more than two years
  44. Go to a state fair
  45. Bake a loaf of bread
  46. Fire a gun (at a firing range, of course!)
  47. Get my diploma from UCSC framed
  48. Find the perfect red lipstick
  49. Learn Spanish
  50. Visit Rebecca in London, Ontario
  51. Visit Ruby in Philadelphia
  52. Go scuba diving
  53. Read the Bible cover to cover
  54. Go to a psychic
  55. Build my own website
  56. Buy a vibrator
  57. Get really dressed up an go to the opera
  58. Go through a whole week wearing high heeled shoes
  59. Go to Mardis Gras in New Orleans (since Carnivale in Rio probably won't happen before I'm 30)
  60. Bare all on a nude beach
  61. Buy a ridiculously expensive piece of clothing with no regrets
  62. Go to a Cirque du Soleil performance
  63. Go wading in a fountain
  64. Have a regular commute that involves a train
  65. Visit the Tower of London
  66. Build a snowman
  67. Complete a coloring book
  68. Get really, REALLY drunk
  69. Go ice skating
  70. Call in sick on a rainy day and spend the whole day watching old movies in my pajamas
  71. Carve my name in a tree
  72. Make a birthday cake for someone
  73. Attend a midnight premier of a movie
  74. Put change in someone's expired parking meter
  75. Learn to make rice without a rice cooker
  76. Wear something really wild and inappropriate without embarrassment
  77. Visit a burlesque show
  78. Have a one night stand
  79. Relocate to the east coast
  80. Wear fake eyelashes
  81. Have pictures taken in a photo booth
  82. Walk the Freedom Trail in Boston
  83. Finish a 1000+ piece jigsaw puzzle
  84. Learn how to make paper cranes
  85. Go to a Halloween party
  86. Get a library card.  Use it.
  87. Get a Netflix account.  See every movie on AFI's Top 100 list.
  88. Write a message in a public restroom
  89. Attend the Groundhog Day viewing in Punxsutawney, PA
  90. Pay for the person behind me at a coffee shop
  91. Go to a flea market
  92. Get an organ donor sticker put on my ID
  93. Stay out all night dancing and go to work/class the next day without having gone home
  94. Cook a turkey
  95. Fly first class
  96. Buy a Magic 8 Ball and base all of my decisions on it for a day
  97. Attend a rally for a cause I really care about
  98. Give a 100% tip
  99. Get custom fitted for a bra
  100. Get in the habit of waking up every day and telling myself I'm totally awesome

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