An entire year ago, almost to the DAY, I started this blog.  Notice how active I’ve been in posting??

I have this fantastic habit of starting strong and then… tragically falling off.  I am one of those with many projects, half-finished (if they were lucky enough to get THAT far), laying about the house, crammed in the back of closets, in the bottom of a bag, in a dark drawer never to be thrown away or ever again acknowledged – in perpetual limbo.  It’s a nasty habit and it needs to be addressed.

For this reason, and also with the inspiration of my dear friend Stephanie, I have decided to make a “30 Before 30” bucket list.  This is a list of items to be completed before I turn the big 3-0 on November 6th, 2013 (assuming the Mayans were wrong and we live to see 2013, after-all).  This PUBLICLY DISPLAYED list will ensure that I don’t spend another year starting & stopping, but rather, I spend the next year COMPLETING all those projects and pursuing all those ideas that I’ve sadly neglected in years prior.  You are all my accountability partners and I hereby grant you permission (actually, I’m BEGGING you) to kick me in the butt over the course of the next year to motivate me to stay on top of the 30 items to follow (in no particular order):

1. Ride in a hot air balloon
2. Try 30 new beers
3. Be in a flash mob
4. Have professional boudoir photographs taken of me
5. Complete a knitting project
6. Grow a vegetable garden
7. Start a blog (and update weekly)
8. Keep a private daily journal
9. Visit 5 museum exhibits
10. Complete 30 Pinterest projects/recipes
11. Learn a full song, using both hands, on the keyboard
12. Read the entire bible
13. Memorize 30 bible verses
14. Send a care package to a deployed soldier
15. Do 30 random acts of kindness
16. Join a ministry at our church
17. Take a class and ace it
18. Apply for alternative teacher’s certification
19. Lead a classroom (of any kind)
20. Complete a 10 day juice fast
21. Pass all 3 skills of the APFT
22. Do 30 pushups every day for 30 days
23. Do the splits
24. Interview Maw-maw (my great grandmother) about her life
25. Lead a family prayer
26. Make 3 new friends
27. Try 5 different fitness classes
28. PRIVATE
29. PRIVATE
30. PRIVATE

The final 3 items will remain private, 2 of them because I don’t want to embarrass my sweet husband or his very, VERY sweet Mormon auntie, if ever she peruses this blog, and 1 because it’s a surprise for someone else.

You may find that this list is pretty boring in general, but it was the best I could come up with on a limited budget (hence, no exciting trips to Fiji) and considering that I will be pregnant for about HALF of this adventure.  YES, we are expecting a tiny human in May (EDD = May 8th, 2013).  It is very exciting to be pregnant and to grow our family, but for the sake of the list it is also very restricting.  It will be a very busy year, nonetheless, and this list is simply comprised of things I’ve been WANTING to do but previously had neither the guts nor initiative to follow through.

You will also notice… Item # 7 is in the works!!  Blog started – CHECK!  Update weekly?  We shall see…

If you were to make a bucket list that HAD to be completed within this next year, what would be at the top of that list?