When I was in high school, I thought that by the time I was 26, I would be rocking a six-figure job, married with kids, and living the good life. Ah, teenage dreams, right? I've realized that there is so much that I should have done by now that I haven't gotten around to doing; therefore, I have created this
30 by 30 list containing 30 things I would like to accomplish by the time I'm 30.
Read 52 books in 2015
Read a biography on Abraham Lincoln (I already bought it!)
Move into a BIGGER place (preferably not an apartment, condo, townhouse, etc.); decorate a house I am excited to come home to WE ARE PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THAT WE MOVED INTO OUR FIRST HOUSE ON JULY 25, 2014!
Pay off ALL my debt (excluding student loans, seeing as my very good friend Sallie Mae owns me)
Marry the love of my life
Run a 5k - The Color Vibe 5k on May 31, 2014!!!
Buy my first puppy
Plant a garden
Learn a second language = French or Karen or Karenni or Arabic
Travel to another country (London, Scotland); travel to France; travel to Canada (with Jay and/or his family)
Travel to new states I've never been to: New Orleans (Louisiana); Washington D.C.; Boston and Salem (Massachusetts); San Diego, San Francisco, Hollywood, and Los Angelos (California); travel to my state's and nation's capitols - both Springfield (Illinois) and Washington D.C.
Put together a 750 piece puzzle; then, put together a 1,000 piece puzzle
Camp in the Porcupine Mountains (Michigan)
Meet a Newbery Award-winning author (Kathering Applegate)
Receive my Bachelor's degree in Secondary English Education/ESL
Receive my Master's in ESOL
Read the ENTIRE Outlander series (Diana Gabaldon)
Get engaged to Jason! (We got engaged on November 12, 2014!
Complete one year of full-time teaching - last day of school this year is June 10, 2014!
Read ALL of Heather Blake-Webber's novels
Throw a rockin' Halloween party
Host a family Christmas
Write a novel; Find a publisher who is willing to publish me; Get published
Live in another state (preferably NY or NOLA)
Start a collection of something (magnets, glasses (cups), PotBelly figurines, Willow Tree Angels, signed books by authors)
- Buy a sewing maching and learn to sew
- Have a baby
Attend the TESOL and IRC conferences in 2014- Watch the Northern Lights
Attend the annual Springfield IRC Reading Conference
Halfway through my TWENTIES?! When the heck did that happen?!
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