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30 Before 30

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Sep 2009

Okay, here is the deal. In 3 and one half years I will turn 30. To 99.99% of you, that is no big deal. To the .01% that is me, it is a HUGE deal. I always imagined 30 as this terrifying entrance into the tunnel of adulthood that I have been avoiding entering. Now, I know life doesn’t ACTUALLY end at 30, but I have always some what felt as if 30 was the time I had to stop being a wild and crazy kid (with a husband and 2 kids mind you) and start buying life insurance. Okay, I kid. It is not actually that bad. There are just certain things I want to do while I am still in my twenties, and my list for my thirties is very different.

Now, I can already hear some of you saying, “But I am 30 and I am still doing Wild & Crazy things!” Well, that is Awesome for you. Now go get your own blog and you can write all about that. This blog is about me.
Also, still shopping in the Junior’s department doesn’t count as wild or crazy, and neither does going to parties with your kids. You are embarrassing them, and most importantly, yourself. It is time to Stop. That is what your twenties were for.

A while ago I started making a list of things I wanted to do before I hit that big 3-0. Some of them may seem silly to you. Some of the ARE silly. I am a silly person, get over it. Honestly though, I have given this list a lot of thought and I really want to do every single thing on it, as small and trivial as some of them may seem. I decided to blog one of the thirty things everyday through the month of September, since, well, it has 30 days in it. My goal is to then be able to continue to blog through my journey to complete each thing on my list, for the next 3 and a half years. That’s right, if you are reading this you have now committed to reading my blog until the year 2013. That is, of course, assuming the world does not, in fact, end in 2012. If it does, that will give me 3 less months to finish my list, and that is not very fair. I NEED 3 and one half years exactly to finish this list.

Now for the exciting part- #1! These are of course in no particular order, it just depends which one I feel like writing about today. Well, today I was thinking about Halloween, and that just so happens to directly relate to one of the items on my list. Drum Roll Please…..

30 Before 30 List: Item #1
*See the Rocky Horror Picture Show Live at Midnight on Halloween*

I have always wanted to do this!! I really enjoy the movie, and have always wanted to experience it Live, which I hear is a whole experience unto itself! Plus, they put it on every year in Chico at Midnight on Halloween and I just cannot think of a better time to go! Now, those of you that know me know that I am not a “stay up late” kind of girl. I can count on one hand the number of times in the last year that I have made it past midnight. I enjoy my beauty sleep. Well, what better time to stay up late than when you are young?! I will, of course, be learning the Time Warp dance in preparation. If you are lucky, there may even be a video blog. Im not promising anything, but maybe.

So there you have it, the first of many. I told you that they were not all going to be profound, life changing experiences! Sometimes, you just want to do things, for no reason at all other than you think they sound neat. Those life experiences are what I hope to remember when I am old and senile and living in a nursing home and Ian has to read this blog to me to remind me of all the fun I had. And then I will remember everything again for about 5 minutes, but in my version we do not lie in each others arms and peacefully pass into the afterlife. In my version we tell That’s What She Said jokes and laugh until we both have heart attacks, but not before we had a chance to pull some crazy practical jokes that no one will discover until we are long gone. That is how I want to go down. That’s What She Said.